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Digital storage capacity	240 GB
Connectivity technology	SATA
Brand	Crucial
Special feature	Compact
Hard disk form factor	2.5 Inches
Hard disk description	Solid State Drive
Compatible devices	Desktop
Installation type	Internal Hard Drive
Colour	Black
Hard disk size	240 GB

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Sequential Read 555 MB/s / Sequential Write 510 MB/s
Random reads/writes up to 90K on all file types
More than 300% faster than a typical hard drive
More than 45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive
Accelerated by Micron 3D NAND technology

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Hard Drive

‎240 GB Solid State Drive

Brand

‎Crucial

Series

‎BX300 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD

Item model number

‎CT240BX300SSD1

Hardware Platform

‎PC & Mac

Operating System

‎Windows

Product Dimensions

‎10.3 x 0.71 x 7 cm; 100.07 g

Item dimensions L x W x H

‎10.3 x 0.7 x 7 Centimetres

Colour

‎Black

Flash memory size

‎240 GB

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ASIN

B0742BC3DQ

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4.4 3,381 ratings

4.4 out of 5 stars

Date First Available

Aug. 29 2017

Manufacturer

Crucial

Place of Business

MERIDIAN, ID, 83642 US

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form factor	2.5-inch	2.5-inch	2.5-inch	2.5-inch	2.5-inch	2.5-inch
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300% faster than a typical hard drive*
45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive**
Easy installation
Capacities up to 480GB

You Don’t Need A New Computer – Just The Crucial BX300 SSD

Ever wonder why your phone works as soon as you push a button, yet your computer takes forever? The reason is simple: Your phone runs on flash memory technology, while your computer runs on an outdated hard drive. It’s possible – in fact, it’s easy – to get the same near-instant speed you expect from your phone out of your computer. Upgrading to the Crucial BX300 SSD is perhaps the easiest way to get all the speed of a new computer without the price. When we say it’s easy, here’s what we mean.


Easy Speed Fix your slow computer and feel good about using it again! Load apps and save files immediately with the Crucial BX300, which accesses data over 300% faster than a hard drive.* That’s how you get the immediate responsiveness you expect. Changing your storage drive is the proven way to speed up startup times – making your computer start almost as soon as you press the power button and improving almost every aspect of computer performance.	Easy Efficiency Run your computer cooler, quieter, and faster with 45x the energy efficiency of a typical hard drive – and extend your laptop’s battery life.** Reducing system temperatures also helps lengthen the life of your computer and the components within it, which is an inherent advantage of SSD technology. Since SSDs don’t use small mechanical parts that are prone to failure like you’ll find in hard drives, they’re an easy way to improve the health and efficiency of your computer.	Easy Installation Opening your computer and updating your storage drive can seem complicated and intimidating if you’ve never done it before, but our straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions and videos make it so anyone can install an SSD! Millions of people worldwide have chosen a Crucial SSD – it really is easy.	Easy Decision: Replace Your Hard Drive Booting up, loading things, and transferring and saving files aren’t complicated actions, but a slow and outdated hard drive makes them take forever. SSDs use new flash storage technology to make your computer work almost instantly. You don’t need a new computer – just the Crucial BX300 SSD.

Micron Quality — A Higher Level of Reliability.

As a brand of Micron, one of the largest flash storage manufacturers in the world, the Crucial BX300 is backed by the same quality and innovation that has produced some of the world’s most advanced memory and storage technologies. Protect your photos, videos, and irreplaceable files from catastrophic hard drive crashes by storing them on inherently more durable Micron 3D MLC NAND. With extensive prerelease validation testing and hundreds of SSD qualification tests, the Crucial BX300 has been thoroughly tried, tested, and proven. You’ll notice the difference.

*Speed comparison based on published specs of the Crucial BX300 and the 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue internal hard drive (WD10EZEX), which as of June 2017, is one of the industry’s top-selling internal hard drives.

**Active average power use comparison based on published specs of the 480GB Crucial BX300 SSD and the 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue WD10EZEX internal hard drive, which as of June 2017, is one of the industry’s top-selling internal hard drives.

