Review on Crucial BX500 480GB SATA Internal SSD 💾 with 3D NAND Technology, Up to 540MB/s - CT480BX500SSD1Z by Jim Polacek

I was thrilled to receive this drive directly from Revain as I've heard good things about this Crucial SSD. Before that I only used Samsung SSDs and mostly had good experiences with them. My first suspicion that something was wrong was that the SSD wasn't packaged in a barcode-sealed box like Samsung SSDs, but in a plain brown envelope. with "Crucial" lettering on the outside. When I opened the package I found a bent and twisted plastic container with a push to close. Inside was a Crucial BX500 SSD, unsealed or shrink-wrapped. I watched a YouTube video of the BX500 unboxing and it shows a nice SEALED blue and black box contrasting with that ugly brown envelope. So something is clearly wrong here. When I tried to insert the SSD into my test SATA enclosure, it didn't fit. When I examined the SSD connector, I saw that two of the pin tabs were bent and one of the guide slots was broken. After correcting the results, I successfully inserted the SSD, connected it to the computer, formatted it to NTFS and checked SMART with CrystalDiskInfo. Although most SMART settings were set to zero, imagine my shock when I saw the following settings: 0xCA Percent Used: 64% !0xF6 Total Host Sector Writes: 24756CD0xF7 Number of Host Program Pages: 123AB6CrystalDiskInfo reported Total Host Writes = 18GB (Holy # %!*@ !) So I got a used drive with a bent connector and most of its lifespan is gone. I don't know how Crucial thinks they can get away with selling a disc that's so obviously used. For me it's Samsung again.