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Crucial MX500 250GB SATA M.2 Internal SSD – CT250MX500SSD4
Crucial MX500 250GB SATA M.2 Internal SSD – CT250MX500SSD4

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Price History for Crucial MX500 250 GB Solid State Drive - M.2 2280 Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - 560 MB/s Maximum...

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Current Price $39.42 October 27, 2024
Highest Price $39.42 October 20, 2024
Lowest Price $39.42 October 20, 2024
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Crucial MX500 250GB SATA M.2 Internal SSD – CT250MX500SSD4 Description

  • Sequential reads/writes up to 560/510 MB/s and random reads/writes up to 95k/90k on all file types
  • Accelerated by Micron 3D NAND technology
  • Integrated Power Loss Immunity preserves all Your saved work if the power unexpectedly gets cut
  • AES 256 bit hardware based encryption keeps data safe and secure from hackers and thieves
  • Crucial 5 year Limited Warranty

Crucial MX500 250GB SATA M.2 Internal SSD – CT250MX500SSD4 Specification

Specification: Crucial MX500 250GB SATA M.2 Internal SSD – CT250MX500SSD4

Hard Drive

250 GB Solid State Drive

Hard Disk Size (GB)

250

Specific Uses For Product

personal, gaming, business

Included Components

Internal Solid State Hard Drive

Read Speed

560 Megabytes Per Second

Write Speed

510

Cache Size

1

Model Name

MX500 3D NAND SATA M.2 Type 2280SS Internal SSD

Item Weight (g)

9.07

Number of Items

1

Data Transfer Rate

6 Gigabits Per Second

Form Factor

M 2

Manufacturer

CRUCIAL TECHNOLOGY

Hardware Interface

SATA 6.0 Gb/s

Global Trade Identification Number

00649528785084

UPC

649528785084

Item model number

CT250MX500SSD4

Hardware Platform

PC, Mac

Item Weight (ounces)

0.32

Product Dimensions

3.15 x 0.87 x 0.05 inches

Item Dimensions LxWxH

3.15 x 0.87 x 0.05 inches

Flash Memory Size (GB)

250

Hard Drive Interface

Solid State

ASIN

B077SL4FZG

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

No

Date First Available

January 3, 2018

Crucial MX500 250GB SATA M.2 Internal SSD – CT250MX500SSD4 Reviews (8)

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  1. Frank

    De m.2 SSD-disk in m’n laptop met een capaciteit van 120 GB raakte langzamerhand vol. Dit is een uitstekende vervanging, waarmee ik de capaciteit ruim verdubbel. Dankzij een MS-account waren de licenties van Windows en Office snel weer geactiveerd. Blij met aankoop, razendsnel geleverd tegen een heel nette prijs!

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  2. Luis H. Sandoval

    Estupenda compra. Instalación sin complicaciones en una Acer Nitro 5. Software incluido para clonar tu HDD, funciona sin problema en Windows 10 – con la última actualización disponible del sistema -. El cambio en la rapidez del equipo se nota desde el encendido y al abrir aplicaciones. Me dedico a la edición de video, tengo en el SSD el sistema operativo, la suite de Adobe y Software de composición musical como Reaper, Kontakt y Spitfire Audio. Todo funciona de maravilla.

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  3. O. K. Maharaj

    I will go into in-depth detail on any item since other popular reviews have given excellent information, so in quick summary:
    My Build (all components work flawlessly):
    1. Zalman ATX Mid Tower Case R1 (Nice looking case, provides room for everything, adequate cooling and allows good cable management).

    2. ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING LGA1151 DDR4 HDMI DVI M.2 Z370 ATX Motherboard with Gigabit LAN and USB 3.1 for 8th Generation Intel Core Processors (Great expandability and room for future upgrades, enough USB ports for most applications).

    3. EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GAMING, 8GB GDDR5, EVGA OCX Scanner OC, White LED, DX12OSD Support (PXOC) Graphics Card 08G-P4-5670-KR (Great balance of price and performance).

    4. Intel Core i7-8700 Desktop Processor 6 Cores up to 4.6GHz Turbo LGA1151 300 Series 65W BX80684i78700 (Came with a thermal solution (fan) but I used the Cooler Master – see below).

