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Crucial BX300 480GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - CT480BX300SSD1

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Digital Storage Capacity 480 GB
Hard Disk Interface Serial ATA
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Hard Disk Form Factor 2.5 Inches
Hard Disk Description Solid State Drive
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Installation Type Internal Hard Drive
Color Black

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  • Sequential Read 555 MB/s / Sequential Write 510 MB/s
  • Random reads/writes up to 90K on all file types
  • More than 300% faster than a typical hard drive
  • More than 45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive
  • Accelerated by Micron 3D NAND technology

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  • Internal Solid State Drive

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    • 300% faster than a typical hard drive*
    • 45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive**
    • Easy installation
    • Capacities up to 480GB

    You Don’t Need A New Computer – Just The Crucial BX300 SSD

    Ever wonder why your phone works as soon as you push a button, yet your computer takes forever? The reason is simple: Your phone runs on flash memory technology, while your computer runs on an outdated hard drive. It’s possible – in fact, it’s easy – to get the same near-instant speed you expect from your phone out of your computer. Upgrading to the Crucial BX300 SSD is perhaps the easiest way to get all the speed of a new computer without the price. When we say it’s easy, here’s what we mean.

    Easy speed

    Fix your slow computer and feel good about using it again! Load apps and save files immediately with the Crucial BX300, which accesses data over 300% faster than a hard drive.* That’s how you get the immediate responsiveness you expect. Changing your storage drive is the proven way to speed up startup times – making your computer start almost as soon as you press the power button and improving almost every aspect of computer performance.

    Easy efficiency

    Run your computer cooler, quieter, and faster with 45x the energy efficiency of a typical hard drive – and extend your laptop’s battery life.** Reducing system temperatures also helps lengthen the life of your computer and the components within it, which is an inherent advantage of SSD technology. Since SSDs don’t use small mechanical parts that are prone to failure like you’ll find in hard drives, they’re an easy way to improve the health and efficiency of your computer.

    Easy installation

    Opening your computer and updating your storage drive can seem complicated and intimidating if you’ve never done it before, but our straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions and videos make it so anyone can install an SSD! Millions of people worldwide have chosen a Crucial SSD – it really is easy.

    Easy decision: Replace your hard drive

    Booting up, loading things, and transferring and saving files aren’t complicated actions, but a slow and outdated hard drive makes them take forever. SSDs use new flash storage technology to make your computer work almost instantly. You don’t need a new computer – just the Crucial BX300 SSD.

    Micron quality — a higher level of reliability.

    As a brand of Micron, one of the largest flash storage manufacturers in the world, the Crucial BX300 is backed by the same quality and innovation that has produced some of the world’s most advanced memory and storage technologies. Protect your photos, videos, and irreplaceable files from catastrophic hard drive crashes by storing them on inherently more durable Micron 3D MLC NAND. With extensive prerelease validation testing and hundreds of SSD qualification tests, the Crucial BX300 has been thoroughly tried, tested, and proven. You’ll notice the difference.

    *Speed comparison based on published specs of the Crucial BX300 and the 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue internal hard drive (WD10EZEX), which as of June 2017, is one of the industry’s top-selling internal hard drives.

    **Active average power use comparison based on published specs of the 480GB Crucial BX300 SSD and the 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EZEX internal hard drive, which as of June 2017, is one of the industry’s top-selling internal hard drives.

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    Ever wonder why your phone works as soon as you push a button, yet your computer takes forever? the reason is simple: your phone runs on flash memory technology, while your computer runs on an outdated hard drive. It's possible - in fact, it's easy - to get the same near-instant speed you expect from your phone out of your computer. Upgrading to the Crucial BX300 SSD is Perhaps the easiest way to get all the speed of a new computer without the price. Our straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions and videos make it so anyone can install an SSD.

    Customer reviews

    4.5 out of 5 stars
    4.5 out of 5
    3,387 global ratings

    Customers say

    Customers like the quality, performance, value, and ease of installation of the computer drive. For example, they mention it's a great solid state drive, works as expected, and has the best price to performance ratio of any SSD drive on the market. That said, some complain about the temperature.

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    150 customers mention133 positive17 negative

    Customers like the quality of the computer drive. They say it's a great solid state drive, with great features and functions. Some say it has a fine piece of work, and is reliable.

    "Drive works very well and was exactly what I expected. Quality and price are good...." Read more

    "...This new one is a fine piece of work...." Read more

    "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..." Read more

    "The drive is good but the Actonis True Image HD 2015 that Crucial provides does not work...." Read more

    130 customers mention107 positive23 negative

    Customers like the performance of the computer drive. They say it works as expected, does the job a lot better than their old mechanical HDD, and the programs run perfectly. Some mention that it works right out of the box and gives a good bump in speed compared to an old HDD.

