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Great upgrade for older computers, not perfect for new builds.

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2016

This SSD is amazing. I purchased 2 and have them installed in 2 separate Dell Optiplex computers. It has basically halved the boot times, and makes me feel like I have a new computer again. Its not my first SSD and I am aware that it is not the fastest of SSDs. Giving an honest and realistic review this performs exactly as I expected. This is the perfect drive to refresh and upgrade some old hardware. This is not the SSD you want to purchase if you are building a new computer with the latest specs and greatest hardware. This is a budget solution to eek out a few more years out of some old hardware before getting them recycled. It performs WAY faster than any spinning disk drive you'll buy and is rock solid. I haven't had any issues getting them installed and up and running. I haven't had any read/write errors or data loss so far.

Pros :
-Super easy to install.
-Lightweight (this would be a great upgrade for any old laptop with a spinning disk, improved performance and shedding some weight)
-Reasonably fast for what you are paying for and what you are getting.

Cons :
-None that I can see.

Compared to others:
There are other reviewers that have expressed their dissatisfaction with the SSD as being not quite as fast as the MX200. Especially because the MX200 is only a few dollars more. I would argue that money is money and why would you spend the extra dollar even if your older hardware can't take advantage of the extra speed? Like I said in my review, if you're building a new computer with the latest and greatest then get something else, like the MX200, but if you are trying to get a few more years of performance out of your 2010 computer, this is a great option.

Conclusion:
BUY THIS DRIVE.

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Nic Perry

Acronis issues on Mac, great hard drive

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2016

The hard drive itself is great, I've been putting these in all the computers at work. The only problem is with the Acorns software key they include, at the time of this posting, the drives are shipping with a key for Acronis 2015 and a link to the PC version of the software. While there was a Mac version, it is not at that link and I couldn't find it anywhere anymore. The newer 2016 version is easy to find, but the key won't work on it. Maybe there is another workaround I am missing, but it definitely isn't as easy as the Acronis software on a PC, and I wasn't going to pay for an extra copy.

If you have a PC, this with the included software is fantastic, super easy, and so much faster than a traditional hard drive.

If you have a Mac, don't buy this model for the software alone, because it probably won't work for you. You can use this drive with other software, or use disk utility, but you will not be able to use the software, or at the very least, you can't depend on it to come with the right software, because mine definitely didn't.

The hard drive is super fast and nice and small. I have installed them in a number of computers that seemed ready for the scrap pile, and in all cases it has brought them back to solid working order. Pair it with a RAM upgrade, and you might not need a new computer after all, at least for a couple years.

If you plan to install in a desktop, make sure you get an adapter bracket since these are smaller hard drives that don't fit in on their own.

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Larry

Great upgrade for older computers, not perfect for new builds.

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2016

Capacity: 240GBVerified Purchase

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K-Star

Man I Regret Giving Away My Old MBP

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2016

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I recently gave my mom my old Mid 2010 Macbook Pro 13". She didn't have a laptop so I gave her my old one. It worked good, but moved rather slow because it had a 7200rpm HD inside, and so I told her that if she were to put a SSD inside that it would help speed up the unit a little. Boy was I wrong! It didn't speed it up a little it sped it up a lot!!! I was surprised although my newer Macbook Pro 15" Retina Display has an i7 2.7GHZ 8GB RAM w/500GB SSD (Its Fast) I was completely amazed at how fast my older MBP is now that I've upgraded the Boot Drive. Makes me kinda regret giving it away....lol Its almost as fast as my current MBP. This drive is really fast and inexpensive. I suggested to my mom that she buy an external 1TB HD to store her data onto, and to leave the internal SSD strictly for programs/applications. That will ensure optimal performance for a while. BTW I am running OSX Mavericks on this drive in my older MBP and it works just fine! Super easy to install and very light in weight. This isn't the best SSD on the market, but if you're moving up from a traditional HD 5400/7200 etc. you definitely will not be disappointed. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!

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Uruguay OC

Great Product ! Price, Quality and Performance Wise !

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2016

Capacity: 240GBVerified Purchase

Test Platform

I7 5960X@ 4.5GHz
ASRock X99 OCF + 32GB G.SKILL DDR4 TZ 3200C16
1x Samsung SSD 950 PRO M.2 NVMe 512GB
1x Crucial M.2 500GB
3x Crucial BX200 1TB SSD
2x GALAX GTX 980TI HOF 6GB Watercooled
Powered By Silverstone ST 1500W
Cooled by Alphacool, EK Water Blocks, Bitspower

Software:
Windows 10x64 Pro Build 14352
Crystal Disk Mark, AS SSD Benchmark, Ultimas Versiones
Original Image:[...]

