BX300 480GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - CT480BX300SSD1

Brought my 2011 mac back from the dead. Boot up went from 10 minutes to 30 seconds. Shutdown takes about 10 seconds or less. Fairly easy to install. A bit intimidating at first but it was really not that hard. Hardest part was creating the Bootable USB installer. Only glitch was the need to reset the clock because I went with a fresh install without formatting the drive first. I did not want any remnants of the prior drive. Definitely have a 2nd computer handy to research any problems and to keep the instructions handy. I used the instructions from the crucial site for the hard drive install and the instructions from Mac Rumors to create the bootable USB installer. Took about 40 minutes and then an hour or so to install the OS and another several hours to add the apps and settings and email etc.. Well worth the effort.

I'm enjoying the results of this SSD in my older desktop. It used to take a minute and 45 seconds or so to boot into the desktop (Win10) and load a browser. Now I'm seeing more like 35-40 seconds to reach the same point. Programs load and run lots faster, too. I used Macrium Reflect, which I already had, to clone my HD to this SSD. It performed flawlessly. I did have to add a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter to fit the drive bay in my desktop.

The drive is good but the Actonis True Image HD 2015 that Crucial provides does not work. This is frustrating expecially since I just used the version of Acronis that WD provides this week (to install a WD Black SSD in another computer) and it was both flawless and didn't require registration or a key to be entered. Why is Crucial using a bad version of Acronis and making us jump through hoops just to install it? They've got to fix that. I ended up using MiniTool Partition Wizard Free 10.2.2 instead. it was easy and worked on the first try. Acronis would simply say it needed to restart the computer, but then after restart it wouldn't actually do anything. MiniTool does the restart and then does it's job. Many reviewers in the past month are complaining about Acronis. Crucial, are you going to do something about it?

Breathed new life into an aging laptop. Older HP 15 could not support more ram, and was painfully slow. It now boots in 5 seconds and page load times are vastly improved. Went from barely usable to makes me happy.

I purchased this brand of hard drive because it was stated as being compatible with my computer. The first one took about 4 trys to get the computer to recognize it, and then the transfer was done. After final installation, the computer would hang up (HD light on steady) for about 1 minute, and then come back like nothing happened. Of course, I couldn't do anything while I was waiting. And this happened at least once per hour, so I ordered a replacement. That one wasn't recognized by the computer at all. So, I am returning that one. I bought the Samsung, and that one worked flawlessly. Easy data transfer, no hangups, and great speed. I'm done with Crucial; get the Samsung!

I am extremely pleased with this fantastic drive . Normally use Samsung SSD's but read a lot of great things about Crucial's brand new BX line of SSD's so I decided to give them a try , and have NOT been disappointed . Great customer service as well . Any questions I had were answered with quick email responses , and the one occasion I had to call Crucial , their service was amazing . Give them a try . You'll be glad you did .

FAST and efficient for my Mac mini server. It has become my internal boot drive. Impressive speed improvement from a spinning drive. I use external RAIDs for all data and dual external backup drives with all but real time backup with Carbon Copy Cloner. From time to time I force boot from each one and they work perfectly albeit slow compared to the Crucial.I use Crucial memory and drives for all my needs and my clients' IT needs.

Dependable SSD from a great company. This was purchased to replace a 7200rpm hard drive in a Dell OptiPlex tower. With the addition of a mounting adapter it fit perfect and improved performance significantly.

Ce modèle à de quoi satisfaire avec son prix abordable et des débits en lecture/écriture qui sont tout à fait corrects, vous pouvez même installer le logiciel d'optimisation c'est encore plus rapide sous Windows 10.Le contenu de la boîte n'a rien d’exceptionnel mais on trouve tout de même à l'intérieur de celle-ci un petit cadre d'adaptation d'épaisseur ainsi qu'une notice comportant un numéro de licence pour le logiciel Acronis à télécharger.J'ai utilisé Acronis pour copier mes anciens SSD de 128 Go et 256 Go ainsi que le logiciel Macrium en version gratuite (vraiment bien) par précaution afin d'avoir 2 fichiers images distincts de sauvegarde de mes disques avant de tout effacer.

