Crucial MX500
Transform your everyday computing with the MX500, a multi-award-winning 2.5" SSD that delivers a perfect combination of speed, reliability and quality, as well as up to 4 TB capacity to store your large collections of games, photos, music, and more.
Speed
Sequential reads/writes up to 560/510MB/s1
Capacities
250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB2
Interface/Form Factor
SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-inch (7mm)
Energy Efficient
45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive3
Award Winning
16+ awards from reviewers worldwide
Fly through everything you do
Start your system in seconds, load files almost instantly, and accelerate the most demanding applications with the Crucial MX500. Our dynamic write acceleration technology uses an adaptable pool of high-speed single-level cell flash memory to generate blistering speeds.
Store up to 4TB of data2
Save massive amounts of photos, music, and videos comfortably and securely. With fast access to your media, creations, and designs, you’re ready to share at the speed of your life.
Enjoy the efficiency of Micron 3D NAND
Our cutting-edge components are engineered from start to finish for efficiency. As a result, the Crucial MX500 uses only a minimal amount of power and still delivers a high price-to-performance ratio — without needing a financing plan to pay for it. Experience a faster, cooler, and quieter computer in your home or business. You’ll wonder how you ever put up with a hard drive.
Upgrade with a drive you can count on
Backed by thousands of hours of pre-release validation, dozens of qualification tests, and a heritage of award-winning SSDs, the Crucial MX500 has been thoroughly tried, tested and proven. Secure your most important files on a drive with established dependability and the advanced features MX500 SSDs are known for.
Install with confidence
For many people, opening a computer and transferring data seems terrifying. That’s why we’ve made it easy in the step-by-step Crucial SSD Install Guide. Check it out before you buy, then install your own SSD quickly with everything transferred over successfully and hassle free.
- Typical I/O performance numbers as measured using IOMeter with a queue depth of 32 and write cache enabled. Fresh out-of-the-box (FOB) state is assumed. For performance measurement purposes, the SSD may be restored to FOB state using the secure erase command. System variations will affect measured results.
- Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes. Not all capacities available at initial launch.
- Active average power use comparison based on published specs of the 1TB Crucial MX500 SSD and the 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue™ WD10EZEX internal hard drive. All other capacities of the Crucial MX500 SSD have comparable active average power consumption specs.
Pros: -Plays well with my system after switching a few windows settings.
Cons: -None
Overall Review: Wrote a bad review about this after having freezing issues, and doing a lot of research I heard from many sources that Crucial SSD's wouldn't work with AHCI enabled, so that I thought I had to switch to IDE. Instead however, I just had to use the updated windows AHCI driver, rather than the factory one that came with my motherboard. Here are the tips given to me by Crucial: "Crucial Response: Thank you for purchasing the MX500 and for your review. I'm sorry to hear that you have experienced freezing issues since installing your new SSD. This can often be resolved by making sure you have the latest AHCI SATA drivers installed for your system. These can be found on your manufacturer's support site. We also cover how to switch to standard Microsoft AHCI drivers in the link below. http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Replacing-Manufacturer-AHCI-drivers-with-standard-Microsoft-SATA/ta-p/176373 If this does not resolve the freezing issues, or if you have any questions about the process, please contact us using any of the methods below. Toll-free for US & Canada: 800-336-8915 Phone: 1-208-363-5790 Email: crucial.support@micron.com Hours (MST): Monday - Friday: 7am - 6pm Community: http://forum.crucial.com/ We are committed to providing exceptional products and value, and we welcome the opportunity to help with any of your questions or concerns." Thanks to Crucial for fixing my SSD problem -- very satisfied with your product <3