Customer Ratings & Reviews

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!

Glad my laptop takes a 2.5 ssd, everything is fast and organized helps with all the projects I am working on

I bought this drive to expand the Storage of My Boys PS4 Pro and it works fantastic!!! Loads rapidly and now has enough space for all there games Specially Spiderman’s, Star Wars and Gran Turismo!

Super easy to install into the open bay on my Lenovo ThinkPad instead of replacing one of the two PCI SSDs already in place. Speed is more than adequate for my needs.

This is my second review of this product. BB must have not posted it because I said BB sales staff sucks. SSD is awesome. Fast, Fast,Fast!! Also have a 2T one. Bought on cyber Monday. Went to pick up 3 items they texted me were ready. Told HDD installation rack wasn’t in stock after all. They found the cable I ordered in mail inbox by pickup, and the SSD laying on a printer. Total store time 1 1/2 hours. I was told “ it’s cyber Monday, what did you expect” Also found out I no longer get BB points since I don’t have a BB charge card. That will be my last BB purchase!!

Easy to install, lightning fast. No complaints. Can run total war games off this drive with minimal loading time.

The MX500 is one of the better dollar per value SSDs out there. I use it primarily for video games and video recordings and it gets the job done without any major issues.

This was a good purchase, fast SSD replaced my boot drive and now have 4TB. Reliable and my computer boots fast.

My son’s old drive failed so he needed an upgrade. This unit was easy to install and computer is running lightning fast.

Great size for storage. Opted for ssd becsuse is smaller. Great deal for the price , especially if it's on sale .

Great gaming drive. Fast and lots of storage. I can't believe how low the prices are getting for ssds.

This drive is huge and is great for storing large things that need to be accessed quickly. I use it as a game drive and load times are greatly improved for the games I play.

low price, high storage capacity and extremely reliable, I've been using crucial ssd's for years and zero problems.

Its works. Fast, good storage space. Only 3.63TB of usable storage space tho....

Fast and reliable drive. I've used it a month now. Very satisfied.

Bought this on sale. Good value for my storage needs. Had crash issues at first but updating to the latest firmware to fix it.

Crucial's products from Micron are always solid and best of all, you are supporting an American Company! You really can't beat the value for the MX500 series of SSDs. They are solidly built, last forever, have good performance (you really won't notice the difference in most applications between this and NVME), and if you've got the option to use this to save a few dollars vs NVME for storage, have at it!

It works great. Easy to use and holds all my data like its supposed to.

Great price, easy to install & assign, fast transfers, happy to have as a back up drive!

Excellent drive, worked perfectly in older laptop. Speeds exactly as stated. So much space!