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Compatible Devices	This drive is compatible with desktops and laptops that accept 2.5" 7mm SATA drives
Hard Disk Interface	Solid State
Brand	Crucial
Series	Crucial MX500 SSD
Specific Uses For Product	Personal, gaming, business
Connectivity Technology	SATA
Form Factor	2.5-inch
Read Speed	560 Megabytes Per Second
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Speed: Sequential reads/writes up to 560/510MB/s¹
Capacities: 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB²
Interface/Form Factor: SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-inch (7mm)
Energy Efficient: 45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive³
Award Winning: 16+ awards from reviewers worldwide

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Every time you turn on your computer, you’re using your storage drive. It holds all your irreplaceable files and it loads and saves almost everything your system does. Join more and more people who are keeping their family videos, travel photos, music and important documents on an SSD, and get the near-instant performance and lasting reliability that comes with solid state storage.

Upgrade with the Crucial MX500 SSD, a drive built on quality, speed, and security that’s all backed by helpful service and support. Even if you’ve never installed an SSD, don’t sweat it — our step-by-step guide walks you through the process to make installation easy.


Fly through everything you do Start your system in seconds, load files almost instantly, and accelerate the most demanding applications with the Crucial MX500. Our dynamic write acceleration technology uses an adaptable pool of high-speed single-level cell flash memory to generate blistering speeds.	Store up to 4TB of data² Save massive amounts of photos, music, and videos comfortably and securely. With fast access to your media, creations, and designs, you’re ready to share at the speed of your life.	Enjoy the efficiency of Micron 3D NAND Our cutting-edge components are engineered from start to finish for efficiency. As a result, the Crucial MX500 uses only a minimal amount of power and still delivers a high cost-to- performance ratio — without needing a financing plan to pay for it. Experience a faster, cooler, and quieter computer in your home or business. You’ll wonder how you ever put up with a hard drive.	Upgrade with a drive you can count on Backed by thousands of hours of pre-release validation, dozens of qualification tests, and a heritage of award-winning SSDs, the Crucial MX500 has been thoroughly tried, tested and proven. Secure your most important files on a drive with established dependability and the advanced features MX500 SSDs are known for.

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For many people, opening a computer and transferring data seems terrifying. That’s why we’ve made it easy in the step-by-step Crucial SSD Install Guide. Check it out before you buy, then install your own SSD quickly with everything transferred over successfully and hassle free.

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Micron redefines what’s possible with innovative technology that shapes how we use data in all areas of life. Crucial’s unique integration with Micron means our memory and storage components are designed, tested, and refined at every stage of the production process.

Typical I/O performance numbers as measured using IOMeter with a queue depth of 32 and write cache enabled. Fresh out-of-the-box (FOB) state is assumed. For performance measurement purposes, the SSD may be restored to FOB state using the secure erase command. System variations will affect measured results.
Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes. Not all capacities available at initial launch.
Active average power use comparison based on published specs of the 1TB Crucial MX500 SSD and the 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EZEX internal hard drive. All other capacities of the Crucial MX500 SSD have comparable active average power consumption specs.


	Crucial P2 SSD	Crucial P5 Plus SSD	Crucial BX500 SSD	Crucial MX500 SSD	Crucial X6 Portable SSD	Crucial X8 Portable SSD
Capacity¹	250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB	500GB, 1TB, 2TB	240GB, 480GB, 1TB, 2TB	250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB	500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB	1TB, 2TB
Internal/External	Internal	Internal	Internal	Internal	External	External
Form Factor	M.2	M.2	2.5 inch	2.5 inch	Portable	Portable
Interface	NVMe PCIe	NVMe PCIe	SATA	SATA	USB 3.2	USB 3.2
Sequential Read Speed²	Up to 2400MB/s	Up to 6600MB/s	Up to 540MB/s	Up to 560MB/s	Up to 800MB/s	Up to 1050MB/s
Sequential Write Speed²	Up to 1900MB/s	Up to 5000MB/s	Up to 500MB/s	Up to 510MB/s
Optimal For	Gamers, professionals, entry-level designers	Fast Gen4 NVMe storage for high-performance computing and hardcore gaming	Universal, value-conscious users	Professionals, upgraders & college students	On-the-go hobbyists, students, travelers & gamers	Photographers, on-the-go professionals & console gamers

