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Price: $100.99
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Ever wonder why your phone responds faster than your computer? It’s because your phone runs on flash memory. Add flash to your laptop or desktop computer with the Crucial BX500 SSD, the easiest way to get all the speed of a new computer without the price. Accelerate everything.
Boot up faster. Load files quicker. Improve overall system responsiveness
300% faster than a typical hard drive
Improves battery life because it’s 45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive
Micron 3D NAND – advancing the world’s memory and storage technology for 40 years
Crucial 3-year limited warranty
Reviewer: Nasser G.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Huge upgrade from HDD. fast, reliable, and very easy to install
Review: This SSD made a massive difference compared to using a traditional HDD for game installations. Load times are much faster, and everything feels more responsive overall.I’m using it alongside an M.2 drive, and this BX500 works perfectly as a secondary drive for games and applications. Performance has been solid and consistent with no issues so far.Installation was very straightforward. My 14-year-old son installed it himself using the included instructions without any problems, which says a lot about how easy it is to set up.Great value, reliable brand, and a noticeable performance boost.
Reviewer: Pamela Ballantyne
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic SSD, horrible cloning software.
Review: I’ve been a longtime fan of Crucial memory products, so trying this SSD out to give my old P920 some new life was a no-brainer. It’s a fantastic SSD, with excellent capacity and performance., The executive software that allows you to tweak various performance characteristics of the drive is great – make sure to download it from the Crucial site when you have it installed.Regrettably, my enthusiasm does not extend to Crucial’s recommendation of the Acronis software for cloning your boot drive. It simply did not work for me. I was moving a 5 TB drive to the 4 TB drive. Only 1.1 TB of the original hard drive was in use, so it should have been no problem. But the Acronis software couldn’t handle it – it said there wasn’t enough room on the 4 TB Crucial drive to store the 1.1 TB of stuff from my HD!What’s worse is that it took about 4 hours for the Acronis software to decide it couldn’t do what I wanted. I was able to use the free utility, DiskGenius, to clone the drive. It worked great, cloning all the partitions, including the rescue partition, adjusting them proportionally. If you have trouble with Acronis, give this a try.
Reviewer: The beard of knowledge
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Brought my old HP back to life
Review: Dropped this into an older HP laptop that was crawling and now it runs like new. Boot times are snappy, apps launch instantly, and overall responsiveness is night-and-day better. Installation was simple, and the system recognized it right away. If you’re trying to squeeze more life out of aging hardware, this upgrade is a no-brainer. Totally worth it.
Reviewer: M. Martel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: BX300: Good enough, fast enough for normies from a reliable brand – benchmark-chasers look elsewhere
Review: Review of BX300 480GB drive. Let me be frank. This is a budget drive that likely uses decent, reliable but not top of the line NAND. Things pricier drives will give you:- DRAM cache: ❌- Heat-sink metal casing good for sustained write performance: ❌- Bragging rights on read and write speed: ❌On the other hand, maybe you’re not a benchmark chaser. Just a normie just looking for a decent drive that will do the things you want an SSD to do (better read/write speed and silent performance compared to HDDs) from a brand you can trust to stand behind the product if, heaven forbid, you get a lemon.If you’re one of these people, I can wholeheartedly recommend this drive to you. I use it with Linux Mint on a 12th gen i5 equipped mini PC and I have zero complaints about performance. I don’t have a stopwatch to tell you exact speeds, I’m not going to compare it with NVME drives or the best SSDs. I’m just going to tell you: It’s plenty fast enough for normies.
Reviewer: Jake Coker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Affordable and Reliable 4TB Storage Solution
Review: I recently purchased the Crucial BX500 4TB SSD and wanted to share my experience so far. Here’s a breakdown of its performance and features:PerformanceAlthough I’m not sure how to measure the exact read/write speeds, the drive has performed excellently in terms of loading times and file transfers for my needs. It feels fast enough to handle everything I do without any noticeable delays, whether it’s loading games or moving large video files.Installation and SetupThe installation process was straightforward. The drive came with all the necessary cables. I did format the drive during setup, which was quick and easy, and everything has been running smoothly since.ReliabilityI’ve had no issues with reliability so far. The drive has worked perfectly, and I’ve received positive feedback from more tech-savvy friends who recommend the Crucial brand. I’m confident in its performance.Build QualityThe physical build of the drive is solid. It fits neatly into my PC case, and I’ve noticed no overheating issues, even when I’m running games and streaming simultaneously. It stays cool under load, which is a big plus for me.Value for MoneyAt the price point, the 4TB capacity is a fantastic deal. Compared to other brands, this drive is more affordable while still offering great performance and reliability. For anyone looking to expand their storage, this is an excellent choice.Overall ImpressionI highly recommend the Crucial BX500 4TB SSD for anyone looking to boost their storage capacity. Even if you don’t think you’ll need 4TB, Crucial offers other sizes that can fit a variety of needs. Whether you’re a gamer, content creator, or just need more space, this drive offers great value for the price.
