Crucial BX500 4TB 2.5" SATA3 6Gb/s SSD [CT4000BX500SSD1]

Be warned, after ~3200 GB of hostwrites the drive write speeds become abysmal (15 to 20 mbit/s; SSDs should be exceeding 400 mbit/s at minimum).I bought the Crucial BX500 at the end of November 2022 and had it for about 7 or so months now before returning it. My time with this SSD was actually fairly positive until very recently that is until it reached it's "threshold" of hostwrites then my Windows installation took shockingly long to boot and this was when after troubleshooting I realized the drive was at fault after a lengthy process. It's performance after this moment is worse than any mechanical hhd I ever had. This slow down without warning, makes me wary with Crucial's products from now on even for a DRAMless SSD this is shocking and unacceptable compared to ... MoreBe warned, after ~3200 GB of hostwrites the drive write speeds become abysmal (15 to 20 mbit/s; SSDs should be exceeding 400 mbit/s at minimum).I bought the Crucial BX500 at the end of November 2022 and had it for about 7 or so months now before returning it. My time with this SSD was actually fairly positive until very recently that is until it reached it's "threshold" of hostwrites then my Windows installation took shockingly long to boot and this was when after troubleshooting I realized the drive was at fault after a lengthy process. It's performance after this moment is worse than any mechanical hhd I ever had. This slow down without warning, makes me wary with Crucial's products from now on even for a DRAMless SSD this is shocking and unacceptable compared to other similarly priced DRAMless SSDs. Do not recommend.

Awful.

Got this from Currys as it was next day delivery.Excited to put it in my 10 year old Lenovo laptop as my previous had bad sectors and was original standard HDD so lasted quite long.Upon putting it in the computer keeps rebooting itself and says error or something along those lines at the startup before the bios screen.I take it to a friend of mine who is better than me in the technically side of things and he told me what I assumed...faulty SSD...my first thought of it was ita really light and felt so cheap..very cheap plastic ectBut apparently for a SSD to fail before using is odd. Safe to say will not be using this brand ever.Went to another and it worked straight away, albeit slightly more expensive but at least it works!!

Review of Crucial 240GB BX500 2.5" SATA 6GB/s SSD

My 6-year old Dell Inspiron has been showing its age by slow running especilally at start-up & waking from sleep mode. Doubling its memory made a good improvement but replacing the HDD with a Crucial SDD brought about about a huge improvement with the bonus that the computer runs much more quietly.The disk cloning process was easy - thnks to the online support and videos.Because of this positive experience, I similarly revitalised an old HP laptop, though I did find this more tricky because after cloning, Windows update kicked in to download system drivers which somehow went AWOL.

Review of Crucial BX500 2TB 2.5 Inch Internal SSD

Great sad especially for the price. I had one in pc for music. One for Xbox 360 and Xbox o e games plugged into my series x external . I have one in my Xbox one x internal. and PS3 internal. Havnt got one for my PS4 yet as I don't need extra external storage. I future I might get the Mx500 for internal uses as it has cache of sorts so better for OS but the bx500 seems perfect so I keep buying them. I have internal NVME with 7000+ read and writes so I know speeds and the bx500 is great for so cheap and as a sata drive easily put in external enclosure for a few quid.

