Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560MB/s - CT1000MX500SSD1

Works great

On receipt, I installed this 4 TB drive in an NexStar NX 3.0 enclosure. I formatted the drive (quick format) and the drive was detectable and usable. Loading backup files however didnt go smoothly. The drive would hang for about 10 minutes until Windows said there was an issue. So, I ran a low-level format -took forever- and the drive started working. For one day. Then it would hang again. Chasing this issue through the Crucial website, I started looking for firmware issues and any updates they may have. Lo and behold there was an update to the firmware (M3CR046) that had a note that it was a minor update to solve an issue with the drive hanging. The drive seems to be working now, but I have not developed confidence in the drive to use is as a backup for important data. Ill give it a few months to see how it is working and either increase the rating or decrease it if issues persist.

Die SSD lässt sich schnell instalieren und ist auch sehr zuverlässig. Ich habe mitlereile die dritte verbaut. Die erste läuft in meine PC mehrer Jahr. Auf der Seite von Crucial kann man sich eine einfach zu bediende Clonesoftware herunterladen. Alte HHD aufräumen, neue SSD über USB am Rechner Anschließen, Software instlieren und schon kann man seine alte Festplatte clonen. Je nach größe dauer dies bis zu mehreren Stunden. Neu SSD in den Rechner einbauen (nichts für unerfahren) und schon sieht man den Unterschied zu alten HDD. Ich habe mir so einer SSD schon einen sehr alten Lap Top sehr erfolgreich aufgerüstet.

I had no problem with the installation. Boot-up time is really quick and the laptop is no longer hanging up as it did with previously installed SATA HDD. Would definitely buy this brand again.

This might have been a good hard drive. Ill never know because the cloning software didnt work. I tried it twice and got a failure message both times.

Installed in a 2007 iMac, along with some memory, and the computer is quite quick, especially on startup. I did this in 2020. I have a great terminal for the internet, and some ROBLOX

Take awhile to store the the information in the sdd not sure way, as there is two steps for storing the data.

If your computer is about 5 years old and has a HDD replace it with one of these and it feels like new. Crucial even offers the Acronis software to easily clone you HDD to their SSD. The SSD itself is a great, quality product from Crucial.

SSD drives are worth it for the speed alone. Our work stations save documents to a server. Otherwise we would have bought the 1 TB drive. Our son put a Crucial 1 TB SSD drive on his gaming machine. Next our Servers will be upgraded to Crucial SSD drives. Why Crucial? Rock solid reliability. Even though our drives are imaged weekly and backed up on the fly we want reliability to avoid downtime.

I have installed and used many Crucial drives 1T and various other SSD sizes. They are great drives, very easy to install with good literature to assist and usually include cloning software as well download from their website. Their website is also very good at finding the right SSD & Memory as well. Highly recommend them and have purchased them for many friends and families and help install. thumbs up all the way as their speed might be little less but cost wise they are great and their speed beats standard drives. :-)