Crucial BX500 240GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5-Inch Internal SSD, up to 540MB/s - CT240BX500SSD1, Solid State Drive

Replaced the mechanical hard drive on an old Toshiba Satellite C55-B5200 (Intel Core i3) with this SSD and the boot speed and overall performance sky rocketed. For the price of this smaller 240GB drive, it was cheap alternative to breath new life into to this laptop for a few more years.

It works well. My old laptop found new life by upgrading from an HDD to a SSD. Installation was a breeze, and with the help of Linux my computer booted up faster than any computer that I’ve ever seen. The SSD generates less heat and my laptop loved it.

Given the market this is a reasonable SSD for the price. I have owned a lot of these and while they don’t perform as well as Samsung—they have reasonable performance and good longevity.

Great drive and fit perfectly in my older laptop.

Use this product for work & it does everything as described. Works well & is a good value for the money!

A friend who was still using a mechanical drive needed an "upgrade". It's been years since I've used a computer with a mechanical drive and I'm amazed at the speed difference this drive has made. It was taking 5 - 10 minutes to boot Win10. Now it's about 30 seconds. One thing worth spending a little more for this drive is that (currently) it uses TCL chips which has a higher expected life than QLC chips used in SSDs that cost a little less than this one. I'd like to comment on using the free Acronis for Crucial cloning software. Once I got it working, it was great. I ran into two problems. Neither was the fault of the Acronis software or Crucial SSD issue, but others upgrading from an HDD may run into it. The system runs so freaking slow that running the clone function from a live Win10 system had me thinking something was broken. The system stalled while examining the source disk. I'm not sure if it would have finished if I gave it more time (I waited an hour), but I'm just not that patient. I had to do a risky manual power down of the system to regain control of the system. Even trying to create the "offline rescue" media on a USB flash drive goes incredibly slow on a HDD system. RECOMMENDATION: if you can create the offline rescue media on another "fast" system. It still takes some time, but it's way faster than trying to do this on a system booted from an HDD. Also use the "advanced" option that allows you to create a Linux based offline rescue USB. This leads to the second problem I hit... The second problem I had was I created the offline rescue USB using the option that used Windows recovery boot system (as opposed to a Linux boot system). I figured I'm cloning a windows system, shouldn't this work well? When I tried to use it, it told me the Windows boot HDD was locked and I needed a Linux based offline recovery drive. I had to go back to the Acronis program to recreate it using that option. As I noted above, IF you're upgrading from an HDD just booting is incredibly slow already. Recreating the recovery USB again just ate up more of my life I'll never get back. Once I booted the Linux basesd offline recovery USB, everything went smoothly. The analysis of the HDD still took some time (I don't recall...10 minutes?). Remember, I waited an hour for an uncompleted analysis trying to do it on a running Win10 system, so that 10 minutes was FAST in comparison. The actual clone of a 175GB of used data took about 30 minutes. Booting from the SSD was flawless. I'm now set up to upgrade from Win10 to Win11 on this system. Well, after a back up.

I bought 2 of these. I use one in an old Dell D620 I made from scrap parts that's been running for 15 years, and another for terminal experiments with Linux Mint. The one in the Dell is dual boot for Windows 7 I use for service calls. It has sped the old laptop up incredibly. I also installed Linux Mint for everyday use. The other one is for creating custom Linux Mint installable ISOs for flash drives for portable or desktop systems. At the price I paid, the speed is great. I've been pounding the daylights out of the Linux drive for weeks. Boot time is fantastic. Since I didn't need a lot of storage for my use 240G served my purposes. I generally shy away from SSDs because they degrade over time depending on the amount of writes and deletions, so in my applications of low disk rewrites they should serve me for a long time. I went with Crucial because of their long history in the memory business. About 8 years ago I specified a Crucial 320G SSD for a friend who wanted to build a new system for his recording studio. At that time it was $340. We mounted the Windows OS on the SSD, but data storage is on a standard HDD mirrored RAID. The state of the art has had quantum leaps since then, but the system is still running strong after 2 Windows upgrades. Since the system allowed, we also installed a 64G Crucial SSD for a cache drive. Considering a cache drive handles a lot of rewrites should bear witness to Crucial products. I have never been disappointed by a Crucial memory product. I still have systems from the early 2000's running as they should.

No problems so far

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Good SSD for the money that you spent on it!