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Capacity: 1TB
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- 2.5-inch Solid State Drive
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Start your system in seconds, store up to 2TB 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.
Digital Storage Capacity: 1024 GB
Hard Disk Interface: Solid State
Connectivity Technology: SATA
Brand: Crucial
Special Feature: Portable
Hard Disk Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Hard Disk Description: Solid State Drive
Compatible Devices: This drive is compatible with desktops and laptops that accept 2.5" 7mm SATA drives
Installation Type: Internal Hard Drive
Hard Disk Size: 1 TB
Digital Storage Capacity: 1024 GB
Hard Disk Interface: Solid State
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: 560 megabytes_per_second
Media Speed: 510
Cache Memory Installed Size: 1
Data Transfer Rate: 6 gigabits_per_second
Form Factor: 2.5-inch
Hardware Connectivity: Solid State Drive
Hardware Platform: Linux, Mac, PC
Hard-Drive Size: 1 TB
Item Weight: 9.07 g
Item Dimensions L x W x Thickness: 4.06"L x 2.76"W x 0.28"Th
Number of Items: 1
Unit Count: 1 Count
Customer Package Type: Frustration Free Packaging
Brand: Crucial
Model Number: CT1000MX500SSD1Z
Hard Disk Description: Solid State Drive
Built-In Media: Internal Solid State Hard Drive
Model Name: MX500
Manufacturer: Crucial
Global Trade Identification Number: 52
UPC: 649528785107 689851333989 174859423133 649528785152
Item Type Name: Crucial MX500 1TB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive - CT1000MX500SSD1Z
Mfr Part Number: CT1000MX500SSD1Z
Warranty Description: Limited 5-year warranty
Installation Type: Internal Hard Drive
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I hardly ever write a review, but felt this product was worthy of it. I have a Dell Inspiron 17 5000 Series i5 running Windows 10. Took about anywhere from 3-5 minutes to boot up. Sometimes up as much as 10 minutes after a software update. After installing this drive, that boot up time has dropped to about 15 seconds!! I only have 4GB of RAM, but I notice a tremendous difference in switching between applications. Web pages load lightning fast even with 20+ tabs open. This was a huge performance booster to a slightly older machine. It makes using the computer pleasurable again when you don't have to wait on the "Not Responding" which I would often get. I haven't seen that since installing this drive. Drive was a breeze to clone using the included Acronis Software (via Download). I had about 600GB of data on the drive and it took about 3 hours to copy. Once copied swapped out the drive in the laptop, turned it on and fired right up without any problems. No additional setup was necessary and my laptop instantly recognized the new drive. Extremely happy with this product and only wonder why I waited so long to swap out with SSD. I don't see any added battery life is the only con I can think of. But it matches the battery performance of the original OEM drive.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2018 by Ryan Myers
Test were done on an AMD ryzen 5 2600X 3.6ghz with 16gb of ram. The drives were tested with 0GB of used space (my testing method) as an added on drive to my test rig, which is going to give you real testing results as opposed to installing windows on it and then testing while windows is installed (99% of reviews here). ***with write caching turned off, the write readings went down so you definitely want to turn this on in your windows setting and most likely in windows 10, it will be on by default. Without write caching, the system can't feed the drives fast enough and performance is hurt. In the testing examples it could only do sequentially 179MB/s. So for those of you who see a really low speed when you test your drive, or on 1 Star reviews, this is what happened. To fix this find the drive caching parameter in your operating system and turn it on. During the write tests, the drive was in an open enclosure and not screwed in to any metal. It basically was hanging free in the air and the ambient temperature was 82F degrees in the room. The drive during stress testing got up to 96F, on the back side of the drive with the specs, which is outstanding for a drive under stress. The top of the drive with the blue label only got to 92F. Under normal condition, I predict the drive will be running at ambient temperature. The readings were taken with an Etekcity infrared thermometer. Testing software Crystal Disk Mark With write caching turned on (default) 1GB test file-Sequential 564.1MB/s read and 520.0MB/s write 8GB test file Sequential 563.9MB/s read and 520.0MB/s write For other specs (Q32,Q8, asee attached pictures. Testing software AS SSD Benchmark (all tests completed with write caching on) 1GB test