Product Comparison: Crucial BX500 vs Crucial MX500

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Crucial BX500 SATA 2.5-inch 3D NAND Internal SSD

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Crucial MX500 3D NAND SATA 2.5-inch Internal SSD

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General Specifications

Brand

Crucial

Model

BX500

MX500

Origin

China

About the Product

Add flash to your laptop or desktop computer with the Crucial BX500 SSD, the easy way to get all the speed of a computer without the price. Improves battery life because it’s 45 times more energy efficient than a typical hard drive.

The MX500 uses an adaptable pool of high-speed flash memory to generate blistering speeds at a great price performance ratio. Start your system in seconds, load files almost instantly.

Key Specs

Capacity

480 GB

500 GB

Read Speed

540 Mb/s

560 Mb/s

Write Speed

500 Mb/s

510 Mb/s

What customers say about "Key Specs"

Crucial BX500 SATA 2.5-inch 3D NAND Internal SSD

My laptop is now very fast with this SSD and I'm very happy.
Now applications like Word or Excel load in 2 seconds instead of 15. Booting and shutdown are also many times faster.
A great boost to loading speed and now the Read/Write job of my computer a lot faster.
A great general performance improvement with 480GB of fast data.
Significant being 400+MB/S down to about 28 BM/S - about the same speed as a cheap usb memory stick.

Crucial MX500 3D NAND SATA 2.5-inch Internal SSD

This thing is a awesome. I highly recommend this product if you are needing a really fast loading external storage for your consoles.
I switched over to this Crucial 500gb SSD. Now everything works really fast and 500gb of space is pretty high.
This SSD takes about 20 seconds for boot. I was amazed. Microsoft Word took 40 seconds to open with the HDD. It opens in 6 seconds with the SSD.
Windows 10 starts immediately, login in a breeze and start to use applications without delay.
500Gb will be plenty of space since I plan to link the large files for programs like Unity to my 3TB drive.

Size & Weight

Height

0.28 in.

Width

2.76 in.

Depth

3.94 in.

4.06 in.

Weight

2.08 oz.

2.82 oz.

Features

Form Factor

2.5

Interface

SATA III

Memory Chip Type

3D NAND

3D TLC NAND

Encryption Algorithm

AES 256-bit

Extras

User-upgradeable firmware, Multistep Data Integrity Algorithm, Thermal Monitoring, SLC Write Acceleration, Active Garbage Collection, Trim Support, Self-Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART), Error Correction Code (ECC)

Dynamic Write Acceleration, Redundant Array of Independent NAND (RAIN), Multistep Data Integrity Algorithm, Adaptive Thermal Protection, Integrated Power Loss Immunity, Active Garbage Collection, Trim Support, Self-Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART), Error Correction Code (ECC), Device Sleep Mode Support

What customers say about "Features"

Crucial BX500 SATA 2.5-inch 3D NAND Internal SSD

Battery life of laptop with this drive now seems a better.
Extends the useful life of the laptop by a few years too, so well worth the small outlay versus buying a new laptop.
Battery life is way better, had no issues at all with this drive.
Added advantage is prolonged battery life as there is no motor chuffing around to drive a disc.
Unfortunately, the Acronis Crucial cloning software doesn’t recognise the drive.

Crucial MX500 3D NAND SATA 2.5-inch Internal SSD

Laptop now runs perfectly and is so much more responsive than before. Its like I bought a brand new laptop.
It took about 4 hours to clone the SSD then I took out the HDD and replaced it with the SSD in my laptop. That was relatively easy too.
The disk form factor is exactly the same as the former 7mm Hard Disk and reinstalling is easy.
The software is astrious. Not a friendly user interface at all and it does not work properly.
After cloning I struggled to get system to recognize disk to boot.

Warranty / Certifications

Manufacturer Warranty

3 year(s)

5 year(s)

Certifications

CE, FCC, RoHS

Other Information

Manufacturer

Link

MSRP

59.99 $

69.99 $