    "...The replacement is working well so far. I'll update if I have any problems with it in the future." Read more

    "...a gaming drive with a Apricorn Velocity Solo x1 PCIe adapter and it works great...." Read more

    "...No problems have came up after installing many programs(2GB), the OS(18GB), and Destiny 2(35GB)...." Read more

    "...Device itself seems to work well. Stay away from any software they try to get you to install...." Read more

    72 customers mention59 positive13 negative

    Customers like the value of the computer drive. They mention that it is good value, cheap, and has the best price to performance ratio of any SSD drive on the market.

    "Good value. I have a Crucial mx100 in an older laptop and desktop and these work well...." Read more

    "...doing my research in Ssd's and i came across this one it was a great price and seemed like a lot of people liked it so i bought it...." Read more

    "...They are cheaper, larger storage, and you dont want to continuously write and erase to the ssd. Reduces the life of the ssd." Read more

    "...Has MLC NAND vs TLC NAND in the MX300. Costs less. Beats the MX300 in most benchmarks...." Read more

    60 customers mention57 positive3 negative

    Customers find the installation process of the computer drive to be fairly easy. They say the instructions for preparing, cloning, and installing are clear and simple to use. They also mention that running the drive is really easy, just choose the auto mode. Some say that the 240GB is a good cap for installing OS, utils, and some games.

    "...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...." Read more

    "...Shipping was fast, packaging was good. Installing was easy enough. Its simple swap of hard drives...." Read more

    "...Installation was easy using Crucial's videos, but note that you need some cloning software to do a direct replacement of another drive...." Read more

    "...Came in one day wow that was fast it was a simple install and right as i turned it on i instantly was at the log in page i have never had that fast..." Read more

    9 customers mention9 positive0 negative

    Customers are satisfied with the fit of the computer drive. They mention that it has just enough space for their most important items, and that it fits perfectly without the need for additional mounting brackets. Some say that the drive is really small, but has plenty of space.

    "...This drive wont fit much, but it has just enough space for your most important programs. Great for those building a pc on a budget...." Read more

    "Nice SSD replacement with plenty of space. Easy install EXCEPT Acronis disk clone program. Acronis is a terrible program and always has been...." Read more

    "...It is extremely power efficient and quiet and has no problem holding all my items...." Read more

    "...With the addition of a mounting adapter it fit perfect and improved performance significantly." Read more

    14 customers mention3 positive11 negative

    Customers are dissatisfied with the temperature of the hard drive. They mention that it freezes their machine once a while, and the screen randomly freezes and shuts off for a few seconds. The stall can last from a couple of seconds to more than 39 seconds. Customers also mention that their PC occasionally locks up and gets stuck on the loading screen for 30 minutes.

    "...On bootup, it was stuck on loading screen for 30min. Once it got into the OS, every operation had a hang up...." Read more

    "...a little faster then the WD Blue in benchmarks, but the freezing issue was a deal breaker." Read more

    "...preformes as expected, but recently I've noticed that my laptop freezing for 30 sec sometimes more sometimes less and when I've checked system stats..." Read more

    "...Wow!! My laptop runs Cooler, My battery lasts MUCH longer. Lots of improvement, over the original HDD." Read more

    8 customers mention0 positive8 negative

    Customers are dissatisfied with the recognition of the computer drive. They mention that their computers do not recognize it. Some customers also mention that the laptop does not recognize the drive.

    "...However, all of a sudden it simply died on me. My laptop no longer recognizes a drive...." Read more

    "...120GB was defective and my computers can't detect and format it..." Read more

    "...other two cloned just fine but when you try to boot up they aren't recognized by the computer...." Read more

    "Can't get it to sync with my older Vista machine. The computer doesn't recognize it even though I can see it in the setup area by hitting F8 at..." Read more

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    5 Stars
    JUST BUY IT
    After building my PC with my HGST 1TB 7200rpm HDD that I have used on my PS4 constantly for Destiny 1 and DLC I was worried about how it would endure.. Well it has lasted years, but this isn't a review about the hard drive, but the SSD I just bought from Crucial. With a small budget a 240-256GB SSD was all I could afford and their competitor rose in price from the hype. I was surprised how light it was and after clean installs I did not notice any performance difference until I used it a lot more. It blew my mind how everything started to run smoothly once my CPU caught up. The Crystal Disk benchmark that I have added shows the magic in their software as well and this is without the additional feature of Over-Provisioning which increases performance and endurance. You could say that it has the same features as their competitor (Samsung) and even excelled in some. No problems have came up after installing many programs(2GB), the OS(18GB), and Destiny 2(35GB). I have more than enough room and will not be needing an upgrade anymore!
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    Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2018
    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 !
    Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2018
    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.
    Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2018
    Capacity: 240GBVerified Purchase
    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.
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    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2018
    (2/5 Stars) I bought this to put in a used laptop I picked up as a second computer. For the few months it worked I was very happy with it. However, all of a sudden it simply died on me. My laptop no longer recognizes a drive. I put the old HDD in and sure enough, a drive was detected and booted. Seeing as I didn’t use this drive very much I haven’t lost any data. However, I’m disappointed it died in so short a time with such little use.

