Prior to the m4, Crucial updated their flagship SSD products roughly every year, but that changed when m4 stretched the timeline. The m4 product series held a two-year stretch on the timeline and is still a popular product today, while the existing supply dwindles away.

I installed the Crucial 120gb SSD in my "custom-built for speed" computer and installed Windows 7, and all my programs and data onto the drive. Works great and no problems so far.

Rapid Bootup; Rapid Program Starts

NON

I installed the Crucial 120gb SSD in my "custom-built for speed" computer and installed Windows 7, and all my programs and data onto the drive. Works great and no problems so far.

Rapid Bootup; Rapid Program Starts

NON

For SSDs to become more cost effective they need to implement higher density NAND, which is often at odds with performance, endurance or both. Samsung chose the endurance side of the equation, but kept performance largely intact with the vanilla 840.

Boot Win8 in 8.5sec, much faster respond time, no sound, less heat and longer battery time. Highly recommend and will buy the larger size SDD when the price comes down.

I picked this up at the surprise sale price of $155. I replaced my Plextor M5S 128GB SSD in my desktop (to move into my laptop). I know the speeds of any 128GB SSD is going to be slower than a 240GB one, but this is markedly faster. Highly recommended.

Very fast; High capacity

None

I was looking for a replacement SSD for my 750GB mechanical hard drive. It was either that or upgrade my computer to a faster processor. The SSD sped up my computer significantly. Tasks that were taking a long time as software updates made the softw...

had no luck in a Dell XPS until I updated using the Crucial M500 U03 firmware. Worked great after that.

On the broad scale, there is quite a substantial gap between solid state drives that offer up massive storage capacities and those that offer blazing performance, making the process of choosing a drive that offers both to a certain extent rather hard.

The improvements of a solid state drive over a traditional hard drive, in our opinion, are nothing short of astounding. So scintillating is the difference that you'll wonder how you ever survived without one.

Sleek design; Excellent incompressible data results; Great value; Massive storage capacity

Not the fastest on the market