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Ever wonder why your phone works as soon as you push a button, yet your computer takes forever? the reason is simple: your phone runs on flash memory technology, while your computer runs on an outdated hard drive. It's possible - in fact, it's easy - to get the same near-instant speed you expect from your phone out of your computer. Upgrading to the Crucial BX300 SSD is Perhaps the easiest way to get all the speed of a new computer without the price. Our straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions and videos make it so anyone can install an SSD!

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Possibly the best upgrade you can give an old computer!

Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2018

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This SSD is actually the first one I've ever had. I've only used for about a month now so I can't comment on long term use (but will edit if anything happens soon). However this drive sped up my old computer by amazing amounts compared to my old HDD, which also had a fresh install of Windows before I switched drives. Most noticeably is when loading Civilization V, it would take about 10 minutes before, now only takes 1 or 2 minutes. Boot up time has also sped up by 30 seconds, as well as general operations have all improved. Computer feels far newer than it is.

One very important thing to note, which I'm not sure if this is normal due to it being my first time. There are no clips for the SATA and Power cables, so they plug in fine but would be more prone to being pulled out. This drive is definitely made for laptops where no cables/clips are needed. So if you get this for a desktop, be aware that it won't "click" on, but it will technically connect and work.

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Kurtis

Excellent value drive! Recommend for most users.

Reviewed in Canada on July 7, 2018

Capacity : 240GBVerified Purchase

Excellent value drive! I debated getting this drive (the BX300), the MX500, or going with PCI Express NVME SSD. For most people, I think the BX300 is a great choice, and definitely the most affordable.

I believe the MX500 is slightly faster and has a better controller. When the BX300 is on sale (which it often is), I'm not sure if the MX500 is worth the extra money.

My desktop booting from this BX300 also boots faster than my new laptop which has a PCI Express NVME SSD. It really highlights for me that PCI Express NVME SSD's don't provide tangible speed improvements in many situations. So unless you are moving really large files around, I wouldn't pay the extra money for a PCI Express NVME SSD. The BX300 is more than sufficient, with low latency and overall great performance for the price.

Here are some benchmarks from CrystalDiskMark, with 5 passes of 1Gib:
Sequential Read: 563.9 MB/s
Sequential Write: 524.5 MB/s
4KiB Q8T8: 331.8 MB/s
4KiB Q8T8: 382.8 MB/s

Those numbers slightly beat the advertised specs, so I am very happy.

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Tom

Not as beneficial as I'd hoped for lightroom on Windows, but a solid boot/OS drive regardless!

Reviewed in Canada on September 21, 2017

Capacity : 480GBVine Customer Review of Free Product( What's this? )Verified Purchase

I've been using this as a separate drive for my lightroom library on my windows machine to help speed up edits. I've noticed that lightroom in general is just choppier on windows, with scrolling and general workflow just not as smooth as on the mac. I was hoping that loading my library onto an SSD would help bring my windows lightroom performance closer to the performance I get on my much lower specced macbook. For reference my desktop is running an i7 4770k with a GTX1070.

Installation of the drive in my desktop was straightforward. It's amazing just how light these drives are compared to conventional HDDs - it really feels like an empty shell when you pick it up. I've had other SSDs that purposely use heavier materials in the casing to give the impression of "higher quality", but for an internal drive this really doesn't matter. Frankly, if you're installing this in a laptop you'd want it to be as light as possible! I did order a second drive that seemed to have some soddering issues though - the sata power connector came off during installation which was problematic... I've owned a number of crucial brand drives though and have never otherwise had problems like this, so I assume this is a one off issue.

In use, I found that for my specific lightroom applications, the SSD didn't speed things up quite as much as I'd hoped. While load time are definitely reduced, it still can't quite match what I see on my macbook. I don't believe this is a fault of the SSD though, and more an issue with lightroom on windows not being well optimized. I've also used this SSD as my windows boot drive, and as expected booting from shutdown, and application start up were all lightning fast. A massive improvement over conventional HDD. Read and write speeds were good too, able to copy files of about 115mb/s - made copying my lightroom library over a quick and painless ordeal.

