This specific drive is the official nail in the coffin for traditional hard drives. I've successfully installed drives of this exact model into 41 different computers between work, home, and charity work, and none of them have given me any issues at all.256gb is the realistic minimum size hard drive...

Great Priceperformance; Low power consumption; Reliable; Versatile

It Isn't Free

i added this drive to my mid 2009 aluminum macbook pro, along with a new LB1 battery, and 8g corsair ram, and let me tell you…hot dayumn! i mean…DAYUMN! let's go another five years and see what $250 will do for this mac!

good price; good brand; solid construction; fast! fast! fast!

none! i'll leave that for the benchmark pros; but seat-of-the-pants analysis says this drive is easily twice as fast as stock

My fourth Crucial SSD. Hard to beat these guys in the performance per dollar race. Popped one of these into an Ubuntu server, boot times are 3-4 seconds now.

Excellent Price; Fast; Power Failure Write Protection; Free Migration Software

Sata cable would be a nice touch

Laptop is like a completely different machine! I easily installed in a 2008 Late MacBook in 15 minutes. Make sure to have a Torq 6 screwdriver for installation. And it's probably worth it to buy the kit or some sort of disk to enable you to format or clone disk in advance.

Does what a sizeable SSD should do but for a bargain price. Unbeatable combination of capacity and response time.

£157.99 GBP / $270 USD Since their inception, Solid State drives have been the preserve of high end, enthusiast users whose craving for speed knew no limits. More recently, with the advent of ultra books and such, SSDs have become much more common place.

+ Excellent value for money; + 3 year warranty; + 7mm Height

It wasn't that long ago that even a 128GB SSD was considered to be out of the reach of the average user, such was the prohibitively expensive pricing. We all sat and dreamt of the possibility of SSD pricing one day lowering until we could afford ones that came even a tiny bit close to the big,...

It looks like Crucial has a winner on its hands here with the Crucial MX100 256GB SDD. As we have stated in the past SSDs are not generally that exciting, but this one is a little more interesting than some of the others at least, because the MX100 has taught us all a valuable lesson.

Crucial is a well-established player in the SSD market, way back since its RealSSD models in 2010. The market is a lot more crowded now than it was back then though, with every man and his dog eager to jump on the flash memory bandwagon.

Review Micron subsidiary Crucial has caused huge waves in the consumer SSD market with its low-cost M500 drive range – and then gave its competitors further aggravation with its M550 series refresh this year.