Although SATA III SSDs (solid state drives) still hold the first place in global sales (not only thanks to their compatibility with much older systems but also because of their slightly better price/capacity ratio) the far smaller (and in some cases much faster) M.2 models rise in popularity every...

Build Quality / Durability (180TB TBW / 1.8 Million Hours MTBF; Very Good Performance; Features (NANDXtend / Static Data Refresh / SLC Caching / DevSleep/ eDrive Support; Crucial Storage Executive Software; 5 Year Warranty; Price

Small Performance Increase Compared To The BX300 Line; High Temperatures (Performance Throttling; Performance (Compared To NVMe Drives

I bought this for a Dell XPS 13 model 9343, which I've had for a while and which I intend to use for a few more years. The 9343 came with only a 128GB M.2 drive and accepts only SATA drives, not the more prevalent PCI Express drives. At this moment, then, upgrade paths are a bit limited.

Easy peasy. Also pick up $4 screwdriver kit, and a scratch\dent 5570 Dell Inspiron with 1 tb HDD for $500. Watch u tubes, install and clone, it works! Blazing speed hi storage (1.5 tb) touchscreen DVD lit keyboard $570. Awesome. Ready for the next 10 years.

Been using it for my OS - works like a charm. Also installed some games on it like Skyrim to help with the loading times and rendering. Works great.

If you only have the ability to install M.2 SATA on your motherboard then by all means this drive performs excellent and looks good doing it! There's a card for instructions to download Acronis Cloning Software and 2 screws for those that happen to have no screw on their motherboard for...

Good quality SSD comes with a link to free cloning software which I used to upgrade my primary laptop drive (from 250GB). The M.2 format is not as robust as the 2.5 inch SSDs but that's what the laptop needed.