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Compatible Devices	This drive is compatible with desktops and laptops that accept 2.5" 7mm SATA drives	This drive is compatible with desktops and laptops that accept 2.5" 7mm SATA drives	Laptop	Desktop	Laptop, Desktop	Backwards compatibility to SATA Rev. 2.0 (3Gb/s)
Data Transfer Rate	560 MB per second	540 MB per second	560 Mb per second	6 Gb per second	6 Gb per second	350 Mb per second
Device Type	Internal Solid State Drive	Solid State Drive	Solid State Drive	Internal Solid State Drive	—	Internal Solid State Drive
Digital Storage Capacity	1 TB	1 TB	1 TB	1 TB	1 TB	240 GB
Hardware Interface	SATA 6.0 Gb/s	SATA 6.0 Gb/s	SATA 6.0 Gb/s	SATA 6.0 Gb/s	Solid State Drive	SATA 3.0 Gb/s
Hardware Platform	PC; Mac	PC, Mac, Linux	PC, laptop	PC, laptop	PC, laptop	laptop
Item Dimensions	4.06 x 0.28 x 2.76 inches	3.95 x 0.27 x 2.75 inches	3.94 x 2.76 x 0.27 inches	0.28 x 3.96 x 2.75 inches	3.94 x 2.76 x 0.27 inches	3.94 x 0.28 x 2.75 inches
Item Weight	0.35 ounces	1.94 ounces	2.08 ounces	1.12 ounces	3.04 ounces	1.44 ounces
Model Year	2017	2019	—	2018	—	2017

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Start your system in seconds, store up to 4TB of data, and upgrade with an SSD you can count on. Join more and more people who are keeping their family videos, travel photos, music, and important documents on an SSD, and get the near-instant performance and lasting reliability that comes with solid state storage. Upgrade with the Crucial MX500 SSD, a drive built on quality, speed, and security that’s all backed by helpful service and support. Even if you’ve never installed an SSD, don’t fear – our step-by-step guide walks you through the process to make installation easy. It’s worth it.

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RAM

‎1 TB

Hard Drive

‎SATA

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Brand

‎Crucial

Series

‎Crucial MX500 SSD

Item model number

‎CT1000MX500SSD1

Hardware Platform

‎PC; Mac

Item Weight

‎0.353 ounces

Product Dimensions

‎4.06 x 0.28 x 2.76 inches

Item Dimensions LxWxH

‎4.06 x 0.28 x 2.76 inches

Color

‎Blue/Gray

Flash Memory Size

‎1 TB

Hard Drive Interface

‎Solid State

Manufacturer

‎CRUCIAL TECHNOLOGY

ASIN

‎B078211KBB

Country of Origin

‎Mexico

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

‎No

Date First Available

‎December 21, 2017

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Ari Hershkowitz

Best SATA III SSD. Hands down.

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2019

Capacity: 1TBVerified Purchase

I run an IT company in Brooklyn, NY. I've seen hundreds of SSDs go out to clients and tens come back dead after a while. In the past, I've worked with Samsung, SanDisk, Intel and others. I've found that Crucial MX500 is both one of the fastest and one of the most durable. I have seen much fewer SSDs dying once I started using Crucial MX500 (in any capacity size)

Note: do not confuse MX500 with BX500. Those two could not be more different. MX500 is a high performance, high endurance SSD. BX500 is a cheap budget SSD.

Crucial MX500 is now my go-to SSD for any built and upgrade.

