The Crucial M500 is the company's third-generation 6Gb/s SSD, and the successor to the often-praised M4 SSD, which we named the "Best Bang for your Buck" SSD back last year due to its well-rounded package of decent performance at a great price.

Fastest drive in its class by a hair; great value

Bare-bones bundle; 3-year warranty

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

We've waded through a lot of performance data, and we'll indulge a couple more graphs before weighing in with our final verdict. The following scatter plots use an overall performance score derived by comparing how each drive stacks up against a common baseline.

As much as we want the unbelievable performance that we see in PCIe M.2 SSDs, the name of the game today is capacity and the number of e-mails received from people looking for higher capacity SSDs is amazing.

Over a year ago at CES 2013, Crucial teased us with the promise of a "Terabyte-Class" SSD that was coming later that year. They were of course talking about the M500 series - and more specifically the 960GB version.

Exceeds rated read and write speeds; 7mm low profile fits in many Ultrabooks and thinner laptops; Excellent compatibility; Decent 3 year warranty; Massive storage (for an SSD; Very affordable for a terabyte-class SSD

No desktop drive bracket included; No software bundle included in the box for migration

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

none

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.

Let me introduce myself. I am a huge computer nerd. I have been dismantling computers from the age of 16, back when I got my first AMD K6 PC. After a week my Windows 98SE packed in, and because I had no money to pay a professional to fix it, I did the unthinkable and started tinkering with it...

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

Replaced the internal HDD on macbook pro with this SSD, best investment possible ever. Boot time is dramatically reduced and system is a lot more responsive.

Affordable; Much Faster Than Hdd

Write Speed Not Fastest