{"id":1894,"date":"2018-03-12T11:56:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T11:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2018-03-12T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T11:56:51","slug":"crucial-mx500-ssd-crucial-for-every-pc-in-need-of-a-ssd-pun-intended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2018\/03\/12\/crucial-mx500-ssd-crucial-for-every-pc-in-need-of-a-ssd-pun-intended\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucial MX500 SSD &#8211; Crucial for every PC in need of a SSD *Pun Intended*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&lt;![CDATA[<strong>Crucial MX500 SSD &#8211; Crucial for every PC in need of a SSD *Pun Intended*<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Crucial MX500 2TB SSD was obviously produced by Crucial. Crucial is a branch of Micron Technology Inc. They were founded in 1978 by Ward Parkinson. They are located in Boise Idaho and are known for their SSDs, Flash memory, RAM, ect.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/dswp-main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/23155128\/Crucial.com-Thumb-Logo-425x317.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media.glassdoor.com\/l\/30\/74\/c4\/ca\/micron-technology-great-place-to-work.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for Crucial Micron hq\" width=\"269\" height=\"304\" \/><br \/>\nOverall this SSD is well built to start. It is durable (which i would hope for in a $<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820156175&amp;cm_re=2_TB_SSD-_-20-156-175-_-Product\">500<\/a> SSD). I did a little research, and Crucial&#8217;s Website and Amazon both has 4.9-5.0 Stars over close to 200 reviews. They all talk about buying this product to upgrade their speed and I must say it does just that and more. I had a lot of success with this SSD and would definitely recommend it to anyone.<br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.rockpapershotgun.com\/images\/\/2018\/02\/Crucial-MX500-header-620x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"184\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crucial MX500 2TB SSD<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAs you can see from the picture it looks as any ordinary SSD, but it feels solid and would be hard to break, this is essential for any SSD considering how expensive they can be.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nSpecs:<br \/>\n\u00b4Size: 2 TB<br \/>\n\u00b4Interface: SATA III (SATA 6.0Gb\/s)<br \/>\n\u00b4IOPS:\u00a0 Reads 95000 IOPS, Writes 90000 IOPS<br \/>\n\u00b4Warranty: $50 for 3 year protection plan and $70 for 4 years<br \/>\n\u00b4Access Time: Up to 560 MBps<br \/>\n\u00b4Life Span: 1.8 Million Hours<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nOverall View: Overall this SSD is well worth 500$. This SSD does everything it says and more, runs great, run FAST, and is a huge upgrade from what I had. To simply put it, it is a well built, great running SSD. If you are looking to upgrade to an SSD I would definitly advise you to check out this SSD.<br \/>\n<b>Note:\u00a0 This review is part of a classroom project.<\/b>]]&gt;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;![CDATA[Crucial MX500 SSD &#8211; Crucial for every PC in need of a SSD *Pun Intended* The Crucial MX500 2TB SSD was obviously produced by Crucial. Crucial is a branch of Micron Technology Inc. They were founded in 1978 by Ward Parkinson. They are located in Boise Idaho and are known for their SSDs, Flash memory, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/2018\/03\/12\/crucial-mx500-ssd-crucial-for-every-pc-in-need-of-a-ssd-pun-intended\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crucial MX500 SSD &#8211; Crucial for every PC in need of a SSD *Pun Intended*<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.nationaltrail.k12.oh.us\/ittech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}