Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD – Up
Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD – Up to 560MB/s – CT1000MX500SSD1 (Acronis Edition)
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| Weight: | 40 g |
| Dimensions: | 7.62 x 1.27 x 5.08 cm; 40 Grams |
| Brand: | Crucial |
| Model: | CT1000MX500SSD101 |
| Manufacture: | Crucial |
| Dimensions: | 7.62 x 1.27 x 5.08 cm; 40 Grams |
My laptop is over ten years old, but other than the speed of getting anything done, and a new fan, it was still serviceable. Replaced the existing HDD with this SSD, and the difference is incredible. I never expected it to be this much better.
Easy to fit and use except for the bundled software which I did not use. That aside, an excellent buy for a very fast back up drive for most applications at a reasonable price. A superb internal drive from a top class company, well done seller thanks!
An i7 laptop going very slowly with a 750 Gb hard drive now goes like a rocket, booting in 16 seconds due to this ssd. Buy one now, you will not regret it!
I got this Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD as an upgrade from a smaller SSD, I use itas my system drive and it does exactly what I wanted. I cloned my old drive onto this new one and installed it in a very short time as my old drive was half the size of this one. It’s new so I can’t comment on it’s long term performance or reliability just yet.
This was recommended by a friend who works building and repairing computers. He has updated my computer and it is brilliant – in fact better than when it was new. Don’t know much about computers but his recommendation and the performance of my computer is enough to give this product 5*.
Fitted this to a friends very very old desktop PC. For the time being, it has given it a new lease of life and his boot and program start-up times are much improved compared to his old mechanical drive! A relatively cheap upgrade in this case and probably the best value upgrade you can do, along with memory/RAM.
My laptop was at a stand still but these ssd harddrive has made a massive difference. I use it for discos and searching for tracks could take ages as well as freezing mid song now tracks takes seconds to find
Had some issues cloning from HDD to SSD but eventually got it to work. Swapped out the HDD for the SSD. Laptop boots a lot quicker now. Wish I had bought one earlie
My laptop was 10 years old and hardly used, due to how slow the boot up time it took before I could actually use the laptop. Cloned the hard drive with the ssd and swapped over. The boot up time was unreal. Prior to installing the new hard drive, it would take at around 10-12mins before I could actually use the laptop. With the new ssd drive, the laptop was up and running in around 1 minute. The difference was staggering.
Laptop had a decent spec on it and now it’s saved me from getting rid and buying a replacement one.
Great for creating a system backup disk for my rather old laptop. I’ve previously had to reinstall Windows following a crash and reinstalling apps is very tedious. Now I can just plug in the backup disk and recover my data and off I go.
This started crashing after 11 months — like, my screen would freeze, everything became inaccessible and that was it. It wasn’t my main C: drive, but it did contain my desktop, documents and photo folders.
It took several attempts at disk checking and repairing to get it going again, but a few days later and the problem would repeat.
Thankfully I managed to back everything up beforehand, and also thankfully this happened within the warranty period.
Amazon are sending me out a replacement — could not fault customer services for trying to help.
It’s one of those things; all manufacturers will have drive failures — it just happens, so I’m not going to worry too much about whether this brand is better or worse than any other.
I’ve had the 1TB model in my laptop for 2+ years of my electronic engineering degree, I bought and fitted this 500GB one as an upgrade for my girlfriend, and it’s also been fine over the past 6 months or so.
Price-wise these seem pretty good too, although both times I believe I’ve managed to get them on offer/with a Birthday/Christmas gift voucher, so I might be slightly biased in that regard.
Also worth noting is the history of Crucial, or more specifically Micron, who have been making memory and storage since the late ’70s, and have also owned Lexar for a decade fairly recently.
One of the standout features of the MX500 is its 3D NAND technology, which provides an increased level of endurance and reliability compared to traditional storage devices. This makes it ideal for use in high-performance computing applications, such as gaming, graphic design, and video editing.