    5. 2 of Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD – CT500MX500SSD1(Z) (Man this is fast, Win10 boots in about 5/6 secs. and programs open fast as well).

    6. Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA M.2 Type 2280SS Internal SSD – CT500MX500SSD4

    7. CORSAIR TX Series TX850M 850W 80+ Gold Modular Power Supply (Adequate power supply for into the future and has ample connectors).

    8. Corsair LPX 32GB DRAM 3000MHz C15 Memory Kit for DDR4 Systems (Adequate for my application for work and gaming)

    9. Cooler Master Hyper RR-212E-20PK-R2 LED CPU Cooler with PWM Fan, Four Direct Contact Heat Pipes (Instructions are poor, system builders with experience will have no problem, first timers will eventually figure it out. Comes w. all you need including thermal paste).

    10. ASUS MX239H 23-Inch, Full HD 1920×1080 IPS, Audio by Bang & Olufsen ICEpower HDMI VGA Frameless Monitor (Really nice monitor for the price though those heavy gamers will want something far superior. Built in Audio is good enough for You Tube and regular use, but I personally find its not so good for Netflix, look at some decent speakers based on your needs).

    11. Sabrent 74-In-1 3.5″ Internal Flash Media Card Reader/writer with USB Port , Black (CR-USNT) (For the cost and convince you can’t go wrong).

    12. Asus DRW-24B1ST-KIT 24x Internal DVD Burner + Nero 12 Essentials Burning Software + Sata Cable Kit (Obsolete in some ways but good to have at times as some persons still give work items on CD).

    13. Backlit Gaming Mouse, Gaming Keyboard, Large Gaming Mouse Pad, PC Computer Gaming Headset with Microphone Combo, S101-BA Redragon RGB LED Backlit 104 Key Gaming Keyboard with Wrist Rest (No issues at all, good feel and responsiveness and mouse drivers are available on the website. The headset sounds good).

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  4. ERG

    Let me dispel some of the negative comments here and hopefully provide a level of confidence in even the most novice of techies. I purchased the Crucial MX500 500GB 3D NAND SATA M.2 Type 2280SS Internal SSD – CT500MX500SSD4 in order to increase my already maxed-out 256GB SSD.

    I first installed the MX500 in the external M.2 USB adapter (info below), then loaded the FREE Acronis True Image software via the provided Weblink – surprisingly, this FREE software is included with the MX500. Using the “Clone Disk” option, it took about 15 minutes for the contents of my 256GB SSD to be copied to the new drive, after which, a message from the True Image software stated, “Now Install the Drive in Your Computer and it will Run as Before.” Sure enough, I installed the MX500 in my laptop and started it and the laptop ran as before, but now I had 500GB (well really ~475GB) of total space. It couldn’t be simpler. I was planning to purchase the Acronis True Image software in preparation for the Disk Cloning, but I read in a review that it was included with the drive, and it certainly was; the software alone would have cost ~$50, so a great savings – THANK YOU Crucial!

    I used this adapter for the initial transfer – it is very well made and worked perfectly:
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PHFC4FP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

    In addition, I now have a great 256GB SSD external drive (using the new external adapter).

    My configuration:
    Dell Latitude E7270
    16GB RAM
    Updated with MX500 = 500GB SSD (Original SSD = 256GB)

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  5. LeeIB

    There are a lot of good reviews on the performance of this drive, and I think that’s great. So I’m not going to go in detail about the performance numbers.

    My System:
    Dell XPS 9343
    Intel i5
    8GB RAM
    OS -> Ubuntu Mate 19.04

    —-INSTALLATION—-
    Installation was very easy. I popped off the back of my laptop, unscrew a screw, took out the old ssd, put this ssd in, screw back on, pop on the back. Simple as that.
    The MATE installation was very smooth. USB booted up right away, installed MATE, and that’s it. All in all it took maybe a hour from installing the SSD to installing Mint. Obviously getting packages, customizing the settings, etc… all took much more of my time, but that’s not the part of this review.

