Very fast; much faster than any standard mechanical drive. Your operating system will boot far faster, and programs will load faster if mechanical is what you're used to. Installation, in particular on motherboards with an M.2 slot, couldn't get much easier. Excellent drive for the price.

So, to answer some common asked questions, this drive is a B+M key layout M.2 SSD, the wonderful name means it is compatible with both B and M key layout slots. Check your spec sheet before buying, but this is a SATA-speed SSD, not NVMe nor PCIe (Don't really know the difference).

Excellent value in a PC that only supports SATA. If you have a PC that supports NVME I'd go with that as the prices have really come down. Unfortunately, my Lenovo only supports the SATA interface so this is the route I went. Inside my Lenovo, it does reach max SATA3 speeds.

Love the small size and amount of fast storage available for my main drive. Installed without issues in my gaming 3 mobo, detected right away, installed Win 10 from usb directly to HD.

Small and plugs right into motherboard; Price matched good price for this size of drive

I lost sata slots on my motherboard when this was plugged in; but I guess that's more of a motherboard issue

I used this in a new machine, so I can't compare its performance to anything else, but it's definitely very fast. It's cheap enough that there's no reason to save ($) and get a worse drive. Buy this one.

I've upgraded my Acer laptop from 128GB SSID to 500GB SSID using this Crucial SSID. Acer would not commit to saying it would work and din't recommend it, but mine works perfectly from the moment I switched on.

This drive has been an absolute delight. So much so, that I purchased 1) a Sata PCI card (to add Sata connections) 2) an adapter to add two M.2 2280 connectors and 3) TWO MORE 275GB Crucial SSDs. Yes, my machine will soon have three SSD's and no more mechanical drives. I recommend this product!

They included two tiny screws for mounting to the board

None so far

Does a very good job when you have professionals install and transfer the data. everything was where it was previously and operates much faster with a lot less to wear out

Not the fastest on the market but good value for its price.

Item as described. Good performance.