Crucial MX200 2.5" 500GB SATA 6Gbps (SATA III) Micron 16nm MLC NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CT500MX200SSD1

Pros: Fast SSD, fair price, crucial makes reliable ssds with low failure rates, has partial power loss protection. My samsung 850 evo benches slightly faster in random 4k than this crucial mx200, but running pcmark and other more real world tests, the speed differences are negligible.

Cons: Neither of my crucial drives (mx200 or m500) work well with intel Rapid storage technology on my z97 ud5h gb mobo, with either most recent intel rst drivers, or those that came on mobo driver install cd. Everything, including bios on my computer is up to date. Only reason to use intel RST is 20% faster random 4k write speeds, though in real world use this speed difference is negligible. I can install rst drivers and replicate the random bsods (all of which point to rst drivers especially with driver verifier), and I can fix the problem with reverting to windows msahci driver. Samsung drive on same system works fine with either msahci or intel ahci.

Overall Review: Great SSD so far, but mainly warning anyone using this drive and getting bsods related to storage/storage drivers... uninstall intel rst and revert back to default windows ahci driver. I would have given this drive 5 stars if crucial had warned of the potential issue with intel rst, as the internet is littered with complaints of bsods with crucial ssds and intel rst drivers. Even one individual claimed he was told by crucial support to revert back to msahci drivers, which did resolve his issue.

Pros: So far everything has been working without a hitch, and the speed of course is unbelievable like everyone says. I am of course concerned about how reliable the SSD will be down the road, but will be doing scheduled backup images to external/network drive in case. I'm hoping that this MX200 will avoid the sort of deterioration that other people talk about with SSDs down the road with constant rewrites..etc.

Cons: I think that a lot of the problems people seem to complain about are not about this drive itself, which seems to be a great value for the features and brand reliability, if that holds up. But instead about the 2 general complaints about SSD issues in general. (1) People seem to often get frustrated when cloning their main system drive to an SSD for their laptop, for example, because the Acronis True Image software, which is a nice touch by Crucial to include, is really not the best software to use. I took the advice of someone else to use this freeware called AOMEI Backupper . But it makes the whole cloning process such a breeze because it includes tutorials but also walk throughs that are specifically for the instance where you would be cloning your hold sata system hard drive into the faster SSD, like a lot of us are doing now. So that would probably already eliminate half of many people's negative reviews. 2) Secondly, like other people mentioned, SSDs use different bios settings and system settings than our traditional drives that Windows expects us to generally use. (a) So first of all, not only should the SATA controller be switched from the sata IDE mode to AHCI, should also verify that the native TRIM support that is utilized by a SSD are actually enabled so that TRIM commands are being sent from Windows to the SSD. (in cmd, "fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify". should be = 0, if TRIM is enabled. (b) And finally, here are some common windows settings that should also be disabled so that the SSD does not degrade over time, or so performance potential can be reached...: disable System Restore, Disable Drive Indexing, Disable Drive defragmentation, Disable Hibernation (b/c of quick startup anyway), Disable prefetch/superfetch, Disable HD shutting down under advanced power settings.. Those are just some of the various tips gathered all over that have seemed to work very well for me, hope that helps.

Overall Review: I would recommend the Crucial MX200 definitely, and $149 was definitely a great deal when I first bought this drive. But it just seems like the SSD prices keep dropping. I saw a special for another overall reputable brand for about $100 for 480GB, but again, it's hard to tell if the quality of the drive would hold up until more time passes and more reviews come in. For now, I have this Crucial and SanDisk, and I'm very happy with the MX200.

Pros: My second SSD from Crucial and my first in a SATA3 machine. Anvil rates the drive as: 512MB/s Read 472MB/s Write 79k 4K QD16 IOPS Read 88k 4K QD16 IOPS Write This makes it only a little (~10MB/s and ~15K IOPS read) slower than a much more expensive Samsung 850 Pro (same 512GB) that I got for comparison. I'll be grabbing these the next time I'm looking for an SSD.

Cons: Not free.