Reviewer: Hunter
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Solid and Reliable for a SATA SSD
Review: If you NEED a SATA SSD, I’d say that Crucial makes by far the best SATA drives I’ve used to upgrade really old hardware for older work machines in the past. Get a nice Crucial NVME drive unless you need the SATA interface.Either way, this unit and every Crucial product I’ve had has been just solid performing reliable hardware.
Reviewer: Alain Ordi
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Not as good as the MX 500 but those are discontinued.They work well for what I needed, the speed is acceptable and the price is right.
Reviewer: Leon T.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Replaced disk drive in my laptop. Works very well, good speed improvement overall.
Reviewer: Mergatroid
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: So I have been using a mechanical 2TB hard drive in my bench PC for backing up people’s files and storing images for clients until I can restore them.It’s been working OK, but a few weeks ago I had to back up files for a client and they had about 500GB of files and pictures and backups on their storage drive.I started doing the backup from a USB 3 dock, and it crawled. It was getting about 40MB/s and varying around that value up and down. Later I tested moving a large amount of data from my boot SSD using the same method and it was in the hundreds of MB/s.So I purchased this Crucial 2TB SSD (for $150) to replace the mechanical drive. (it’s gone up $30)I work in a shop, and we sell a lot of SSDs. I have had the best luck with Crucial, Kingston (budget drives), Samsung and Western Digital.We purchased some ADATA 2.5″ SSDs, but almost all of them went bad. ADATA replaced them with a different model, and one of those went bad as well (out of ten drives). We stopped purchasing that brand.Western Digital drives have been good too, but my personal 1TB Western Digital drive went bad. It will no longer get SSD speeds, but only transfers files at very slow speeds (slower than USB 2) even after reformatting.Crucial makes excellent drives, and I can rely on them. Highly recommended. I would not hesitate to purchase any of the drives I have mentioned other than maybe ADATA, but I am sure they will correct the problem they were having if they haven’t already. I am using a 500GB ADATA NVMe drive in my gaming PC as my Windows drive. I’ve had it for about 3 or 4 years now and it’s been very reliable.
Reviewer: C. C. Brown
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I have owned various PCs in the last 20 years or so and they all had old school mechanical HDDs, and to be honest I never really had many issues with them. All my PCs were either from before SSDs existed or were from when they were still quite expensive and generally came in smaller capacities (my current rig is around 6 or so years old).As I cannot afford to upgrade right now or ideally build my own, I decided to make some tweaks to my existing rig as it is still fairly decent for its age. I upgraded ram a couple of years ago (2x16gb sticks) and last week upgraded from the stock cooler to a much beefier Be Quiet cooler as the CPU was really getting hot under heavy load.While I was at it I thought it was time to finally go over to an SSD seeing as they now have much better capacity for not a lot of money.I decided to go for Crucial as I have always had good experience with them. My PC ram is Crucial and so is the M.2 SSD in my PS5. I felt this had the specs that suited me and as I say, price wise, it was pretty damn cheap. Sadly due to my board being slightly older and being a micro ATX I don’t have an M.2 slot, so SATA was the only way to go.I did make one error though as I assumed it would come with a SATA cable, but of course we know what you do if you “assume” anything. It was a simple enough solution, order a cable from Amazon and just fit the drive a day later than planned (I only mention this as I am sure there are others as naive as me who will get caught out too).It was very simple to fit as well. Plugged the SATA cable into the drive and the motherboard and found a spare power plug coming from the power supply that fitted as well and then it was time to test things out.Booted the PC up and while it did take a while to boot (remember this is still booting to my old drive) which is quite normal when installing new parts, but booted as normal. I then opened Acronis True Image (go to the website on the SSD instructions and download the file) and followed the onscreen prompts to clone my old HDD to my new SSD. I had deleted all my music from the HDD before starting this as it took up over 400gb and I felt that would just slow the cloning process down. Even with another 400+ storage still on the drive, it only took about 2 hours to do a full copy.After it was finished I rebooted the PC, went into bios and assigned the SSD as my new boot drive.The PC then booted to Windows so much faster than it normally does and programs loads almost instantly rather than the delayed response of yore.Even web browsers and internet tabs load faster.I also noticed that after the PC logs into Windows I can access programs straight away rather than waiting for Windows to do all its stuff before being allowed to access anything.Seriously loving this piece of kit. The way it works is perfect for me, and is going to make using my PC so much of a better experience than it has been. Factor in the easy installation and the free no issues cloning software, and I think I got an absolute bargain at less than £40.Oh, and I kept the old HDD in the rig but formatted it to use just as storage for my music which I have already reinstalled.Only one program had an issue, with my copy of Photoshop saying the licence was not on it, but that was easily rectifiable, and every other program seems to have carried the licences over.
Reviewer: Jose Manuel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Esperemos que funcione y no vuelva a perder todos los datos en garatia, como el amterior.
