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.

The improvements of a solid state drive over a traditional hard drive, in our opinion, are nothing short of astounding.

Sleek design; Excellent incompressible data results; Great value; Massive storage capacity

Not the fastest on the market

Crucial's new M500 SSD is built on an upgraded Marvell flash controller with new 20 nanometer 128 Gbit die MLC flash. This combination makes for a very affordable drive that also provides excellent performance in both synthetic and real-life performance testing.

Great pricing; 7.5 mm thin-Ultrabook compatible; Adapter for 9.5 mm drives included; Supports TRIM; 3-year warranty

Can't find anything wrong

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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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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The SSDs that comprise Crucial's new M500 range come in a variety of capacities, from a relatively low 128GB to a large 960GB, but each SSD uses the SATA3 interface, a Marvell 88SS9187 controller and 20nm Micron MLC NAND flash chips.

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

Installed into a Gigabye Brix micro PC that required an MSATA drive - took seconds to install into the motherboard and the Windows 7 install was very fast too. So far so good but having had a couple of Samsung SSD drives I knew what to expect and wasn't disapointed with this Crucial drive.

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...