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

I purchased this drive to replace the OEM 5400 RPM drive in my approximately six month old ASUS laptop. Cloning the original drive was fast and easy using the provided (by download using the included authorization code) Acronis software which has fully automatic or user defined partitioning. You will need an external hard drive case or buy the Crucial USB adapter kit as an installation kit is not included. I would highly recommend buying an external (USB 3.0) case because after you clone your original drive, you can then install it in the case and use it as a back up storage drive. As for performance, the drive works great. The difference in the speed of my computer is massive. Boot time is about 8 seconds (Windows 10), programs load and operate much faster. Battery life is longer and the computer is silent and cooler in general. The only downside I can find is that after using a solid state drive, Ill never be able to put up with old fashioned mechanical drives again!

The price was a little high, but then it isnt a HHD. I love the light weight & size of these. I think I notice a speed change on boot up, but I dont know if that is the other new parts of my computer doing that. With the 750GB this SSD should outlast me. My old HHD was a 500GB & I didnt even use half of it. Anyway, I just use these as data storage. No OS on them.

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...

I just finished using this Crucial MX300 750GB SSD on a fresh WIndows 7 install - the specs for the box are an ASUS PM8Z77-V LE motherboard, and i5-3570K Processor, 16GB of Corsair DDR3 and and MSI Twin Frozr Video Card. The build went smoothly, no hitches related to the new drive. The computer formerly had a 1TB 7200rpm WD mechanical drive. The Windows Experience for the Hard Drive was 5.9 before the build, and maxxed out at 7.9 after the build. The box is now blazingly fast on boot up, and the system is no longer bottlenecked by the hard drive. I have installed a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB on an identically built machine a few months back (I have twin boys with the exact same build gaming system), and the performance of this Crucial drive is just as good. I did not do any detailed benchmarking, all assessments are based purely on boot times, and basic access times. I have had absolutely no issues with this SSD to date - I actually bought a 500GB Crucial yesterday for an old Vaio laptop. I liked the performance so much that I stuck with it for my next build. My wife has a 1TB Sandisk Ultra II in her Dell All-in-One desktop, and I like both the Crucial and Samsung better than the SanDisk after working with all three. Recommended - so far so good - if anything changes, I will update the review. Note this only comes with the plastic cheap mounting base, and no software, but I am told you can download the software for a transfer of data from your old drive - read other reviews for that information. I did a fresh build, so transfer software was not needed. UPDATE: I enabled Momentum Cache, and was having issues with simple things like Microsoft Security Essentials scans completing (they would freeze), and updating Windows Experience (it would error out on disk check) and other strange disk issues. Long story short, I disabled Momentum Cache, and the problems went away. The same thing was happening on my laptop where I installed a 500GB Crucial MX300... this issue cost me a lot of time and head scratching, and as soon as I disabled Momentum Cache everything was fixed. I am having doubts that Momentum Cache has some side affects, but could be wrong. It appeared to be isolated to it on my computer.

I rebuilt my computer last year and didnt upgrade to an ssd. My computer was what I would considered to be pretty fast but I didnt realize just how much my old HDD was slowing me down. Since upgrading to this MX300 750GB ssd my os boot time dropped from 1 minute 7 seconds to a blazing 15 seconds total and I should add that before even after the 1:07 with the hdd it was still loading background programs. With the ssd, in 15 seconds, EVERYTHING was loaded and ready to go. Also my video games also load in about half the time they used to. Some of the other reviews here said they didnt like the included software. Well I shouldnt have read that. I used another software that Id heard about and the one I chose didnt clone the boot portion of my old drive. Long story short...... I ended up reformatting the new ssd and cloning it again with the included software and I had it up and going in no time (minus the time it takes to transfer, which took a while considering I transferred 500GB). This is absolutely one of the best upgrades you can do to your PC, especially if you are an advanced user (gamer, video editor, ect) I will update this review down the road if I have any issues.

Worked right out of the box! Came with Acronis cloning software license key but not needed. Everything worked as expected, no drama. Crucials Storage Executive and Momentum Cache were running great! Lot of interesting information, e.g. S.M.A.R.T. about the legacy HD and etc. even help updated drive firmware. Package only has a spacer but no 3.5 inch tray or cable. Comes with 3 years warranty. We shall see. Am a little skeptical but check out the performance gains after enabling Momentum Cache and Crystal Disk Mark. (see uploaded images)

Drive is very good and fast. Loads windows 10 up in about 20 seconds on a cold start up with a budget HP 15 laptop. I will say this though for the inexperienced, if you have a low memory budget machine (like this one which only maxes out at 8 gigs), then make sure you dont enable momentum cache in Crucials Storage Executive software. It could cause audio jitters during playback. Another thing is that the Acronis software caused a lot of crashes for some strange reason. It worked flawlessly throughout the cloning procedure, but after a couple of months it started crashing a lot. So just make sure you save the code and uninstall it if you start getting that problem.

I bought one of these to upgrade my mid 2010 MacBook Pro. I had previously replace the original hard drive with a 750GB drive, but the system was getting slower with each successive release of the Mac OS. I was concerned when I first got this drive because there were no instructions except for a web link to a utility that runs on windows. So I clicked on the chat button of the Crucial web site and was promptly greeted by an agent who gave me the link for instructions on a Mac. I had already upgraded to El Capitan and the instructions for installation did not require any third party software, only the Mac disk utility. I used an external drive case to connect the new drive to my Mac (the one I got for my earlier disk upgrade) and cloned my hard drive to the Crucial SSD. This took quite something like 8 hours due to the disk size and the relatively slow USB connection, so I was a bit worried about how the SSD would perform once I installed in my MacBook. My worries were unfounded; my system works really well and boots up in a fraction of the time it used to. Almost everything runs much faster and the computer feels like new once again. The only glitch Ive had so far is that my Microsoft Office 11 software decided it was on a new machine and demanded that I enter the license number before I could use it. Fortunately, I save the original disks and packaging, so it all worked well (and quickly) after I entered the license number. I like this upgrade so much I will get another for my wifes Macbook Pro and also for my Mac mini.

Worked flawlessly out of the box. I purchased this to replace a failing disk drive in a Lenovo Y500 laptop. Worked like a charm, no issues. Your mileage may vary, make sure your laptop or whatever actually supports 6GB/s SATA; I purchased a very similar Crucial MX-part SSD for an older HP laptop, that did NOT work because that particular laptops controller was too old. Boot times are fantastic. I did not use the included acronis software link, I instead use the free MACRIUM REFLECT software I already had on my prime PC to do the disk image backup and restore to the SSD.

I replaced my late 2011 MacBook Pros failing hard drive with this one. My laptop got a new life as performance is amazing. Very happy with the purchase. I chose to install fresh OS on new drive and copied files from old drive using external case.