Crucial (Discontinued in 2017) MX300 2TB Internal SSD (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch) CT2050MX300SSD1

It's my first SSD, so I am naturally impressed with the considerable improvement in boot up time and the neat, compact nature of the drive. It was easy to install in my tower (with a separately purchased 3.5" drive bay bracket and cables; the '9.5mm Adapter' that comes with this SSD is merely a hollow rectangular frame that sits underneath the SSD, I think it is only useful for laptops and I didn't use it), and the Acronis software key provided allowed me to download and use Acronis to simply transfer the contents of my hard disk drive. This transfer process took, if I remember rightly, between 30 and 40 minutes (you click through a few screens, making sure correct disks are being copied from and to, then leave it to do its thing for the vast majority of this time).I advise looking at a few videos on Youtube for instruction on physically fitting the SSD and preparing it with the software (Crucial have some of their own videos on Youtube, and videos by other SSD manufacturers and members of the public could be helpful too).Note that this SSD (and all the other ones I browsed) doesn't come with a 3.5" bracket to fit in a standard desktop drive bay, nor does it come with any cables to connect it to the power supply and motherboard. You will have to buy these items separately unless you have them already (if you keep boxes after buying a new PC, with manuals and original discs etc, check them; there are often spare cables), but they are cheap and available from lots of online retailers.As I mentioned at the start, my PC boots up faster now. It reaches the desktop screen quicker, and once there, there is no extra loading- on my HDD I would often be waiting about twenty seconds for anything to become responsive as it was still loading startup programs. I've noticed a few games load up faster too, which is nice.This performs well, no problems encountered, and at a good price. I needed a little more than 240/250 GB capacity which are the norm at this end of the scale, but didn't want to go up to 480/500GB prices.

I’ve been a big fan of Samsung drives, but the price difference on the 1TB was enough to make me jump ship to Crucial. I use it in a gaming laptop as my data drive (I have a 250GB system drive and then the Crucial 1TB for data, games and applications).The laptop is a recent (2017) MSI Apache 17”. It has space for one PCIe SSD and one standard SATA 3. I chose to go with a standard SATA because I’m lazy and didn’t want to mess about with moving the system disk.Anyway, all good, and decent for a SSD (but not outstanding figures) in CrystalDiskMark. That is until I downloaded Crucial Storage Executive and enabled momentum cache.The figures speak for themselves (see my screenshot of CrystalDiskMark).I've also added a second image from Task Manager showing how momentum cache works. The G drive is a traditional HDD transferring 25GB of data to F, a 1TB SSD with momentum enabled (I'm actually installing the game Fallout 4 from G to F). You can see that the SSD only occasionally writes data (about once every 10s).So, a very good thing about Momentum cache is the way it handles small files; it caches them to memory and only writes them to the physical SSD occasionally. This not only saves wear on your SSD, but it also makes certain tasks fly. I am a web application developer, and my build process (which involves working with literally thousands of javascript files) is now super fast (it would be even faster if node/npm was multi-threaded, but that's another story!).What are the downsides of doing this?Momentum cache uses your PC memory as a read/write cache, so you need to have a decent amount of memory. My laptop has 16GB, so all good there. I suspect it will work less well for 4GB systems, or if you are using a power-hungry application (such as Adobe Premiere, which I use). It also increases the CPU overhead.EDIT: I're realised Windows 10 Task Manager > Memory shows you the RAM cache (its marked as 'memory that has to be saved to disk before it can be used for something else' or words to that effect). I copied over the full install folder of Fallout 4 plus DLCs (29.6GB) onto a Momemtum enabled drive and the cache varied between 1 and 1.5GB. So the 4GB is never reached; more like >2GB.Crucial strongly recommend a battery backup if you use momentum cache (i.e. you can lose the cached data on a power fail), so other things equal you should only really enable it on a laptop.The cache is written to the real SSD on power off, so system shutdown takes longer (by 5-10s, so significant).But yeah, just look at those figures; well recommended for laptops with memory to spare; your system flies!Edit: Another good thing about the Crucial I'm finding is that it uses devSleep much more often than other SSDs. Since writing this review (5 months), the up-time for my SSD (according to CrystalDiskInfo) is only 9 hours when the physical up-time has been office hours (8.5 hours a day, 5 days a week). The low up-time saves both power and wear and tear, with no noticeable affect on access time. DevSleep only seems to kick in on laptops (it does not seem to affect my desktop), but is certainly something that will extend your laptop battery life (especially if you have two drives) and the life of the SSDs themselves. Oh, I also suspect the up-time is coming out so low because of Momentum Cache (RAM caching means less access requests to the SSD and more devSleep down-time), so devSleep and Momentum cache probably work together).

