Crucial P2 500GB 3D NAND PCIe Gen3 X4 NVMe M.2-2280 Internal Solid State Drive

It’s an NVMe, so it’s straight forward, even with half the drive loaded (500gb) I still get the advertised reads and writes on crystal disk.The thing to remember is you won’t notice much if any improvement in boots or loads over Sata6 M.2s or standard SATA6 SSD. I mean I did shave 2 seconds off tbe boot time, but SSD booting is so quick anyways it’s like, not even noticeable.The appeal of NVMe is two fold for most home consumers who aren’t doing something too fancy:Transfer speeds to and from different folders in the system.And less cable management.Mind you, the file transfer perk is really neat if you do have a super fast NAS raid and need to copy to and from it all the time. Decent speeds with out breaking the bank.It’s a great all around product. Now, you will need to update the firmware but crucial makes a simple software utility to get it done. Otherwise it’s gonna give you a scary warning upon boot up. I knew right away it had to do with the SMART/Temp sensing firmware, and that there was no real danger. The firmware update is available, easy to install,All around, works as advertised, has fulfilled its purpose, does what it says. Good value. You can spend more for drives that go the full gen3 speed, and have a DRAM cache and those are fine drives. But this is a fine value. Works great. Cl

Very little to say other than it worked fine and is scary fast compared to old fashioned SATA drives. All of our production units now have NVME supported mainboards so when they come in without drives (as seems to be the case these days) we will opt for either Crucial or Samsung drives as they seem to have a nice price point, great reputation and decent reliability factor with reputable RMA and returns (that is if you know how to navigate today's online automated RMA processes). It has been my experience that saving a few pennies by purchasing a no-name or off-brand unit is offset by the pain in the rear factor of nearly no support, shady return policy and higher failure rates. As is my belief, the inverse ratio of difficulty to low price, i.e your pain in the rear goes up proportionately to the ratio of lower price. In my book, stick with known quantities in electronics, even then you have to be careful of conterfeit items. I shy away from a well known auction site because of the rampant proliferation of name brand memory items that are NOT made by manufacturer on the label. They fail quick and when you try to RMA them they are flagged as conterfeit. Caveat Emptor.

This is priced right for a cheap/fast/ high capacity SSD for your new laptop. This is now a common technology that is replacing original internal hard drive technology. Make sure the one you want to replace is similar technology. It could also be used for other external technologies. USB connected cases may be available and easy to upgrade.

It does what it says it do. Easy to install it works great with my Dell 3511. If anyone using a modern dell laptop use the recovery tool in the bios to clone it because it would automatically sized the partition to the new drive and clone the partition in order. You can use other cloning software but you would have to manual put it in order for it to work and resized the portion. My only gripe is the endurance is little to low. 150 terabyte for the 500 gb and 300 terabyte for 1000 gb is low it should be double for both. I went with this brand this is one of the few brand that readily list the voltage and amps of the NVMe so I put it in exactly what I'm taking out. The crucial software don't accurately read Laptop in a Raid Controller Storage which most Dell come with by default also the software take a long long time to start. Which also trigger my mcafee Scanner. Crystal Mark Info is a great replacment software that reads all the smart info.