Pros: Great performance and power utilization, and I've come to trust Crucial/Micron for data integrity and quality. Plus Micron's one of the last American memory companies. And the price is excellent. They include data cloning software too, if you need such things.

Cons: I just wish all SSDs were less expensive. But this product I've found no cons.

Overall Review: I've used a lot of the MX100 series and love them. So much so that going to the MX200-series worried me, despite the added benefits. But I couldn't be happier. I've used a lot of different SSDs, but the Crucial ones always seem to be the mainstay. Certainly not going to touch the Samsung ones any more. Then again, I've had good luck with OCZ where others have not. Crucial and Micron -- I just have a ton of confidence in them, and they've earned that. And this is yet another very good product.

Pros: The Crucial MX200 is a great SSD to buy, i got two of the 500GBs... and Then RAID 0 on my EVGA Z77 FTW Motherboard. Total storage is 931GB I use a software tool call CrystalDiskMark 3.0.4 X64 Speed's at 1000MB file size. (Seq) 833MB/s read & 841MB/s Write (512K) 640MB/s read & 809MB/s Write (4K) 25MB/s read & 65MB/s Write (4K QD32) 385MB/s read & 570MB/s Write

Cons: none

Overall Review: I think next time i go with the Intel 730 SSD 480GB for faster speed and a RAID Controller from LSI 9361 4i

Pros: Has greatly improved the performance of my 7 year old HP HDX16 laptop.

Cons: Kept freezing up initially. Bing came to rescue!

Overall Review: I installed this as the internal bootable drive on my 7 year old HP HDX16 laptop (4GB RAM) that has Windows 8.1. Now the laptop runs faster than the new i5 machine that I have from work, for most day to day tasks. Even Lightroom 5 is usable! One issue I did run into was, the drive kept freezing after initial startup when I used it as an internal bootable drive. I had to disable “Acronis Nonstop Backup Service” to resolve the issue. (Run-> services.msc, then double click on the service, select Disable from Startup type drop down and click ok.) Now the drive works like a champ. If you have Acronis installed on your machine you might have to do the same if you are planning to install it as an internal bootable drive. This was not an issue when I used it as an external drive. If you are looking to squeeze the last bit of juice out of an older machine, upgrade to SSD would be money well spent.

Pros: Fastest ssd ive ever used

Cons: none

Overall Review: runs my windows 10 gaming rig with an amd fx 6300 cpu and 16gb ram flawlessly for those who complain about not getting full capacity see following chart and for all drives in windows multiply capacity by 93% examples are 250gb x 93 = 232gb 500gb x 93% = 465gb 1TB x 93% = 930GB

Pros: Good drive, no hick-up's or problems of any kind. * Anyone having problems copying their C: drive on a desktop computer? here is how to. See other thoughts. This how I transferred my existing 1TB WD Black H.D.D. to my 480Gb San Disc Extreme Pro. Sorry this SSD is to store Games on.

Cons: None as of yet

Overall Review: If this is going to replace your boot drive (C:drive and/or you don't want to reinstall windows) on a desktop computer and you are maxed out on SATA connections, here is how you can copy your existing C: drive to the new SSD. (You must have a back-up drive connected to your computer to store a copy of your C: drive). So first after installing Acronis on your computer. Run the Acronis software that is included as a D/L from Crucial. just make a Acronis Bootable Media CD. Then do a full C: drive back up using Acronis True Image. *(after the back-up completes, you must validate the True Image back-up) To validate the disc image, open Acronis True Image, view Back-up's, Right click on the Back-up you just made and select "Validate". After image passes "validate", with the Acronis Bootable Media CD in the Cd drive, go ahead and shut down your Computer. Remove the original C: drive and replace it with the new SSD. Restart your computer . hit F12 and pick what to boot from. Select your optical drive (The Drive with the Acronis Bootable Media CD you made). Select-"Start Acronis disc Recovery" and run "recover from disc image". pick the back up image you made and start recovery. As long as your used data doesn't exceed the size if the SSD, including any hidden partitions It will automatically resize your unused space to fit onto the SSD. Don't worry if you make a mistake, because your original C: drive will still be on the old drive, just as it was before you started.