Crucial MX300 750GB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT750MX300SSD1

I have a Mac Mini that is a couple years old which has a 1tb 5400rpm hard drive. When I first got it, I cloned it to an external SSD (different brand than this one) but the SSD was only 256gb and since I use Parallels, I had another external SSD for the Virtual Machines. Eventually, something happened in which the SSD cratered and I had to revert back to the painstakingly slow hdd. I had been keeping an eye on a 1tb SSD, expecting it to fall below $200 at some point. One day, I was cursing through the 1tb SSDs and came across this one... a 750gb SSD which is actually more than adequate for my needs, plus it was well under $200. I feel that this is the right compromise where 500gb is nice, but when running VMs where one may need to make backups then it can get really tight whereas the 750gb drive is just perfect! First thing I did when I got the SSD in my hands were to move the large files from my mac mini to an external storage, copy my VMs from the external SSD to the internal hdd and then format the new SSD and clone the drive. For me, it took about six hours because of all the large files I had to move. I do a lot of video editing and have a lot of video files. When I rebooted, I immediately saw the speed difference, especially when I logged in and opened up a VM. Web browsing is a lot faster too, since every element on a web page is downloaded into the cache. This brand rocks... very fast and very solid. Now, I feel as though I am on a computer that is seamless with memory, processor speed, and now disk speed. What is really cool is that I can easily shut down the mac mini and take the external SSD and plug it into my MacBook pro and boot off of the external SSD so that I can have my personal desktop when I travel.

Blazing fast and large disk space (750gb). I have been using SSDs for the last 10 years (mostly intels for reliability) in my rigs and I found this to be a very good consumer grade level product. Only time will tell how long this will last, but from other reviews, this line has not failed to satisfy most peoples need.

Crucial will honor the warranty, but I am down a laptop in the mean time, so I will have to buy an extra drive until the replacement arrives, and that will cost me $350 because I refuse to take another chance with Crucial. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<<>> PRODUCT IS STARTING TO FAIL TO WORK PROPERLY BEFORE THE FIRST 5 DAYS HAVE ELAPSED! IT TAKES 3 ATTEMPTS TO BOOT UP NOW, AND IT IS PROGRESSIVELY GETTING WORSE. FILES ARE STARTING TO RENAME THEMSELVES OR MOVE INTO OTHER UNRELATED FILES! I BOUGHT TWO SSDs. ONE SAMSUMG AND ONE CRUCIAL. THE SAMSUNG IS IN A VERY SIMILAR LAPTOP AND IT WORKS GREAT! THIS CRUCIAL DRIVE IS FAILING FAST! UPDATE! NOW THE COMPUTER ONLY BOOTS UP 1 IN 3 TRYS, SO DIG OUT ANOTHER $120-$220 AND SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY ON A SAMSUNG EVO OR PRO. So far so good. If you clone from another drive, be sure to DEFEAT ANY PASSWORD OR PIN NUMBER REQUIREMENTS to access your laptop, or desktop, BEFORE YOU clone the drive, and BE SURE YOUR BIOS IS UP TO DATE, or it may not even see this drive. If the ESATA cord does not work, try USB. Be sure you do NOT NEED ANY PASSWORD OR PIN TO OPEN WINDOWS< AND GET ONLINE, BEFORE YOU CLONE!!! If you are just loading a new OS and programs from a fresh start, proceed as usual. The price point on these is an exceptional value. Time will tell, but we shall be utilizing some diagnostic software to attempt to detect a prefail condition BEFORE the SSD fails. Disc drives can and will give prefail error codes, and SSDs are starting to utilize some similar diagnostics looking for dead sections, logging, and counting them. Drive cloned in about 6 hours, but when installed in the used laptop, the laptop as for a password, which was NOT the same as the pin on the laptop it was cloned from. Go into the boot sequence directory. and type in instructions for the computer to boot to normal windows, and not into the safe mode. After that it will ask for your proper pin number. The hardware dictates the PIN so that wont help you until you get into the CDW write & make some changes so lose the pins & passwords, and re-enable them after you install your cloned drive!!!

Arrived on time and perfect condition! I had to put into an external docking case before instilling it to format it for MAC OS. I opted for a fresh install so i chose to install a brand new copy of El Capitan. This involved downloading a copy from the Apple store to a flash drive and the instaliing the new drive and running the set up from the flash drive. There are plenty of options to clone your current drive (some free) so you can clone and then install and you are done. My mid 2012 MBP saw a huge preformance increase with this drive. I changed to this HD and also went from 8gig of MEM to 16gig of MEM - it is like a brand new computer now.

I work in I.T. and bought this for my laptop. Drive worked fine while it lasted but not very long and in todays world of technology i would expect it to last much longer. After my first true test with an SSD hard drive, i must say it is very disappointing. I hope this is not what i will see in the future. I just bought a Samsung EVO to replace it which i have used in customers computers without incident thus far. I will not be buying Crucial hard drives in the future.

I got this on sale for $100, and for that price this is an absolute steal, and honestly I would have been willing to pay more for it. Speed isnt blazing, but its slotted in between TLC SSDs and MLC SSDs and can often be had for TLC SSD price. This is especially great for my itx build, where I dont have the luxury of space to fit spinning platter drives but still want a decent amount of storage. Hasnt stopped working after a couple months, so no immediate reliability issues are present.

Ahh...the perfect upgrade for my Mid 2012 Macbook Pro 13 - El Capitan boots up super quickly and the overall experience is much snappier!! With this drive and 8-16 gb of RAM your MBP should be quickly zipping around like mine! I feel as if Ill get another 2-3 years out of my MBP 13 with this upgrade!

Item as described. Good performance. I did face an issue when using the cloning software that came with the product. In between the cloning process it became unresponsive so I had to power off the PC and do a fresh install. I dont mind this as I could easily get all the data back from my old drive. However always backup your data before attempting to do clone option and if you dont mind installing applications again, it will be best to start fresh with a clean install.

Used to upgrade the harddrive of a 2010 MacBook Pro. This computer runs better now than it probably ever has in the 8 years we have had it. Super fast access time for opening programs and lightning fast bootup. From the time I push the power button until I can open a program is now about 25 seconds. Cant recommend this enough. Do yourself a favor and switch to a solid state drive to renew the performance of your computer.

Even though I did not get to try these specific 525gb drives out I own plenty of them in various sizes. Well, My rating is not because of the lack of performance on the drive but its lack of compatibility of utility software on other operating systems other than Windows... Cmon Crucial.. Extremely Disappointed in the blatant disregard of supporting a huge customer base of your product. Not only do I use these on my Linux based servers but in my MacBook Pro. So the responses I have received back regarding the unimportance of the software which if true stop advertising it so boldly on your packaging e.g. Storage Executive which increases drive to blazing speeds!!! Supported Operating Systems • Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) • Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit) • Windows 8.1 (32-bit, 64-bit) Yet oddly enough there is no mention on the packaging of this limitation? Or the fact it does not support Raid. Why? Is it not important? I know I would like to have the utilities to tweak my optimal performance also especially thats why I purchased them for my raid db servers and MacBook Pro.. and no I do not wish to go spend my time to R&D other solutions supported by major customer base Operating Systems. I could understand if I was trying to get this to work on some absurd setup. Wake up or hopefully the consumers will and stop buying deceptive marketed drives. I am not allowed to post the link to the PDF but it can be found...