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16.5.2015

I bought the Crucial MX100 512GB and it ticks all the boxes; it's fast, reliable and good value compared to the Samsung EVO range. Included in the box are a 7mm spacer and a code for the Acronis imaging software (this is hidden underneath the plastic tray). However, rather than messing about with the imaging software which is pretty rubbish, just back up all your data, do a fresh install of Windows and then restore your data. This way, the drive will be correctly aligned and Windows will auto config a few options to optimise the SSD.The MX100 also supports proper hardware encryption, which can be used with your BIOS security options or something like BitLocker,and also has power loss protection to provide greater reliability of data. This is not the first Crucial SSD I have and they seem to be very reliable.You can download Crucial Storage Executive from the Crucial website which is a huge bloated 150MB+ Java application for managing the disk and installing updates. Quite why Crucial saw fit to ship this junk (which comes with an older version of Java) rather than a small 30MB native application like Samsung Magician or Intel Toolbox is beyond me. However, the app works well and out of the box, my SSD needed the latest firmware.A few other things to do once up and running is to disable disk defragger (it's not needed for an SSD) and disable disk indexing. You should also check that TRIM is enabled (required for keeping the SSD in mint condition) and consider disabling the pagefile if you have more than 4GB of RAM.My Crucial MX100 is installed on a 2012 Asus laptop with SATA2, 4GB RAM and running Windows 7. The benchmark figures from CrystalDiskMark 3.0.4 are below along with the drive it replaced for compariosn purposes:Crucial MX100 512GBSeq: 262.7 read, 256.6 write512K: 240.7 read, 249.7 write4K: 15.75 read, 47.60 write4KQD32: 119.4 read, 97.88 writeWD Scorpio Blue 5400RPM 320GBSeq: 65.77 read, 66.05 write512K: 27.24 read, 37.58 write4K: 0.394 read, 0.985 write4KQD32: 0.931 read, 1.005 writeAs you can see, for a SATA2 interface, it's nearly saturating the port which is to be expected from an SSD that almost meets SATA3 figures. The key figure is the 4K row which indicates how many small files the SSD can access concurrently. If you frequently copy large files, the Seq row will also be of interest.So that's a quick review of the Crucial MX100 and as a product, it ticks all the boxes. You won't be disappointed. Now though comes the controversial view; I'm not entirely convinced that an SSD makes sense for everyday use. Here's why.Most users will have modest requirements from their PC. Mainly Internet access, office work, the odd video and perhaps some basic streaming activity. However, the impact of an SSD is most noticeably felt in just the three scenarios; starting Windows, copying large files and copying many files concurrently. For all other uses such as browsing or starting apps, the performance improvement is barely noticeable because modern 7200RPM mechanical disks are plenty fast enough.Here are some further comparisons. I also bought a WD 500GB Black 7200RPM hard drive for the same laptop which cost 70% less than the Crucial and whilst the benchmark figures are nowhere near as good as the SSD, the real world performance suggests otherwise. Launching apps with the SSD takes half a second. Launching the same apps in the same configuration with the WD Black takes roughly a second. Does the extra half second bother me?Hell no.Windows 7 boot time with the SSD takes 17 seconds. With the WD Black, it's 30 seconds. I can live with the extra 13 seconds of the WD Black, there isn't anything that's so urgent it requires a faster boot or which I can't wait 13 seconds for.Browsing activity is the same. You will read plenty of reviews claiming browsing is much improved with an SSD because the small web files are scattered around the disk. And yes, they are but modern mechanical hard drives are just as good enough to not notice the slower access times. Never mind the WD Black, even my old Scopio Blue was fast enough for browsing and that's with having some 20 odd tabs open all running graphically heavy web pages.For anyone who uses hibernate, the difference is noticeable but I've yet to meet anyone who has the useless Windows hibernate function enabled. Waking up after a sleep takes a second with an SSD and a few seconds more with the WD Black. I wouldn't ever buy an SSD just to improve hibernate or sleep times.That leaves gaming and copying large files. I don't play games but copying a large 1GB file is much, much quicker on an SSD. Reading large files will be the same as the boot times show. How often do I need to copy huge files? Several times a week tops. Is it essential that this activity needs to be quicker?Absolutely not.I actually found the most noticeable differences with an SSD to be the weight (SSD's are much lighter than mechanical drives) and noise (near silent). The speed whilst good, never totally blew me away but I guess that's because the WD Black is sufficient for my needs.To summarise then, if you would like an SSD, the Crucial MX100 is a fantastic, solid and reliable choice that's very competitively priced. Before you pull the trigger though, consider your usage pattern and if your performance expectations from an SSD will make a real difference and improvement to how you use your PC given the comparatively high cost of an SSD compared to a fast 7200RPM mechanical drive for the same size.If you are interested in the specs and benchmarks of the WD Black drive I bought, the model number is WD5000BPKXX (also reviewed on Amazon).
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27.11.2014