file-Sequential 521MB/s read and 486MB/s write Score 452 read and 469 write, combined 1161 10GB test file Sequential 522MB/s read and 488MB/s write Score 451 read and 471 write, combined 1161 For other specs (4k, 4k-64thread, and Latency see attached pictures) Background: I've been building PC's since 1987 (Turbo 8088 XT with 640K of ram) and have been a network/systems engineer for 10 years. I've been using crucial for SSD's since 2008 when I bought my 1st M4 256gb ssd. Back then, it cost me the black friday price of $179 and I bought 3 drives. They've been transplanted into 3 other PC's. I'm a heavy gamer and they were setup in raid 0, so they all got heavy use. The life estimate is still at 99%. <hope I don't jinx myself> Anyway, buying this 1tb for someone else to move them from the last millennium technology of spinning disk to a nice SSD for a speed boost. All the tests were done back to back so that garbage collection/trim could not refresh the drive. For any question or if you would like me to run some tests for you, please comment below. Maverick the engineer
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Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2020 by Maverick the engineer
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.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2018 by X. Fossor
Works great in my 2014 Mac Mini. Replaced a Samsung Evo 850 that was half the size. The Crucial seems to work better. Its is faster and I have not had any errors or program crashing like I did wit the Evo. It may have been the install on that drive, but the Crucial is performing better. I've used a 250GB MX300 before and this works just as well. The MX500 is not top of the line, but should be more than good enough for general computing needs of most people. Speed for me is around 500 MBs both read and write. Not quite PCIe levels, but at least 10 times better than an HDD. Endurance should be more than sufficient for general use as well. Easy install and it has its own garbage collection software built in. No need to install TRIM. The only problem I have with the MX500 is that I paid more than what it is selling for now, but that is my fault I bought it in March when the price dropped, but didn't realize it would drop this much more by Prime Day. At these prices, this is a tremendous deal, until the prices drop more I suppose...
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Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2018 by reviewer33
I was nervous, i was hesitant but now I'm delighted! After a forced upgrade from Windows 7 to windows 10 my older, but very competent Dell 5559 laptop (8GB RAM) just couldn't keep pace. Long boot times, waiting for programs to open, even a simple jpg took 20 seconds to load into photo viewer. it became, for all practical purposes, unusable. encouraged by reviews, YouTube and a "sale" i bought this SSD. I took nearly 5 hours, using Macrium Reflect, to clone the drive, but once it was complete I swapped out the old 5400RPM mechanical drive for this one and I had my "old" laptop back again. Fast boot, no delays with programs, just a nice, clean effiecient experience that has me feeling like a champ for finally getting this done. I wish I'd done it years ago! The hardest part was my failing eyes trying to screw the drive caddy to the new drive. If you can follow simple instructions and a desire to keep your old laptop instead of buying a new one then this is for you BUY IT! The only snag I ran into was my laptop not "seeing" the drive when I plugged it in. It took a while, some reboots, checking my BIOS settings and some Googling, but it was eventually recognized. Honestly, i think i should have just been patient when i initially plugged it in for cloning and waited an hour or so for it to be recognized. I went to a track meet before my laptop could see the drive and when i got back it was there. The 5 hour cloning process was a lot longer than i expected but given how slowly my laptop executed the most basic of tasks I guess i shouldn't have been surprised. I have a number or older laptops that are now candidates for new life as "streaming stations" for my kids sporting events. I plan to buy more!!!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2021 by Karen
Still working after 5 years hope it last me for a while, bought it before AI even went trending, now it is expensive
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2026 by Maria
