This drive is running and performs well. With nothing on it, here are tested speeds from Crystal Disk Mark. It's formatted as GPT. It's around 223 GB formatted. All tests are 9 passes @ 4000MB.

Cheap - Got it for 79.99 Fairly fast for the price Lightweight and thin

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Fast, lightweight, the 480gb version seems to hit the sweet spot between price and capacity. I use mine as a portable drive (without a case) which I plug into a SIIG mini-doc. (I do had a case for transport to protect the drive in my briefcase).

Fast; Highly Compatible; Quiet

Expensive

This storage is a perfect replacement for a regular SATA thin disk in a laptop or notebook. It is much faster than a regular disk and does not damage as easily as a disk.

Dependable; Durable; Fast

Limited Space

Completely satisfied with this new SSD! Greatly improved the speed and efficiency of my almost five year old Macbook Pro! Easy to install and highly recommend!

easy installation

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Great drive with lots of speed. Hope it lasts and doesnt crap out after a year or so. Downgraded it because it didnt include an adapter for a 3.5 slot.

Great drive; Gave me the extra speed I needed for the computer I use as a small business server

said comes with a adapter but I had to order one that would work in a 3.5 slot

This is definitely a decent SSD, and will be a HUGE upgrade to your system compared to any normal hard drive. However, if I was buying an SSD I'd have to get a really good deal on this to buy it instead of a Samsung 840 EVO.

Pretty fast; cheap

Not the fastest

Recently purchased three BRIX and NUC systems requiring MSATA drives. Liked the first Crucial M500 as boot disk, so bought two more for the other systems. Great price/performance ratio.No issues.

Easy To Install; Fast; Highly Compatible; Quiet; Reliable

I bought this to replace the storage on a Lenovo x301 I inherited from work. I did get an OS on it, but the system is ridiculously unreliable, constant blue-screens. It may be a great drive for other purposes, but if you are trying to use this to replace a MicroSATA drive with an adapter, I would...

Replaced a laptop HD and get 6 times speed improvement for every type of disk operation. Time to boot to a useable desktop with Win 8.1 is 6 seconds instead of 36 seconds. Copy gigabytes of files is 6 times faster, open applications is 6 times faster.

There was nothing special or remarkable about installing the device (it did come with two mSATA sized screws tho), and consecutively installing Windows 7 Pro on it was a breeze on my Lenovo Y500.