There are many websites out their that have done very thorough reviews of this SSD in terms of performance and speed, so my review here is just my own experiences in terms of what I have done in terms of ease of installation and my own opinions of performance.I bought this drive to replace the stock Hitachi branded hard drive in my Macbook Pro 2012.It is very easy to install, all you need to do is to remove all the visible screws from the base and the whole lid just comes off. Keep a note of where each screw goes though as there are two types that vary in length. Once the lid is off, I would recommend that you unplug the battery from the motherboard,which can be found in the bottom right if the battery is on the bottom (you can see the pictures and step by step instructions from ifixit). Replacing the drive is very simple, but remember to transfer the four Torx screws from the old drive to the new one and it simply slots in. This Crucial drive comes with a 9mm spacer, which you do not need if installing into this Macbook.Plug the battery back into the board and put the lid back on and screw everything back. I re-installed OSX Mavericks back on from an external USB drive. Remember to partition and format the drive during the OS install at the very beginning from the Disk Utility. If you don't, the install won't be able to read the SSD and won't give you an option to install to it.Now here comes the most important bit. Apple has implemented a "feature" that won't enable TRIM by default for non-Apple installed SSDs. So the first thing you'll notice is that TRIM option will say "No" in System Information. However, there is a rather simple work around. If you search "TRIM OSX Mavericks" in google, it is the first hit from "gist.github.com". There is not need to install any program whatsoever. Just copy and paste the terminal commands and follow the instructions. After a reboot, your brand new Crucial SSD will have TRIM enabled. The instructions to enable TRIM for OSX Yosemite are also there so it does work even with the latest version of OSX.So my subjective testing of this drive in the Macbook is this. It is stupidly fast! A 6 second boot time and only 6 seconds again to shutdown is blistering. Also, there is very minimal waiting time if any when I launch my applications.I would highly recommend.
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2.10.2014

I have a much loved (used daily) but ageing Dell Inspiron 640m E1405 laptop which must date back to 2006. Has a SATA 1 hard disk controller on a 150gb HD. Intel 945GM chipset. 2gb RAM. Its built like a tank but sadly was struggling to cope with the demands of modern life.I thought about spending money upgrading the memory from 2gb of ram but when i ran the memory scanner it recommended this SSD drive. Everything I read said it would not run a SSD very well due to its age and there may be BIOS issues etc etc. But had to give the old girl a chance and took the plunge.Crucial drive comes with licence for True Image from Acronis to clone the drive but I also purchased their SSD upgrade kit which provides all the leads and a spare case to turn the old HDD into a portable drive.Probably dont need this is you know what you are doing and have the correct leads but this helped me. I had terrible problems getting the drive cloning to work from within windows but read that it is more reliable using a boot disk version created within True Image to USB. I did this and it cloned first time in about 15 minutes. It allocated the extra storage equally across the 2 existing partitions which was fine.My new SSD fitted perflectly in the cradle with the 4 existing screws. I then fired it up and held my breath and to my amazement it started perfectly. Windows loaded and all my programs and files were there. It needed one reboot to settle everything into place and now works perfectly just as before but feels slightly quicker but a lot more stable.In terms of speed then it is not a massive improvement. The drive is read/writing about 125mb/s which is roughly a quarter the speed you would expect from sata 3 but it feels like a much more stable machine. No long pauses, no getting all muddled and freezing for ages when switching between chrome and explorer, files all load quickly and boot up and shut down much quicker.Overall really delighted. Its put off upgrading my laptop for a while longer. This laptop has served me well and upgrade has prolonged the life and put off the need to use the dreaded windows 8 hopefully forever.
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17.12.2014