    —-PERFORMANCE (SATA only, no NVMe slot)—-
    Original SSD: Samsung SSD PM871 256GB M.2.

    – Didn’t really have a problem with this driver. It was the OEM (came with laptop purchase). I used to have dual boot Windows 10/Ubuntu 18.04 and did a SSD performance test on it (from Windows) a while back. I don’t remember the result, but it was really not “THAT” bad compared to Samsung 860 EVO. I originally had 860 EVO in mind before MX500. MX500 at the time of purchase was over $20 cheaper with only a tad less in performance overall compared to the 860 EVO. I decided not to dual boot this time because Windows 10 just took up too much resources that this machine does not have (at least for what i do). I also decided to install MINT instead of Ubuntu because it’s just far more light weight.

    SO basically, I don’t think this is a fair comparison since the drivers were used in different circumstances, but here it goes:
    – Boot up time a several seconds faster on MX500.
    And that’s it. I use Dropbox to store my codes and I rarely do large disk write/read. I really can’t tell you any real life performance difference between the MX500 and OEM Samsung PM871. There were performance boost overall in daily usage, but that’s most likely from using a lighter weight distro than the driver itself. My reason for buying new SSD was purely for reliability (PM871 was several years old). My reason for buying MX500 over 860 EVO (or other brands) was the price per performance. This is an older laptop that I use primarily for linux environment because I rather not use VM’s if I don’t have to. I didn’t need super fast SSD (which is an oxymoron since NVMe’s exist, so there’s no such thing as a “fast” SATA m.2. SSD) for that reason. For actual daily driver (for other coding and personal use) I have my macbook pro.

    Reviews throw a lot of numbers at you and crap, but hardly go over real life performance or even real life scenarios. Real life performance can be subjective because it’s based on perception when it’s not an obvious difference. The numbers, of course, validate that. I did not see a drastic performance boost in real life performance. As for real life scenarios, how many of you normal users are actually moving around 100’s of GB’s of data every day/week???? These numbers really only matter for daily users if you do content creation (i.e. Youtuber), data analysis, and the likes.

    I guess to sum this part up… Don’t bother going for the more expensive and faster SATA m.2. SSD’s unless you are one of those people. AND EVEN THEN, FOR YOUR SANITY… If you are still on a SATA m.2 ONLY system, please upgrade your system. The worse NVMe drivers are significantly better than the fastest SATA m.2 driver.

    Speed Test samples
    **********************************************************
    *****WRITE SPEED:
    …-9343:~$ sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync
    1024+0 records in
    1024+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.50705 s, 428 MB/s

    *****READ SPEED (from buffer):
    …-9343:~$ dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
    1024+0 records in
    1024+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 0.251535 s, 4.3 GB/s

    *****REAL READ SPEED (cache cleared):
    …-9343:~$ sudo /sbin/sysctl -w vm.drop_caches=3
    vm.drop_caches = 3

    …-9343:~$ dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
    1024+0 records in
    1024+0 records out
    1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 1.95643 s, 549 MB/s

    The write speed was bouncing around in the low to mid 400 MB/s. So not the 510 MB/s as advertised.
    The read speed after clearing the cache was right about the same as advertised. Nice :).

    *****MORE READ SPEED
    …-9343:~$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
    /dev/sda:
    Timing cached reads: 8994 MB in 1.99 seconds = 4508.58 MB/sec
    Timing buffered disk reads: 1564 MB in 3.00 seconds = 520.80 MB/sec

    …-9343:~$ sudo hdparm -Tt /dev/sda
    /dev/sda:
    Timing cached reads: 8432 MB in 1.99 seconds = 4229.38 MB/sec
    Timing buffered disk reads: 1564 MB in 3.00 seconds = 521.33 MB/sec

    Also ran hdparm read speed test a couple of times for extra measures. Don’t mind the Timing cached reads for obvious reasons, but if it’s not obvious then just know that it’s not actually reading from disk and that’s why it’s so high. The more accesses the kernel has to go through, the slower the read/write. (CPU cache -> RAM -> SSD/HDD) this is a very simplistic and “inaccurate” depiction.
    **********************************************************

    —FIRMWARE UPDATE—-
    This is really for my linux users. For windows users, Crucial has a software you can install that will do the firmware update for you. I don’t know about Mac users.

