Crucial MX500 1TB SATA 6.35 cm (2.5-inch) 7mm Internal SSD (CT1000MX500SSD1)

Got the 500GB version for ₹2749.3, and it has 465GB of free storage space!

Bought this Crucial SSD after doing some good research during this festive sale and it has made my 8 year old Core i3 + 8GB Ram Desktop super-fast🤩.
👉The Boot time has become 13.63 or 12 seconds from 20 seconds(previous old HDD was a 500GB 7200RPM Seagate), the shutdown time reduced from >2mins to just 13.43seconds😮😉.
{{I know my times were quick for an old HDD’s compared to other peoples reviews but that was coz of changing to UEFI mode and using only Windows10 to boot up, earlier it had two OS’s and that time the startup times were close to 2 minutes}

The pictures are given comparing the size to an older 500GB 7200RPM HDD from Seagate. And a quick test confirms the manufacturer promised speeds(provided you are using it on the “SATA 3” port on the motherboard- VERY IMPORTANT👈🤚).

👉Reasons for going with this:-
I shortlisted this Crucial and Samsung 870 evo(my choices also included WD blue SA510 & ADATA SU650), but eventually went with Crucial as it was

1) Good brand with less complaints from users(did some digging into forums) unlike samsung where many got their 870 corrupted after some 2-4 years, WD blue also had serious deadness issues and personally I don’t wanna mess with corrupted or dead HD’s😑, plus Crucial is made by Micron company which also supplies FLASH memory modules for other companies to make their own SSD’s, so kinda reliable throughout industries 😉.
2) Good price and offer especially for 500GB version.(It again got reduced to 4175/- & 4125 now from Appario Retail😑, you might get it even cheaper from Appario itself)
3) I’m not a gamer, just a normal/multimedia user with some Image editing here and there + normal jobs, and M2 slots were not available on the motherboard for those new NVMe SSD’s, so this was the only possible solution to give some new life to my old PC.
4) This is one of those SSD’s in this price range with DRAM, meaning it’ll have longer life than DRAM-less SSD’s like crucial BX500, EVM, and all other inexpensive SSD’s. Go for DRAM based SSD if you want no compromise speeds and longer life or if you are a power multimedia user. Otherwise inexpensive DRAM less SSD’s are good enough for normal uses like office works, browsing, school work etc. 👈🏼

👉Pros:
1) Promised speeds are there👍🏼,
2) Very less weight and don’t need disk tray/bay for support, just attaching it with two screws are enough.
3) Metal build which looks awesome in hand, its a shame that I had to put it hidden inside.
4) There is one plastic SSD mounting spacer ? to use for laptops inside the package.(SEE IMAGES)
5) There’s an official software called Storage Executive that you can download from the official product website and via that software you can monitor SSD health and even increase its speed by enabling “Momentum cache” feature, I didn’t enable it as it also takes some storage space to enable it. But might be useful for many.

👉Cons:
This is the only con I could think of- THERE ARE NO SCREWS😑😠, how am I supposed to attach it Crucial guys?, the old HDD screws were too big and I had to go to a repair shop nearby(luckily very near😊) to get screws for free. Thanks to me here.

🤚TIP: Learn to initialize a SSD before loading it with OS or cloning coz it took some tries to finally install it for me, I did a full fresh install of Windows 10 and didn’t bothered to clone the old device as I didn’t wanted any file errors from previous HDD to get into new SSD(as previous HDD had some run ins with file corruptions), so copied all other necessary files manually later.

Also learn to use/create a bootable pendrive loaded with Windows OS for installing the OS into the SSD after changing the boot sequence settings on BIOS page ofcourse. Installing windows was blazing⚡ fast too😊.

Conclusion: Overall a good buy to speed up any old desktops or laptops without M.2 slots.👍

Thank you🙏😊

Edit: This thing is only 3095₹ nowadays (Mar 2023)and sometimes financial disappointment kicks in my🧠 , Why Amazon?🥲….😅

Used with caddy in Lenovo 320 IdeaPad gave a second life for my laptop

It is good, it runs smooth, but one thing is true, “360” is a lot of work compared to other companies. “600” TBW of 1tb and “300” TBW of up to 500gb.
Let’s see how long it will last and whether there will be a warranty claim or not.
Because Krushel is a big company in computer storage, then problems will be solved quickly.
Hope so
THANK YOU ❤️❤️‍🔥🔥

Les vitesses de transfert sont correctes mais après seulement 4 mois d’utilisation j’ai de plus en plus de secteurs défectueux qui apparaissent de jours en jours ! Erreur Smart en cascade. D’après plusieurs sources c’est très mauvais signe et il faudrait que je sauvegarde mes données au plus vite. Le disque est en garantie mais je dois l’envoyer à mes frais pour me faire rembourser chez crucial, c’est vraiment pas top, je vais devoir payer combien de frais d’envoi pour un disque à 60 eur ? Je suis déçu de crucial, je pensais qu’il faisait partie des meilleurs.

It was easy to install and works great. Good product.

Doet wat het moet doen.