I brought this to replace my older, maybe 2 year old, Crucial M4 60gb SSD, used as a boot drive, which...alas was seriously running out of space (The Windows 7 SxS folder is hungry!) and despite my best efforts, forums, etc, there wasn't much more I could do....well there is, but I made my decision based on old information, plus this drive cost the same as my M4 a couple of years ago, and finally because it's nice not having to worry about the space issue for a while.Anyway I'm babbling, I was a little apprehensive about copying the data from my old drive to the new, but needn't have been. The Acronis software takes care of the process nicely. I chose the recovery method (because I didn't notice the clone option),so I backed up my old boot drive to one of my mechanical drives via the software, created a bootable usb drive, swapped the old SSD drive for the new, rebooted to usb, followed the recovery prompts (I got a bit ahead of myself here and forgot to 'add new disk' first, so couldn't find the new drive to recover to at first), located the backup...and basically that was it - A perfect duplicate of my existing drive, the only slight issue I had is that the software will also only duplicate the old disk/partition size, so just jump into manage disk and free up the remaining unallocated space.I wasn't bothered about benchmarks, I did a lot of review reading and was already familiar with the brand, which I trust, having brought both an SSD and memory from them in the past when building my rig. I personally haven't noticed a major difference, and that's likely down to my computing habits, but I'd say it's got to be on par if not somewhat better than the SSD I had before. YOU WILL NOTICE A MAJOR DIFFERENCE IF UPGRADING FROM A MECHANICAL DRIVE! And for the price, this is amazing! It's a no brainer.
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25.12.2014

This is an excellent product. Easy enough to plug in (just make sure you have the right sockets). Simple to format / partition (using Windows 8.1). Comes with a code for Acronis True Image, but you need to have a Western Digital hard drive already installed, if you don't, search the web, there are equivalents, Norton Ghost, Clonezilla....). Acronis True Image was easy enogh to use, it included all I needed, including partitioning the SSD equivalently to my existing 1TB drive (there were "hidden" partitions, these were automatically scaled down so I ended up with a very healthy amount of space, nice one). The process took about an hour, maybe a little less to clone the drive (I mounted the SSD & cloned it in situ,then took out my old boot drive when the process was finished).Now for performance.Good grief ! Previously, it took about 2 1/2 minutes or so just to reach the start screen, then another 2 minutes or so after logon just to get into a usable state (and I'm using an I7 machine with 8 Gb of 1300 Mhz RAM, Windows 8.1, so it's no slowcoach hardware wise). Now it takes 36 seconds to reach the logon screen, and a further 18 seconds to reach "usable state", 54 seconds in total (could be less if I typed my password in quicker). Programs now start sooo much quicker, seriously! MS Word starts in a fraction of a second, even things like IE & File explorer (try a search, Wow!) start almost instantaneously, truly noticeable. Steam & Steam games start much quicker & (maybe it's just me) run smoother).Tried a WEI (3rd party app) test and went from 5.9 to 7.9 in the hard drive data transfer score (8.1 in the other scores).So all in all, very, very happy.If you're thinking of going SSD, try this one, straightforward to install and the results are truly worth it.
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7.4.2015

