Reddit mentions of Crucial MX500 250GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560MB/s - CT250MX500SSD1(Z)

Here's a link to the RAM you'd need, and here's links to a 250/500/1000/2000 GB SSD. Just make sure to get an SSD large enough for your storage needs. As for tools, you'll need a small Phillips screwdriver, and a T6 Torx driver. Here are the instructions to replace the hard drive, and you can replace the RAM while the back cover is off by following these instructions. Total cost will range from $120 to $320 for the parts depending on how large of an SSD you need, assuming you already have the tools. While it's open, I'd suggest getting a can of compressed air and dusting out the inside of the machine while you're in there. It'll help with cooling.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0764WCXCV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_HOe2Cb550KZJF


Or:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K8A2A0E/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_xPe2CbWE7XPAX

Either will work fine, but the MX500 is more highly regarded, so It's about $10 more.

Edit: Top link is MX500

52.99 is too much? This 250GB Corsair MX500 would do fine. WD Blue 250GB for $53

Not to shame you, just flash prices have gone down to crazy low levels in the last year or two if you haven't kept up.

PS4/PS4 Pro - External SSD is vastly superior to the default HDD. Using an internal SSD can be faster or slower than using it externally. Basically, your probably best off keeping your internal HDD for games you play less often and slapping Destiny plus a few other titles on an external SSD as there's not a ton of speed to be gained by going internal.

Xbox One - Similar to the PS4, you will gain an immense amount of speed by using an external SSD instead of the internal HDD. I don't think you can normally install an SSD internally with Xbox.

By the way, if you're thinking, "but damn external SSDs have stupid markup on them" then you are absolutely correct, have a cookie. Now buy your regular cheap internal SSD and slap it in one of these. Can't tell you how it functions with Xbox but works perfectly with my Pro. Also note that depending on the SSD you may have to pop it into a computer (or plug it in with the enclosure) and initialize the drive/format it for the PS4 to properly recognize it but this step isn't always necessary it seems.

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-250GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B0764WCXCV

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Tool-free-Enclosure-Optimized-EC-UASP/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S

Also on Amazon for the same price. Historic low price for this drive, according to PCPartPicker.

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The MX500 is a top choice SSD for OS usage; up there with the 860 EVO, according to u/NewMaxx.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/9gl7kb/ssd_1tb_crucial_mx500_25_sata_iii_internal_solid/e657h9i

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u/NewMaxx now has a guide for SSDs here!

Brand new the same SSD is $40 on Amazon


Crucial MX500 250GB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD - CT250MX500SSD1(Z) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0764WCXCV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_4Hc6Cb8ER9Z83

• WD SATA SSD 500GB
  
• WD M.2 SSD 500GB
  
• Crucial SATA SSD 250GB
  
• Crucial M.2 SSD 250GB
  
  There's no difference in price between a SATA SSD and a non-NVME M.2 SSD. An NVME M.2 SSD is a different story though.
  
  Edit: They edited their comment to include nvme after I replied

Here is my recommendation. Much better CPU, more cores and threads, it can also be overclocked for even more performance and comes with a nice cooler. RX570 is faster than the 1050 Ti for the same price.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Type|Item|Price

----|:----|:----
CPU | AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor | $159.89 @ OutletPC
Motherboard | Gigabyte - B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard | $59.99 @ Amazon
Memory | G.Skill - Aegis 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory | $114.99 @ Newegg
Storage | PNY - CS900 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive | $50.36 @ Amazon
Video Card | Sapphire - Radeon RX 570 4GB PULSE Video Card | $169.99 @ Newegg
Case | Cooler Master - MasterBox Lite 3.1 MicroATX Mid Tower Case | $30.98 @ Newegg
| Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts |
| Total (before mail-in rebates) | $596.20
| Mail-in rebates | -$10.00
| Total | $586.20
| Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-23 19:12 EDT-0400 |

Edit: This is a better SSD, it's not on PCpartpicker for some reason.

Highly recommend you skip the 500GB HDD and go with a smaller SSD. It's going to be dog-slow on a conventional drive with boot times in the absolute shitter, even if it's got a tiny bit of hybrid cache, and that is a ridiculously expensive drive for only 500GB too.

For instance this one or even this will be a million times better and is the absolute must-change for this build.

She can always get an external drive for large cheap slow storage once she runs out of space.

Might be hard to sell these man, the newer versions go for the same price new. GL tho!

