Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - Up to 560MB/s - CT500MX500SSD1

Excelent, I'm using this as a SSD cache for a server. It has a Dram cache which aids performance. I have had no issues using it. Price to performance is excelent, espectially when its on offer which happens often. I've had a few Samsung SSD's and I cant say I've ever noticed the difference in performance. Durability seems good with no smart errors yet with over a year of usage.

I’ve had this SSD in my system for a few years now and it’s been rock solid. It was easy to install, and the speed boost was instantly noticeable—boot times, file transfers, and general responsiveness all improved. Even though it’s a SATA drive, it still feels snappy for everyday use, and I’ve never run into any reliability issues.The 500GB capacity has been enough for my OS and main apps, and it’s held up well with regular use. No overheating, no weird glitches, and it’s still performing like new. For the price, it’s been one of the best upgrades I’ve made to my setup.

Crucial have become my top choice for memory and storage solutions, and for good reason.First off, the performance of this SSD is nothing short of exceptional. With read speeds of up to 560MB/s, this SSD has breathed new life into both my PC and laptop. But what's truly remarkable is how it transformed my older, slower laptop into a lightning-fast machine. Replacing the hard drive with the MX500 was like giving it a turbo boost – it now boots up in seconds and runs applications with lightning speed.As a loyal fan of Crucial, I've come to trust their products for their quality and reliability. Both of my PCs and my laptop are now running on Crucial SSDs, and I've been consistently impressed with their performance and durability. The MX500 continues this trend, offering the perfect blend of speed, capacity, and reliability.But perhaps the most compelling aspect of the MX500 is its value proposition. For anyone with an older, slower laptop, upgrading to an SSD can make a world of difference. Not only does it significantly improve performance, but it also extends the lifespan of your device, saving you the hassle and expense of buying a new one.Overall, I couldn't be happier with the Crucial MX500 1TB SSD. It's a game-changer for anyone looking to breathe new life into their PC or laptop. Whether you're a gamer, a student, or a professional, upgrading to the MX500 is one of the best investments you can make for your device. Highly recommended!

Needed desperately to update or renew an ageing Toshiba C850 laptop that was to put it politely, slow to do anything, lagging, slow to react, webpages freezing, and boot time was turn on, make a cuppa, return to laptop..... I have a main desktop PC, but the laptop is handy to have around for browsing etc whilst watching the goggle box... the C850 was still with its factory hardware and a few months back did a fresh install of Win 8.1 which was a rollback from win10 (yes I did get the free win10 update but it was almost unusable). ... bearing in mind, this lappy is equipped with a 1.8mhz Celeron processor, 4Gb DDR3 Ram, and a Sata 2 5400 spin 500 GB HDD so it's never going to break any speed records. I decided to do a firmware upgrade, knowing the speeds gained from fitting SSDs as have done my own and a couple of other PCs to great advantage, usually buying Samsung drives but not wanting to go overboard on the price for this machine I went with the Crucial MX, and an 8GB stick of Crucial RAM just to finish things off.first things first,before purchasing I searched online for a video for my model lappy on how to get things apart (I have built several PCs, but apart from keyboard changes never played with laptops)... looked easy enough to install (it really was too) ....... So, I installed the Acronis clone software from Crucial, and connected the new drive via USB3 using the Ugreen USB - SATA cable (available on Amazon, can also do 3.5 drives too as has a power cable if required, but not needed for SSD)... note: the Crucial version of the software will not work unless you have a Crucial drive connected... it found the new drive, took a few minutes to set it up and successfully cloned my existing drive in about 30 minutes... Then following the afore mentioned instructions, I installed both the new RAM and drive to the machine, literally under 10 minutes later, battery back in and rebooting the machine.... boot time was greatly improved, as said before, not blisteringly fast due to other restrictions, but several minutes quicker than before, under 30 seconds for fully loaded.... no need for a new laptop, this old gal is perfectly usable for what I require now and programmes etc install a lot faster and have had none of my previous, freezing / lagging issues...... the only issue I had was that for some reason the sound device driver needed reinstalling, was on the drive but for some reason didn't work...a 1 min jobI picked Crucial, because I have used their RAM in many applications before, with no issues, their Micron branded chips are used by other manufacturers (inc the WD blue 3D nand SSD) and they are priced quite reasonably.... possibly being one of the "best of the rest" after Samsung in the SSD market, obviously using the SATA 3 format, speed is restricted by the actual format itself, but some improvements can be made further by installing Crucials own SSD software, this has a function whereas the cache is used to speed things up even further, and allows you to monitor the health etc of the drive... One question remains though, and this one is for Toshiba, with the laptop having a SATA2 drive factory fitted, I was expecting speeds around the 250-280MB/s mark, as S2 tops out at 300 MB/s, so imagine my joy when testing immediately after install a test mark of 551MB/s read and 518 write... the motherboard is actually a SATA 3... so happy days..here are the Seq Q32T1 speeds taken from crystaldiskmark, for the old HDD, the SSD and then the SSD using crucials Momentum Cache softwareHDD read 105.4 MB/s - write 99.12 MB/sSSD read 551.2 - write 518.4MC read 1504.1 - write 1609.7as you can see, speeds are greatly improved and the momentum cache software is pure witchcraft.... bottom line, with a little bit of knowledge, research and confidence you can breath new life into an ageing machine (Laptop or desktop) with great success for a lot less than a new machine, better still you can then just use your existing HDD as an external backup for photos / documents etc using the same cable you used to clone the original (wipe it first)The cable I used is Amazon item number 20627, this is ideal for using 3.5 HDDs as well as 2.5 and SSDs due to the power cable, they also sell a non powered version for around a tenner less which would be fine if only ever going to be used with SSDs