Customer Ratings & Reviews

Running a Asus Tuff z490. I'm using this as a extra drive. I already have both NVMe spots used for operatingsyste and gaming. Installation went easy. Running in windows 10 64bit I had to use disk management to recognize it. I've used crucial components in the past and they have been in business a long long time. Crucial makes quality components.

Very easy to install and set up! Very fast and tons of storage!

I’ve been using this as a Documents drive (docs, pics, misc vids) for over a year without any problems. The speeds and throughput are consistent for a top end SSD.

A seamless installation. If you do not know how to install it yourself I would recommend asking the Geek Squad to do it for you.

Crucial SATA is my usual upgrade for a system with a magnetic mechanical disk drive. Crucial is a brand of the Micron chip manufacturer. I get a reliable drive from one of the world's largest memory makers at a good price. I have used many of these MX500 drives with no problems.

Still use it to this day. At least 2 years old now. No issues.

I USE IT FOR VIDEO EDITING went through literally 9 drives back and forth This by far is the best most consistent overall reads and writes so good i just bought another stays 90f degrees during editing and 82f idle I also use crucial memory Best Quality always works as they say

Fast and easy to install. Definitely worth the price.

This is the value and reliability 4TB 2.5" SATA SSD on the market right now, with any cheaper SSD's, you lose speed and write endurance!

The Crucial MX500 4TB SSD stands out as a remarkable choice for users seeking a blend of substantial storage capacity, reliability, and performance at a competitive price point. This SSD, with its 4TB capacity, addresses the needs of users requiring extensive storage for their data, games, and applications, making it an ideal upgrade for both desktop and laptop users. Installation is straightforward, thanks to comprehensive guides provided by Crucial, ensuring even first-time SSD installers can undertake the process with confidence. The drive's compatibility with SATA 3.0 interface ensures it can rejuvenate older systems by significantly reducing boot times and accelerating application launches compared to traditional hard drives. Performance-wise, the MX500 delivers with sequential read speeds up to 560 MB/s and write speeds up to 510 MB/s, courtesy of its 3D NAND technology and the SM2258 controller. While it may not match the top-tier speeds of NVMe drives, for SATA SSDs, these speeds are impressive and more than sufficient for everyday computing tasks, gaming, and content creation. Crucial's inclusion of dynamic write acceleration technology enhances the drive's performance under varied workloads, making it a versatile choice for different use cases. Additionally, the drive's integrated power loss immunity feature safeguards your data against unexpected power cuts, adding an extra layer of data protection. The MX500 also shines in terms of durability and reliability. With a total bytes written (TBW) rating of 1,000TB and a 5-year warranty, users can trust in the drive's longevity and Crucial's commitment to quality. In conclusion, the Crucial MX500 4TB SSD is a highly recommended product for those looking to upgrade their storage solution. It combines a generous storage capacity with solid performance, ease of installation, and reliability, all at a value-oriented price point. Whether for gaming, general productivity, or professional workloads, the MX500 is a versatile SSD that earns a well-deserved 5-star rating.