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Tengo una MBP Mid 2012 y en mi último trabajo el disco duro comenzaba a tener fallas entonces me decidí por comprar un SSD, no sabia si comprar Samsung, Kingston o alguna otra marca y de repente vi este Crucial y me agradó. Utilizo memorias ram de la misma marca y sin duda son muy buenas, no generan mucho calor y no me han fallado en 2 años, apenas instalé el SSD y le cargue su sistema operativo a la Mac me sorprendió su velocidad, no bromeo al decirte que el sistema carga en menos de 10 segundos, ya no me da tiempo de ir a la cocina por un vaso de agua. Las velocidades de escritura andan alrededor de 480 a 500 MB y de lectura arriba de 500, los beneficios inmediatos fueron la velocidad de la computadora, sin duda tengo máquina como para otros 3 o 4 años, también noté que me gasta menos batería y ya no se calienta casi. Sin lugar a dudas para cualquier equipo el instalarle un SSD es un respiro para el procesador y memoria RAM y sin duda, para ti también será un alivio. No olviden activar el TRIM si quieren que su SSD no pierda velocidad de escritura y lectura con el tiempo. Saludos

Ich habe die Festplatte in der 750 GB Version im zuge eines Angebotes gekauft.Die Festplatte läuft sehr schnell, zuverlässig und robust. Habe sonst mich immer bei den Samsung SSDs bedient und habe bereits 3 Samsung SSDs.Da der Preis so gut war im vergleich zum Speicher, habe ich mir die Festplatte gekauft.Viele meiner Kollegen waren sehr voreingenommen zu der Marke und haben anscheinend schlechte Erfahrungen mit der Marke gemacht, die ich nicht bestätigen kannDie SSD ist jetzt knapp ein Jahr im gebrauch und wird am Tag teilweise bis zu 75GB beschrieben. Die Festplatte hat keine Großartigen Leistungsunterschiede zu den Samsung evo SSDs. Im Benchmark ergeben sich eigentlich sehr ähnliche Werte. Die Festplatte liefert noch eine kleine Verwaltungsoftware mit, in welcher Updates etc für die SSD installiert werden können. Bis jetzt hat die Festplatte nie Zugriffsprobleme oder der gleichen gehabt und hat immer das getan, was von ihr verlangt wurde. Auch gleichzeitiges Lesen und schreiben von Großen Dateien funktioniert einwandfrei und ohne wirkliche Leistungseinbußen.Fazit: Selbst für den Normalpreis eine sehr gute Platte, die sich auch im Langzeittest sehen lassen kann. Selbst im Vergleich mit den anderen großen Marken kann sich die Festplatte sehr gut Durchsetzen, da sie ein besseres Preis/Leistungs verhältnis hat. Die Software ist nicht ganz so Umfangreich wie beispielsweise die von Samsung, aber verlangt nicht so oft Neustarts, wie es die Software von Samsung tut, was als Otto normal Benutzer nervig sein kann.

I successfully installed this drive into my late 2012 Mac Mini, after its OEM 500GB, 5400RPM Seagate HDD failed after three years. It wasn't my first choice (Samsung, then SanDisk, then Crucial SSDs), but I was hard-pressed financially. The more research I did, the more I found out that the differences in performance were mostly apparent only to benchmark software.So when I received an email from Amazon that it was having a flash sale for this drive at almost 40% off it's typical price (that brought the expenditure within reason for me), I grabbed it. Delivery took nine days. I was thrown by the cheap mailer: one of those soft plastic bubble-wrapped envelopes with the drive nestled inside its box within— I chalked the long delivery time and the cheap shipping up to the extraordinary price I paid. The drive, its box and its inner plastic nest were all undamaged and in perfect condition, thankfully.Everything that you've read about the difference between HDDs and SSDs is true. Boot up is much faster; so is Shutdown. Applications and games launch so fast that it takes some time to get used. In fact, it's a little disconcerting. After long and repeated study of the online installation guides for this specific computer at such sites as iFixit.com, and creating a few flash drives each with different OS X Install systems, I was ready to install the new drive five days after delivery.So on December 1st, 2016, I started using my new SSD. As I type, I've been using it every day for about 1½ months. I haven't got words for the great feeling when the drive is installed and working. Right now the drive is 43% full, which leaves it 57% empty, so take the following with that in mind: I have used the drive with the TRIM command enabled and disabled on this computer and I cannot tell any difference in performance. I'm pretty sure garbage collection is well-handled in this drive at the controller level without using the TRIM command. My issue with enabling the TRIM command is that there is a remote but significant potential of corrupting the Mac's kernel during a system update. I don't even begin to pretend to know how to handle that eventuality.Like I say though: I have noticed no performance difference with or without TRIM.Now, all I need is a good cheap backup drive for my new SSD!July 8, 2021: Update to my review. It's now been over 4½ years since the install of my Crucial_CT750MX300SSD1. It has made my late 2012 Mini so reliable and so fast that, as much as I would like to buy one of Apple's new M1 Minis, I just can't think of a way to convince the wife.I have never let it approach 60% full. If I need more space, I just offload older stuff that I don't use anymore (old picts, videos, games, etc). It's all backed up on the cloud or on thumb drives.I downloaded software called SSD Reporter from the Apple Store. The developer told people it wouldn't work with Crucial SSDs because companies tend to keep their SSD controllers very secret. Voilà, it worked with this SSD. I don't know if it's because it's older or what, but this software worked great. Amazon won't let me upload graphix, but SSD Reporter rests up in my menu bar, telling me that the drive is still 90% new. Whatever I've been doing, it's been working. This thing will probably outlive me.

It's working fine and also affordable then Samsung SSDs, Buy this.