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Tim M

Died 3 months and 2 days after purchase

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2019

Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase

When it was working the drive was great but it died, unexpectedly ;), 3 months and 2 days after purchase. Considering it probably wasn't installed for a few weeks from purchase date this is a pretty crappy lifetime especially and suspicious given the product support windows ended 3 days before it died.
NOTE: Keep the original packaging! I went to return this under warranty only to learn that you need the "...original packaging that shipped with the product must be returned. If any accessories or packaging are missing, we are unable to issue a credit or send a replacement and the product(s) will be returned to the customer at his/her expense".
WTF Crucial, who's keeping the original packaging for a year in case the drive fails.

328 people found this helpful

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MJStarke

Review for the Tech Challenged

Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2019

Capacity: 250GBVerified Purchase

I have an old HP DV6 laptop that was a dog from the day it arrived a number of years ago. I spent hours going over all the settings trying to speed it up, even overclocking the CPU, all to no avail. I put the computer away and tried to forget the gross error of my purchase.

But from time to time I would think of the laptop in the closet and imagining I might be able to have a go at fixing it with a brand new solid state drive. By this time the sting of my waste of $600 on this blasted thing had faded. I felt I no longer had anything to lose if I screwed things up. If I failed I'd just donate the mess to the local electronics recycle store and forget everything.

The original mechanical drive in the laptop was 500GB but in pricing SSD replacements I thought putting in a 250GB drive would be more economical. After all, I would use it only for Web browsing and E mail. So I ordered the Crucial MX500 250GB 3D NAND SATA SSD. After reading some reviews I learned I also needed the Sabrent SSD to USB adapter to clone the old hard drive and downloaded the Acronis cloning software as Crucial recommended.

Cloning the old drive to the new SSD is where things got frustrating for me. I got everything connected, fired up the Acronis cloning software that I had downloaded onto the laptop, choose all the defaults because I had no idea what all the stuff was under the manual settings, and waited while the progress bar slowly progressed.

After about an hour and a half I saw Acronis just fold up and disappear leaving nothing on the screen other than an error had occurred and that I should check some log. I couldn't find a log even after a long search on my laggy laptop. After considering what might be the problem I finally figured out that trying to clone a 500GB drive onto a 250GB target drive might be a problem. Duh. Now I'm starting to think I'm in over my head.

I couldn't find anywhere on the Acronis web site how to clone a larger drive to smaller one, so I started searching the web for a solution and found a free cloning utility called EaseUS Todo that can dynamically change partition sizes during cloning. I started the process using the new software, watched the computer exit Windows and begin the cloning process.

After a few hours Windows came back. I connected the SSD to another computer in order to view what was now on the new drive. It appeared to be a clone of the old drive but with different volume numbers. That worried me. What would happen when I put the new drive back in the laptop? Would it be able to read a boot drive F: ? No way to tell except to put it in there and see.

Swapping the drives was the easiest part of the process. I just removed the screws holding the bracket onto the back of the laptop and then the screws holding the drive in the bracket. Lastly, pulled out the data and power connector and the drive is loose. Reverse to install the new drive.

To my great relieve, when I turned the computer back on I saw that a program had automatically run to name the drive partitions back to their original letters! Windows started surprisingly fast. My old dog of a laptop had a new lease on life!

So that's my story with the Crucial MX500 SSD. The drive itself is great. I'm loving it. The process of cloning the old to new seems to be more difficult than it needs to be for rank amateurs such as myself. Why couldn't have the Acronis software told me at the start my new drive was too small to clone to and then offer to make adjustments? Why did I have to search the Net to find answers?

My advice for those new to things like this is clean up your old drive before you clone and get rid of the GBs of trash that are probably there. That will save you hours of time. I found some old system files from a Windows 10 upgrade that were taking up 25GBs of space. Use the Disk Cleanup app in Windows to get rid of all that before you clone.

Good luck!

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Julie

Easy to Install and made a Big Difference in Performance!!

Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2018

Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase

This SSD was really easy to install! I'm 56yo and have never done anything like this before. I think it is really important to get all your ducks in a row before starting this process if you have never done this before. It's creating a bootable USB Drive of your OS, Formatting the SSD and Enabling the TRIM that can seem overwhelming. All of my docs and photos are in the cloud, so that was easy. I did a clean install so that made everything easy and fresh. Watch some youtube videos so you can prepare yourself. I installed this SSD and RAM at the same time. One other thing, Crucial is a US company in Idaho and if you have any questions call them. They are really helpful and you get to talk to a friendly human being!! This is really Rare these days!!

105 people found this helpful

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Jon Robertson

Cloning software is horrid and a piece of garbage.

Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2018

Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase

Received new SSD today to upgrade my wife's laptop. Followed instructions from Crucial website on how to clone. The software that they use is astrious. Not a friendly user interface at all and it does not work porperly. I attempted to clone her existing drive 3 times and each time it would fail out after 2 hours of cloning. Finally gave and formatted SSD and currently installing a fresh version on Windows 10. I highly suggest spending to couple of extra dollars to get the Samsung SSD. They have their own cloning software that works flawlessly.

127 people found this helpful

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Amazing Upgrade From Stock PS4 Harddisk!!!

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2018

Capacity: 1TBVerified Purchase

I have had the original 500GB PS4 from launch day and wanted to upgrade it so I could not only double my storage (Got tired of deleting games to install new ones) but also get faster boot up and load times.

Man, this 1TB SSD freaking delivers!!! For example, from the time I turn on my PS4 I can be in a COD lobby in about 45 seconds. This used to take 3 minutes with the stock drive...

I didn't want to spend more money by buying an upgraded PS4, like the pro, especially with the PS5 coming out soon, this was the best upgrade that took only minutes to do.

A piece of advice, backing up your PS4 settings before swapping the drive will take hours if you are have games. My best advice would be to delete the games on your PS4 first, then do your back up, and then download the games once everything is installed as it will be much faster then transferring it from the drive.

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Shivanandana

Why and Why not to chose Crucial MX500 SSD? [Compared with Samsung 860EVO]

Reviewed in India on September 19, 2019

Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase

SSD is very different from HDD. It is important to understand the difference before buying.

HDD is like plain empty space where you keep filling data in FIFO manner.(First In First Out).
SSD on the other hand is like a "mini-computer" in itself. It is not just an empty space to fill. There is hundreds of operations that happens when writing and reading the data. There is a dedicated micro-computer/processor inside an SSD. It has it's own cache, it's own programming etc. So, it is like having a small computer within your computer that allocates space, manages read/write operations. You even have firmware upgrades to your SSD.

That is why just "Price/GB = Value" formula won't work on SSD.

Now, every company has their way of programming their product. There are various types of NAND modes in SSD like SLC, MLC, TLC, eMLC, QLC.. where SLC is most expensive but very durable and suitable for enterprise/business. QLC being cheapest but less durable.

I have both Samsung 860EVO and Crucial MX500. Below is my analysis:

When you compare it Samsung 860EVO, refer the images that I've attached. From the first test,(less memory written for less number of times] it seems Samsung is clear winner.. but hold on...
If you see the next set of images, where more memory is written more number of times, you'll see there is a significant drop in Samsung's performance. This is what I mentioned about internal programming of SSD. Where as you'll see Crucial MX500's speed is almost same in both cases. (Consistency).

Ofcourse, I've also attached HDD performance, clearly it'll show why you should upgrade to SSD from HDD.

So, my conclusion, --> Samsung SSD are suited for smaller amount memory which are written less frequently.
Crucial MX500 --> Suited for steady, long term, non spiking performance.
Even you can go for ADATA SSDs they are reliable but the cheaper ones will be little slower because of QLC type.