    So I fully expected to update the firmware on this driver when I purchased it. When I got the boot ISO ready to go, I figured let’s just check what the current version is.
    **********************************************************
    …-9343:~$ sudo fdisk -;
    // this gives you a list of all your disk with the directory name. You’ll need to find it for the next part
    …-9343:~$ sudo hdparm -i [THE DIRECTORY NAME]
    // for example: …-9343:~$ sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda <— i think /dev/sda is going to be the same for most. Also it's a lower case I and not L for " – i ".

    this prints on terminal something like:
    /dev/sda:

    Model=CT250MX500SSD4, FwRev=M3CR023, SerialNo=…


    and so on…
    **********************************************************
    The current firmware on Crucial’s website is M3CR023.
    Basically… I didn’t even need to create a boot drive for the firmware update. The driver came already updated to its latest firmware. Moral of the story, check before you do it.

    —IN CONCLUSION—
    That’s about it folks. Some final summary bullet points:
    – Boot up is faster (if you’re coming from something that’s actually slower. I doubt you’d see a noticeable boot speed increase if you were to upgrade from this to a Samsung 860 EVO)
    – $40 for 250GB (which is more than I need for linux) is just so cheap for the performance
    – Performance is as advertised (meaning it goes UP TO advertised, and while I never peaked to the advertised speed, it was consistently up there)
    – Recognized immediately by Linux
    – Already up to date firmware
    – 5 year warranty
    – No real life performance boost for my uses
    – Quite simply, It works :). Can’t say the same for defective units. If you get a working one, it shouldn’t give you must, if any, issues
    – If your system supports m.2 NVMe, DO NOT GET m.2 SATA (including this)
    – This should not be any different if you’re installing this on a Windows laptop or (older and still upgrade-able) macbooks. Well as far as process. Performance will vary for all OS and Distros.

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  6. Loa Dor

    Habe mir zwei 1 TB-Platten (M.2 SATA) bestellt, als der Preis unter 100,- EUR fiel. Amazon lieferte schnell wie immer.
    Die Speicherstreifen lagen in sicheren Blisterverpackungen, die in einen riesigen gepolsterten Karton gepackt waren. Alle Achtung! Es lagen je SSD zwei Fixierschrauben und ein Hinweis auf Acronis True Image zum Platten-Klonen dabei. Top!

    Die Festplatten funktionieren einwandfrei. Sie wurden nach dem Einbau sofort erkannt und waren nach der Initialisierung / Formatierung betriebsbereit. Ich nutze keine der beiden Platten als Boot-Medium, sondern nur als Datenspeicher, u. a. für virtuelle Maschinen und Backups. Von daher kann ich nichts über die Acronis-Software sagen.

    In meinem Notebook verfehlen sie nur knapp die offiziellen Geschwindigkeiten, die der Hersteller angibt (Lesen ca. 520 zu 560 MBit/s, Schreiben ca. 460 zu 510 MBit/s). Das ist trotzdem völlig ok, weil ich davon ausgehen muss, dass die Belüftung im engen Notebookgehäuse nicht optimal ist.
    Auf jeden Fall ist die Geschwindigkeit selbst für virtuelle Maschinen, die auch parallel laufen dürfen, völlig ausreichend. Selbst unter längerer Volllast habe ich keine Probleme.

    Besonders gut gefallen mir die optionale Verschlüsselung, ein eingebauter Cache und die fünfjährige Garantie. Das liefern andere Hersteller für den Preis nicht.
    Ich bin sehr zufrieden!

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  7. Anshul Dashputre

    Overall performance is good, won’t suggest it for gaming but for studio purposes, it works really nice.
    If you are a creator, you do video editing, photo editing, animations (2d), then this SSD would work for you.

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  8. Hemant A.

    Easy to place, fast, genuine, and lower than the market price. Now it is showing ₹9800 but I have purchased it in ₹9300. So a beautiful experience. Thanks!

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