I ordered this drive and received it in late July 2023. It was shipped directly to my home from Best Buy because it was on sale for an unusually low price. I couldn't resist as I had wanted to use my old Mac Mini 2012 server machine (MacMini 6,2) as a network Time Machine capsule for my various Apple computers in my home. Since I have 802 11AC and 2.5 Gb ethernet I figured performance would be more than acceptable instead of using external drives, but external drives are still faster due to MacOS throttling.. So this was installed as the secondary drive of two drives in an apple Mac Mini (not the boot volume) upon startup, it was detected just fine and I tried to format it. The format basically checked out and then errored after about 12 minutes and the drive disappeared entirely. Rebooting did not allow the drive to come back. Performing a shut down and then powering back up caused the drive to once again reappear. I then tried a different file system format and that got farther, so I went ahead and set it up as a remote time machine volume share under Catalina and started using it. Within 40 GB of transfer the drive once again disconnected internally and disappeared entirely. This was obviously very disconcerting. Doing a shutdown and startup allowed to drive to come back up and I checked the firmware on the system information. The firmware was technically the latest on the crucial website, M3CR045. Thinking that I had unfortunately gotten a bad drive and just spent the past 35 minutes in delicately installing it into a mini I was disheartened until I quickly looked up the symptom only to find multiple online sources claiming that this was a well-known symptom that crucial considers to be an edge case. It certainly wasn't an edge case to me because you wouldn't even be able to load it OS on this drive before it might disconnect, the edge case claimed that you had to write a lot of data at once to the drive for it to disconnect. I don't know what a lot of data is but to me 40GB to 50GB of data at once is not a lot of data for 4TB drive. Instead of removing it from the mini I went ahead and used Boot Camp to install Windows 10 because to get the experimental firmware M3CR046 you have to run the crucial executive storage software. The update isn't available outside of that. I was forced to install in bios mode instead of UEFI mode because of the way Boot Camp laid out the hybrid partitioning scheme. But even so crucial executive storage ran successfully, detected the drive correctly, offered the new firmware (M3CR046), and I just had applied and immediately worked. Some rumors are saying you have to keep the drive active with some sort of data read as you're applying firmware. I do not have to do this as the drive was already Mac formatted and didn't appear as a data volume in Windows 10 but did appear on the device list. After the new firmware was applied all the symptoms went away and I was even able to run a long extended self test using the crucial software and it passed just fine. I have since saved about 1.5 TB of backups to this drive via the scheme of Time Machine volume sharing and it has worked just fine without disconnecting. But I had the symptoms immediately out of the box on a brand new Drive that confirmed that it was 100% healthy, ready for work. So I am writing this to let others know that if you receive the product with this firmware revision M3CR045, and you're having random disconnects and it disappears where only a power on and power off get it to reappear before you return the drive and remove it from your machine and all that please just load the crucial software and try your hardest to apply the new firmware. I honestly don't know, if this is your booting Drive, how you'd be able to apply the firmware before it disconnected. So you may have to use it as a secondary drive to get the firmware to successfully apply. It's been at least 17 hours with the new firmware on my drive and there's been no disconnects whereas I experienced a disconnect at least every 10 minutes before. So with the problem solved I am ecstatic about the drive and the price I paid. But for the average person this would be several hoops to jump through to get a successfully working drive. Please be aware and be prepared to update the firmware, if you have symptoms like these.

Thrilled ssd prices are down. Passed initial testing with flying colors. Using in "retired" laptop for media storage with Kodi as a backup HTPC. Learned the hard way that my plex server can be knocked out during internet outages. This holds a lot of my content which can be streamed even in a power outage due to a ups for router & TV. Excellent speed. Only 7mm thick. Very happy with purchase, timely delivery and price.

Great drive for the price. Super quick and i will never run out of space. Very easy to install.

I needed a 2.5 SSD with lots of storage because I had conflicting needs. I needed lots of storage, which usually is reserved for HDD, but this little SSD has 4TB, which is plenty for what I need. The speeds are what you would expect from a SATA drive and it even comes with a 5 year warranty. If your desktop is out of m.2 slots and has a spare 2.5 slot, you won't go wrong picking up one of these. While obviously not as fast as a m.2, it is still much faster than a spinning HDD and the 4TB will provide enough storage for a couple of years

Great drive at great price. Easy to install. Great replacement for old spinning drive

Great performance and value. Easy to install looks great in glass cases.

This is a large capacity SSD at an excellent price, with Crucial heritage and reliability. I've used Crucial SSD's for years, with excellent results. Although the Samsung 870 SSD is considered the standard bearer, the Crucial MX500 is comparable, usually less expensive, and includes DDR memory for better efficiency and speed. Excellent buy!

Fast enough for what you need huge compacity and a great price.

Value for you money is great especially if you got it on sale. Although, PCie M.2 drives are slowly catching up in price to gb ratio and much faster. This drive is still a good value if you just want a good SATA SSD.