FINAL VERDICT:- For a difference of 1000+ Rupees, if you are a home user with normal gaming and storage stuffs, go for Crucial MX500 SSD. It is actually of high quality and serves the purpose very well.
I have been using both Samsung and Crucial and I didn't notice any practical difference when copying, reading, writing, gaming etc on both. They are identical in performance for human perception. Crucial is actually better in some aspects.

What to be aware of?
Package comes with a small square shaped extra metal. It was of no use to me.
The firmware on my SSD was already updated and latest.
You can download Crucial SSD software for authentication, future firmware upgrade etc.
You buy 500GB but only get 465GB usable. Well, this is the case with all memory devices and the 7% loss actually helps for random file operations.

For first time buyers, I hope this was helpful. :-)

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Neeraj Vishwakarma

💖👍An Excellent with DRAM SSD for fast storage.In depth review.

Reviewed in India on February 3, 2022

Capacity: 1TBVerified Purchase

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🤏 A PREVIEW TO PURCHASE – A DEEPER DIVE INTO DETAILS ..
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🔹️Even though it took some time to go through all the details, I must say that this purchase has surely left me quite brushed up regarding any NVME or SATA ssd.

I recently decided to upgrade my existing 1 TB Seagate barracuda pro SSHD boot up drive , as it failed just over an year, it was a real tough task to lock on to the correct parameters to check , so as to make a sound purchase.

🔹️I would also like to share my journey of this selection process, in case it helps any fellow buyer, as believe me, there is a lot more to look for beyond mere advertised read write speed.

⭐Bit lengthy but worth reading before shelling out 10 grand.

❗Also please note that proceed only after verification that you have a SATA 3, 6 GBPs system, otherwise for laptops with the older sata versions 1 or 2 , the data transfer speeds will be restricted & be a lot less.

🎯 FIX THE SIZE :
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There is no way ahead, unless you decide what’s the size that you are looking for.

🔹️If you are planning on using it as a bootup drive then go for no less than 512 GB and if you are into games, you can go for anything up to 2 TB depending upon your budget.

🔶️For gaming though, I suggest you to go for blazing fast nvme drives provided you have that slot.
If you have two drive slots – one can be nvme for bootup & sata ssd for storage.

🔹️Even if you are not into games – I would suggest not to go below 512 GB as a future proof measure considering the ever-increasing application and software installation sizes.

🔹️For any storage or bootup drive anything is good provided you keep 10 % space free, for optimum disk performance and speed.

♦️I decided to go for 1TB SATA SSD version to be used as a simple storage drive.

🔹️For boot up drive, I purchased an Adata SX 8200 pro nvme drive.

🔹️Out of 1 TB, I got around 931.5 GB of usable space.

🔹️Also talking about its physical size, most Sata SSDs are now 7 mm wide but any thing of width 7 mm or 9.5 mm would fit just fine in the sata slot.

🔹️An extra rubber adaptor for levelling up the 7 mm drive to 9.5 mm, is also given with this drive pack.

🎯 QLC, TLC or MLC:
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This is another very critical deciding feature as it represents the data packing density per cell.

🔹️The QLC is the latest technology and stands for Quad level cell and contains 4 bits per cell.
Samsung Qvo is such example.

In a similar fashion:

🔹️TLC – Triple level cell & contains 3 bits per cell.   (Pretty fast with decent reliability & cost)
🔹️MLC – Multi level cell & contains 2 bits per cell   ( Super-fast and reliable but very costly )
🔹️SLC – Single level Cell & contains 1 bits per cell. (Super-fast and reliable but extremely costly)

However, with increased data density - the price per GB, write endurance, sustained read write speeds of the drive and the drive reliability goes down.

🔹️So in short, I would suggest to, go for a TLC Drive which is an optimum compromise between cost and reliability especially when you are going to install an OS on it.

🔹️Constant data rewrite would not affect its data and speed reliability in such case.

🔹️If it is to be used as a storage drive for general data , then you can surely go for a QLC drive like the Samsung QVO and others.

