Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA SSD CT2000MX500SSD1

I bought three of these Crucial MX500 4TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD drives to install in a recently acquired HP Core i7 desktop. My goal is to eventually phase out a full tower PC that I built in 2012. It handles my video and audio servers and has a solid state boot drive, along with 7 spinning hard drives for data.

This HP has a considerably smaller case and my goal was to fill it with high capacity SSD drives. I’ve always been a fan of the Crucial line of SSD drives, and I’ve never had one go bad. All three of these Crucial 4 tb drives were installed to SATA headers on the motherboard, and I was able to fit all of them in what is a one foot tall mini desktop tower.

Installing these drives is very easy, plug in a sata cable plus a power cable to each, and they’re good to go. I used 3m two sided tape, the kind used to hang pictures, to stick the drives to flat surfaces inside the case. They are very light and compact, I just made sure to keep some air around each drive and not bunch them together.

Once they were installed, I closed up the case and turned on the computer. I opened disk manager and partitioned and formatted each of the new drives. They will be used as data drives. The computer came with a 1TB M.2 as the boot drive, so the total solid state drive capacity for the computer is 13 TB.

I spent some time copying my audio database of over one thousand CD’s ripped into lossless format files, as well as my video database of movies and music videos.

My 2012 build full tower with it’s spinning hard drives holding the data, worked well for many years. This new one with all ssd drives, works much better. Each audio or video file loads noticeably faster than on the old server, plus there are no spinning hard drives making noise.

I downloaded the “Crucial Storage Executive” software from the Crucial website that is very helpful. It checks the firmware revision you have and updates it if needed. All three of mine came with the “45′ version of the firmware. I had it update to the latest “46” version which took less than 30 seconds.

The photo with this review shows my new media server loaded with 13 tb of solid state drive capacity, including three of the Crucial SATA ssd’s. They are fast, cool running and should have a very long life.

As someone who deals with data storage and backups on a daily basis, I’ve become a big fan of Crucial’s MX500 SSD lineup. The 2TB model in particular has proven to be an incredibly versatile and affordable solution.

On a pure price-per-gigabyte basis, these SATA drives absolutely demolish traditional spinning platter HDDs when you need this much capacity. But beyond just sheer volume, the MX500’s solid state design brings plenty of other benefits to the table.

Performance, for starters, is light years better than HDDs. The NAND flash memory and lack of moving parts allow rapid access times and data throughput speeds. Booting OSes, loading apps, transferring large media files – everything happens in a blink compared to sluggish HDDs. It makes the whole system feel tremendously more responsive.

Reliability is another big plus over HDDs, which are prone to potential failures from physical shocks, vibrations, or just general wear and tear over time. With no moving parts, SSDs like the MX500 operate silently and can better withstand drops, bumps, or other turbulence. They also run much cooler with less thermal throttling concerns.

For my use cases, I have a couple of these 2TB SSDs set up as redundant backup repositories for my home NAS system. The combination of speed, durability, and high capacity makes them perfect for regularly syncing and safely archiving all my important documents, photos, videos and other media.

I’ve also shucked a couple of these bad boys and popped them into various devices like my HTPC for super fast media playback and game load times. Or random Raspberry Pi rigs for snappy SDC-based storage without breaking the bank.

Produto veloz, alto desempenho

ok