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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
M. Martel –
BX300: Good enough, fast enough for normies from a reliable brand – benchmark-chasers look elsewhere
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.
The beard of knowledge –
Brought my old HP back to life
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.
Pamela Ballantyne –
Fantastic SSD, horrible cloning software.
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.
Car Guy & Reader –
Good SSD, good value
Used these to set up a NAS. Worked right out of the box, they seem plenty quick enough. A good value for a 4GB SSD. Even if they’re not really 4 GB. Like every other vendor, Crucial counts in multiples of 1000 bytes, rather than 1028.
MarcosM_USA –
Solid Budget SSD for Everyday Use
The Crucial BX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA SSD delivers reliable performance at a wallet-friendly price. With read/write speeds up to 540/500MB/s, it’s a noticeable upgrade from traditional hard drives—boot times and file access are much faster. Installation is simple, and the 2.5-inch form factor fits most laptops and desktops.While it lacks DRAM and advanced features like hardware encryption, it’s ideal for casual users who need extra storage or want to revive an older system. Just keep in mind that sustained write speeds can dip during heavy tasks. For everyday computing, backups, or expanding game libraries, it’s a dependable pick with a 3-year warranty to back it up.
Jesse W –
Decent for storage if you only care about read speed.
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.
Alain Ordi –
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.
Soliva Guimarães Pestana –
Produto muito bom… HD rapido e de otima qualidade
Mergatroid –
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.
Jose Manuel –
Esperemos que funcione y no vuelva a perder todos los datos en garatia, como el amterior.
KH –
Bought Crucial as I made a price and product comparison with other brands before deciding to use it. To date, it has been good. Am now looking to buy the ram to upgrade my laptop.