I have over 2,000 hours of operation at the time of this writing on a 4 disk array of these in a hardware RAID 5 on a MegaRAID 9361-8i controller. On the plus side this has partial power loss protection and RAIN protections and it looks like it covers what it needs to while the controller with RAID controller BBU covers the rest. They are also really fast and especially in a 4 disk RAID the performance is quite impressive. One thing I am finding out is hardware RAID tends not to support TRIM. (Don't know of any hardware RAID controller that do, but sounds like software RAID will depending.) I have tried all kinds of things to reduce the amount of writing to these drives, but no matter what I do they are way higher than any other SSD I have. I started off averaging anywhere from .44 DWPD to .54 DWPD to physical media with a write amplification of 5 - 8. I have done a number of things to reduce the writing to the drives and reduce write amplification, but so far I have not seen this number drop by nearly as much as I would like. My latest calculations for a 2 week average is 0.36 DWPD to physical media with a write amplification in the 20 - 30 range depending on individual drives. In other words my total host writes have dropped off dramatically, but I have only been able to make a relatively small dent on what gets written to the physical media. While the drives are rated for 360 TBW for the 1 TB version I have, something interesting I have come across is SMART attribute 202. According to this once each drive (attribute 173) went over 30 cycles, attribute 202 went from 1% to 2%. This suggests the physical media writes possible are 1,500 P/E cycles. In other words the manufacturer anticipates a write amplification factor of a little over 4 in their estimate for how much you can write to the drive. My calculations are I have upwards of 11 years of operation before exceeding the physical P/E limit. The growing body of evidence is suggesting the background operations are being overly aggressive to the point where I feel confident enough to knock off a star, especially as I have seen Intel drives that seem to have this under much better control than Crucial/Micron has it. Maybe they need to learn from their flash partner on how to program their background routines such as GC (garbage collection) and wear leveling. Also the power_on_hours attributes tend to be way off. For example ~13.5 real days of continuous uptime gets reported at 10.2 days of uptime and each drive varies wildly in the uptime number reported even though they have all been on for about the same amount of time. Some things I have done to reduce "host writes" to the drive, which better highlights this issue of overly aggressive background operations are: 1. Over-provision by an addition 20%. I went the full measure by downloading Micron's utilities for Linux (for some reason Crucial, which is the same company does not have Linux utilities and their Windows GUI is a non functional piece of junk) and using the CLI tool to over-provision as the CLI tool is the only way that works. This tool specifically said that it 'sanitize'(es) the drive which should mean erased and thus even without trim that space should be permanently set aside for background operations. I suppose I can go back and do the manufacturer secure erase just in case the 'sanitize' operation while resizing did not actually free up the reserved space it should have, but it is a PITA erasing and restoring a system drive array, especially when one is so dubious that the end result would be any better. 2. Turned off atime. What this means under Linux / UNIX is every time a file is read from, its access time gets updated. The default it to update once every 24 hours so multiple read accesses over a short period does not cause a write storm (of atime updates written), but I am looking to get rid of any writes that are not necessary so I set the attribute in /etc/fstab to noatime. 3. Moved /var and swap to mechanical drives. /var is a place where Linux / UNIX does a number of small writes for various system tasks and state tr and tends to not be performance dependent, so it lives just fine on mechanical drives. The computer I stuck a 4 disk SSD array has lots of RAM, so I use swap more as an indicator that something has gone over-budget unexpectedly or if unused pages are determined to not need to be in RAM anymore. So for me it is fine if these (/var and swap) live on mechanical drives. In fact if swapping happened too quickly I might not notice there is a memory allocation problem, so defeating the purpose of why I really use swap while at the same time grinding these SSDs into the dirt. This is also done for my VMs. 4. Set the sync rate on the RAID controller to 120s. Especially as I am doing a redundant RAID 5, when the system is mostly idle, small writes are common, so it helps to provide time to group up writes into a stripe set. I was finding at the default 4s the writes on average were not very well grouped. Switching to 120s the host writes dropped dramatically as the writes became grouped much better. I have a super-cap and flash backup on the controller, so in the event of unexpected power loss this data