I bought this drive after my previous one, a hybrid drive, failed and I'd therefore looked into a suitable replacement for my tower PC. My computer technician mentioned that solid state drives are more reliable than hybrids and have largely superseded them. I needed a drive that would enable me to run the Windows 10 Professional operating system, and have ample remaining storage capacity after reloading all my backed-up files. I therefore narrowed my search down to 2TB SATA disks.My final choice was between this Crucial MX500 and the slightly cheaper Crucial BX500 2TB SATA III Solid State Drive. My deciding factor in going for the MX500 was that it included a 5 years manufacturer's warranty (versus 3 years warranty with the BX500), which I felt more than justified ... MoreI bought this drive after my previous one, a hybrid drive, failed and I'd therefore looked into a suitable replacement for my tower PC. My computer technician mentioned that solid state drives are more reliable than hybrids and have largely superseded them. I needed a drive that would enable me to run the Windows 10 Professional operating system, and have ample remaining storage capacity after reloading all my backed-up files. I therefore narrowed my search down to 2TB SATA disks.My final choice was between this Crucial MX500 and the slightly cheaper Crucial BX500 2TB SATA III Solid State Drive. My deciding factor in going for the MX500 was that it included a 5 years manufacturer's warranty (versus 3 years warranty with the BX500), which I felt more than justified the £11 or so greater price at the time of purchase.I was immediately struck by how much smaller and lighter in weight the drive was than the previous hybrid one. My technician needed to adapt the housing inside in the computer case so as to hold this smaller disc, which was easily and quite quickly achieved.I have been using this drive for around three weeks now. The first thing I noticed was how much quicker it was to re-load the data from my external back-up drive than the previous hybrid drive had been. I've had no problems with it, and am very pleased with my choice. I can highly recommend this drive.

Crucial Mx500 ssd'sAfter lots of research and watching endless YouTube videos I invested in a 1TB mx500 ssd for the ps4 pro and it was a complete game changer for boot and load times.Since then I have added 3 of these to my desktop 1 for Windows drive and 2 as games drives and what a difference, superfast cold boot to windows and game level load times are massively faster.For a bit of fun I took my 11 year old gaming laptop (i5) which took 1.5 minutes to boot up and had various issues with load times and handling processes and added a 500gb mx 500 and upgraded the ram to 8gb and now a useless obsolete machine cold boots in 12 seconds and works great with daily tasks and runs older games like skyrim and xcom and dirt 4 at a great speed on high settings.These hard ... MoreCrucial Mx500 ssd'sAfter lots of research and watching endless YouTube videos I invested in a 1TB mx500 ssd for the ps4 pro and it was a complete game changer for boot and load times.Since then I have added 3 of these to my desktop 1 for Windows drive and 2 as games drives and what a difference, superfast cold boot to windows and game level load times are massively faster.For a bit of fun I took my 11 year old gaming laptop (i5) which took 1.5 minutes to boot up and had various issues with load times and handling processes and added a 500gb mx 500 and upgraded the ram to 8gb and now a useless obsolete machine cold boots in 12 seconds and works great with daily tasks and runs older games like skyrim and xcom and dirt 4 at a great speed on high settings.These hard drives are great for console/modern pc and for breathing life back into old machines.Why buy anything else? I certainly won't be.

4tb in particular is junk

I heard quite a few users report issues with the mx500's lately. my 2tb has been running great, so i decided to take the chance and grab the 4tb when it went on sale even though this particular model has significantly less DRAM and seems to have much higher failure rate vs the other sizes (go to amazon, sort by recent reviews)well sure enough, all of the reviews were correct. junk drive just disappears from my drive list occasionally. for a while it even disappeared from bios until i re-seated the SATA cable.i know it's not a wiring issue as i tested two different power/data cables, and i was replacing a smaller drive so i was using an already confirmed working cable setup.there was a firmware update released right as i received the drive, but that was a mess ... MoreI heard quite a few users report issues with the mx500's lately. my 2tb has been running great, so i decided to take the chance and grab the 4tb when it went on sale even though this particular model has significantly less DRAM and seems to have much higher failure rate vs the other sizes (go to amazon, sort by recent reviews)well sure enough, all of the reviews were correct. junk drive just disappears from my drive list occasionally. for a while it even disappeared from bios until i re-seated the SATA cable.i know it's not a wiring issue as i tested two different power/data cables, and i was replacing a smaller drive so i was using an already confirmed working cable setup.there was a firmware update released right as i received the drive, but that was a mess on its own. version m3cr046 which is claimed to fix the drives disappearing. upgrading firmware was a nightmare because, shockingly, you can't upgrade firmware if the drive won't stay up long enough. after 20 reboots and re-seating the cables a few times i got it to initialize long enough to upgrade the firmware and... nope, it didn't fix a thing. initially i thought it worked, so i started cut/pasting files to the new drive (my mistake, should've copied) and the drive disappeared partway through and now i've lost those files and corrupted a few that were part-way through transferring. niiiice... good thing my important stuff is backed up on other drives.shame on crucial. now i have to drive down and return this. there's a reason a tlc 4tb drive with dram under a brand name is going on such a large sale. these are junk drives that they are trying to offload. don't bother.