Overall, Crucial makes solid drives. The second one I ordered had some problems with it, but considering I've worked with 10+ crucial brand SSDs in the recent past that have been great, I really think this is just a one off thing. While it hasn't been as beneficial in my specific application, it still makes a great boot drive. It'll have your OS running super fast, and with lots of space to boot. With the cost of SSDs so low now, they really represent the best value upgrade you can make to your PC in terms of speed and performance boost if you're coming form and HDD

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Dineshan Pathmanathan

Amazing performer.

Reviewed in Canada on December 12, 2017

Capacity : 240GBVerified Purchase

My laptop's hard drive began to fail after it had been dropped, and I needed a replacement fast for the drive, so I ordered this SSD. I replaced the old hard drive with the Crucial BX300 and I was blown away. After making a bootable USB for Windows 10, the Operating System took merely minutes to install and I was up and running after a few driver installations. The speed on this drive is overwhelming to the point where you don't even see the circling load animation for Windows 10, it basically boots right into the login screen. It's been almost 2 weeks and I'm very happy with the performance. The laptop works wonderfully, there's no more sound from the previous rotating HDD and I've even noticed a considerable increase in battery life. Thoroughly impressed with this drive, and looking to buy another one soon.

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Kyle

It made my MacBook Pro Mid-2012 unbelievably fast.

Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2018

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Before buying this SSD, it was literally painful. That computer was driving me crazy, I mean endless jumping app icons, 2 minutes 42 seconds of a starting-up process. But, all of this changed with this SSD. My "NEW" computer opens in just 10-15 seconds. Apps, even the big-ass ones, open like as if they were already opened. Everything is nearly perfect, I think thanks to this amazing OEM I can use my MacBook for 2-3 years more. Just I wish I had enough money to buy a bigger capacity model, mine is 120GB but still worth. Thanks for selling this device for such a cheap price compared to other competitors. You can buy without any hesitation. Better, I don't know if we're allowed to share our email but if we are, then you can contact me using yaebsc@gmail.com. When I'm available I can help you.

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Florian

Buen ssd con garantía.

Reviewed in Mexico on March 31, 2019

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Buen SSD. Hace su trabajo. Para los que tienen discos duros mecánicos (de los que giran y hacen ruido) es el día y la noche. Antes con mi disco duro mecánico seagate el Windows se tardaba 2 a 3 minutos en abrir, ahora son 20 segundos con el ssd.

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Arnaldo

Super rápido

Reviewed in Brazil on February 7, 2019

Verified Purchase

Chegou antes do prazo. Muito bom!

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Bob

Quality, Speed, Ease of clone and setup

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2018

Verified Purchase

I was very pleased with the ease of setting up the cloning software provided by Crucial official web site. Installation was a breeze. Running it is really easy, just choose the "auto" mode, don't try to be clever, you may mess up inadvertently. My cloning task took about 30 minutes on a USB 2.0 connection. The rest is to pop the SSD into my laptop, replacing the 1T HD, and reboot the system. One piece of advice when you replace the HD with the SSD. In this sequence, after you shutdown the computer, unplug the AC power, removed the battery, press the "ON" button 5 seconds to drain any remaining current in your laptop, then open the back of your laptop to expose the HD you want to replace, at this point, one more time ground yourself by touching any metal table lamp, metal table leg, the metal wall of your frig, except the wall socket ! if you can't find any, carefully touch the metal screws of your laptop HD mounting bracket. You don't want to zap any of the computer chip on your laptop mother board and end up buying a new laptop, because your laptop warranty is voided when you replace the original HD with a new SSD yourself instead of an authorized dealer (like BestBuy) . Performance wise, on speed on boot up time, and application launch time, it is a dream come true. Normally it took me about 16 minutes to finish launching all the build in software of my Dell i5 Model 5559 15', now it took 1 minute and 40 sec best and worse 2 minutes 20 sec. Launching Firefox is a flash ! By the way, I use the Crucial cloning software to do a normal "disk clean up" on the SSD, it took about 1 and and a half hour to complete the task and removed 50 G of system junk from my old HD, and the entire system ran even faster with a clean bill of health. I will stick with Micro Semiconductors' Crucial SSD from now on and recommend to all my friends ! Do you know the flash memory they use inside is a 3D chip ? I did some research, this means there is 56 layers of memory stacking up like a 56 story building ! Amazing !

