Crucial BX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT1000BX500SSD1, Solid State Drive

Instead of buying blank dvd's or cd's to backup my computer files I bought this $21 Crucial BX500 240GB SSD drive. Blank dvds/cds don't last that long unless you buy Archival Grade [100 years]. I had many blank cd's and dvd's go bad just sitting in a box for many years; I learned over time they go bad and that's true. I believe an SSD drive will last much longer than dvd/cd when backing up my computer files. At first Windows 10 didn't see this drive; I had to click START and open the Disk Management program; Immediately it asked me if I wanted to Initialize the new SSD I installed; I said yes and did that; Then I had to quick format the disk and give it a drive letter; Then it showed up in Windows 10. Then I was able to backup all my files onto that new SSD drive. Works perfectly for what I bought it for. Only $21 for 240GB of backup space; I like that.

I bought 2 of these. I use one in an old Dell D620 I made from scrap parts that's been running for 15 years, and another for terminal experiments with Linux Mint.The one in the Dell is dual boot for Windows 7 I use for service calls. It has sped the old laptop up incredibly. I also installed Linux Mint for everyday use.The other one is for creating custom Linux Mint installable ISOs for flash drives for portable or desktop systems.At the price I paid, the speed is great. I've been pounding the daylights out of the Linux drive for weeks. Boot time is fantastic.Since I didn't need a lot of storage for my use 240G served my purposes. I generally shy away from SSDs because they degrade over time depending on the amount of writes and deletions, so in my applications of low disk rewrites they should serve me for a long time.I went with Crucial because of their long history in the memory business. About 8 years ago I specified a Crucial 320G SSD for a friend who wanted to build a new system for his recording studio. At that time it was $340. We mounted the Windows OS on the SSD, but data storage is on a standard HDD mirrored RAID. The state of the art has had quantum leaps since then, but the system is still running strong after 2 Windows upgrades. Since the system allowed, we also installed a 64G Crucial SSD for a cache drive. Considering a cache drive handles a lot of rewrites should bear witness to Crucial products.I have never been disappointed by a Crucial memory product. I still have systems from the early 2000's running as they should.

My old asus i3 laptop didn't have much life left in her. Pretty slow and old windows 10 (not able to upgrade to windows 11). I added an additional 4gb of ram and swapped out my 500gb hdd for this SSD and installed Ubuntu linux. Now it's got new life. Boots up fast; great for a portable laptop; and I mostly use it for "Distributing Computing" where my laptop is connected to thousands of others around the world for good work. This one is connected to folding@home and is used by universities and medical centers around the world working on finding cures to diseases, covid, and many other medical concerns. Simple plug and play with any normal 2.5" hard disk drive. It is SATA iii compatible so there aren't any concerns. If you have an older laptop with a hdd in it, this is the best upgrade you can do. It will make your laptop/computer faster.

I recently upgraded my aging hard drive to the Crucial BX500 2TB SSD, and the difference is nothing short of amazing. From the moment I installed it, my system boot times dropped from minutes to just seconds. Applications that used to lag now launch instantly, and large file transfers are lightning-fast thanks to the 540MB/s read speed.The 2TB capacity gives me plenty of space for games, videos, and work files without having to worry about running out anytime soon. Installation was a breeze — plug-and-play on my Windows machine with no issues. Crucial’s reliability and use of 3D NAND technology make this feel like a premium drive at a very reasonable price.If you’re looking for a fast, affordable, and dependable upgrade, this SSD is a fantastic choice. It breathed new life into my system — highly recommended!

Worked like a champ to repair and upgrade my Xbox one x. Performance was noticeably improved over the stock hard drive. Original drive started flaking out, so I did some googling and ordered this beast. All good now!Be careful removing the ribbon cable from the power button board. Some of the upgrade videos don’t show how to properly disconnect that cable from the board flip tab lock style connector on that board. I wound up breaking the lock tab connector and ordering a new $13ish dollar board replacement. Took a few days to get that in. I’d probably suggest you order the board as well, just in case. The locking tab is very small and fragile. Probably got even more fragile with age…

Works for storing data where read speed is more important than write speed. Think movies or games.Pros:Decent price per GB.Good read speeds, up to 500 MB/s as advertised.Cons:Writes are slow for a solid state drive. Around 50 MB/s best case, one big file. I often average single digit MB/s if writing a lot of small files. Seems like a it should be faster, but I guess you get what you pay for.A tale of two drives:1. Replaced a 5400rpm HDD in an old laptop. Boots up quickly, plenty responsive for a 3rd gen i7 machine.2. Added it to a modern 12th gen i7 machine to hold VMs. I got suspicious when it took a while to copy the 80 GBs of VMs to the new drive. But, the VMs booted up and ran fine.One time it did freak out and stop responding until I restarted. This was during a lot of random writes from parallel file downloads and response times got into the 3000ms range before it just locked up. I don't try to run VMs from it anymore and I wouldn't use it as the boot drive on a modern system.