J'ai installé ce disque sur un vieux PC portable i5 sous W10 qui a 10 ans maintenant. J'ai gagné en fluidité de fonctionnement et de rapidité au démarrage.J'ai utilisé le logiciel fourni pour la copie de l'ancien disque dur sur le nouveau. Le seul problème rencontré est que j'ai utilisé un cable USB/SATA générique et le logiciel ne reconnaissait pas la marque du disque (Crucial) et ne voulait pas faire le backup. En cherchant chez le constructeur j'ai trouvé une solution pour contourner le problème. Sinon acheter le cable de la marque Crucial ca devrait fonctionner sans problème.Puis après rien a dire, le backup, install et démarrage sans soucisil faut faire le calcul, nouveau PC entre 600 et 1 000 euros et reinstaller ses applis/données voire de nouvelles licenses mais ca sens le neuf ou investir dans un disque SSD pour une 100 aine d euros (ya moins cher) et une a 2 heures d installation.J'ai fait le choix de changer le disque SSD plus par gout de bidouiller car c'est clair que mon PC n'a pas de USB3 ou de nouveau port USB-C, les bus ne sont pas aussi rapide, le ventilateur fait du bruit, il chauffe et le processeur/carte graphique ont des perfs a la traine par rapport aux nouveaux PC .... mais ca fonctionnait et ca fonctionne mieux et suffisant pour mon besoin

I bought this to upgrade an older Core2 2.4GHz PC that was already using a 64GB SSD plus 500GB HDD and Windows 10. I wanted the extra capacity as my 64GB C: boot drive was very nearly full, despite my best attempts to move as many programs and data to the HDD as possible.The installation process was surprisingly quick and easy using the special (locked) Crucial version of Acronis clone software, which is available as a free download from the Crucial web site. If you read the instructions published by Crucial you might be lead to believe that you need a USB to SATA interface cable to connect the new drive to your PC ready to clone the existing boot drive to. This is undoubtable true for laptops and probably many desktops too, but I found that I could temporarily disconnect my internal SATA DVD drive and use the cables to connect the new SSD instead and the Acronis software found it automatically when using its Clone Tool. I suspect that this gives faster transfers than via USB, especially if you only have USB 2.0 ports as I have and not USB 3.0.With the data transfer done (it took only a few minutes) I swapped out the old SSD for the new Crucial drive (I didn't need the supplied spacer for my HDD bay), reconnected my DVD drive and powered up to find Windows 10 running just as I had hoped for. But I am surprised to find that not only do I have the extra capacity but the whole PC seems to be running a lot faster and smoother. I expect the BX300 read and write speeds are somewhat faster than my old Samsung drive but the speed improvement seems to be greater than that might account for. Perhaps the old drive was nearing its end of life and had slowed as a consequence? Or maybe the Windows Page file just worked better with more storage space? Either way, I am very pleased with the end result and if you too are looking to upgrade an older PC I can recommend this Crucial SSD.

Mi ordenador portátil tenía casi 7 años y, debido a su menor rendimiento, me encontraba ante la disyuntiva de comprar un ordenador nuevo o bien aprovechar éste incrementado su memoria RAM o cambiando su disco duro por uno de tipo SSD. Me decanté por la segunda opción y adquirí el disco SSD Crucial de 480 GB a un precio muy bueno. Con esta compra he conseguido que mi portátil vaya más rápido en general, especialmente durante el arranque de Windows y en aquellos procesos que hacen un uso intensivo del disco duro. Incluso el ventilador del portàtil se enciende menos, siendo ahora más silencioso que antes. Además, el disco SSD pesa menos que un disco duro normal y consume menos energía. En definitiva, todo un acierto.

Ce que je n'ai pas aimé c'est que le logiciel crucial qui permet de d'augmenter les performances x10 ne fonctionne pas car le disque n'est pas détecté,aussi il est impossible d'envoyer une demande d'assistance avec leur logiciel car les message ne sont pas envoyés et si je contact crucial il n'y a aucune réponse en retour.