Crucial BX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT1000BX500SSD1Z
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Capacity: 1TB
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Ever wonder why your phone responds faster than your computer? It's because your phone runs on flash memory. Add flash to your laptop or desktop computer with the Crucial BX500 SSD, the easiest way to get all the speed of a new computer without the price. Accelerate everything.
Digital Storage Capacity: 1 TB
Hard Disk Interface: Serial ATA
Connectivity Technology: SATA
Brand: Crucial
Special Feature: Portable
Hard Disk Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Hard Disk Description: Solid State Hard Drive
Compatible Devices: This drive is compatible with desktops and laptops that accept 2.5" 7mm SATA drives
Installation Type: Internal Hard Drive
Color: Black
Digital Storage Capacity: 1 TB
Hard Disk Interface: Serial ATA
Connectivity Technology: SATA
Additional Features: Portable
Hard Disk Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Compatible Devices: This drive is compatible with desktops and laptops that accept 2.5" 7mm SATA drives
Specific Uses For Product: Business, Gaming, Personal
Read Speed: 540 megabytes_per_second
Media Speed: 500
Cache Memory Installed Size: 1
Data Transfer Rate: 6 gigabits_per_second
Form Factor: 2.5-inch
Hardware Connectivity: SATA 6.0 Gb/s
Hardware Platform: Linux, Mac, PC
Hard-Drive Size: 1 TB
Item Weight: 0.06 kg
Number of Items: 1
Customer Package Type: Frustration-Free Packaging
Brand: Crucial
Model Number: CT1000BX500SSD1Z
Hard Disk Description: Solid State Hard Drive
Built-In Media: Internal Solid State Drive
Model Name: BX500
Manufacturer: Crucial
Global Trade Identification Number: 77
UPC: 649528821577
Mfr Part Number: CT1000BX500SSD1Z
Warranty Description: 3-year limited warranty
Installation Type: Internal Hard Drive
Color: Black
Enclosure Material: SATA
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Top Amazon Reviews
It had been over 10 years since i had done any type of computer upgrades. I think XP was still the predominant OS that last time I opened up a computer to do any type of work. I had gotten into the habit of just buying new every couple years and recycling. For the last couple months I had been researching new laptops, and while reading their Amazon Reviews, I noticed a re-occurring theme of dropping a good SSD in with a clean copy of Windows on a brand new machine. I started to go down the path of doing that myself, and got to reading about these Crucial SSD's. I decided that I'd just upgrade my existing laptop (HP 15-af131dx), the small BX500 was only $28, so if i wasn't satisfied I could just go with the original plan and buy a new laptop. Due to the cheap construction of this HP, accessibility was a little bit of a challenge, but I did it on my coffee table in under 15 minutes. I had a clean copy of Windows 10 on a thumb drive, popped it in, and turned on the power. The installer immediately started up, and I could tell immediately how quick this SDD was. Installation was only a few minutes long, and I've spent the last few hours re-installing my commonly used apps and trying them out. 'Astonished' doesn't even come close to describing my feelings. Everything is fast now. I can't believe I didn't do this sooner. I went ahead and ordered new RAM (even though i don't think i really need it) and will be installing that later this week, and there is no longer any need for me to buy a new laptop. This $28 shot in the dark ended up saving me hundreds of dollars on a new machine. I couldn't be more satisfied. Without a doubt the best money i've spent this year.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2018 by James
Capacity: 1TB
Great price, arrived sooner than expected
Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2026 by T. Read
Capacity: 240GB