Crucial is making a Great Progress on New SSD Models. I have nothing negative but positive to say, it's a Great Product, Price, Quality and Performance Wise. Maybe for some people will be nice to include the 3.5inch to 2.5inch adapter, but most Cases already have it.
On my Tests and Benches, Read/Write and 4K remains mostly the same good performance from 2GB to 100MB Data Sample on Crystal Disk Mark. On AS SSD Benchmark (The Official Competition Bench of HWBOT) varies a bit on 4K as it uses a different Thread Count wich is 4K64 rather than the 4K32 of Crystal Disk Mark. As you may already know Crucial is a Brand of Micron and uses TLC (Triple Cell) NandFlash and it uses a Silicon Motion [...]
Kind Regards to All, Sergio.

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JustSomeRandomGuy

Very happy with the performance, great capacity + performance value

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2016

Capacity: 240GBVerified Purchase

Very happy with the performance of these drives. It's made a world of difference with both machines I installed this drive in. Typically,

In the past, I've bought the smaller capacity SSDs and just installed the the OS on them to save the money. But now with the additional space, I can even run a VM as a server from the SSD to boost performance. Another trick I've done in the past for laptops that don't have a higher memory capacity is to make a 2nd partition with about 35GB of space and play with the virtual disk size on it so I can squeeze

With the laptop that I installed one of these in, I've noticed a big difference in responsiveness and reduced wait and loading times. in many cases, its literally doubled the speed. With the amount of cloud storage available these days through Google Drive, MS OneDrive, DropBox, and a TON of others, 240GB of SSD space should be more than enough for any system. I use higher capacity "spinning" drives in a RAID5 configuration that still don't match the performance of this SSD. I also have over a TB "spinning" HD's in my PC that store information I don't need performance for accessing (or I don't access very often at all) in the event 240GB isn't enough space someday.

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Standpipe

Hdd indicator not working with 240GB ssd

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2016

Capacity: 240GBVerified Purchase

This drive is certainly well worth the price. As expected it is crisp and fast and I am very pleased with its overall performance. It lost a star because the manufacturers apparently made not provision for installing the drive on a new build. Whatever little help I found applied to an installation on an already functioning machine. In my case, I installed it as the only drive on a new ITX build, and Windows 7 could not format and partition it automatically. I had to remove the drive and install it on one of my existing Windows desktops to format and partition it manually - then reinstall it into the new build. After that, there was no problem. The installation was very fast and it has been working silently and very well for the last few days since the build was completed. When I tried to make a comment like this one on the website I understood the experience - the forum is equally customer unfriendly!
Will I buy it again - yes, definitely! But I thought this comment would be helpful to prospective buyers. And, BTW the drive is installed on SATA port 0 and the disk indicator would not flash at all to indicate activity. It remains off. I've decided to live with this quirk. With a silent drive like a solid state one, I think the indicator would be helpful if there was ever a suspected problem. But I'm good for now, nice drive otherwise.

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Central Scrutinizer

Perfect cheap SSD for cheap laptops

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2016

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This is a value-priced SSD priced in line with other value SSDs. I chose it because Crucial is a company I'm very comfortable with. I put it in a 2009-era thin-n-light Asus laptop that is anything but a speed demon. It provided the effects one hopes for from an SSD upgrade with zero drama (although the Acronis cloning software didn't work and I loaded a disk image with a system repair DVD.) The Windows Experience Index rating for drive data transfer speed is 7.7 operating on a SATA 3.0 Gb/s connection. A newer laptop with SATA 6.0 Gb/s and a Samsung 850 evo hits 7.9 by contrast.

I wouldn't recommend putting this in an expensive computer, unless you have an expensive computer that you only use for cheap computer tasks like occasionally editing still photos or short videos, working on Microsoft Office docs, etc. If you have an expensive computer and want to use it for expensive computer things like moving a 50gb 4k video from another drive to this drive, you will suffer. Like some others in this price range, it has extremely slow sustained write speeds once file size exceeds something like 6 gb, or you have more data than that to write all at once. (Find actual facts and plenty of complaints on review websites that focus more on fairly abstract benchmarks than real world scenarios.) But other than perhaps when I migrated the system from an HDD to this drive, it has never been an issue.

For normal stuff--starting up your machine, opening programs, copying a folder from one partition to another--this drive is as good as anything. If you need more... don't buy a Hyundai and expect it to act like a Porsche.

(Edit: I just read a Tom's Hardware review of the Samsung 750 EVO that included this drive in a multi-SSD comparo, and the BX200 was the slowest and worst at nearly every benchmark. Still works great! However, as the price fluctuates upwards toward $125 and beyond, my goodwill toward the brand Crucial becomes less compelling, because we're in the price range of some speedier drives at this point.)

