Crucial P5 500GB CT500P5SSD8 (3D NAND, NVMe) Internal Gaming SSD, up to 3400MB/s

Bought to upgrade my partner's PC. Partner's comments:If adding as an extra drive, no problems.If replacing the drive with the operating system (Windows in this case), the system can be cloned from the existing drive to one of these devices. It took about an hour to clone my 1TB SanDisk Ultra II drive to this one. Once cloning is complete (the software is available from Crucial if you don't already have it), make sure to shut down the computer and disconnect the original drive. It is possible that there will be issues with driver configuration, Crucial are helpful and there are documents to help.In my case the cloned image would not boot so I just installed Windows from scratch to the new drive. I had a backup of all my documents and pictures on an external drive.Acronis, who make the cloning software that Crucial supply, recommend a full system backup as the preferred method of getting the old system onto the new drive. I did not try this, and it does require somewhere to backup the full drive to.Now my system is working, copying large files is very much faster than on the old drive, and starting programs is also noticably faster.

Installation was iffy, as I didn't have the right screws, and decided to improvise with a longer but still functioning screw. Just a note that you should also purchase m2 screws with this.When installing a BeQuiet! heatsink (with copper pipes) it was amazingly easy and it functions since my temperatures are almost equal to my games SSD, both at idle.Speeds are amazing, but Task Manager makes it look slow when you look at the Read Write speed values.Loading times are above expected, as it takes literally 5 seconds from the BIOS options screen (not POST, since you get a delay for choosing options after the POST) before the login screen loads in.Discord loads in twice as fast, and Opera GX finally loads as normal, and doesn't skip the little intro when it starts.OBS is what reveals it's true power.The finalisation speeds of any recording is so incredible, that it doesn't even get to show you the prompt before it is complete.Overall, this is an amazing upgrade from a 5200RPM Hard drive, and is worth your money when purchased with a BeQuiet! MC1 Pro NVME Cooler. The storage capacity should be just enough for anyone who has another SSD for extra storage, especially for fellow gamers with an entire Steam Library of games.

nice quality item, great price

How can something SO SMALL be so dang quick??? Windows is booted up before I can blink, and no waiting around for start-up programs to load, nope, not with this bad boy! Once you hit the Desktop (8-10 seconds flat) you can be playing a game 4 seconds later.I never knew playing my games on an old Western Digital HDD was wasting so much of my life waiting for windows to boot, and sitting at loading screens with a disgruntled sigh, whilst picking my nose.... waiting, and waiting.This tiny magical stick has changed my life. It's the shape of a ram stick, but around 4 times smaller, and about 2-3mm thick.Benchmarking it shocked me. over 3000mb/s. I thought my 2.5" SATA SSD was speedy at 400mb/s. As long as you have a relatively new Motherboard which has a Gen 3 M.2 SSD port you are going to thank me for reccomending such a piece of hardware. This is INSANE!It seems like every time they make something smaller it gets faster/better by an order of magnitudeI only got the 500GB one, my trusty Kingston 240gb SATA SSD, and a 7200rpm 2TB BarraCuda with a 256 cache SATA HDD.I think nearly 3TB of storage space should be enough for now, yet one can never be sure with some games taking up over 100GB of disk space now. Maybe I'll grab another of these (a 1TB one....just to be sure).Honestly, I think our governments are in contact with aliens and jacking their technology. I remember buying a Crucial MX100 256GB around 6-7 years back, and being in awe of the speeds......read speed of 415, write speed of 319, and a mixed speed of 288, Now we have something 90% smaller, well under a decade later my read speed is 2673, write speed is 2350, and mixed speed of 1524! 10 times smaller and 6 times faster.We need to get into Area 51 and steal that alien technology, QUICK!!!! LOL

An incredible change! It replaced a standard 2Tb hard drive that had been used in the PC from new, about 5 years ago. It’s a high spec video editing PC running Windows 10 Pro, 32Gb RAM and separate hdd’s in RAID 0 for video files.I was drawn to this from a review that showed how the price had dropped recently. I was pleased that my Gigabyte GA Z170 motherboard was advanced enough to make it compatible (even though 5 years old). It was a simple matter fitting it to the motherboard then using the provided Acronis software to clone the original C hdd to the SSD, disconnect that drive then boot from the SSD.The speed difference was amazing! From fully booting up in about 30-35 seconds (previously about 150 seconds) and doing everything so fast.A fairly accurate comparison would be the time to clone a hdd to hdd of 9 hours using USB 3.0. Then the hdd to SSD about 90 minutes!!!At roughly 4 x the cost of a mechanical hdd, its not cheap. But the feel to video editing and Photoshop use is amazingly improved.

This ran too hot in an enclosure.Otherwise its a great product.

This product was perfect for me, well packaged and free Cloning software from the Crucial website made the update path very simple! Works well in my Dell Laptop which met the compatibility test, so basically plug and play and very quick to do.This is the third laptop I have upgraded with Crucial SSD's and all went smoothly without any issue and perform well.Conventional 'spinning' HD to SSD provides an amazing performance boost.