Review of Crucial BX500 500GB 2.5 Inch Internal SSD

Its a SSD and it works fine.I upgraded my old E6410 laptop to a dual boot: Linux and kept the original Win7 OS, using a bootable USB Linux to do the work.After installing the blank disk and booting to Linux I used 'gparted' to create a slightly larger ntfs partition for Windows and a new ext4 partition for Ubuntu. The "innocent" command 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb' blindly copies the old disk, byte-for-byte to the new disk, where sda was the old disk that I attached via an external SATA-USB disk caddy, and sdb was the newly installed disk. You MUST check your own configuration (gparted) to tell you which is which for your own installation - they could be different and you don't want to copy blank space onto your precious old disk! 'dd' took 3.5 hrs to blindly ... MoreIts a SSD and it works fine.I upgraded my old E6410 laptop to a dual boot: Linux and kept the original Win7 OS, using a bootable USB Linux to do the work.After installing the blank disk and booting to Linux I used 'gparted' to create a slightly larger ntfs partition for Windows and a new ext4 partition for Ubuntu. The "innocent" command 'dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb' blindly copies the old disk, byte-for-byte to the new disk, where sda was the old disk that I attached via an external SATA-USB disk caddy, and sdb was the newly installed disk. You MUST check your own configuration (gparted) to tell you which is which for your own installation - they could be different and you don't want to copy blank space onto your precious old disk! 'dd' took 3.5 hrs to blindly copy the old disk to the new one, (190GB over USB2 with no debug messages). Leave it overnight and it booted first time into the old OS. The remaining ext4 partition I used for Ubuntu and I can now access all of my old Win7 files from Linux. Aditionally, my old Win7 disk is now there as a backup using the disk caddy.You just need a SSD like this one, a SSD-USB caddy to put the old disk in, and a bootable Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Linux Mint, etc) on a pen-drive.Be aware of which boot mode your old computer runs - my Win7 was using Legacy mode, not UEFI, so I had to use Legacy for Ubuntu too. I actually had to repeat the whole process above after I messed up the boot mode through my own fault. No problem, I just had to wait again to re-copy the old disk after reformatting the new one.

[Rewarded Review] Great drive for Gaming PC

Key Highlights- Easy to install and set up for Windows- Fast for gaming and file transfersBought this drive for my gaming PC as a third drive to support some of my retro gaming plans and it has been perfect. Installation was simple and easy, I was able to get it up and initialized in minutes. From there, file transfers were fast making it quick to organize my PC's game library. Performance has been great to date, with no lag in data load or game performance. Would definitely recommend it!

[Rewarded Review] Great product, watch out during cloning process

I bought two of these for two different older Win10 computers with spinning hard drives that were degrading, making the computers very slow. First was my wife's nearly 9 year old laptop. First attempt at cloning drive failed because the computer shut itself off during the process. Be sure to go into power settings and disable automatic shutdown or sleep mode. Once I did that the cloning succeeded. Second PC was a desktop with a 250GB spinning drive. The SSD is 1 TB. Using the cloning wizard, it wanted to create a 217 GB Windows partition (same size as it was on the spinning drive) and it wanted to blow up the recovery partition to well over 700 GB. Well, that's stupid! It should have kept the recovery partition the same size and increased the Windows partition as ... MoreI bought two of these for two different older Win10 computers with spinning hard drives that were degrading, making the computers very slow. First was my wife's nearly 9 year old laptop. First attempt at cloning drive failed because the computer shut itself off during the process. Be sure to go into power settings and disable automatic shutdown or sleep mode. Once I did that the cloning succeeded. Second PC was a desktop with a 250GB spinning drive. The SSD is 1 TB. Using the cloning wizard, it wanted to create a 217 GB Windows partition (same size as it was on the spinning drive) and it wanted to blow up the recovery partition to well over 700 GB. Well, that's stupid! It should have kept the recovery partition the same size and increased the Windows partition as much as possible. So I halted the cloning and restarted it in manual mode, which allows changing the partition sizes. In manual mode the cloning software made the correct suggestion: it kept the recovery partition and two small mysterious partitions the same sizes that they were on the hard drive, and it increased the Windows partition to 871 GB. So I accepted those sizes and did the cloning. Why couldn't the wizard have figured that out? Bottom line - pay attention during the cloning process to make sure the wizard isn't doing something dumb. Both computers are now running much faster than before. My wife is delighted with her new laptop. She says it is now super-fast. B&H sale price was great with free two day delivery.

good basic SSD, next day delivery 👍🏻

Small cheap SSD drive needed to replace an existing slow HDD on a friends very old, 10+ years, HP machine. The HP machine was very sluggish (Browsing, Facebook usage, starup) had 8Gb (4Gb x 2) never fully used and a low spec dual core AMD chip with integrated GPU that was never maxed out. So it was the HDD? Copied the drive over, an overnight job, put the new Crucial in and rebooted, at the desktop in seconds rather than minutes. Disk drive is no longer running flat out so browsing has improved. Friend noticed the difference quickly. So a nice cheap upgrade that should keep them going for a couple more years, not the fastest SSD bu they didn't need that.