Customer Ratings & Reviews

Plenty fast for my needs. I use it as the system drive in my multi-boot Windows/Linux machine. It comes in very handy, since I like to experiment with different versions of Linux, and this makes the multiple installs go quickly. It's also imperative to have a SSD drive for Windows Updates.

Price and performance are great, enabling Momentum Cache really increased speed. Had to install Windows 10 on sata for this machine, now can reliably dual boot Samsung drive had issue with disappearing on restart, would only show on cold start

Excellent storage device. Fits everything I need and speeds for read and write are excellent. Using a Samsung 980 pro NVME and I can't notice a difference. For the price this drive is a must.

Great amount of storage, and it is a great price as well. My laptop has never run this fast. And it is old.

Great value. Just be sure to format and download the Acronis software from Crucial website. This upgrade for a client gave new life to their aging laptop. Totally good enough.

Cheep for the size, read speeds were 560 MBps, write speeds were 485 MBps which is not bad considering the price of one hundred dollars for 1 TB. Cons: NVME is starting to take over the PC space and less cases have 2.5 inch drives. You have to buy adapters, enclosures or leave your SSD floating in a 5.25 or 3.5 inch bay.

I got this to saap out the hard drive in my sons PS4 to get a little extra life from it. The swap was simple and the new hard drive works exactly how it should.

I purchased the nitro 5 i5 processor gaming laptop and with it comes the capability to expand the SSD. The build allowed me to get this beautiful hard drive which worked flawlessly. Quiet smooth quick and easily recognizable without the bloatware. As I had the appropriate slot empty there was no need to clone the drive, but the software is available free to use as well. I love the fact that it is a memory that I have used in past and know the reliability of the brand and the SSD relies on that same premise. This one is more secure and still fast without the threat of power /data loss. General Drawback It could have been much cheaper, for certain for the comparable hard drives there was notable competition. Lowering this paired with the outstanding reliability would be a five star value. Unfortunately the requirement to have online access to get this material is essential. This can be daunting to a system that is in critical state with a failed hard drive as you would have to make a way to recover. A thumb drive install would have been great for that case which is a complaint across the board for all hard drives now.

Just finished upgrading my HP laptop with the Crucial MX500 1TB. No special tools required. Fits right into SSD slot. I did not do any disk imaging, as I had most of my programs backed up in the cloud and will require just password installation. I just used the Microsoft media Creation tool found in Microsoft website to reinstall Windows 10. You will however, need an 8GB USB drive to download the software from MS. once transferred and followed instructions you will then plug the USB to the laptop and boot from the USB port. Make sure you have the MS serial number for Windows 10. I noticed that MS recognized my serial number stored in my MS profile (cloud) and did not need to search for it! You will immediately notice how fast the laptop starts with very little lag time and response time when opening programs also has improved greatly. No issues in the internet, as well. Recommend this SSD. PS, since the laptop is now open, this is good time to also upgrade/expand internal memory. I also went from 8 GB to 16. Both of these upgrades make your laptop just as new and refreshed as any, as long as it is not a very old laptop.

Nice upgrade for an old laptop. Great capacity and decent speeds brought an old laptop back to life.

If you are looking to save a few bucks on a SSD-- this is the one. You can often find this SSD on sale, but its MSRP is already cheaper than other brands. It's a 1TB sata SSD. It works, it loads games and applications very quickly. If you are reading this in 2021, it's time to go with Solid State Drives.

I bought this to be my main drive to store footage for editing. It does amazingly! Even through an external USB 3.1 bay it is incredibly fast (much faster than a HDD). It is stable, and one thing that made me choose this over a traditional drive is because it is an SSD it has no moving parts and is completely silent.

Needed to upgrade my ssd because I somehow broke the one I used to have, and this was definitely the upgrade I needed!

Got this new hard drive for my computer and it works great and so much easier and faster than my old hard drive wish I had bought one sooner!

Works great for my ps4 was quick to install and has had my ps4 runing smother.

Considering the fact that I was contemplating throwing my 5 year old laptop this computers in the trash, my purchase of the Best Buy Protection Plan allow provided a diagnostic check and repair on my electronic items for free, so I brought it in to have it checked out. The geek squad troubleshot and found that the HDD was bad. For the low price of $69 for a 1TB SSD, Best Buy made this decision very easy. It is not my primary computer but it serves its purpose. It runs like a brand new computer again The solution , a $69 SSD.

This is by far the best SSD. The cloning was easy and entire setup did not take more than 15 minutes. My pst attempts to clone and installing SSD of other brand has failed. But crucial SSD was just so easy and quick. I would highly recommend this SSD for upgrading your traditional Sata disks.

Easy install. Crucial provides software for migrating to the new drive. Sped up the laptop immensely. Like a brand new machine. Did have an issue where the migration software showed I was short ~150 MB. Check online. There is a simple way to "shrink" the main drive. After that no issues.

The Crucial MX500 may not be the fastest SATA SSD on the market, but it still sure is fast, and insanely reliable with its cacheing technology. Must buy!

Summary; Great performance, fast, and reasonably priced SSD. Pros - Fast - Reasonably priced Cons - As with most SSD, does not come with the mounting screws. You will need to purchase them separately. Neutral - Cannot speak to durability yet, but Crucial does has a warranty.