Have purchased and installed two of these last month. They are easier to install than other makes, but like other value packaging, they arrived with no software or detailed instructions to help installation.I used 'Paragon Disk Manager' to install and move data from the bigger HDD to the smaller SSD. It worked the first time in both systems.The improvement in speed is very impressive. Windows' loading is twice as fast as before and all applications seem to run faster and smoother.BUT not all has been smooth though. A few days in use and one morning my the laptop refused to boot. It reported that it could not find a boot drive. Asking to check cables or try another boot device.Panic would have been an extreme understatement of how I felt.I saved long hours of very important work to my disk. The data lost would have been impossible to replace.Whilst I have retrieved my data from damaged HDDs in the past, this is much less certain with SSD. Sending a damaged SSD for professional data retrieval can be very expensive as well as less certain than in the case of HDDs.After an hour or so I switched the machine on again and was delighted to watch it boot without a problem. It has been working for a week since without a glitch. No idea whatsoever what made it report the error and refuse to boot. The installation was easy and there was no room for physical mistakes. It worked for days before and been working well since.Lessons learned: Backup your data as frequently as you can.I have inserted a 32GB SD card in the slot available on my laptop and have been saving all my work (manually) twice before I switch off, whilst I am searching for a more reliable automatic backup solution
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24.4.2015

I decided to upgrade from a 500 GB HDD on my 2011 MBP as the performance had been degrading. I had previously used Crucial to upgrade the stock 4GB RAM to 16GB, so I decided to use Crucial again for the SSD after reading several reviews. I am glad I did. My MacBook Pro performance has improved beyond my expectations.I bought the 512GB SSD for under £150 from Amazon and installation was a breeze. Be aware that if you decide to clone the existing HDD drive, you will need a USB to SATA adaptor cable (which I bought directly from Crucial for under 10 quid) as it does not come with the drive. I didn't bother with the Acronis software that came with the drive; I used the Apple Disk Utility instead and it worked a treat.I started cloning the existing drive in the evening before I went to bed and the next morning it was all done (don't forget to disable the "energy saving" settings that put the disks to sleep). You can check the clone was successful by booting to the new SSD before you install it in the laptop. I had previously purchased a Lindy set of screwdrivers to open the MBP cover when I upgraded the RAM and I used these again - there are tutorials available online and on the Crucial website and honestly changing the drive was simple even for a non-technical person such as myself. I did not need to use the supplied adaptor in my MacBook; you may need to but I found the technical support from Crucial to be excellent.The newer MacBooks sadly cannot be upgraded; however if you have an older machine (like my late-2011 MBP) and are wondering whether to bite the bullet or not my advice is, just do it. You won't be sorry.
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25.2.2015

Having previously used a Crucial M4 SSD, and judging by the positive vibes in general about Crucials SSD products, I sort of knew what to expect from this drive - a simple, no frills product that does its job very well and doesn't make your wallet burst into tears.I bought the 256GB model, and was not disappointed. Admittedly, this is not the fastest SATA 6Gbit/s SSD on the market. Several heavyweight offerings, like Samsung's 850 PRO, out muscle this drive in both synthetic workload tests, and in real world performance. This drive performs admirably though for its cost per GB ratio, which for the 256GB drive at the time of submitting this review, works out at a very reasonable 31p/GB.On a single drive, I achieved around 530MB/s read and 320MB/s write - still light-years ahead of even the fastest mechanical hard drive. I bought two of these for a 512GB RAID0 stripe setup, which practically doubles those numbers, with read speeds in particular shooting north of 1GB/s. Bundled with the drive comes a serial key for a free copy of Acronis drive cloning software - a god send if you don't want to start an OS install all over again, which I certainly didn't.Reliable, fast, and relatively cheap - partly down to the fact that since Crucial themselves manufacture the Micron NAND found in all their SSDs, they can keep their production costs lower - which for us consumers, translates into a lower retail price.The veteran M4 was a win for Crucial a few years ago, and this is another win. I certainly think it deserves the full five stars.
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25.7.2014