Buying a solid state drive to upgrade a 2010 MacBook Pro. Between the following, is there any major differences I'll notice? I'm not a power user by any means, just looking to improve boot/app start times. Looking at ~250GB. I'm leaning towards the ADATA solely based on price and can easily be swayed towards the others.

Samsung 860 EVO

Crucial MX500

ADATA SU800

I have a few comments:

Nice choice of case, it is a very low-key simplistic sophisticated look, and very nice to build in

That hard drive has to change, you have 1TB at $45, you can get the same model in 2TB for only $5 more here

I've never heard of Transcend storage products, I may live under a rock but idk if thats very reliable, you can get a 250GB ssd from Crucial which is more well known (to me at least) for the same price here

Other than that, good looking build, welcome to PCMR!

add a ssd like this https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-250GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B0764WCXCV

and it looks good otherwise.

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01LY65EVG/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=AKNP96FBWTD0Y&psc=1 Hard drive
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0764WCXCV/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&psc=1 ssd
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B078MVFXFL/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&psc=1 The gpu
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B06X9LN311/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?smid=A3NOUUHLVV3QXQ&psc=1 Mobo
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B019NWRUXK/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&psc=1 Psu
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01N5TJ5AH/ref=ox_sc_act_title_6?smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&psc=1 ram
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B075DMYVBV/ref=ox_sc_act_title_7?smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&psc=1 case
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00GGQFO5I/ref=ox_sc_act_title_8?smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&psc=1 60hz monitor
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B074PXZMDX/ref=ox_sc_act_title_9?smid=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&psc=1 144hz monitor
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B06XNRQHG4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_10?smid=ATJ8UQLEY2ARZ&psc=1 processor
You can order all these parts for free to Finland from amazon.de, should take 2 weeks. Ryzen is good for streaming and the second gen ryzen is too expensive for the 2% performance increase. 16gb of ram should be enough and the gpu has enough juice to stream most games at 1080p 60fps. Also i found a pretty cheap 27 inch 144hz screen. Ole hyvä.

without ref link

also the 500gb Version is available for 68,44€

This enclosure along with Crucial MX500 SSD (I have the 250gb) are working for me. No Y-cable was needed - just a single USB port used.

My update went smoothly yesterday.

This is the SSD I bought: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0764WCXCV/

And this is the enclosure: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OJ3UJ2S/

Even if it doesn't solve the update problem its worth it for the improved loading times.

what do you think? https://www.amazon.ca/-/fr/gp/product/B0764WCXCV/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&psc=1 this or https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX76753

A lot of people rate this one extremely highly.

I bought the Samsung 850 Evo, but its price just jumped up to $95.

You will need an enclosure. This is the one I got.

But there are dozens of quality options if you want a different look. Just make sure it has SATA III connection and USB 3.0 out.

I got this drive https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0764WCXCV?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

And this enclosure https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OJ3UJ2S?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

the drive slots right in, the lid clips on and you plug into the xbox and you're good to go. Both with next day delivery were £70

Bought this one, it’s been amazing. 0 complaints.

I’ve posted this so much on this sub recently I bet it’s starting to get annoying lol

Going straight to SSD is a lot smoother. When your OS is installed on an SSD, your computer feels much faster. It's the upgrade that everybody should be focusing on instead of other not as great thinks like excessive RAM memory. It makes your computer have a really short boot time so it turns on and initializes quickly.

You could go hard disk first but only if that's the only way to stay in budget. With hard disks being cheap, get a good 1TB drive and then later, get a reasonably priced 250GB SSD This Crucial is good and clone your OS onto it. It'll feel like a major upgrade when you see the difference.

I thought samsum SSD's arent compatible with alienware?

Im looking into getting this for my brand new R7: https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-250GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B0764WCXCV


howd your installation go? do i need to buy additional wiring / screws or is everything i need already inside the case?

It depends on what you mean by lagging. If you're talking about load times? No. If you're talking about lag within applications that are already open? Maybe, but I wouldn't expect you to have much trouble with Windows 7 on that computer.

You could get a 250GB SSD under $50 and it will easily be the best upgrade to your computer.

An SSD would be very significant. Maybe a 250gb MX500. Hey how about that, it's on sale

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B0764WCXCV/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1538346487&sr=8-4&keywords=samsung%2B860%2Bevo&th=1

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There are other, cheaper or more expensive, but this is good value and quality. You're looking for SATA3 2.5in drives.