🔹️MLC & SLC drives are way too costly and impractical for normal users and are mostly meant for servers.

♦️The MX500 is an improved version of BX500 with better controller TLC drive and other parameters also in favour of purchase.

🎯DRAM or DRAM LESS:
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🔹️This is another important deciding factor, nowadays in the market many SSDs are coming without any of their own Dynamic RAM and utilise the system RAM to cut on the price margins but in the longer run, it suffers in speed and endurance especially while writing, hence, I would still suggest going for “with DRAM” SSDs.

🔹️Here, in crucial MX500 The DRAM cache is around 1 GB, unlike many other budget dram less drives.

🔆Crucial P1 , is one Dram less, QLC based drive and is surely a lower range option.

🔹️This would result in sustained speed endurance over time.

🎯SPEED & THERMAL MANAGEMENT:
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I read so many reviews on various sites about some of the fastest drives and found Samsung to definitely lead in most cases.

However in case of Sata SSDs, generally all drives have a range of around 500 MB per sec - some a few more & some a few less , so if you are confident about your brand , just go for it.

🤏 A slight variation of 30 to 40 MB per sec won’t make much of a difference.

🔹️Samsung EVO are good in speeds but are very costly in comparison.

🔹️Further to note is the SLC caching feature in drives, which again, by virtue of its single level architecture is very fast in read write operations.

♦️ I have an HP omen with core i7 8750H processor , Nvidia 1070 GTX graphics card & a 16 GB 2666 MHz RAM.

In multiple tests, with even fan on – it generally gave a read write speed of 540 to 500 MB per sec which is similar to the advertised speed.

🔹️Faster speeds come in handy when playing games or high-resolution videos or doing some heavy video editing jobs.

♦️This drive temperatures were pretty stable too & below 50 degrees Celsius at all times so no issues in cooling.

🎯BRAND RELIABILITY, WARRANTY & SERVICE CENTRE AVAILABILITY:

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This is another very critical feature to look for in practical terms .

🔹️Check for multiple product reviews to ensure low failure rate and high product reliability. Samsung, Western digital, crucial, Kingston, Adata, Transcend etc are some good brands.

🔹️If the drive supports low parity bit checking then depending upon the effective algorithm of error checking by drive onboard controller , one can expect a better reliability.

🔹️Check for warranty periods offered, the more the better.

🔹️Service centre availability is another major thing to look for, in case you need their help.

❗Some companies like Adata will only allow in-person submission of faulty drives at their service centers in india , which could be a big trouble.

♦️Crucial MX500 comes with 5 years of warranty and has many service centres across india.

🎯TBW :
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🔹️This is the Terabyte Write capacity of the drive before the drive storage starts degrading. In most cases it is more than too much, so do not worry too much for this figure.

♦️In MX500, the TBW offered is 360 TB which is quite a good endurance rating compared to most SSDs.

🔆For a basic idea, It basically means that for a given warranty of 5 years you can practically write like 197 GB data per day up to 5 years.

🎯 COST :
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You can Keep the selected drive in your Wishlist and in event of any sale, you can surely have a good margin at prices.

🔹️For information, Samsung & WD are mostly overpriced, so you can go for alternate good manufacturers like Crucial Adata, Corsair , Kingston etc which also offer good speeds and reliability.

🔹️I got this crucial MX500 for 9646 bucks in a sale against 10700 as regular price, which is decent enough.

🎯FINAL VERDICT :
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I shortlisted the crucial MX500 after comparing and reading about a lot many drives and essential parameters and by far now, I am fully satisfied with its speed and temperature management.

It is very much comparable to Samsung drive & with its new micron 64-bit TLC controller and I do not see the need to spend any extra bucks just for brand reputation.

🤏For record, micron which is the parent company for crucial , is the designer of the onboard drive controller for a majority of other brands.

👍Surely recommended.