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ChrisWNY

This is like an AED for your computer -- zapping new life and faster performance into your aging Mac or PC laptop/desktop

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2016

Capacity: 240GBVerified Purchase

This SSD was like a heart transplant for my 2009 MacBook Pro, which was running annoyingly slow thanks to its aging mechanical hard drive...it gave it new life and the MacBook is now running like it's from 2014. Upon receiving the Crucial BX200, I backed up the data from the old hard drive and went ahead with installing the SSD drive. Replacing the HD in a MacBook Pro is easy and painless, takes 10 minutes or less, with most the time spent removing the tiny screws from the bottom cover. Simply remove the star-nut studs from the original Macbook Pro HD, then screw them into the Crucial SSD, reassemble, and boot from a SD card prepped and loaded with Mac OS X El Capitan (or newer), then install the OS cleanly onto the new SSD drive. The whole installation took less than 30 minutes, and after the OS install completed, the MacBook Pro (2009 model) was booting to a desktop in just seconds, compared to the several several minutes to took to boot to a desktop (from a power-off state) from the old mechanical HD. Huge difference in responsiveness and system performance.

Apps now launch in one bounce or less, video playback is MUCH, much smoother, and restarts that formerly took minutes now only take seconds. The performance boost is nearly day/night compared to running from a mechanical HD, especially on aging computer systems.

This is a no-brainer upgrade for your older MacBook, iMac, or any PC system that is running rather sluggishly largely in part due to mechanical hard drive bottlenecks.

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James Van Asten

much better and faster than traditional hard drive.

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2016

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my computer feels better than new with this ssd because it is technically better than new.
hard drives are so traditional and okay for the average user.
this ssd is much nicer and faster than traditional hard drives.
it is recommended for your operating system drive.
would not so much difference with data files.
it installs pretty easy.
just install it like a traditional hard drive.
in short it installs like a snap.
when you first install it take the wires out of your other hard drives.
I have heard that windows gets confused if there are more than one hard drives attatched.
I have already noticed an increase in speed during file transfer and surfing the net.
I have only had a it less than a day so I don't have a total picture of what's under the hood.
the size is pretty cool.
its a little thicker than a credit card.
I intend to upgrade my older comptuers with another ssd drive to give them that better than new speed.
sometimes its not the motherboard that is slow but the hard drive.
enjoy.

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Bob

Works good but don't expect any significant speed improvement for an average user.

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2016

Capacity: 240GBVerified Purchase

Works good, easy to install but it does not come with the side screws which is a must for secure installation or it will move around too much in your laptop during transport and possibly disconnect itself so you have to reuse the old screws and if you don't have the old drive you may have to tape it down or something. Another thing to consider is that I was not able to reinstall my drive image onto this hard drive because this drive has a lower capacity than my old drive even though the system image is less than 15 GB and fits on two DVDs and you would think this would work, so I had to reinstall windows from scratch. Of course I blame this useless restriction on Microsoft for wanting an exact replacement of the hard drive for re-imaging. Something to think about if that is what you are planing to do. I don't necessarily notice any speed improvement, and if you are just using it to do simple web, video or word processing you probably won't either. The main reason for this purchase was to get away from the regular hard disk drive in my laptop because you have to be very careful when moving the laptop around with the power on and the disk spinning, now I don't have to worry about it any more, if it happens to be a little better on the battery and/or speed its a plus.

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Felicia Humphus

How to run s SSD and HDD on mid 2012 MacBook Pro with set up instructions

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2016

Capacity: 240GBVerified Purchase

We had bought the 240GB SSD and caddy tray (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0058AH2US/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) for our mid 2012 MacBook Pro. The SSD was installed in the original HDD spot, with the HDD being installed in the caddy tray in the optic drive location using the information found here - [...] Once completed, we downloaded a free copy of "carbon cloner" and copied all of the files minus the "User Files" from the HDD to the SDD. Once completed, you need to select system preferences and select the new drive as your startup drive. After the system restarts, go back to system preferences and select "Users and Groups". After unlocking, right click your user name and select "advanced options" and change the home directory to your user name folder on your old hard drive. After doing this, delete all the folders off of your old HDD except for the "Users" folder. If anyone else uses the computer, change the path directory for their account as well. After doing this, the computer will boot off of the new SSD and all applications will run from the SSD. All of the large files; media, pictures, documents, will be stored on your old HDD. After installing the SSD, the startup time from pressing power, logging in, and having a safari window up and running went from
three minutes seventeen seconds to one minute four seconds. Not bad for a four year old Macbook Pro using El Capitan.

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