    ***UPDATE***
    Crucial's call-in technical support was very helpful. I received an email after my call with tech support to set up a free replacement. I sent in my broken drive and received a new one. I had to pay to ship it, but that's still less than purchasing a new SSD. The replacement is working well so far. I'll update if I have any problems with it in the future.

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    Florian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buen ssd con garantía.
    Reviewed in Mexico on March 31, 2019
    Buen SSD. Hace su trabajo. Para los que tienen discos duros mecánicos (de los que giran y hacen ruido) es el día y la noche. Antes con mi disco duro mecánico seagate el Windows se tardaba 2 a 3 minutos en abrir, ahora son 20 segundos con el ssd.
    Arnaldo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Super rápido
    Reviewed in Brazil on February 7, 2019
    Chegou antes do prazo. Muito bom!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly the best upgrade you can give an old computer!
    Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2018
    This SSD is actually the first one I've ever had. I've only used for about a month now so I can't comment on long term use (but will edit if anything happens soon). However this drive sped up my old computer by amazing amounts compared to my old HDD, which also had a fresh install of Windows before I switched drives. Most noticeably is when loading Civilization V, it would take about 10 minutes before, now only takes 1 or 2 minutes. Boot up time has also sped up by 30 seconds, as well as general operations have all improved. Computer feels far newer than it is.

    One very important thing to note, which I'm not sure if this is normal due to it being my first time. There are no clips for the SATA and Power cables, so they plug in fine but would be more prone to being pulled out. This drive is definitely made for laptops where no cables/clips are needed. So if you get this for a desktop, be aware that it won't "click" on, but it will technically connect and work.
    D. V. Webster
    5.0 out of 5 stars Works well and easy to install
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2018
    Capacity: 480GBVerified Purchase
    I bought this to upgrade an older Core2 2.4GHz PC that was already using a 64GB SSD plus 500GB HDD and Windows 10. I wanted the extra capacity as my 64GB C: boot drive was very nearly full, despite my best attempts to move as many programs and data to the HDD as possible.

    The installation process was surprisingly quick and easy using the special (locked) Crucial version of Acronis clone software, which is available as a free download from the Crucial web site. If you read the instructions published by Crucial you might be lead to believe that you need a USB to SATA interface cable to connect the new drive to your PC ready to clone the existing boot drive to. This is undoubtable true for laptops and probably many desktops too, but I found that I could temporarily disconnect my internal SATA DVD drive and use the cables to connect the new SSD instead and the Acronis software found it automatically when using its Clone Tool. I suspect that this gives faster transfers than via USB, especially if you only have USB 2.0 ports as I have and not USB 3.0.

    With the data transfer done (it took only a few minutes) I swapped out the old SSD for the new Crucial drive (I didn't need the supplied spacer for my HDD bay), reconnected my DVD drive and powered up to find Windows 10 running just as I had hoped for. But I am surprised to find that not only do I have the extra capacity but the whole PC seems to be running a lot faster and smoother. I expect the BX300 read and write speeds are somewhat faster than my old Samsung drive but the speed improvement seems to be greater than that might account for. Perhaps the old drive was nearing its end of life and had slowed as a consequence? Or maybe the Windows Page file just worked better with more storage space? Either way, I am very pleased with the end result and if you too are looking to upgrade an older PC I can recommend this Crucial SSD.
    Andrea
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo SSD, da un rapporto qualità / prezzo eccezzionale!
    Reviewed in Italy on May 9, 2018
    Capacity: 240GBVerified Purchase
    Arrivato il giorno dopo averlo ordinato, installato con estrema semplicità (tolte 2 viti da quello vecchio, messo il nuovo al suo posto, riconosciuto subito dal BIOS), installato sopra windows 10 ultima versione in pochissimo tempo, poi vari programmi che uso nel quotidiano, fatto tutto in meno di un'ora. Leggerissimo, silenzioso, tutto un altro mondo rispetto ai vecchi hdd. Certo, sul mercato ci sono modelli e marche più performanti, resta il fatto che per 55 euro (preso in offerta lampo - taglio da 240) il portatile ora si accende ed è pronto all'utilizzo in circa 7/8 secondi. Ho provato a trasferire file da/a un hdd esterno, da chiavette usb 3.0 e così via, tutto molto veloce e performante. Non ho per ora rilevano nessun freeze o altro tipo di impuntamenti come altri utenti, le app e i programmi si aprono tutti in pochi secondi (anche quelle più pesanti - come photoshop o programmi di editing video).

    P.S.
    Io ho preferito re-installare il sistema operativo da zero, non clonare il disco esistente, in modo da partire da una situazione "pulita", vero che dopo ho impiegato circa un'ora a re-installare anche tutti i miei programmi, ma ne è valsa la pena.

    Pro:
    - silenzioso
    - veloce
    - qualità/prezzo

    Contro:
    - al momento nessuno (in caso di problemi di affidabilità aggiornerò la recensione).

    In conclusione, per il prezzo pagato, l'unico rammarico è di non averlo acquistato prima (anche se aspettando ho risparmiato un bel po' di euro), il mio portatile è letteralmente rinato!
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