Crucial BX300 480GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD

I was very pleased with the ease of setting up the cloning software provided by Crucial official web site. Installation was a breeze. Running it is really easy, just choose the "auto" mode, don't try to be clever, you may mess up inadvertently. My cloning task took about 30 minutes on a USB 2.0 connection. The rest is to pop the SSD into my laptop, replacing the 1T HD, and reboot the system. One piece of advice when you replace the HD with the SSD. In this sequence, after you shutdown the computer, unplug the AC power, removed the battery, press the "ON" button 5 seconds to drain any remaining current in your laptop, then open the back of your laptop to expose the HD you want to replace, at this point, one more time ground yourself by touching any metal table lamp, metal table leg, the metal wall of your frig, except the wall socket ! if you can't find any, carefully touch the metal screws of your laptop HD mounting bracket. You don't want to zap any of the computer chip on your laptop mother board and end up buying a new laptop, because your laptop warranty is voided when you replace the original HD with a new SSD yourself instead of an authorized dealer (like BestBuy) . Performance wise, on speed on boot up time, and application launch time, it is a dream come true. Normally it took me about 16 minutes to finish launching all the build in software of my Dell i5 Model 5559 15', now it took 1 minute and 40 sec best and worse 2 minutes 20 sec. Launching Firefox is a flash ! By the way, I use the Crucial cloning software to do a normal "disk clean up" on the SSD, it took about 1 and and a half hour to complete the task and removed 50 G of system junk from my old HD, and the entire system ran even faster with a clean bill of health. I will stick with Micro Semiconductors' Crucial SSD from now on and recommend to all my friends ! Do you know the flash memory they use inside is a 3D chip ? I did some research, this means there is 56 layers of memory stacking up like a 56 story building ! Amazing !

Drive works very well and was exactly what I expected. Quality and price are good. There are better drives out there for sure, like Samsung, but not every situation calls for the absolute best. In my case with this build, price and a 120gb drive size was my concern and this fit the bill nicely. As to the included software for transferring data from old to new drive, I can't comment. I use Clonezilla for drive cloning. I was going from 500gb HDD to this 120gb SSD. If you are doing the same you will need to shrink your partition to just a little smaller than your new target drive, in this case 110gb or so. I used gparted for that. It went mostly smoothly. I did have to run some boot fixes from command prompt on my Windows 10 usb recovery drive because it would not boot initially. Not sure what happened there. But after that it booted and worked flawlessly. I suspect it mainly had to do with me shrinking the drive myself or that I chose to clone the shrunk partition instead of the entire disk. Probably the included software would be simpler for most people. But bottom line, I would recommend this drive. I did my homework before buying and Crucial BX300 is a good drive. Obviously not top end, but good. If i wasn't buying Samsung, I would buy Crucial for sure.Target machine: Lenovo m58p sff, q9400 Core 2 Quad CPU, g210 graphics card, 8gb ram.

So far so good. I installed Windows 10 on it and my computer flies! It’s blazin' fast and I’m happy I didn’t have to give up my 6 year old laptop in a heartbeat. I have a Dell XPS L1502X and I hardly used it so it was clean as a whistle. Then when my Windows 7 became absolete and Windows 10 was copied over my old Windows 7. Now I found out the hard way that this wasn’t good. I was supposed to do some sort of massive reformat and “clean install” with Windows 10. Turns out that Dell doesn’t support the drivers and all the internal goodies for Windows 10 and my computer began to give me massive problems. Then my neighbor told me how he swapped out his MacBook Pro hard drive to an SSD I was intrigued. Did some research and saw a kid do the swap on YouTube on the same computer as mine. Was excited to take on the project and I bought Windows 10 on a usb drive from Best Buy for like $120 I think. I lost like two or three features on my computer but it’s okay with me because I’m going to buy a MacBook Pro when the time is right. Then I uploaded the OS on the HDD and zoom.....I’m flying in the air. So happy with this purchase and I don’t mind the loss of storage from my old HDD because I upload everything on storage drives and externals anyway so my computer doesn’t slow down. Oh and before my 7200 rpm HDD with 750 gigs on it would load up my computer in 1.5 to 2 mins. Now my whole computer is ready to use in 15 seconds! Love this thing! Buy it! Buy it now! Haha hope this review helped. Good luck with your upgrades.

Crucial has never let me down and for the price this is a great SSD; Quality seems top notch - I use this as a gaming drive with a Apricorn Velocity Solo x1 PCIe adapter and it works great. 120GB's isn't a tone of space but it'll fit Star Citizen and a few other high end titles just fine with some room to spare. And yes you can really see an improvement in load times, etc. ... The drive does seem to run a little warm with average temps of 60c when in heavy use but im told SSDs are known to run warmer than mechanical hard-drives and this is normal. Especially considering its sitting right above my GPU. .... Im curious to see the life span of this SSD but for the price? A three year warranty is nice. Buy with confidence.