sitting in the controller's cache will be preserved until the system is powered back on. There is actually a guide on the Internet suggesting to just use write through with SSDs for best random I/O performance with this RAID controller, but with drives like these the protection is partial, plus you want to do all you can to minimize writes to them. Maybe if you used real "Enterprise" SSDs with full capacitor backup on the drives you could comfortably use them in write through mode. I would consider this drive acceptable for an entry level hardware RAID at home. Would probably toast these drives in no time flat in a more industrial or heavy use home / power user setting. Otherwise it would be cheaper to get enterprise class drives with full capacitor backup, generous over-provisioning already configured, and a reasonably high DWPD rating (at least 0.5 or higher depending on workload and probably 1.0 or more) as even for home use so you can get through the warranty period without voiding it way too early by exceeding the P/E cycle rating of the drives. Please note I am using these drives on a home computer and I have had a lot of non computer related distractions as of late, so am not banging on these anywhere near as hard as I would have in the past. While I have seen some SSDs at work go significantly (but not drastically) above and beyond their write endurance rating over the years (while at least 5 years old or younger), I have also had SSDs at home fail after about 6 years with tonnes of read errors while still well below their rated P/E cycle limit. Single or software RAID you probably have much better chance as my single SSD drive machines see 10 - 50x less writes to the physical media. Something that makes this acceptable for my RAID setup is even if the use was inline with my single drive systems, SSDs seem to have a limited shelf life. So with some tweaks I am fairly confident that I pushed down the writing to media down enough to see a full life of these drives as I suspect age will get them first like what has happened with all of my older flash media. I am just not happy that I could not go further and have larger margins like I should be able to, especially if the pace of work picks up on this system and I end up wearing these out prematurely after all due to the margin being eaten up by overzealous background operations on these drives.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2018 by BatteryKing
1: You must purchase the SSD to USB adapter cable or you won’t be able to use the new SSD Hard Drive (you can have my cable, I’m done with it). 2: This process took FOREVER! Minimum 3 hours because the new drive clones the old drive, essentially backing up ALL your data. Everything will be on the new drive from your old drive. The instructions on the website are pretty thorough. But I need illustration so I watched the video too. I recorded the video on my iPad Pro because the video went kinda fast and I kept having to rewind and rewatch the video many times. I did not have any issues. I was just so nervous never having done anything like this before. It was too much for me to work on my MacBook Pro 2009, install new hard drive plus 2x4G memory DDR3 things and follow the video, while reading the instructions at the same time. I used Corsair DDR3, $32 for a total of 8G. I thought Crucial SSD Hard Drive 1T was a good deal for $100. My orig MacBook only had 250G and I swear it was going backwards, it was so slow. I edit a lot of drone pics & videos and the software I use has been on my iPad Pro and on my iPhone. My pics were great but I want pizazz. The apps I want to use requires far more memory and power. I knew upgrading was a good deal as I read many people want the 2009 MacBook Pro and their upgrade reviews sound fantabulous. I’m totally stoked with this new Crucial SSD Hard Drive and I love my MacBook Pro again. It’s now fast AF with plenty of space. Maybe some people who resulted a fail install was from possibly picking the wrong boot drive during the setup. It was a bit challenging following the video tutorial. I was afraid I would muck the whole thing up. But I didn’t. There is a black frame packed with the SSD Hard Drive I think it’s called the spacer. The video did not mention it at all. I placed the spacer under the Hard Drive but it was like a lump in your back and made the drive lopsided. I then placed the frame on top of the drive, put the lid on, jiggled the laptop slightly and I could hear it rattling around. I opened the laptop and peeled off the adhesive around the frame to make it stick and made sure the fit was snug with no annoying rattling. The fit was proper as the original drive was upon opening the laptop. You won’t regret this upgrade. If I can do it, you can too.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2019 by F. Starr