Crucial 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?

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.

Built an Intel i7 PC in 2017 and used this for my OS drive and another HDD for storage. This drive would sometimes freeze for 30 seconds, a minimum 3x a day, it was weird. Bought a Samsung 870 and the issue went away. It has something to do with the BX300. I reformatted the BX300 SSD and just used it as storage for games. It works great as a storage drive, no issues. If you want to use this for your Windows OS, I do not recommend.

I am using this SSD as external and so far is ok. However I use as a storage and I do not transfer a lot of data so is doing the job. Speed is as promised up to 450 mb/s. I like it and highly recommend.

Bought two of these drives in 2018 to speed up rendering of You Tube videos. one was a work drive, the other a backup. There were less than five short videos on these drives. I stopped doing videos a year and a half ago and the drives both became archive units with no writes and very seldom reads. One day when on my computer , I noticed that both drives no longer showed up. I replaced sata cables , power cables still did not work. I removed the drives from the computer and installed in a external usb drive holder. Both drives still did not work. I have since learned that Crucial uses second quality nand chips in their BX300s. Went with a big name, had better luck with cheap no name drives. No more purchases of anything Crucial for me. $200 dollars down the drain.