I waited for SSD to become more reasonably priced. I bought this as it seemed good value at £144. I am delighted with it. The upgrade makes you look at what is on your hard drive and start menu anyway. The clear out made a difference but nothing in comparison to this. From over two and a half minutes startup to usable in less than 20 seconds. Applications load almost instantly. This is the best and most worthwhile upgrade I have ever seen.The process of upgrading is quite quick and easy. You will need a means of connecting the new drive to the pc on a USB port. I already have a 2.5 inch hdd enclosure, so I just popped it in that. The Acronis True Image 2014 software consists of a slip of paper with a 16 character code.You register with Acronis and download the software. Once you confirm your registration, they mail you a 25 character install code.The simplest way to migrate is to clone your existing hdd. If you are downsizing a windows 7 install, you need to manually configure the recovery partition size to be the same as the existing. If you just let the defalt auto-resize wizard run, it may manage to fit the recovery data in, but remove the headroom (it did for me downsizing 750-512). The clone works but you get frequent error messages telling you the recovery drive i running out of space. I ended up doing it again. It is easy to manually adjust partition sizes, but you must reduce the C drive before you can increase the d drive. Cloning a 90Gb took less than 30 mins, so doing it twice was not such a chore.
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16.3.2015

Worked great. If you plan to use the cloning software then make sure that the SSD is the same size as the hard drive being replaced or make sure you have software that can clone just a partition (the one you have the operating system on). The supplied software didn't seem to do this, could be me though. Win 7 needs a system partition of 100mb to work and Microsoft recommend that this partition is on same drive as the operating system so bear this in mind when installing because if you are leaving the Win 7 system partition on the old hard drive things will work but you are doubling your chances of failure because you now need 2 drives for everything to work.I bought a 256 SSD and kept the old 500 gb hard drive in place and went for a clean Win 7 install. Worked perfectly and disk installed the 100mb partition too. I reformatted the old 100 mb partition on the old drive in just case of conflict. Had a bit of a problem with Microsoft's 200 plus updates. It got so far and then wouldn't configure. Guessed that it was a time out problem so installed the updates 50 at a time without problems. Now have a lightning fast i5 machine with 16 gb RAM. Now that MS says it will give Win 7 users Win 10 free I don't think there's any more I can do for my pc. Product once installed works great. Please read about the problems I and other users have had with wrong size screws being supplied with adapters if you want to put the 2.5 SSD in a 3.5 bay in your pc. Laptop replacements should be ok.
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16.11.2014

Installed on my Dell Vostro 1700, on 9th Nov 2014. Chose a 256Gb drive because of the slightly improved performance over the smaller drive, and because the smaller drive might have been a squeeze to fit on the data that I have. The whole installation was simple, the resultant machine performance is so far excellent. Didn't need to use the 2mm spacer because the Dell drive-bay has a metal carrier to which the drive is fixed before the sub-assembly is inserted into the laptop.Due to the demise of XP, and the awful performance of Vista Home Premium, I have upgraded to Windows 7 Pro. I decided to use a new disk for the software upgrade because I read that W7 wipes-out the disk contents during a new installation,and therefore I still have the Vista disk as insurance. So saying I migrated all the data from Vista to W7 with no problem, used the Easy Transfer utility to put data on an external drive, and then copied it into W7 after the installation was complete. Installation of W7 was also simple; put in the DVD, answer the usual questions and was surprised to find everything complete when I got back from making a coffee. With W7 I should be able to run TRIM commands to keep everything running nicely.I now have 3 machines fitted with different SSDs. This Crucial MX100 drive was bought after some research online, and deciding whether I thought it was worth the risk. I have had no problems. A week is not really a long time but everything appears to be working well.
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17.4.2015