I bought this SSD for a 5 year old Asus laptop with a simple Core i3 setup with just 6GB RAM. I found free cloning software online, and also bought a wire which I highly recommend, which will come in handy every time you need to upgrade an old laptop to SSD from it's original HDD. The wire you need to make this amazingly easy is USB to SATA. One end is standard USB (works with USB 2.0 and 3.0) and the other end is easy, plug-in to any 2.5" SATA SSD (has both the SATA and power, all in one, wide plug.) Just download your favorite cloning software, plug in the drive, plug in to the laptop, clone, then shut down, unplug and swap out the drives on the inside. Booted quickly without any problem. All programs, apps and data were there, and ran much faster with seek times far better than with the old, standard HDD. IMO, the best value to revive an old laptop. The difference is astonishing, even on a mediocre 6GB RAM, Core i3 rig. Buy that wire. It will come in handy, over and over again, because once you see how easy it is to revive an old laptop, you will be doing it for the whole family and the neighbors as well as they order new SSDs. Bottom line: For less than $30, this Crucial SSD revived a laptop to astonishingly improved speed and boot time. Need more space, splurge for 1TB and have the same speed and quality with even more storage. An easy "clone and swap." (Best with that wire, USB to SATA.) Not included. After this purchase, I bought 2 more, immediately, and did to more laptops. All had the same, flawless result and booted on the first try after cloning. Wild Card: Longevity of the drive unknown, but I hear that Crucial is an excellent brand, even this model being one prior to their newest model. I also bought and installed an "ADATA" brand SSD, and it works as well, but again, we'll see which wins longevity. These days, you should have backups of your important data anyhow.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2019 by MTDebbie
Ok there's a few fake reviews below OR maybe they were written for a different device. Here are the FACTS!. The Sata III interface was designed for and cannot exceed 550 mbps per second. That being said there are a few Samsung drives USING SAMSUNG MAGICIAN SOFTWARE ON A CLEAN WINDOWS INSTALL UNDER LABORATORY TEST CONDITIONS that have hit the 700mbps mark. That is the ONLY exception as of this writing. FACT. Motorized hard drives have a 7 to 10 millisecond seek time before they can read or write files, also under ideal conditions on a clean install of ANY operating system, Linux, Windows or Mac. Solid state drives do not have ANY seek time so they are faster by design. FACT: When you clean install windows or any other operating system it installs itself according to the hardware it is installed to and discards the drivers and code it does not need, and optimizes itself to that machine. If you clone that operating system to the same machine with a new drive IT CANNOT re optimize itself a second time, whether its a motorized drive or solid state. also some drivers may not survive the cloning and you will only get a slight performance gain.. THIS IS NORMAL. The ONLY reason for EVER cloning a drive is because of software or user files that cannot ever be replaced or just being too lazy to do it properly. Nothing can compare to a clean install done correctly. All this being said, this is a great budget drive and for the money its hard to beat FOR EVERYDAY COMPUTING. I have installed and sold several of these and none have ever failed. The performance is better than most average SSD's but it wasn't designed to compete with the Samsung, OCZ or any other so called "GAMING" drives which is a marketing cliche anyway honestly. This is a MAINSTREAM BUDGET drive and done correctly in any machine will perform very well on a clean install and last a long time when properly maintained. When people write reviews you need to be comparing exact apples to apples. I would not recommend this to a performance minded overclocking gamer, they will be disappointed but for every day use its hard to beat and can't be beat at this price point. If you want more performance then get a Crucial MX series drive. The BX series is typical mainstream. The both are built with JMicron chips but the MX is a bit faster, just like ram and other things there are levels to this. I hope this actually helps someone and informs the rest. Don't write bad or negative reviews when your trying to compare a ham sandwich to a lobster or steak dinner. Compared to a PNY or SanDisk, this is definitely a better drive but its not going to keep up with a performance drive, not even in it's own brand. Its just that simple. You get what you pay for.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2020 by John W.