The MX500 also features advanced encryption technology, which ensures that your data is secure at all times. This is particularly important for those who work with sensitive or confidential information and need to ensure that it is protected from unauthorized access.
Installation of the MX500 is quick and easy, thanks to its 2.5-inch form factor and SATA interface. It is also compatible with a wide range of devices, including desktops, laptops, and gaming consoles.
Overall, the Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD is an outstanding storage device that delivers exceptional performance, reliability, and security. Whether you are a professional user or a home user, this SSD is a great investment that will provide you with fast and reliable storage for years to come.
Quite recently I started suggesting everyone who asked about the storage to upgrade to SSD drives as they became reasonably cheap and literally flooded the market.
I always suggest eitter Crucial MX500 series or Samsung Evo 860/870 depending on the current prices and current offers (capacity no less than 500GB). It is very easy to buy a cheap SSD, but they are so different that the buyers can make a huge mistake buying SSD without any knowledge.
I recently bought this Crucial MX500 500GB SSD to upgrade a 7 year old laptop as it was the only thing (aside of doubling the RAM) that could really revive this computer and grant it a bit of vitality (not a computer for gaming, just for internet and apps).
As usual the results were outstanding. I did not reach the maximum transfers for this drive as I got over 370MB/s write and 450MB/s read results, although the difference to the old HDD is so huge that a laptop feels like new machine again. It is handled by the 7 year old laptop hence the results are lower than on the box (I tested an another Crucial MX500 1TB drive with my Dell G7 laptop and got over 500MB/s writes and reads).
System loads in about 12 seconds from power off. It’s like a breeze and after that time a computer is ready to be used.
I never experienced problems with any of Crucial MX500 series drives (no problems with Samsung drives either which are always top drives for me), but I always stick to the routine while handling any electronics — leaving the electronics to settle for couple of days after the delivery to allow it to get rid of any moisture from transport, always switch the devices off completely, using the anti-static gear and always doing clean installations of OS when mounting a new system drive (no cloning/migrating).
I also never use hibernation/sleep as with SSDs it is a pointless thing in my opinion.
It is a very good drive (TLC 3D NAND based), especially in comparison to QLC drives. TLC guarantees better transfers than QLC, especially when it comes to transferring large quantities of files and large amounts of data. TLC is a good alternative for expensive MLC, but does not deteriorate like QLC and guarantees better data security than QLC.
I would of course suggest regular backups of the drive, but it is the case of any and every single drive, regardless of being SSD/HDD or brand. Backup is everything.
I would definitely consider buying this SSD in the future, especially that 500GB costs less than 50.00 while 1TB costs below 80.00.
I use this drive for games and storing images, photos, videos etc after I am done with editing them. It works well for this purpose however there are a few things to note about this SSD:
– The Crucial MX500 is a TLC SSD, which basically means that its writing speeds will not significantly diminish after your drive is x% full like the Samsung 870 QVO SSD (which is a QLC drive) for example.
– It is slightly more power hungry compared to other 2.5 inch SATA SSDs. If you find that your laptop’s battery is draining somewhat faster after installing this SSD, this is why. However, since its writing/read speeds don’t decline over time like with other SSDs in this tier, I think it is still worth it.
One more thing to note about the MX500, specifically ones sold on Amazon (from my own personal experience):
I already had a 500GB version that I also bought on Amazon over a year ago which has been working fine. However, ever since I installed this 1TB model about 2 weeks ago, I have been experiencing odd issues with my laptop. My laptop started playing up as if it was infected with malware (randomly started opening up Adobe Premiere Pro, task manager etc). I am usually very careful when browsing online and have enough knowledge to avoid infecting my PCs with malware etc. Nevertheless, I did several scans with Malwarebytes as well as an Antivirus program just in case. Everything came back clean. So I looked around in my reg and log files to try to see what was the issue. In the end, I ended up taking this 1TB drive out and putting my old 500GB one in. Rebooted and it seemed fine. A day later, I swapped it to the 1TB again, and my laptop acted oddly again for a few seconds. It seems to have settled now and I’m not experiencing anymore problems.
