Hard decision? Solid Choice! Upgrade your computer with the award-winning Crucial® MX500 Quality you can trust Every time you turn on your computer, you’re using your storage drive. It holds all your irreplaceable files and it loads and saves almost everything your system does. Join more and more people who are keeping their family videos, travel photos, music and important documents on an SSD, and get the near-instant performance and lasting reliability that comes with solid state storage. Upgrade with the Crucial MX500 SSD, a drive built on quality, speed, and security that’s all backed by helpful service and support. Even if you’ve never installed an SSD, don’t sweat it — our step-by-step guide walks you through the process to make installation easy. Speed Sequential reads/writes up to 560/510MB/s 1 Capacities 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB 2 Interface/Form Factor SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-inch (7mm) Energy Efficient 45x more energy efficient than a typical hard drive 3 Award Winning 16+ awards from reviewers worldwide Warranty 5-year limited warranty 5 Fly through everything you do Start your system in seconds, load files almost instantly, and accelerate the most demanding applications with the Crucial MX500. Our dynamic write acceleration technology uses an adaptable pool of high-speed single-level cell flash memory to generate blistering speeds. Store up to 4TB of data 2 Save massive amounts of photos, music, and videos comfortably and securely. With fast access to your media, creations, and designs, you’re ready to share at the speed of your life. Enjoy the efficiency of Micron 3D NAND Our cutting-edge components are engineered from start to finish for efficiency. As a result, the Crucial MX500 uses only a minimal amount of power and still delivers a high price-to-performance ratio — without needing a financing plan to pay for it. Experience a faster, cooler, and quieter computer in your home or business. You’ll wonder how you ever put up with a hard drive. Upgrade with a drive you can count on Backed by thousands of hours of pre-release validation, dozens of qualification tests, and a heritage of award-winning SSDs, the Crucial MX500 has been thoroughly tried, tested and proven. Secure your most important files on a drive with established dependability and the advanced features MX500 SSDs are known for. Install with confidence For many people, opening a computer and transferring data seems terrifying. That’s why we’ve made it easy in the step-by-step Crucial SSD Install Guide. Check it out before you buy, then install your own SSD quickly with everything transferred over successfully and hassle free. With so many uses, you may want more than one. Hardware-based encryption Keep personal files and confidential data restricted from hackers and thieves with AES 256-bit encryption that meets all industry standards, including Microsoft*reg; eDrive, IEEE-1667, and TCG Opal 2.0. Integrated Power Loss Immunity Avoid data loss during power outages. This built-in feature of our NAND protects your data swiftly and efficiently, protecting your work if your system unexpectedly shuts down. Exclusive Data Defense Prevent corruption in your photos, music, videos, and other files with layers of error correction and adaptive read technology. Redundant Array of Independent NAND Protect your data at the component level with an SSD that automatically provides parity protection. This high-end feature works much like RAID works with multiple hard drives, maintaining the integrity of your data. Built-in durability Unlike hard drives, SSDs don’t have moving parts that wear out over time, which makes them less likely to crash. SSDs are also better equipped to survive physical trauma, like getting dropped, because they don’t rely on mechanical parts. Compatibility Our Crucial compatibility tools have been trusted more than 150 million times to help people like you find compatible products. If you use our Crucial System Scanner or Crucial Advisor tool and then order your product on Crucial.com, we guarantee compatibility with our 45-day, no-hassle, money-back guarantee 5 . Micron® Quality — a Higher Level of Reliability. Micron redefines what’s possible with innovative technology that shapes how we use data in all areas of life. Crucial’s unique integration with Micron means our memory and storage components are designed, tested, and refined at every stage of the production process. Crucial MX500 2.5-inch Solid State Drive Box Contents: 2.5-inch 7mm SSD SATA 6Gb/s, 7mm to 9.5mm spacer, Acronis® True Image™ for Crucial cloning software and installation instructions Product flyer Capacity Part Number Sequential Read MB/s 1 Sequential Write MB/s 1 250GB CT250MX500SSD1 5