Capacity: 240GB
Bought this because it was the cheapest SSD I could find that was not a no-name brand and had good enough specs as well. After installing it I tested it and was perfectly happy with the speed. Installed some games for my wife and it has been going strong for the last few months. The games load much faster than if they were on a HDD so that's all that matters. Don't let the next part of this review scare you away from this drive. Everything has a place and purpose and this drive is no exception. It isn't a bad drive, there are just better ones if you need to go that route. I would buy the BX500(this drive) in a heartbeat over some other random brand like Silicon Power. If you want something that will perform better and be an overall better drive then go with the Crucial MX500 instead. With the current prices there isn't a real reason to not get the MX500 because of how much better it is. You will be happier if it is a drive you want to last and actually care about. The reason I went with the BX500 is it was for a secondary computer that needed a bit more space for some games and I was not that concerned with getting a nice drive. If you want to dive deeper into why the BX500 is worse than the MX500 read up on DRAMless SSD drives, the BX500 is one of them. In simple terms a drive without DRAM will have worse writing performance than one with it but reading performance should be similar. The durability and lifespan of DRAMless drives is also likely lower but this depends on many things. It gets more complicated than this explanation very fast but that puts it as simple as I can. It isn't a perfect explanation of everything involved. Overall the most important thing here is they are all faster than regular HDDs and each kind of drive has its place and usage.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2019 by Immovable World
Capacity: 240GB
For ordinary use, my four year old budget laptop now runs almost as fast as my new computer. The startup time is the huge difference, under a minute rather than minutes. Laptop came with a 500GB drive but this 240GB was plenty big enough as I was only using 80GB (I checked before I bought this drive). Crucial also has an easy to use scanner on their website that will tell you if the drive is compatible with your laptop and I ran it to make sure. Easy to install and I recommend a clean install and not cloning the old drive. 1) Backup your data files onto the cloud, USB, etc. 2) Download the Microsoft USB recovery drive creator and install it. Then run it. It will need a 16GB or larger USB flash drive in order to make the Windows 10 recovery drive and takes about an hour for it to run. 3) With my computer, a single screw holds the cover to remove the old hard drive. Remove the cover, slide out the old hard drive case and slide out the old hard drive from within shock-resistant case (you'll reuse it so be mindful). 4) Slide the new hard drive in the case, then slide the assembly into computer and attach cover and screw. 5) Plug in Windows 10 recovery drive you created earlier and start up the computer and follow the prompts to install the latest version of Windows 10. 6) Once installed, a good idea to turn on Windows system protection and create a recovery point. If you have problems, you can always reinstall the old hard drive and get tech support (which I didn't need). It's that simple and now my old computer is dramatically faster and am very happy with the purchase!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2019 by FP
Capacity: 240GB
I have been building PC's for years and work professionally with computer systems. I have upgraded old PC's with SSD's before and noticed improvements in the past, but this latest upgrade was unbelievable. This case, was my mom's old laptop ~ 10 years old and not top of the line at that time either (ancient in PC's years). It was unbearably slow. Luckily she didn't have anything on it she really cared to keep. I was going to clone it over to the new SSD, but decided a clean Windows 10 install would be easier and better overall. The real world performance gains were insane. I did a test before and after the upgrade. The test was timing the moment I pressed the power button, to the time the system started up and was able to load a Google chrome startup page. Before, it almost took 2 minutes. After the SSD install with clean Windows 10, it took about 21 seconds. No, that's not a mistake, you read it right. This laptop is not as good as new, it's MUCH better than new. Yes, the fact that Windows 10 was a fresh install contributed to this improvement, but the biggest factor here is that SSD. Even with the older SATA 2 connection on this laptop, the real world performance gains can't be denied. TLDR, if you're hesitant to upgrade to an SSD because you have a system with SATA 2 and you think it won't give you the full performance, stop hesitating. The real world improvement will be noticeable, measurable, unbelievable and any other adjective you want. The only thing you won't get is the full sequential read/write speed, but that really only affects large file transfers which on a normal daily basis most PC users are not doing. If all you do is transfer large files back and forth, then yes, get a new PC. Otherwise, get one of these and thank me later.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2019 by Amazonian
Capacity: 240GB
I bout my Dell Inspiron 15 (3567), with 6gb ram and 1tb Seagate Hard Disk Drive, well over a year and a half ago and its been great to me. I did programming in Java with it and was great. However, around 8 months ago I would notice that my disk usage would always be constantly at 100% (or close to it) and I tried many setting changes and many “disk cleanup” programs that were recommended online but they never worked. You might ask why did I wait 8 months to buy a Solid State Drive, well simply, I was scared that I was going to mess up my pc (I knew nothing about laptop hardware). However when I went on Crucial’s website and I seen their simple steps I gave it a try. I bought the SSD and bought a SATA data cable (needed if you want to “clone”, or copy, everything that is in the drive that you’re replacing) I then connected it and downloaded the free cloning software and cloned my HDD to my SSD and after it was done I just turned off the PC and then unplug the SSD from the PC and pretty much just take out the batter and open up the pc. Then you just unscrew the hard drive and replace it with the new SSD connect all the wires that were on the HDD onto the SSD and screw it back on and close up your laptop and it’s done! I turned on my pc and I noticed how significantly faster it was in booting up the system and went to check my disk usage and it went down to >10% usage! It’s only been a couple of days since I bought it and I don’t regret it one bit! I’ll try to remember to comeback and update y’all on how its going weeks later!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2019 by MacMac310