Crucial BX500 480GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT480BX500SSD1, Solid State Drive

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’m an IT guy. Used to be Geek Squad back in the day. Sometimes I do things with computers just to see if I can do them. So when an old 2010 MacBook Pro showed up courtesy of a family member, I decided to play around with it. The wonderful thing about old hardware is it is cheap to upgrade, but this thing was in rough shape. New battery, new memory, and this new SSD. All extremely easy upgrades if you know your way around a PC. Popped open the bottom of the laptop and the old hard drive uninstalled easily and the new one went in even easier. After install I booted the laptop using Apple’s recovery mode, partitioned and formatted the hard drive, and let Apple install the OS over the internet. Unfortunately, Apple does not support this computer anymore, so there are no longer up-to-date security patches. So I did the next best thing, installed Windows 7 using Apple Bootcamp, as this version of MacOS only installs Windows 7. I know Windows 7 no longer gets updates either, but little known is that the Windows 7 drivers provided by Apple work in Windows 10. Which allows you to upgrade your Windows 7 instance with no issue. So I have Windows 10 successfully running on a 12+ year old PC. So I can confirm this drive works great on Mac and Windows. Boot up on this old PC, including bios, is now under 30 seconds. SSDs are single-handedly the best upgrade for your money, and at under $40 this SSD is perfect for any project you have. Crucial has always been a trusted name in the Memory business, and with their drives coming in at such a competitive price point, there is surprisingly no trade off between quality and cost. Will update my post if I have any issues with the drive failing prematurely, but so far this thing is great!

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.

I wish Crucial did not quit making consumer products. These have always been good to me.

This is an inexpensive SSD drive that will dramatically increase the performance of an older laptop. A perfect upgrade for a casual PC user. However the BX series is a value oriented SSD, and is not the best choice for users who do heavy write activity like video production, some games, large databases or backup storage. For applications that involve a lot of disk write activity or for users who want a little better performance and possibly longevity the MX series is probably the superior choice. The crucial BX series is a significant performance upgrade from a traditional hard disk, and will provide a noticeable speed benefit for an older laptop. You'll also get silent operation, and a little longer battery life.

My old HDD has been struggling for a long time, and I figured that I need to replace it in my six-year-old HP Notebook 15, along with an upgraded pair of new RAM sticks. Booted my laptop up with the new parts, and immediately I noticed the performance difference. Great transfer speed and a quick boost overall. One of my worthwhile purchases, especially for the price. The only complaint I have is that I should've gotten an M.2 NVME SSD instead, but this product will work for the time being. I'll check back on its lifespan after a while of using it; in the meantime, I'm happy with it.

I got this and used it to expand the drive space on my laptop, and for storing content I needed quicker access too because the platter drive it came with was just grinding. It easily screwed into the expansion bay and after connecting and powering it on, the BIOS saw the drive with no issues. In Windows 10 it has worked great, formatted fairly quickly and have not had any issues with content writing or running from it since adding. Programs I access from it are much faster now, extremely pleased with Crucial brand.

Muy buen producto.

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

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This has made my old laptop better than new. Now boots up in seconds not minutes like it used to. Opens software nice and fast. Saved $1000's on buying a new laptop. Easy to install and comes with great software (available on their website) to clone your old HDD.

con el regreso a clases en línea me hacían falta computadoras en casa, así que decidí comprar este ssd para cambiarle el disco mecánico de la laptop dell Inspiron R15 que compre hace 8 años y estaba un poco lenta. En la página de crucial te dicen exactamente qué disco ssd le queda a tu laptop, al igual de las memorias RAM. Lo que no sabía era que necesitaría un cable usb a SATA, por eso cuando llego el disco y la memoria no pude ponérselo de inmediato, solo la memoria, no se notó mucho la diferencia El Paso de 4 de RAM a 8. Así que tube que pedir el cable y ya que llego clone el disco viejito en el nuevo. Al principio ya conectado el disco no lo reconocía, tuve que apagar la computadora y encenderla con el disco nuevo conectado por usb, solo así ya pude usar el programa acronis que te proporcionan en la página de crucial para poder clonar tu disco gratis. Ya clonado el ssd, desarme la laptop para quitarle el disco viejo y ponerle el nuevo y al encenderla ahora sí se nota la diferencia. Es como tener una laptop nueva. Ya que tenía el cable y sabía cómo hacerle, me puse a cambiarle el disco mecánico por discos ssd a las demás laptops de la familia. Ahora uso el disco mecánico como disco externo para guardar archivos, fotos, videos, etc y el ssd para el Sistema operativo.

Ne ho acquistati un paio nel 2022 e li uso ancora oggi senza problemi. Installazione semplice, riconoscimento immediato e prestazioni in linea con un SSD SATA entry‑level: avvio rapido, sistema più reattivo e tempi di caricamento molto ridotti rispetto a un hard disk meccanico. Il BX500 è un modello economico e privo di DRAM, quindi non punta alle prestazioni massime, ma per uso quotidiano, PC datati o come disco di avvio è più che sufficiente. Silenzioso, fresco e stabile anche dopo anni di utilizzo. La qualità Crucial si conferma buona e non ho riscontrato cali di prestazioni nel tempo. Ottimo per dare nuova vita a notebook e desktop che usano ancora dischi tradizionali. In sintesi: SSD semplice e affidabile per sistemi a basso consumo. Non è al livello della serie MX, ma per l’uso base resta una scelta solida.