Spinning Hard Drive

Decided my spinning hard drive was not keeping up with my Lightroom demands, move all my photos to this external SSD and what a game changer. Upload/download speeds and performance improvements in the develop module has made spending the dollars worth every cent. Get one today!!!!

Wow, I love this hard drive. It is soooooo much faster than a regular old external drive with a spinning disk. I will be able to use this with my base model M1 Mac Mini. I can't wait!

This thing is small, fast, and large capacity. The spinning hard drive on my brother's iMac was going bad. Before it could totally go belly up we installed the latest OS on one of these, migrated his data on to it, and then booted from it without any problems. The machine is operating just as fast as before because of the USB 3 interface. Since he lives in a small town, he is running off of it until he can visit me in the big city to get an internal SSD drive installed inside his machine.

I use this camcorder for personal use - kids, sports, etc. This is a great device, no spinning hard drive to worry about - lots of internal storage and works flawlessly. Super steady even when zoomed out - which is great for skiing, etc. I would highly recommend this item to any families looking for a real deal.

As other reviewers have noted, the drive is extremely quiet for a spinning hard drive. Of course, it's not silent like an SSD. But, a little ambient noise and the whirr of the drive completely disappears. It's also very fast, at least compared to the Seagate Expansion 5tb drive that I had been using before this one. I could transfer a ~150gb folder of photos with 40k items in about ten minutes. The blue light on the front of the drive isn't ideal, but it's bearable. Otherwise, the drive has an extremely sleek look that will complement a modern desk well.

Wow, when I put this in place of my old hard-drive and fired up my desktop it was like so Fast my head was spinning and when I got online for my BF1 game I was amazed by the speed again, Oh,no there was NO waiting and wishing to join it was just Bam and you where there playing with your fellow players. Thanks Samsung for a GREAT Product.

My second one, archive storage drive. Decent thunderbolt speed too for a spinning drive.

Drive arrived and operated as expected. What a leap forward from Spinning Rust!

This could be the 4th time I've used a Crucial MX500 to upgrade a system from spinning hard drive. Easy swap and working like a charm as always. I haven't performed any speed tests against other top-rated SSD's, but I always find this Crucial SSD at slightly lower price point (especially THIS time with great B&H discount!) so I'm grateful for that. ;)

I have used Spinning hard drives in the past but the cost of SSDs have been dropping enough that I can afford to start start replacing them with a more rugged drive.