Upon receipt of this drive (Crucial MX500 4TB), connected it to my DESKTOP PC via USB 3.0 (using a Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA cable, model # EC-SSHD). Went into Disk Manager (under Windows 10) to setup the new drive (chose GPT as the partition table type, created a 4TB NTFS partition, had it perform a QUICK FORMAT). Next, proceeded to transfer the data from my existing 1TB Crucial MX500 SSD (connected to the DESKTOP PC's motherboard via a direct SATA connection ) to the new 4TB Crucial MX500 SSD (connected via the aforementioned Sabrent USB 3.0 cable). The 1TB drive was over 90% full, so transferring over USB (even USB 3.0) was slow (took over 16 hours). When the xfer completed, the 4TB drive initially seemed accessible, but upon attempting to write to it, it suddenly generated disk I/O errors and couldn't be accessed. Dismounted the USB connection, re-mounted it. The drive no longer appeared Windows Explorer (i.e. no DRIVE LETTER was assigned to it). Prior to dismounting it, Windows had assigned it a DRIVE LETTER. Went into Disk Manager and the 4TB NFTS partition which had been created (and written to) disappeared. Created a new 4TB partition (NTFS), this time performed a FULL (slow) FORMAT. It took over 12 hours just to reach 50% formatted, so gracefully cancelled the remainder of the format (there was a cancel option in Disk Manager). Rebooted Windows, went back into Disk Manager, the drive was now inaccessible! Don't recall the precise error, but Disk Manager could neither delete partitions nor create new ones. At that point the drive was seemingly dead. Grabbed my laptop (which happened to have a 1TB SSD, different brand, installed in it), removed that SSD, installed the problematic Crucial 4TB SSD (to the laptop's internal HDD slot, using a SATA connection). Booted laptop from a Windows 10 OS Installation USB Stick (to attempt to perform a fresh Windows 10 OS installation). When reaching the screen to select the target installation STORAGE DEVICE & LOCATION of Windows 10, NO DISKS WERE LISTED! Rebooted laptop, went into its Setup/BIOS. The drive WAS DETECTED AND VISIBLE in BIOS. Attempted the Windows 10 installation process again, same issue. Note: At one point, I saw an error message somewhere about Sector 0 being corrupted/unable to write to. Don't recall exactly when/where that happened, but it was before the next step (below). Grabbed an Acronis Disk Image boot disc and booted into Acronis. Inside Acronis, ran its DRIVE WIPE utility (using the fastest option it has, which overwrites the entire drive w/ zeroes). Thankfully this tool was able to at least see the drive. The tool seemed to mostly work, but when there were 7 seconds left, it got "stuck." (It took perhaps 2-3 hours to get to that point). Cancelled the wipe (w/ the 7 seconds left). In Acronis, it appeared as though the wipe performed the equivalent of a low level format. Powered off the laptop, turned it back on, went back into Acronis, repeated the "fast" WIPE. 2-3 hours later, it once again got "stuck" w/ 7 seconds left. Don't know why it continued to get stuck w/ 7 seconds left, but I wanted to see the drive's behavior back on my Desktop PC. Removed the Crucial 4TB SSD from the laptop (re-installed its 1TB SSD). This time I installed the Crucial 4TB SSD into my DESKTOP PC (i.e. the intended device for this SSD), connecting it to a SATA PORT directly on the PC's motherboard. The 4TB Crucial SSD was replacing a 1TB Crucial SSD in the desktop PC (which happened to be a special "data" drive, not the OS drive), so when I pulled out the 1TB Crucial SSD, the 4TB Crucial SSD went into the spot that the 1TB had been (using its same SATA data & power cable connections). Booted up Windows 10, went into Disk Manager and the drive behaved like it did when it was NIB (i.e. not yet setup)! In other words, it was showing signs of life again. Chose GPT as the partition Table format type, created a 4TB NTFS partition and let it perform a QUICK FORMAT. Connected the (now removed) Crucial 1TB SSD to the Sabrent USB 3.0 to SATA cable, plugged the Sabrent into a USB 3.0 port on the PC and transferred my data. This time it was READING FROM the USB connection and WRITING TO the internal motherboard SATA connection. (The original data xfer method was the reverse: reading from the SATA connection, writing to the USB connection). This time the data transfer completed much faster (under 2 hours), and so far the Crucial 4TB SSD continues to work (even after several PC reboots and PC power cycles). Don't know why WRITING (over 800GB of data) to this SSD from a USB connection causes issues, but doing so practically killed this SSD! I jumped through major hoops to get this drive functional again (hoops that the average non-geek would likely not know how to do), and I'm still not convinced that it's fully repaired. For now, though, it seems to be working. Bottom line, cannot recommend using this drive w/ a USB to SATA connection (or at least not the Sabrent EC-SSHD cable). Caveat emptor!