Very good fast drive, remember to update the firmware from MU01 (it comes with) to the recently released (early 2015) MU02. You might also want to do what many others recommend, which is to disable "Link Power Management" within windows, to avoid some probs mentioned by other reviewers on here as well as over the internet.Let me suggest to anyone reading this to google the following (in quotes)..."chris coulson ssd freezing fix"read through his page, but if you don't want to apply the registry fix then go into advanced power management settings (win 7) and disable it from there, I have done this and all seems fine.I have deliberately waited a few weeks since buying & fitting this SSD before writing this review.Also my splendid fellow filthies,go to Crucials website & get the 'Storage Executive' software, you will need this anyway to update/flash the firmware (although you could also choose the bootable .iso file as another method, particularly useful if you are running Linux), the software is great & has other tools.Finally, make sure you enable AHCI mode from within your BIOS, very important for windows & any other OS to recognise it as an actuall SSD thus enabling TRIM.I would recommend this drive happily.
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19.8.2014

Awesome. Has totally transformed my laptop. Can't believe I didn't do it sooner. I put it in a fairly new Asus 550 laptop (4gb RAM and i3 processor, windows 8) that ran terribly constrained by its original HDD. The HDD ran at 90%+ all the time, windows updates would take days and boot up would take minutes. Now my machine boots in 23 secs from cold and 5 secs from sleep!!! I've never performed a swap procedure like this before and it was fairly straight forward. Use the Acronis software that is available to CLONE your HDD drive (source) to your new SDD drive (target). Definitely get USB3 to SSD cable to transfer stuff straight on to the SDD. Then when it's done, just take out the old HDD and in its place put the new SDD,it slots right in. I'm on windows 8 and so far have not had to key in any license keys for windows 8 or ms office, it worked straight off. If you get stuck there is plenty of stuff on youtube and web forums.I did experience one problem, after the CLONING was done the Acronis software kept restarting and looping trying to perform the process all over again. I just pulled the cable at this point switched machine off and made the swap. It all worked.Good luck!
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12.8.2014

Installation on my Dell XPS M1330 was straightforward.Rather than cloning I used the more secure Backup / Recovery approach described in the include Acronis software users’ guide. I used a Western Digital My Book Studio for holding the backup. As this SSD had a bigger capacity than my existing HDD’s 320Gb, I had no need to shrink or omit anythingThis worked well once the SSD had been initialised so that it was recognised by the system. This was not clear from the stand alone step by step description of the Backup / Recovery process.My laptop running Windows 7 32bit now comes out of hibernation mode in a couple of seconds – very impressive & the SSD measured performance is now close to the Windows maximum.Subjectively it seems to have produced a much greater improvement in speed on this laptop than a previous in stallion of a similar but small SSD on my Windows 7 32 bit desktop. Not sure why – might be related to the amount of RAM 16Gb in the Desktop cf 4Gb in the laptopThe capacity of this SSD is easily sufficient to hold all my system, application & data files.Overall I’m very satisfied.
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17.1.2015

Crucial CT256MX100SSD1 256GB MX100 SATA 2.5 Inch 7mm SSDArrived quickly. I wanted it for a Dell Inspiron 1501 running Windows XP SP3.I had issues with the Acronis 2014 Disk Clone software that you get as a download bundled with this SSD, the Dell Inspiron 1501 failed on re-boot while trying to load the Acronis 2014 software. I contacted Crucial for support and they were a bit slow off the mark, however they did then send me a copy of Acronis 2013 on a CD and that worked first time with no issues at all. In addition to the SSD I also purchased a USB to SATA cable (eSynic® Dual USB to SATA Serial ATA) to enable to clone to work, it takes 2 USB ports but since the laptop has 4 that was not a problem.Had I not hit the 2014 Acronis issue I would have said this was a very easy and worthwhile upgrade for a Dell 1501. It is faster and quieter post SSD install.Still going well after 2 months, there is a firmware upgrade available "Release Date: 03/10/2015Firmware for the MX100 (all form factors) is being updated from version MU01 to MU02." which I have applied.
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