Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560MB/s - CT1000MX500SSD1(Z)

Update (11 Feb 18): I'm not sure whether it is the drive or the solution provided by Crucial in the comments to this review, but I now have a working SSD on my troublesome Windows 10 machine.I followed the suggestion to turn off "Secure Boot" for the clone to see what would happened. I cloned my Win10 HD to a Micron 1100 2TB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-inch MTFDDAK2T0TBN-1AR1ZABYY using Macrium Reflect (rather than Acronis) with Secure Boot disabled. Cloned fine, installed fine, booted up and...froze. Thought I was going to be in the same place as before. But I hard rebooted, got to the "Windows Repair" screen, rebooted and let it run. This time it fully booted and is running. I've been using it now for about two hours and have only experienced one hiccup where Windows froze for about 30 seconds (I attribute it to "break-in" if there's such a s thing!).Anyway, I started with a 3-star review/rating. Then, when it installed flawlessly into a MacBook Pro I upgraded to 4 stars. Now that I have been able to clone my Win10 machine successfully using the suggestions provided by Crucial I've upped it to 5 stars (maybe I'm wrong, but Micron and Crucial to me are the same company (or used to be, anyway)). Frankly, this is the level of satisfaction and support I've received in the past and come to expect from Crucial.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Original Review:"Ten Attempts Over 4 Days; No Success Attempting A Win 10 Clone. Worked Like A Charm On A Mac"This SSD is a bit of a mess.Previously having great results with Crucial SSDs I should have read reviews at Crucial's web site before purchasing. There are a number of threads that detail issues with Crucial's edition of the Acronis cloning software. Sure enough, I had problems with Acronis locking up. So out with Acronis, in with two other cloning software packages. They didn't lock up, but the computer would always hang mid-boot (Windows 10). Sure enough, there are threads about this drive not playing nice with Windows 10 (on certain laptops?). Finally, I pulled out another computer and attempted a clone with the source drive on USB and the target SSD on USB. And guess what, same problem. Can't even get it to boot far enough to try to put Crucial Storage Exec into action (not that that would have necessarily helped; but it certainly could have). Anyway, after ten or so attempts over four days (and quite a bit of lost sleep) I gave up. (FYI, this is not my first rodeo with SSDs; so while I'm no IT expert I'm not a beginner either.)Next try will be to a Mac OS laptop. Reviews here on Amazon seem to say no worries. We'll see. If successful, will keep and potentially up-rate this drive. If not, it's a definite down-rate and a return to Amazon.Update (01 Feb 18): Installation on my MacBook Pro was a breeze. Cloned using Bombich's Carbon Copy cloning software, installed without issue, ran without a single glitch. Very pleased. So we know the SSD works just fine. What I can't say for sure is if the issue is an SSD construct problem with regard to Windows or a Windows 10 failing.At this point, very disappointed. Will probably give another manufacturer a shot (have also had luck with Samsung SSDs). We'll update as required.3 stars. Tops (at this point).Update (01 Feb 2018): As promised, rating up one star to 4 stars. Runs like a charm on my MBP13. Very pleased.

My girlfriend's older Dell Inspiron N5110 Laptop was starting to get pretty slow despite being maxed out on ram, so I talked her into letting me install an SSD for her. I had previously installed a 525 gb MX300 on my laptop and was impressed with the results. The MX500 has good reviews, a fair price, excellent reliability, solid performance and a 5 year warranty. C/Net has an excellent article on installing an SSD so I used that as a guide. The hardest part was actually getting to the hard drive. My HP was easy to access, but her Dell required a fairly major disassembly. Luckily I had previously replaced the motherboard to fix a charging problem, so I am familiar with the disassembly.I bought a simple external SSD enclosure with a USB connection so I could clone the old hard drive. C/Net suggested using Macrium Reflect software to create the clone. The program is easy to use and worked flawlessly. Crucial offers their own software, but I was already familiar with Reflect. Compared to the old hard drive, the MX500 is lightweight, fast and quiet. After the installation, I used Crucial's free Storage Executive software to make sure I had the most up to date firmware.My girlfriend was very happy with the significantly shorter boot time as well as the time it takes to open a program. No more lag time and freeze ups. I had done everything I could to speed up her older drive, but nothing worked and it is probably 10 years old.

Still works after years, made my computer so much faster

I bought two of these. This first review is for the 500GB SSD. My review for the 1TB drive is below. This serves two purposes for me. It greatly speeded up myToshiba i3 laptop as compared to the HDD. Also, the HDD now serves as a backup in case the SSD fails. The original HDD is 500GB so I went for the same size SSD. I downloaded and installed the Acronis True Image software from the Crucial web site. I cloned the drive using a USB to SATA adapter and the software said it was successful. The software runs in the Windows 10 environment. I removed the HDD, installed the SSD and the computer booted up much faster. Programs also start much faster. I did not need the included spacer for this computer.This second review is for the 1TB SSD. I downloaded and installed the Acronis True Image software from the Crucial web site. I cloned the drive using a USB to SATA adapter and the software said it was successful. However, when I installed it into my laptop, the computer would not boot. I put the HDD back in and connected the SSD. Windows Explorer did not recognize the drive, but it was visible in disk management. After spending a lot of time trying to figure out what was wrong, I found cloning software called AOMEI Backupper Standard. This software successfully cloned the HDD to the SSD. The computer boots up and works normally. It greatly speeded up myToshiba i5 laptop as compared to the HDD. After doing more research, I found out that the recommended process is to create a Media Recovery CD or USB flash drive to boot from that, and also to have the SSD installed in the computer and the original HDD connected to a USB to SATA adapter. This will enable the SSD to be bootable after the cloning. However, I believe that the original HDD will no longer be bootable after cloning it using this method. I have not tried doing it this way since I had success with AOMEI Backupper Standard. I needed the included spacer for this computer.I recommend both of these drives since the end result of cloning the HDDs with SSDs is much faster laptop computers, and having drop-in backups of the original HDDs in case a drive fails.

This is the only solid state drive that you can use in a PS3 fat model. Anything else will not work.