The #1 upgrade option I recommend to clients is to switch to a solid state drive. Pricing would keep some people on edge, but these budget Crucial drives makes it a no-brainer and I can afford to keep a few on hand!

I put this in an old desktop. So far so good. PC is a little faster and a LOT quieter. Would buy again.

Should have gone for a SSD earlier, as the alienware computer is good in all aspect apart from the hard disk. Still can not believe how much difference this SSD has made to the speed of it.

Pretty good for fast boot! My life has changed since I moved from mass storage to SSD to boot my PC

Crucial's new BX500 SSD comes at a great price point of just $80 for the reviewed 480 GB version, making it one of the most affordable drives on the market. It is a DRAM-less design that's built around a Silicon Motion controller with Micron-made 3D TLC NAND.

Extremely affordable; just 17 cents per GB; Excellent sequential read and write performance; Solid real-life application performance; DRAM-less design reduces cost

Weak random writes; High read latency; Only available in capacities up to 480 GB; Very large writes (>30 GB) see significant speed drop

It was a late evening near the end of 2017. Christmas break has been on for a week now, and I was walking around my house looking for some jobs that I should have done during the year but have not.

I have been using this hard drive for about a month now and have been impressed with its performance. I got it to add storage space to my laptop, which came with a 250GB hard drive. Being an SSD, it is very snappy and silent.

My Dell laptop already had a SSD in it but only 120Gb which is rather tight fit for Windows 10 plus several applications and of course rather large Windows Updates / Backups. Comes in a small box so goes through the letter box and only other thing included is a leaflet that I never had to reference.

I upgraded a macbook pro from 2011, just the ssd made such a dramatic difference from an old 8 year hdd. Bringing some new life into the laptop. Best price to performance currently option out there would recommend whether its on sale or not. Would buy again 10/10 :)