I have been following technology for quite a while and in that time I have witnessed the birth of solid state drives and many companies bringing them to the masses. When they first came out like all new technology they were very expensive.

– Price; – Good performance; – Acronis True Image HD included; – 3year warranty

– None that I found

The SSD market is perhaps the most dynamic and competitive of any in today's IT industry. It can change rapidly, requiring a flexible and long-term strategy from its players. Those who fail to follow its trends may quickly find themselves outplayed.

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.

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.

A fantastic-value SSD with great speed; a real Best Buy

Great bang for the buck, whilst not the fastest it is noticeably faster than the three year old Intel SSD that this replaced. I benchmarked it at Seq 405/302 so not as good as the manufacturer says, but not bad at all.

It was selling for almost the same price as the older, slower and purportedly less reliable MX 500. While apparently the writing speeds aren't as fast as the Samsung equivalent, you would be hard pressed to notice any difference (especially if you are used to HDDs).