Cheapest I know of is Inland for $30:
https://www.amazon.com/Inland-Professional-480GB-Internal-Solid/dp/B076XXMJZH/

Crucial mx500 is a much nicer drive for $40:
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B0764WCXCV/

Thanks mate, i think ill go with the mx500, i found it cheap, 256GB for 39.99 (256 i really all i need).

Can I go ahead and other this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0764WCXCV/ref=twister_B07PV7KHL3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

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Reason im asking is because no where do i see it says 7mm, only 2.5.

Thankfully you don't need to spend much.. something like this would be more than enough, or for even cheaper, this would be fine for a few of your most-played games.

I'd also recommend running your OS from a (different) SSD as well.

It's definitely time for a new machine, but you can certainly still make this one serviceable for cheap.

The RAM is fine the way it is. Grab a ~$40 256GB SSD today on sale and do a clean install of Windows. It will feel like a much faster machine. That right there will hold you over if you don't want a whole new laptop right now.

https://smile.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B0764WCXCV

So if I get the Aspire 5 and this Crucial MX500 250GB SATA 2.5 Inch SSD it looks like it will be $10 extra. Thanks for the recommendation! Really appreciate it.

On console?

Buy an internal SSD and a usb enclosure. Plug that in to you usb 3 and you are all set. Just transfer games to it.

A 256gb drive is ~$50 on amazon. Sometimes can get a good deal on a 500gb drive.

Personally I like Crucial.
https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/dp/B0764WCXCV/ref=sxin_4_osp48-4efe60b1_cov?ascsubtag=4efe60b1-e926-42df-851f-8e43ae9dab38&creativeASIN=B078C515QL&cv_ct_id=amzn1.osp.4efe60b1-e926-42df-851f-8e43ae9dab38&cv_ct_pg=search&cv_ct_wn=osp-search&keywords=ssd%2B500gb&linkCode=oas&pd_rd_i=B078C515QL&pd_rd_r=a7be7675-5c56-435b-acf0-063de18e300b&pd_rd_w=EHKnL&pd_rd_wg=YYNJZ&pf_rd_p=33b90d57-4392-4d9b-9557-da4c9de25645&pf_rd_r=7ETASN3DNT1C0M8PF09J&qid=1568924186&s=gateway&sprefix=ssd&tag=spyonsite-20&th=1&psc=1

buy a 250GB or less Solid State Drive off of Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0764WCXCV/ref=twister_B078HBG3HK?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

then buy https://www.amazon.com/Salcar-Drive-Enclosure-External-Support/dp/B01N6P1VPH/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1517868313&sr=1-1&keywords=ssd+mounting+usb and plug it into your xbox and format it... then transfer the game from whatever you have it saved on now to the SSD once its formatted....





Sorry dont have all day to explain everything...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0764WCXCV/

$100 will solve this problem and have you load back into any crashed game faster. SSD & Enclosure
I agree it shouldn't be necessary but it helps dramatically for rendering.

Crucial MX500 256GB is a very good drive at a fair price.

144hz just makes everything much more smooth. The competitive argument is that it can allow for better reaction times. That said, I saw that you have a 1050 sc. A 1050 really isn't enough to do 144hz gaming. You'll really want a 1060 6gb/RX 580 to get the most out of it, minimum 1060 3gb/RX 570.

240/250gb SSDs are a great starting point. You can get them around $75-85 and they're big enough to hold Windows and a decent amount of games. The Crucial MX500 is a good choice. If you have the extra money, you can bump it up to a 500gb version for $135.

ssd performance is not that interesting anymore especially for sata3.

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-250GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B0764WCXCV/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1518840513&sr=1-2&keywords=crucial+ssd+250gb

here is another random 3d nand ssd. somewhat comparable to the 850 evo.

Heres a link for the 250gb mx 500 i would get this if i were buying a new ssd today

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX500-250GB-NAND-Internal/dp/B0764WCXCV

Saw that the price dropped in my "saved for later" section in my Amazon cart. Only ~2 bucks higher than the all time low, $42.99 per CCC

Decent deal if you are looking for a high end SATA boot drive.

That's a $50 drive brand new with a 5 year warranty, free shipping, and from a reputable source with a return policy.

$10 for a used drive in unknown condition with no warranty, pickup required, from an unreputable source with no return policy is a reasonable offer.
It might be a bit low, but it's far from "choosing beggar" and you could have always counter-offered $20.
$40 is not reasonable.

Half the time when someone posts electronics sales here, they're the one being unreasonable. No, your used electronics aren't worth brand-new price.