BX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT2000BX500SSD1, Solid State Drive | 2TB 3D NAND SSD with 540MB/s read and SATA III interface for booting, storage and multitasking

I've been using this in my rig for a year now. It was easy to install and has worked amazingly!

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…

This is a very unscientific review, with comparisons that may not be useful to most people but long story short, this definitely appears to be a good value. I purchased this 2TB Crucial BX500 to replace a 1 TB Samsung 850 EVO on an old MacBook from 2007. This is not a good use of one's money and I'd advise normal people against it. I just really like this computer and I dual boot an old Mac OS for certain programs I use as well as Linux, and I just wanted to have a lot of storage for each operating system as they're housing some music/video libraries. Anyway. I was concerned that the Crucial would be noticeably slower than the Samsung, because it is so inexpensive. It starts up just as fast in MacOS (about 12 seconds) and Linux (i'm guessing it's about the same in Linux since the startup process is a little different and I went from Mint 19.2 to Mint 20 in the course of this upgrade so did not make an apples-to-apples comparison). Cloning the data was pretty slow admittedly. Cloning 400 GB of data took about 2 hours to the Samsung vs about 4 hours on the Crucial over USB 2.0. I probably won't have to do this clone again so I don't really care, but worth noting. If I'm not mistaken the Samsungs have more cache which speed up the transfer rate of the first 100 GB or so, and the Crucial being cheaper has less cache and only the first 50 GB or so get the faster transfer rate. Otherwise I haven't noticed any other speed differences in the tasks I use it for: web browsing, viewing and storing photos, music, video. If you really just want storage capacity, faster than HDD performance, better than HDD reliability (knock-on-wood) and you don't need the absolute fastest thing, this is a safe way to go. The Samsung is still wonderful and I will be handing it down to my dad for his 2012 MacBook Pro to hopefully get another year or two of use out of it.

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!

Back when I bought this in the Fall of 2024, the RAM/NAND crisis hadn't reached full swing and I was able to buy this for about $160. For a 2TB SATA SSD, that was Impressively low cost. the storage capacity is excellent As as well the ease of installation - being in that it can be installed internally on most PC's that have a 2.5" drive bay or better used in an External 2.5" SSD case exclusively for a extra storage. I have no idea of the actual noise level as these things are exceptionally quiet to begin with, there are no moving parts. Compared to the M.2 NVME SSD's on the market, the Boot time is slower, but compared to a traditional platter Hard disk drive, they are much faster. As of Now in 1st Q of 2026, these things are increasingly expensive, and Sadly Micron/Crucial has announced they are getting out of the RAM/NAND game. I will always buy Crucial brand SSD's whenever possible.

The Crucial brand has been around for a while and has a reputation for quality. I've had good experiences with their RAM upgrades, so when I was looking for a SATA drive, I decided to go with them. Formatted and empty, this drive nets 1.8 TB of free space. If you’re a PC user and new to adding a SATA drive: I was hoping it would be ‘plug and play’ on my Win11 PC, but that wasn’t the case - Initially, it did not appear in File Explorer. A quick search on the Internet guided me to the Windows Disc Management utility, and after a couple simple steps, File Explorer now recognizes my new, huge drive. 😊 Will update my review if needed. For now, I'm set for storage space on the device I installed this in.

It was easy to install and format. Works great!

Rarely is my experience with a new product exactly as advertised. This 2TB Crucial BX500 SSD drive is! First off, I have a PC setup slightly more complex than usual. I built this desktop computer myself several years ago, setting it up with a dual-boot config: Windows 10 64-bit on my main hard drive for application development work; Windows 7 32-bit on another, for compatibility with older music recording software and hardware interface. After all these years, I was concerned my two original 2TB Seagate drives would be reaching end-of-life. Plus, they were getting slower each year with more and more data on them. Now, this was my first replacement drive to see how it went--and my first SSD experience. I popped the new Crucial drive into an Icy Dock 2.5 to 3.5 inch adapter case, installed it in an open drive bay, connecting it to an open Serial ATA slot in my motherboard with an extra SATA cable I had lying around (Note: the drive doesn't come with any cables), plugged it into an open SATA power connector connector, closed the case and powered up the PC. I then followed the Crucial online instructions downloading the Crucial Storage Executive drive info app and Acronis cloning app. I was pleased to see that the SSD drive was now recognized by Windows 10 and it was apparently functioning correctly. I then fired up the Acronis True Image app, selected my "C:" drive to clone and selecting "Manual" as a partition option and then, "As Is" instead of "Proportional", since both old and new drives are the same size. Cloning my Windows 10 boot drive took a good couple of hours and completed successfully. Now for the big test. I turned off the PC, opened the case again and disconnected the old boot drive and turned the PC back on. I now expected the usual option to boot from either the Windows 10 or Windows 7 drive. Instead, I got the ugly DOS message: "Reboot and select proper boot device." Uh oh... However, this was an easy fix. I rebooted and this time selected the option to open the BIOS software. From it's "BOOT" menu, I found my new Crucial SSD drive was listed with it's serial number beginning with "CTxxx...", instead of the Seagate drive "ST" prefix. It turned out my disconnecting the old primary Seagate drive had apparently confused the BIOS and caused it to move my empty DVD drive into the first boot position. I simply moved the new Crucial drive to that first position, saved the BIOS setting and rebooted again. This time I given the expected option to select my default Windows 10 drive, or my old Windows 7 music recording drive. The cloning process had NOT wiped my custom boot config! I selected the Windows 10 boot option to my new SSD drive and was AMAZED at how fast Windows 10 loaded--and then, how fast bulky programs like Microsoft Visual Studio now load. Awesome! I'm thrilled. I'm now ready to try replacing the other Seagate hard drive. Since this one has old, end-of-life Windows 7, we'll see how that goes. I'll let you know!

Muito bom! Já instalei no meu notebook e funcionando perfeitamente

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Kilkukrotnie z niewyjaśnionych przyczyn przestał być widoczny dla systemu. 3 razy już go formatowałem, gdyż nic się nie dało zrobić, a system wykrywał jako zupełnie nowy dysk... Teraz to już w ogóle. Podczas pracy komputer przestał działać, okazało się, że przez ten dysk. W systemie brak partycji z tym dyskiem. Gdy próbuję go dodać w systemie i przypisać literę, to nie ma takiej możliwości... Nie polecam, zmarnowany czas i pieniądze.

Product work very well, no problem setting it up.

Decent SSD, hasn't failed after 12mnths in a system running constantly, so no complaints from me..