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.

Going on over six months and it hasnt failed me. Make a huge difference in performance. Spent a lot of time deciding between different ones and glad I picked the Crucial MX300. Well worth the price.

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.

This was easy to install on a MacBook Pro Late 2011 laptop. Apples new OS had slowed my computer load and login times to a crawl. Applications took forever to load. This drive has brought my computer back to life. Now boot time is at least 10x faster and login is seconds. Apps like Outlook, Word, and Excel load quickly and disk access is instantaneous. I was hesitant to dump the money into an old computer but I would highly recommend it. This was the best upgrade decision, installation experience, and results I have ever had for the money.

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.

Easy to install and used the license for the included software to clone the drive to the new SSD. I was going from a 250GB SSD to this drive and although the clone worked, the partition order was out of whack, so the Windows partition didnt use all of the free space, and because of the partition order, I wasnt able to expand it in Windows 10. I actually had to delete my recovery partition and then was able to expand the Windows partition to the full size available.

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.

replaced a much larger laptop HDD in my MacBook, simultaneously accellerating the speed of the device for my routine uses. I always depend on Crucial products for all of my memory needs. Best out there!

Used it as a replacement for my 500GB Dell laptop OEM HD and have loved it since. Did have a little problem transferring cloning the original HD onto it but overcame that easily. Boot up time is fast and obviously file access is equally rapid. I dont have any benchmark studies but am completely satisfied with its performance. Virus scans provide the most extreme example of the speed gains with a SSD. The Quick Scan for Microsoft Defender virus check is so fast I was completely caught off guard when it flashed complete. The original OEM HD was no slouch but this is in a class by itself. Not quite instantaneous in loading files and programs but fast enough to satisfy me for a relatively modest investment.

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.