Crucial BX500

I could not figure out why my laptop wasn't reading the SSD. When installed, it appeared that the SSD was DOA, but when cloning my hard drive to the SSD, everything went according to instructions. It dawned on me that the contact prongs were not lining up to the laptop contacts. Even though there ar...

I have a Samsung 500gb SSD in my laptop and love how it makes my computer boot so quickly. I used to be able to go refill my coffee cup waiting for my old hard drive sequence through all the process steps to start up, but no longer. When I installed the Samsung, I was impressed how quickly I was abl...

On short read or write tests, this drive appears to perform reasonably well for a SATA3 drive, but if you have to transfer large amounts of data to it, write speeds *really* tank... I was transferring several hundred GB of data from this, to a 1TB NVMe drive, preparing to re-install Windows on a new...

At time of ordering I had been unable to find specific information about this model. It is a DRAM-less QLC disk. This has dire implications for many applications of a sata3 SSD. Many home users will notice slower performance but be otherwise unaffected. For MY purpose as a caching disk in a NAS arra...

This is a fine product, it works, it's faster than a hard drive. Speed tests show good results, but the moment you go to do something that's more than 50 GB or so, it tanks. Installing new games from Steam or copying large folders to/from this drive causes the speeds to tank to 5-10 MB/s for minutes...

I put a 120GB version in my work laptop after the HDD crashed 18 months ago. Was like having a new machine. This was my first experience with a cacheless SSD, and the reviews were right, for most purposes, you won't notice the difference between cached and cacheless designs. If you do a lot of datab...

My Windows 10 machine used to take 1-2 minutes to boot, and longer to be ready after I logged into one of the accounts. After installing this SSD, booting takes 8 seconds (!) and the desktop is ready maybe 10 seconds after logging in. What a great price for such a performance boost! (Note: I bought ...

The first Crucial 2TB BX500 SSD was not recognized by my computer. After spending a couple of hours unsuccessfully trying to troubleshoot the issue, I called Crucial tech support. The tech had me try several things and then sent me a patch, he was sure would solve the problem. It didn’t. He then wan...

I picked this drive up for Christmas so my dad could finally upgrade to an SSD. Installation was reasonably easy cloning his old drive with Macrium Reflect free (not included) it was simple to copy his 1tb drive with tons of free space onto this drivr. I was disappointed that they don't include a sa...

I purchased the BX500 1tb model. Man what a disappointment I purchased this drive to replace a 5yr old Mushkin Reactor 50gb ssd. After cloning the Mushkin to the Crucial, installing it and firing up the pc it was noticeably slower on boot, slower to open programs and slower running my games. I ended...