D. V. Webster

Works well and easy to install

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2018

Capacity : 480GBVerified Purchase

I bought this to upgrade an older Core2 2.4GHz PC that was already using a 64GB SSD plus 500GB HDD and Windows 10. I wanted the extra capacity as my 64GB C: boot drive was very nearly full, despite my best attempts to move as many programs and data to the HDD as possible.

The installation process was surprisingly quick and easy using the special (locked) Crucial version of Acronis clone software, which is available as a free download from the Crucial web site. If you read the instructions published by Crucial you might be lead to believe that you need a USB to SATA interface cable to connect the new drive to your PC ready to clone the existing boot drive to. This is undoubtable true for laptops and probably many desktops too, but I found that I could temporarily disconnect my internal SATA DVD drive and use the cables to connect the new SSD instead and the Acronis software found it automatically when using its Clone Tool. I suspect that this gives faster transfers than via USB, especially if you only have USB 2.0 ports as I have and not USB 3.0.

With the data transfer done (it took only a few minutes) I swapped out the old SSD for the new Crucial drive (I didn't need the supplied spacer for my HDD bay), reconnected my DVD drive and powered up to find Windows 10 running just as I had hoped for. But I am surprised to find that not only do I have the extra capacity but the whole PC seems to be running a lot faster and smoother. I expect the BX300 read and write speeds are somewhat faster than my old Samsung drive but the speed improvement seems to be greater than that might account for. Perhaps the old drive was nearing its end of life and had slowed as a consequence? Or maybe the Windows Page file just worked better with more storage space? Either way, I am very pleased with the end result and if you too are looking to upgrade an older PC I can recommend this Crucial SSD.

Andrea

Ottimo SSD, da un rapporto qualità / prezzo eccezzionale!

Reviewed in Italy on May 9, 2018

Capacity : 240GBVerified Purchase

Arrivato il giorno dopo averlo ordinato, installato con estrema semplicità (tolte 2 viti da quello vecchio, messo il nuovo al suo posto, riconosciuto subito dal BIOS), installato sopra windows 10 ultima versione in pochissimo tempo, poi vari programmi che uso nel quotidiano, fatto tutto in meno di un'ora. Leggerissimo, silenzioso, tutto un altro mondo rispetto ai vecchi hdd. Certo, sul mercato ci sono modelli e marche più performanti, resta il fatto che per 55 euro (preso in offerta lampo - taglio da 240) il portatile ora si accende ed è pronto all'utilizzo in circa 7/8 secondi. Ho provato a trasferire file da/a un hdd esterno, da chiavette usb 3.0 e così via, tutto molto veloce e performante. Non ho per ora rilevano nessun freeze o altro tipo di impuntamenti come altri utenti, le app e i programmi si aprono tutti in pochi secondi (anche quelle più pesanti - come photoshop o programmi di editing video).

P.S.
Io ho preferito re-installare il sistema operativo da zero, non clonare il disco esistente, in modo da partire da una situazione "pulita", vero che dopo ho impiegato circa un'ora a re-installare anche tutti i miei programmi, ma ne è valsa la pena.

Pro:
- silenzioso
- veloce
- qualità/prezzo

Contro:
- al momento nessuno (in caso di problemi di affidabilità aggiornerò la recensione).

In conclusione, per il prezzo pagato, l'unico rammarico è di non averlo acquistato prima (anche se aspettando ho risparmiato un bel po' di euro), il mio portatile è letteralmente rinato!

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