Crucial MX500 250Gig SSD a great product Thank You Crucial

The crucial 250Gig SSD is a great product.To be honest it is my first and only encounter with SSD for my PC.I am very glad that I chose Crucial.The reason for my recent purchases of additional Crucial 250Gig SSDs' is mainly for my hobby.instead of using the traditional HDD hardisk drive, you know the spinning disks type which is 4 to 7 times slower than a SSD motionless drive, I will now be using SSD drives for my hobby.What is my hobby? i enjoy installing linux on my older and lesser used PCs'.I also enjoy building my own PCs' from scratch so I end of having the PC that I really want.Personal note to Crucial: 250Gig is plenty for any operating system I've installed so please don't try to improve this product by increasing the storage capacity. ie my windows ... MoreThe crucial 250Gig SSD is a great product.To be honest it is my first and only encounter with SSD for my PC.I am very glad that I chose Crucial.The reason for my recent purchases of additional Crucial 250Gig SSDs' is mainly for my hobby.instead of using the traditional HDD hardisk drive, you know the spinning disks type which is 4 to 7 times slower than a SSD motionless drive, I will now be using SSD drives for my hobby.What is my hobby? i enjoy installing linux on my older and lesser used PCs'.I also enjoy building my own PCs' from scratch so I end of having the PC that I really want.Personal note to Crucial: 250Gig is plenty for any operating system I've installed so please don't try to improve this product by increasing the storage capacity. ie my windows 11 OS usies about 53Gig and I store any accumulated long term data else where like a DVD. Thank You crucial for a great product.

Delivers as promised

I recently replaced the data hard drive in my PC with a Crucial 2TB MX500 SSD. There was a noticeable improvement in video and photo rendering speeds with this upgrade. Files load and save much faster with the new drive.I cannot comment on the longevity of the drive as I have only had it for two weeks. But SSD's are said to have a limited number of write cycles -- usually shorter than those in hard drives. With hard drives I always run two identical drives in a redundant RAID-1 array. This way I can still recover the data from the good drive if one of them fails, and have happened once before when the drives get old (5+ years). Besides, typically you don't lose all the data in a hard drive at once. Instead the built in detectors will warn of a failing drive and ... MoreI recently replaced the data hard drive in my PC with a Crucial 2TB MX500 SSD. There was a noticeable improvement in video and photo rendering speeds with this upgrade. Files load and save much faster with the new drive.I cannot comment on the longevity of the drive as I have only had it for two weeks. But SSD's are said to have a limited number of write cycles -- usually shorter than those in hard drives. With hard drives I always run two identical drives in a redundant RAID-1 array. This way I can still recover the data from the good drive if one of them fails, and have happened once before when the drives get old (5+ years). Besides, typically you don't lose all the data in a hard drive at once. Instead the built in detectors will warn of a failing drive and allow for recovery of most of the data. SSD's tend to die taking all the data with them.Building a RAID-1 array gets very expensive as SSD's typically cost twice as much as a decent hard drive of similar capacity. For this reason I am only running one SSD, but do regular backups to a server on the home network. This gives me the extra protection in case of the SSD having a failure.The risk of a premature failure is not unique to one brand and can happen with most reputable brands. I feel that this SSD gives me a worthwhile speed increase with the peace of mind that my data will still be recoverable from the regular backups. There are more expensive drives that give faster data transfer rates, but you pay 50% extra for a 10% gain in speed. This I think hits the sweet spot.

Good SSD if you don’t have nvme support

Well, for starters, as the headline says, this product arrived exactly on time for me that was determined when I made the purchase. It was wrapped great and no damage to the package.Anyway, I ordered a couple of these to be installed in a couple of HP laptops, a Lenovo Laptop and decade old HP Desktop.Installed Windows 10/11 on these drives, The OS and software loads and closes tons faster and I no longer have to see the previous HDD endlessly tapping 100% for minutes at a time sometimes. Everything is just flat out more smooth. I currently have a couple of Crucial SSD's I have installed in my own personal PC's for the past 5 years or so and they still hold up well and perform like I just purchased them yesterday to this day.That is how I feel about this drive ... MoreWell, for starters, as the headline says, this product arrived exactly on time for me that was determined when I made the purchase. It was wrapped great and no damage to the package.Anyway, I ordered a couple of these to be installed in a couple of HP laptops, a Lenovo Laptop and decade old HP Desktop.Installed Windows 10/11 on these drives, The OS and software loads and closes tons faster and I no longer have to see the previous HDD endlessly tapping 100% for minutes at a time sometimes. Everything is just flat out more smooth. I currently have a couple of Crucial SSD's I have installed in my own personal PC's for the past 5 years or so and they still hold up well and perform like I just purchased them yesterday to this day.That is how I feel about this drive currently.

