Crucial P1 500 GB CT500P1SSD8 Internal Solid State Drive-up to 1900 MB/s (3D NAND, NVMe, PCIe, M.2), Black

It's a 1tb m.2. Easier to install than a SSD and faster than a HDD. Can't really compare speeds with an SSD. Better off watching a youtube video.

Thinking back to when I once bought a 3.5" HDD featuring 250MB for £249.99 and was pleased about it... the fact I just bought a 1TB m.2 SSD which is about the size of a folded playing card puts things into perspective.Installation is easy - you slot it in the m2 slot and a screw holds in the other end. I thought it was a bit mean that the screw wasn't included in this product hence the dropped star on installation.Crucial's website features software to clone the existing HDD onto this. You then remove the old HDD and you're ready to go. I cloned a 1TB drive to this so the size was identical. One note of caution - it is difficult to keep the existing HDD in when you install this as it uses UEFI rules about which device boots. I removed the old HDD in the end, but I suspect if I put it in now it would be okay and the system would know to boot off the m2 device.In terms of performance, so far so good... I used this to replace a 1TB 7200 SSHD (hybrjd) on an i5 laptop with 20GB RAM. The results have been amazing - Windows 10 takes 3 seconds compared to maybe 15secs, but the real difference is once you are into Windows there's no waiting for everything to work. It's also a lot more lightweight which may appeal.I really recommend this device - if it fails of course it fails big (there's no sectors to recover) but if you have a good backup strategy it should be fine. There is an argument for having 2 storage devices.. OS on SSD and data on physical spinning drives, but that adds weight - you just have to ask if it's worth it or not.

Capacity reviewed; 1TB.This is only the second QLC (quad level cell) NVMe PCIe M.2 to come to the consumer market. It comes from a joint development project between Intel and Micron. It is superior to the Intel 660p, which uses the same QLC memory, because is has 1GB of RAM per TB of storage. The Intel version only has 256MB regardless of storage size. This means that it remains responsive with heavier workloads than the Intel version. On my own tests it happily managed 1,800MB/s Read/Write speeds on sequential loads. This is more than enough for use as a primary drive in my laptop.The only reported downside of this SSD is that as it fills up to capacity it will slow down. This can be mitigated by leaving unused space for something called 'over provisioning'. This basically leaves a portion of the SSD empty to be used to improve the longevity of the drive and maintain high performance. I formatted the drive to 800GB capacity leaving ~130GB for over provisioning. This may seem like a waste to some but I always over provision about 10-20% of the space on all my SSDs. This is because I want them to last a long time and not slow down.My laptop boots up in seconds, logs in and has all applications running in no time at all. The SSD has ample capacity for all my applications, documents and music. It was easy to install but required reinstalling Windows and all software from scratch because I couldn't clone the old drive (no way to connect it up). All in all a good value consumer SSD and a worthy upgrade to modern laptops that often only have 128GB SSDs installed.

I bought this (having used Crucial's online tool) to upgrade the M.2 drive in my HP Omen laptop. The original drive was 128Gb, and even with careful management I was running out of space.Obviously the first problem was migrating the OS. I'd done this before, with a Dell laptop, but that was a very long process and, although I got it working properly in the end, I can't remember what I did. I tried free software this time - Macrium Reflect - but couldn't get it to do the job. I THINK THAT WAS MY ERROR not the software, because what I had to do (apologies to people who know what they're doing!, and noting that I managed to make my hard drive my boot disk) was:i. migrate the OS using appropriate software, probably to the HDii. remove the old M.2 and put in the new oneiii. migrate the OS to the new M.2iv. disconnect the hard drive so that the machine boots from the new M.2v. reconnect the old hard drive.I used EaseUS Partition Master and found their help service very useful (I had a response within 20 minutes to my query - which is when I learned I need temporarily to disconnect the hard drive :)), but I imagine if you know what you're doing you could probably save the money.The new disk is great, by the way.

Updating my review now as I was so impressed with the first two purchases, I decided to purchase it again, for the third time!I simply do not understand how some people are having problems with their P1. My drives have been performing very well since I've got them.Just make sure you guys apply a heatsink on the NANDs to avoid any sustained read or write bottlenecks! All SSDs suffer from that, not just this!====Old Review====This drive is superb in both booting Windows and launching applications and video games. It's only a mere QLC SSD, although its performance is out of this world, when compared against HDD and SSHDs.I used to own a SATA III SSD before replacing them with this, and the difference is quite noticeable under my usage of the new drives.The read and write speeds are too quick, even for my internet speed.The health, under my usage, is also still on 100%. It's going to be lasting me a long while, these drives.With a heatsink that comes with my motherboard, temperatures on this never shot above 55°C, even under heavy loads.Performance is unknown on my end without the use of heatsinks.Would recommend the Crucial P1 1TB for sure!