Features:

  • Sequential reads/writes up to 560/510 MB/s and random reads/writes up to 95k/90k on all file types
  • Accelerated by Micron 3D NAND technology
  • Integrated Power Loss Immunity preserves all your saved work if the power unexpectedly gets cut
  • AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption keeps data safe and secure from hackers and thieves
  • Crucial 5-year limited warranty
Crucial SSD is always a Winner in My Book

Crucial SSD is all I use. I have been using them for years without any problems. I had to return because my customer wanted a larger SSD. Will buy again when I need one. The dependability is great. Crucial's Customer Service is awesome as well.

Great product. Great price.

I have ordered many of these over the years. So far, all are still in service.

So far excellent

I got this as a backup solution for storing photos on the road via an external USB-C enclosure. I haven't put it through enough paces to determine longevity and how durable it is, but access, R/W speeds, and overall usability in my usage is perfect. Would definitely recommend.

The price is good and the product is great!

The price is good and the product is great. There was much speculation that I might receive a fake, as there are many suppliers on Amazon selling fake products. I ordered one for my wife's MacBook from Staples and one from Amazon and they were identical from packaging to labels. That being said, the install took about 5 minutes after cloning the drive. Both drive boot fast and and both boosted the performance on each MacBook. I can't seem to notice a difference between the 2 drives so I'm betting that these are the real deal. I'm a big fan of Crucial!!

Solid ssd's

Installed them in our office, noticeable boot time difference than old hdd's. We have Veracrypt encrypted drives, but boot time from power button to opening a browser (assuming you can quicky type your passwords) is around a minute.

Great SSD!

High quality, great price, and blazing speeds. Installed this in an i5 Lenovo laptop. The speed is amazing compared to the factory HDD. Glad I bought it.

Can't Beat it

Great product that I used for a repair job. Its speeds and performance are similar to Samsung drives which are more expensive, and in some cases, this drive is better. Easy to install in the MacBook Pro A1278 Unibody and had no problems formatting in the external drive enclosure I was using. You can't beat this price point.

Review for the Tech Challenged

I have an old HP DV6 laptop that was a dog from the day it arrived a number of years ago. I spent hours going over all the settings trying to speed it up, even overclocking the CPU, all to no avail. I put the computer away and tried to forget the gross error of my purchase. But from time to time I would think of the laptop in the closet and imagining I might be able to have a go at fixing it with a brand new solid state drive. By this time the sting of my waste of $600 on this blasted thing had faded. I felt I no longer had anything to lose if I screwed things up. If I failed I'd just donate the mess to the local electronics recycle store and forget everything. The original mechanical drive in the laptop was 500GB but in pricing SSD replacements I thought putting in a 250GB drive would be more economical. After all, I would use it only for Web browsing and E mail. So I ordered the Crucial MX500 250GB 3D NAND SATA SSD. After reading some reviews I learned I also needed the Sabrent SSD to USB adapter to clone the old hard drive and downloaded the Acronis cloning software as Crucial recommended. Cloning the old drive to the new SSD is where things got frustrating for me. I got everything connected, fired up the Acronis cloning software that I had downloaded onto the laptop, choose all the defaults because I had no idea what all the stuff was under the manual settings, and waited while the progress bar slowly progressed. After about an hour and a half I saw Acronis just fold up and disappear leaving nothing on the screen other than an error had occurred and that I should check some log. I couldn't find a log even after a long search on my laggy laptop. After considering what might be the problem I finally figured out that trying to clone a 500GB drive onto a 250GB target drive might be a problem. Duh. Now I'm starting to think I'm in over my head. I couldn't find anywhere on the Acronis web site how to clone a larger drive to smaller one, so I started searching the web for a solution and found a free cloning utility called EaseUS Todo that can dynamically change partition sizes during cloning. I started the process using the new software, watched the computer exit Windows and begin the cloning process. After a few hours Windows came back. I connected the SSD to another computer in order to view what was now on the new drive. It appeared to be a clone of the old drive but with different volume numbers. That worried me. What would happen when I put the new drive back in the laptop? Would it be able to read a boot drive F: ? No way to tell except to put it in there and see. Swapping the drives was the easiest part of the process. I just removed the screws holding the bracket onto the back of the laptop and then the screws holding the drive in the bracket. Lastly, pulled out the data and power connector and the drive is loose. Reverse to install the new drive. To my great relieve, when I turned the computer back on I saw that a program had automatically run to name the drive partitions back to their original letters! Windows started surprisingly fast. My old dog of a laptop had a new lease on life! So that's my story with the Crucial MX500 SSD. The drive itself is great. I'm loving it. The process of cloning the old to new seems to be more difficult than it needs to be for rank amateurs such as myself. Why couldn't have the Acronis software told me at the start my new drive was too small to clone to and then offer to make adjustments? Why did I have to search the Net to find answers? My advice for those new to things like this is clean up your old drive before you clone and get rid of the GBs of trash that are probably there. That will save you hours of time. I found some old system files from a Windows 10 upgrade that were taking up 25GBs of space. Use the Disk Cleanup app in Windows to get rid of all that before you clone. Good luck!

So far so good.

Didn't see the code that would have allowed me to use the cloning software from Crucial's website but I was able to use Macrium Reflect Free to do the job. The drive is being used in an Dell Studio XPS 8000 (circa 2009) so the SATA 2 interface hobbles performance but it still outperforms the Samsung 830 it replaces. So far so good.

Great value for the price

We installed 4 of these drives in our work machines (core 2 duo 2.9GHz/4GB ram)about a month ago. There was a marked improvement in the performance of these machines. I know we would not be getting the most out of these drive due to the old architecture being installed on. However, based on the performance improvement experienced, one thing is VERY CLEAR...you can breathe new life in what would otherwise be considered obsolete machines by installing this drive.

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