♻️ Do let me know if my review was helpful through comments or clicking helpful tab below.

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lefranky

Vendeur arnaqueur

Reviewed in France on October 18, 2018

Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase

Méfiez-vous de ce vendeur! Il vend des produits d'occasion pour des produits neufs !
J'ai acheté un disque SSD. J'ai pu constaté à réception que l'étiquette de garantie constructeur n'était plus vierge.
Mais pire que cela, comme le montre les photos le vendeur a tenté de masquer la violation de l'étiquette de garantie en collant 2 à 3 étiquettes au dessus de l'étiquette constructeur.
En plus, le spacer qui doit être fourni dans la boite était absent.

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Somesh

It should be SSD buyer's first choice!

Reviewed in India on June 11, 2019

Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase

The product is cost effective, comes with 5 years warranty, and includes everything that is needed for its installation in any laptop running SATA hard-disk. If your laptop has standard 1 TB hard-disk, just replace it with 500GB Crucial MX500 SSD and you will literally be blown away by the change in performance. My son, who is a second year Engineering student, had thrown away a Dec, 2018 HP Model (Intel i5 Processor-8GB RAM-1TB HDD) laptop running Windows 10 just because it used to take 5 minutes to boot properly and then every app used to run only after two-three minutes upon clicking. Google Chrome was unable to run 4 tabs at a time, sometimes even tending to hang-up if a video was played from YouTube. Now that same laptop boots and logs in inside 10 seconds and Photoshop 2018 CC completely loads and works inside 15 seconds! My son is willing to bet that his laptop performance is now as good as models costing 1.25 lakh (or more). This is an honest, tried and tested review by a father who was almost ready to buy another laptop.

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Doubletrouble5457

Drive developed problems after 2 weeks now it's almost unusable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2019

Capacity: 500GBVerified Purchase

After 4 weeks drive failed asked for refund or replacement was sent a link to crucial to try and RMA it through crucial I'm actually shocked and quit disgusted if it was pc world or argos you would take it back and get either a replacement or a refund no problem they wouldn't tell you to contact the manufacture after only owning it 4 weeks you have 12 mouths by law!! I'm never going to use 3rd party sellers on amazon ever again its just not worth the hassle when things go wrong ;-(...
Originally I gave this ssd a five star review as installation of window 10 went fine and I had no problems at first but after about 17 days I restarted my pc to find windows wouldn't boot and It just kept booting into bios so I ran windows repair, this allowed me to boot into windows but 2 days later same thing happened again but this time it was unable to repair....
I've never had a problem with this copy of Windows I've used it many time's on many machines never an issue but I had to format and install windows again witch went fine until it restarted during usual driver installation then I was back to no OS detected I used windows cd got into windows ran error check no problems found with windows rebooted and I was back to bios tried force boot this worked once then did nothing so I installed windows again this was actually the 4th time I've installed windows on this ssd in less than 4 weeks but it's happening again during installation reboots I had to keep shutting pc to finish the install and last night I tried opening a picture on my desktop but was told unable to open due to hdd file corruption yet file check says everythings fine after a few tries it opened fine so I'm almost 100% certain there is a big problem with this ssd my pc worked brilliant for 3 years on a cheap 120gb ssd that still continues to work fine I just needed more space on my OS drive so upgraded I changed no settings in my bios other than boot order during installation and if I plug in my old ssd my pc work's great again!!
Since I last installed Windows I've had to keep putting pc to sleep because I'm actually semi disabled an I fair shouting it down will mean i may not get it running again and I have no TV or dvd in my house everything runs through the pc so it's become a bit of a problem to point I'm going to pay someone to install my old ssd so I can send this one back for a refund i just wish I'd acted sooner unfortunately it's taken 4 weeks and 3 days to make sure it was the ssd that's defective but hopefully I will be able to get a refund as I feel unease about using this brand again and I really can't keep formatting my pc it's to much stress 😔....

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