Crucial MX500 250GB 3D NAND SATA SSD – CT250MX500SSD1(Z)

I had some serious buyer’s remorse after buying a Lenovo Ideapad 2in1. The computer was cool, the touchscreen was a nice component and the price was pretty good considering what some of the other options were and what came with it. However, I quickly realized (after my return window had closed, naturally) why the price was so low.

I work in a job where it is not uncommon to have two Microsoft Office applications plus five or six tabs in Chrome open at a time, and with this processing load the computer simply would not function up to the standards that a computer should operate in 2018. Word would take minutes to load, Chrome would consistently seize up and become unresponsive for minutes at a time. Everything became a pain to use that work became frustrating. I am a pretty patient person and it was testing my limits after a few months putting up with these delays.

I got the 250GB Crucial SSD honestly not knowing what to expect. I had never used a SSD before, much less tried to install one myself. But I was getting ready to eat another chunk of money to get a better computer, so I thought why not at least give this a try?

After following along with the installation tips readily available and easy to follow on Crucial’s website, and finding a PDF of my computer’s manual online, I was able to install the SSD without any issues in under an hour. I would say I’m not completely computer illiterate, but I am by no means someone who was comfortable opening up their laptop to perform surgery, and I managed just fine. I was absolutely amazed and nearly brought to tears of joy at how quickly my computer could then boot programs like Word, Excel and Chrome without any wait times.

To make a long review short, this $60 piece of lightweight magic turned my $500 poop brick of a laptop into something that feels like I paid $1,000 or more. I could not be more satisfied at this moment, so I hope that it maintains this level of performance for at least a little while. One thing to keep in mind for novices like me is that you will have to purchase what is called a SATA to USB cable to be able to clone your drive and install the SSD. You need to buy that separately, but Amazon has one that works perfectly well for about $8, so not a huge deal there.

Thanks Crucial, you’ve made a customer for life!

I bought this to replace the mechanical HDD of my wife’s laptop. I read some of the reviews and decide to give it a try. The results were incredible; I could say that the laptop is like 10X faster, in everything, you do notice the change.
The drive itself is excellent, at least for me, got no complains so far.

How easy is this to install? Well, that’s a tricky question, it depends on the machine you’ve. In my wife’s laptop was relatively easy. I installed one on my laptop and that was a real pain, because I had to dissemble the whole laptop to get into the drive, it took me nearly 15 minutes to remove all the part of the laptop. Once you got your laptop opened, is just a matter of unplug and plug and then put all the laptop together again.

Now, that was the good part, here comes the tricky part, replacing your original HDD with this one is not as easy as it seems. Opening up the laptop and installing the drive was one thing. If are going to do a clean installation of windows (assuming your using windows) “you should have no problems”. But, if you’re planning to clone your old drive into this one, now, that’s a bit of a challenge.

I recommend reading a lot of posts on the internet about that, and don’t commit to any specific tool that will say it will do it right out of the box, etc, being there, done that. There are some free tools to do it and other tools that you need to pay ($20 to $80).

At first I try some of the “free” and they didn’t work or at the end it will say, see, it works, now pay. I ended up paying for one of the tools, it was like $30, EaseUS Backup, which everyone says worked like a charm, in my case I waited for about 6 hours and after the process was done, it ended up with an error.

I kept reading and in the end, there was a tool Macirum Reflect, that was the one that got my problems solved, it’s super easy to use and it moved all my data with just a few clicks, when I finished, I swapped the drives and there you go, SSD installed and windows working.

So, when doing that kind of upgrade keep in mind all that, it will save you time and avoid headaches…

I bought the Crucial MX500 250Gb as an upgrade for an old laptop with Intel i3 CPU which had a Windows 10 Home 64 bit installed. I decided on a clean install of a Windows 10 and noted the instructions from Microsoft. Created a bootable flash drive, made sure bios setting were set properly as outlines in installation instructions of the SSD, and installed the Windows 10, 64 Bit. Th installation was smooth with no hitches. Even after installing a few software such as Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019, I find that more than 200 Gb as available space on the SSD. Other than critical data files, mot other data files including media files are stored in a separated portable HDD drive.
Despite having only 4Gb Ram of low speed DDR3-1066 (soon to be upgraded to 8Gb), the improvement in boot time and shut down was phenomenal. So is the improvement in responsiveness while browsing or using apps.
I was not looking for the greatest and fastest SSD but one which offered reliability and value for money. You can not go wrong with Crucial MX500 for most purposes. Highly recommended

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