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

Bought this for two reasons. My six year old laptop still had its original HHD in it, and with an average life of four years I was on borrowed time before it failed. The other, I wanted a faster laptop but didnt to replace it as there was nothing wrong with it. The best and far cheaper solution was to upgrade to a SSD. Wow, what a difference it has made, the laptop is like brand new. Should be good enough for me for a few more years.

Replaced a 6y/o hdd with this. its better than new. i used Macrium Reflect instead of Acronis. Take the time to manage your partitions so you dont have unallocated space separated from the drive you want to expand. It took about three hours to clone the hdd to ssd via usb 2.0 cable. An excellent upgrade.

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I bought this at a cheap price during Black Friday, installed it and after some tricky formatting (moving a C drive turns out to not be incredibly easy... especially if you screw a step) it seems to be working quite well. My games load very fast and I havent heard or had any stuttering. Im actually not sure how the speed of this stacks up to more expensive drives, or what the lifetime is, but as a cheap 750GB SSD option I couldnt ask for better.

I got this 750GB drive during the Thanksgiving sale for $100, and at that price it is a steal, considering how it now popped back up to $215. It performs just as good as my Samsung 840 Pro 256GB and 850 Evo 500GB series SSDs, and I bought those for about $150 last year. Their prices are still holding up quite high:

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.

Used this SSD to upgrade an iMac 7,1 and 9,1. Works great. Very fast compared to the HDD. Just need to use an adapter bracket to hold this SSD in the drive bay. I used the NewerTech AdaptaDrive 2.5 to 3.5 SATA adapter.

I bought this for only $99 around Thanksgiving weekend. I used it in a desktop system to replace a 240GB Intel 520-series that was about 80% full. I dont notice any difference in performance, but I know theres not much difference between SATA SSDs unless you buy a DRAM-less model, and those can be much slower. Ive had good experiences with the MX100, BX100, and MX200 SSDs from Crucial and I dont expect this will be any different.

I bought this on sale, and for the price it was a great purchase. I have been using Crucial SSD in my other computers in my house, and Im very happy with them. No failure so far after more than a year of use. Each drive comes with a copy of Acronis, which makes transferring from my own drive to the new one a breeze. I do recommend this drive.

I successfully installed this drive into my late 2012 Mac Mini, after its OEM 500GB, 5400RPM Seagate HDD failed after three years. It wasnt my first choice (Samsung, then SanDisk, then Crucial SSDs), but I was hard-pressed financially. The more research I did, the more I found out that the differences in performance were mostly apparent only to benchmark software. So when I received an email from Amazon that it was having a flash sale for this drive at almost 40% off its typical price (that brought the expenditure within reason for me), I grabbed it. Delivery took nine days. I was thrown by the cheap mailer: one of those soft plastic bubble-wrapped envelopes with the drive nestled inside its box within— I chalked the long delivery time and the cheap shipping up to the extraordinary price I paid. The drive, its box and its inner plastic nest were all undamaged and in perfect condition, thankfully. Everything that youve read about the difference between HDDs and SSDs is true. Boot up is much faster; so is Shutdown. Applications and games launch so fast that it takes some time to get used. In fact, its a little disconcerting. After long and repeated study of the online installation guides for this specific computer at such sites as iFixit.com, and creating a few flash drives each with different OS X Install systems, I was ready to install the new drive five days after delivery. So on December 1st, 2016, I started using my new SSD. As I type, Ive been using it every day for about 1½ months. I havent got words for the great feeling when the drive is installed and working. Right now the drive is 43% full, which leaves it 57% empty, so take the following with that in mind: I have used the drive with the TRIM command enabled and disabled on this computer and I cannot tell any difference in performance. Im pretty sure garbage collection is well-handled in this drive at the controller level without using the TRIM command. My issue with enabling the TRIM command is that there is a remote but significant potential of corrupting the Macs kernel during a system update. I dont even begin to pretend to know how to handle that eventuality. Like I say though: I have noticed no performance difference with or without TRIM. Now, all I need is a good cheap backup drive for my new SSD! July 8, 2021: Update to my review. Its now been over 4½ years since the install of my Crucial_CT750MX300SSD1. It has made my late 2012 Mini so reliable and so fast that, as much as I would like to buy one of Apples new M1 Minis, I just cant think of a way to convince the wife. I have never let it approach 60% full. If I need more space, I just offload older stuff that I dont use anymore (old picts, videos, games, etc). Its all backed up on the cloud or on thumb drives. I downloaded software called SSD Reporter from the Apple Store. The developer told people it wouldnt work with Crucial SSDs because companies tend to keep their SSD controllers very secret. Voilà, it worked with this SSD. I dont know if its because its older or what, but this software worked great. Amazon wont let me upload graphix, but SSD Reporter rests up in my menu bar, telling me that the drive is still 90% new. Whatever Ive been doing, its been working. This thing will probably outlive me.