I am still not a 100% sure whether it was this 1TB drive that was causing the problem but it looks like it might have been.
I did not experience this kind of problem with MX500 SSDs bought from other places though and I have seen a few reviews here on Amazon claiming a similar thing happened to them so it might be the batch in Amazon’s stock that is having these issues. So if you do buy the 1TB version off of here, be sure to back up any important files just in case.
Part of the putting it off was the fear of opening the machine – in fact, if you’re reasonably skilled at DIY and can follow instructions, it’s not hard at all and the machine is well laid out. I opted to install an Apple SSD in the empty fusion drive slot as well as the Crucial SSD, but they’re almost a match in performance (and both significantly faster than my old spinning disk).
To adapt the Mac’s 3.5″ drive to the 2.5″ format of this SSD I got an Orico 2.5-3.5″ drive adaptor , a low-cost and solid plastic carrier that fits the iMac particularly nicely.
Once setup and reinstalled the iMac’s performance is exceptional – it feels like a machine half its age (it’s only an i5, too), loading Cubase and sample libraries in a faction of the time it did even when the spinning disk was allegedly healthy (shame the CPU load hasn’t dropped!).
One significant difference is that background tasks no longer cause audio dropouts/crackles, always a problem before – the machine can be running multiple tracks in Cubase, receive emails, start disk indexing or even go and browse something in Safari and the audio just keeps on, which transforms the experience of using modern plugins and DAW software on an eight year old computer.
I’ll leave the fussy stats to other people; all you need to know here is:
It’s much faster.
It works in an iMac without needing fan adaptors (a feature Apple introduced in later firmware for this model).
It’s good value and the MX is, I believe, better tech than the BX drive.
If you are opening your iMac,, you need one of the kits (Amazon has plenty) and should read the guide on iFixit. Took me about 1 hour, 40 minutes including removing the logic board to fit the blade SSD, but excluding final setup and stickdown (you should masking-tape the screen on to make sure everything works before fitting new sticky strips).
I’ve trusted Crucial for a long time for memory, and the price/performance/usefulness of the upgrade here has me delighted.
It needed one screwdriver (to remove three screws) and an SATA-to-USB cable. You can also use the “Inateck USB-to Dual SATA HDD with offline clone” (facility). The SATA-to-USB cable is probably the simplest solution. The SSD came with an additional tray to host the 2.5 inch SSD but I found I did not need it.
The first step is to clone the existing hard drive in your laptop. The SSD is connected to your laptop via the SATA-to-USB cable. Having downloaded and installed the Acronis software and run up the software you take the option to CLONE the incumbent drive. This is really a matter to selecting the which drive you are cloning and which drive is the target drive. It’s mostly a question of taking the “automatic” options when prompted. It then gets cloning. Now this does taken some time — in my case over 90 minutes.
Step 2 is to pop out the old drive and replace it with the SSD clone. You need to power down the laptop, remove the battery, discharge any electrical charge remaining in the laptop (by pressing the power button from 5 seconds) and then proceed to open the laptop up. In a few minutes I was pulling out the existing drive and replacing it with the SSD. The 320 Gb drive extracted with ease and the new SSD snapped into place just as smoothly.
Step 3 is to reassembly your laptop and download some additional software.
Having closed the laptop I reconnected the battery and the power and started it up. The “setting up” by Windows 10 took a few minutes the first time but the drive was already recognised and performing well. I then downloaded the “crucial storage” software (as recommended by Crucial) and installed it to make some final adjustments to enhance the performance of the drive. And I was done.
The SSD has given me enhanced capacity and made a noticeable improvement in the performance of the laptop. Windows is up-n-running much more quickly as are the main applications. I should also note that since I had the laptop open to upgrade to an SSD I also upgraded the memory from 8 Gb to 16 Gb. The combination has breathed new life into an oldish laptop.