One of the only SSDs I Use

I've used a Lot of these MX500 SSDs and it's one of the only 2 I offer my family, friends, and clients. Building and repairing PCs for well over 10 years, I've had the opportunity to run tests on SSDs I've installed, save the results, and check them throughout the life of the system. Almost every other brand can not maintain the read/write performance the SSD has when it was new, except these Crucial SSDs made by Micron, and the Samsung Evo and Pro models. Some SSDs read/write speeds decrease even after just a few months of normal use, and testing them a year later I've seen decreased speeds of around 50% compared to the test when it was new. These MX500 maintain their performance for years in my experience. I have used these Crucial MX500 models in some of my ... MoreI've used a Lot of these MX500 SSDs and it's one of the only 2 I offer my family, friends, and clients. Building and repairing PCs for well over 10 years, I've had the opportunity to run tests on SSDs I've installed, save the results, and check them throughout the life of the system. Almost every other brand can not maintain the read/write performance the SSD has when it was new, except these Crucial SSDs made by Micron, and the Samsung Evo and Pro models. Some SSDs read/write speeds decrease even after just a few months of normal use, and testing them a year later I've seen decreased speeds of around 50% compared to the test when it was new. These MX500 maintain their performance for years in my experience. I have used these Crucial MX500 models in some of my systems, set them up in RAID on a couple of systems, RAID 0 and RAID 10, and just installed this one in a clients laptop, which they were going to get rid of, but really the only thing wrong with it was the already super slow 5400RPM rotational SATA drive in it was failing. Used this MX500 as a replacement, put a fresh Win 10 install on it, over provisioned it by an additional around 40GB, disabled the recycle bin to cut down on read/writes. Didn't disable the page file because they need more RAM, and not sure if anything they're going to run needs a page file, don't want it crashing on them. The client was Very happy with the boot speed of the HP Envy laptop it's in. These come with a spacer which I did use on the Envy laptop. They also come with an Acronis license you can use to clone your old data and OS right onto the SSD. The software will only work if it can detect the Crucial SSD, and once you're done cloning make sure you, shut down, and disconnect the old drive before turning the system back on again, 2 hard drives with the same exact signature will cause problems. I have used their included Acronis software several times in the past to successfully clone a working OS. It wont clone a RAID array, but it will clone an MBR or GPT. For this particular job I did a fresh install on the SSD and Win 10 automatically reactivated itself with a digital license. You can use Microsoft Media Creation tool to burn the Win 10 ISO to a flash drive or DVD media, and during install just click that you don't have a license key, so long as Windows was already activated on the PC, it should activate once you get the system online. Another route you can take to ensure activation is making yourself a Microsoft account prior to switching out the hard drive, this will change the way you log in to your PC from a local account to your Microsoft account, but it will also bind your OS license to your Microsoft account. You can verify it by looking in your windows Settings, Update & Security, Activation, it should read that your license is activated and linked to your microsoft account. After installing windows, choose your Microsoft account as the way you will sign in to your PC, use your credentials to log in, and it should activate with no problems. I know, this is a long review, hoping it may help someone make an informed decision, and avoid some of the pitfalls :)

Quality Control is Poor

I purchased two of these drives for an older desktop and laptop. The only positive experience with these SSDs was BH and their great return policy.The first drive stopped responding after 10 minutes of the cloning process and would no longer be recognized by the Crucial cloning software. The second drive was much better, it died within the first hour of the cloning process. It remained accessible from the cloning software so I tried again. It "completed" but was not recognized by the computer when installed as the boot up drive. I received Windows 10 blue error screens that I had not seen since Windows 98. Again, BH made the return process painless. Ultimately, I purchased two Samsung 870 EVO 1 TB SSDs and they installed and are running perfectly without any hassles.

USB to SATA connection may ruin drive!

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 ... MoreUpon 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!

You won't be disappointed

I bought three of these when I upgraded my mobo, CPU and memory back in June of this year. I decided to swap out my old SATA drives for SSD and join the 21st century. I have not been disappointed for even a second:Much faster boot times (approx. 10 seconds to the Desktop, if that much)Apps launch much faster.Cloning between SSDs is a breeze using MiniTool Partition Wizard (I used to use Clonezilla and/or Acronis, but MiniTool has them beat by a long shot).No noise since it's all solid state.I know SSDs can fail without warning, which is why I bought two more for backups (and this doesn't include my old SATA drives, which I'll continue to put into the rotation).I highly recommend this SSD. And only around $90 for 1Tb??? Come on! Do yourself and upgrade to ... MoreI bought three of these when I upgraded my mobo, CPU and memory back in June of this year. I decided to swap out my old SATA drives for SSD and join the 21st century. I have not been disappointed for even a second:Much faster boot times (approx. 10 seconds to the Desktop, if that much)Apps launch much faster.Cloning between SSDs is a breeze using MiniTool Partition Wizard (I used to use Clonezilla and/or Acronis, but MiniTool has them beat by a long shot).No noise since it's all solid state.I know SSDs can fail without warning, which is why I bought two more for backups (and this doesn't include my old SATA drives, which I'll continue to put into the rotation).I highly recommend this SSD. And only around $90 for 1Tb??? Come on! Do yourself and upgrade to this SSD now!