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

With an SATA-to-USB 3.0 adapter, this works great as a portable USB drive. Its super-fast for back-ups and file transfers, and its so much smaller than a typical external USB drive. Eventually, this will make its way into a desktop system replacing a 3.5 7200rpm 500 GB hard-drive...from experience, I can anticipate huge performance improvements with an solid-state drive in that system.

Would have been 5 stars if the instructions had mentioned to download the Storage Executive Client software to manage the drive. At first the drive would cause Windows 10 to lock-up randomly. Turns out that enabling the Momentum Cache in the Storage Executive client solved the problem for me. I stumbled across this purely by accident, while researching the problem on the internet. Otherwise, its been a great SSD, especially so, considering the price.

I installed this SSD on my MacBook pro mid-2012, the speed of my mac is now relatively better but I didnt notice the extraordinary speed. I can see the difference when I open multiple apps and they open easily and quickly compare to non-SSD.

Had a poorly-performing hard drive in my laptop. Made this my OS drive and then formatted the old on and left it as a secondary. This drive is blazingly fast - from a cold boot, I am at the login in under eight seconds.

I am PhD students who deals with a bunch of data for research. Without this device, I may not work with the high efficiency.... Thanks SSD !!!! ( I actually bought another one since actually 750 Gb may not be enough....)

I downsized my HDD, copying things to a large USB drive and then cloned it to this one with no problem, with Windows 10. It came with a software key for something, but I cloned it with another free product. I dont remember making a boot order change in BIOS, since it was all so trivial. I feel spoiled now.

I really like this drive. I used the included Acronis software (seems this is a customized version for Crucial of the 2015 software; more than the free version but less than the full) to clone my hdd 1 TB drive and then installed the Crucial MX300 ssd drive in my Inspiron 15 7537 laptop. My boot time is the fastest Ive ever had. I will probably do a clean install of windows 10 at some point, just because I like to keep things in good shape and I dont fully trust cloning based on things Ive read. Definitely enable Momentum Cache in the Crucial Storage Executive Client. It pushed my read/write x4. Ive included my Crystal Disk Mark results after enabling the Momentum Cache. I used the StarTech hard drive enclosure S2510SM12U33 to use in cloning my drive after reading many reviews (and will use it after to house my hdd drive). Read lots of horror stories about non-bootable drives after cloning. Just happy this worked on the first try.

Good price, and it was easy to clone over to from my old Mac Book Pro drive -- and so far its functioned perfectly (and no real concerns about that; Crucial Technology is known for the excellent, long-lasting quality of its products).

Excellent quality of hard drive. The included software did the job of migrating correctly and easily, but contained some annoying adware.

For my main desktop been waiting for a drive that made sense with a ~300GB Boot drive...This is the best deal from a reliable company for anything much bigger than 500GB...Mushkin 1TB is the only other option but that is kinda slow...MX300 is a winner. Hint make regular backups, (Paragon have a free version backup app available that will even move an OS drive to different hardware). Super drive got multiple sizes (275GB for the laptop)