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

The Vibe Check: Is your PC lagging? If your computer takes longer to wake up than you do on a Monday morning, it’s not "vintage"—it’s just struggling. I swapped my dusty old hard drive for the Crucial BX500 1TB, and honestly? The glow-up is real. My boot times went from "time to go make a coffee" to "wait, it's already on?" in under 15 seconds. Why this SSD is a Total Mood: We’re talking up to 540MB/s. While it’s not NVMe-level fast, for a SATA drive, it’s basically the "final boss" of budget upgrades. Storage for Days: 1TB is plenty of space for all your games, "homework" folders, and the 5,000 high-res photos you’ll never look at. Zero Noise: Unlike my old HDD that sounded like a jet engine taking off, this thing is silent. Pure peace. Installation is Low-Key Easy: If you can plug in a toaster, you can install this. I didn't even need a YouTube tutorial (okay, maybe one, but it was short). If you’re a professional video editor doing 8K renders 24/7, you might want its "older sibling," the MX500. But for gaming, schoolwork, and everyday scrolling? This is the sweet spot. Pro Tip: It runs a little warm if you’re moving massive files, but for general use, it stays cool as a cucumber. Final Verdict: Stop gatekeeping your PC’s potential. If you’re on a budget but want that "new computer" feel without spending $1,000, this is the move. It’s cheap, it’s fast, and it’s a total vibe. 10/10 would recommend to anyone still living in the HDD dark ages.

The Crucial BX500 4TB SSD has been a really dependable upgrade for my setup. I’ve been using it for storing games, files, and general everyday use, and it’s been a big improvement over older drives. Everything feels quicker, from loading times to transferring files, and it just runs smoothly without any issues. It’s straightforward to install and has been completely reliable since I set it up. I like having all that space in one drive without worrying about juggling storage, and it handles everything I throw at it without slowing down.

At the time that I purchased the BX500 SATA SSD, it was quite literally the lowest-priced 4 TB SATA SSD available. Which is really unfortunate since Micron decided that AI datacenters are what they truly want to support and 4 TB SSDs of all stripes and creeds are now close to $1,000 per unit! It's bad because this was actually a really affordable and quite fast SSD, useful for file transfers and as an alternative to an external hard drive or SSD when paired with one of Sabrent's drive docking adapters. Because it's an SSD, there's no risk of crashed disk platters or stuck heads like you have with hard disk drives and no noise since it's a non-mechanical storage device (which can be said for ANY brand of SSD, really). I'm not certain if the BX500 uses TLC or QLC NAND flash memory, so I can't give it a proper score as to lifespan or data retentivity, but I feel fairly confident that this drive will be reliable in the long term. It IS Crucial by Micron, after all. They were known for reliable and affordable drives, and memory kits, too. If Micron were still making these under their Crucial brand, I'd be recommending this SSD. It's fast, affordable and from a known brand that makes decent and reliable memory products.

Excellent item! It far outperforms the original hard drive in my laptop workstation. It's a lot smaller too, so it's a good thing the workstation supports two internal drives. This 2 terabyte drive gives me enough space to do my video processing (meaning huge files) as long as remember to move files to permanent storage on a hard drive. How fast is it? On a transfer beteen this drive and an externas SSD drive I saw as high as 323 gigabytes per second. For ME? That's blazing fast! My computer starts up in seconds where it used to start up in minutes. Excellent buy!

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.

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.

It was easy to mount as the holes lined up with the old HDD mount in my all-in-one pc. It’s been about a month of use now, and it appears to work flawlessly. If it continues to work, it’s an excellent value for the price.

As the title states, this is a solid budget-tier SSD from a well known and trusted brand. There are many off-brand Chinese SSDs on here that boast similar or lower price, but I absolutely would not trust them with my data. Keep in mind this is a budget SSD. Write speeds will be very slow for large or numerous file copying onto the drive. However read speeds are fine. This is a great SSD to use as a dedicated media drive where the drive will mostly be read from. This may not be a good choice for a primary boot drive that will have many file write operations happening. Keep that in mind and use this drive as it's intended and you should be good.

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.

Funziona perfettamente, è molto veloce e facile da installare. Il computer ora si avvia in pochi secondi. Ottimo rapporto qualità-prezzo. Consigliatissimo!

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.

Gick från hdd till denna! Det blev som en ny dator! 👌

Esperemos que funcione y no vuelva a perder todos los datos en garatia, como el amterior.