Crucial P5 500GB CT500P5SSD8 (3D NAND, NVMe) Internal Gaming SSD, up to 3400MB/s

Installation was iffy, as I didn't have the right screws, and decided to improvise with a longer but still functioning screw. Just a note that you should also purchase m2 screws with this. When installing a BeQuiet! heatsink (with copper pipes) it was amazingly easy and it functions since my temperatures are almost equal to my games SSD, both at idle. Speeds are amazing, but Task Manager makes it look slow when you look at the Read Write speed values. Loading times are above expected, as it takes literally 5 seconds from the BIOS options screen (not POST, since you get a delay for choosing options after the POST) before the login screen loads in. Discord loads in twice as fast, and Opera GX finally loads as normal, and doesn't skip the little intro when it starts. OBS is what reveals it's true power. The finalisation speeds of any recording is so incredible, that it doesn't even get to show you the prompt before it is complete. Overall, this is an amazing upgrade from a 5200RPM Hard drive, and is worth your money when purchased with a BeQuiet! MC1 Pro NVME Cooler. The storage capacity should be just enough for anyone who has another SSD for extra storage, especially for fellow gamers with an entire Steam Library of games.

Bought to upgrade my partner's PC. Partner's comments: If adding as an extra drive, no problems. If replacing the drive with the operating system (Windows in this case), the system can be cloned from the existing drive to one of these devices. It took about an hour to clone my 1TB SanDisk Ultra II drive to this one. Once cloning is complete (the software is available from Crucial if you don't already have it), make sure to shut down the computer and disconnect the original drive. It is possible that there will be issues with driver configuration, Crucial are helpful and there are documents to help. In my case the cloned image would not boot so I just installed Windows from scratch to the new drive. I had a backup of all my documents and pictures on an external drive. Acronis, who make the cloning software that Crucial supply, recommend a full system backup as the preferred method of getting the old system onto the new drive. I did not try this, and it does require somewhere to backup the full drive to. Now my system is working, copying large files is very much faster than on the old drive, and starting programs is also noticably faster.

How can something SO SMALL be so dang quick??? Windows is booted up before I can blink, and no waiting around for start-up programs to load, nope, not with this bad boy! Once you hit the Desktop (8-10 seconds flat) you can be playing a game 4 seconds later. I never knew playing my games on an old Western Digital HDD was wasting so much of my life waiting for windows to boot, and sitting at loading screens with a disgruntled sigh, whilst picking my nose.... waiting, and waiting. This tiny magical stick has changed my life. It's the shape of a ram stick, but around 4 times smaller, and about 2-3mm thick. Benchmarking it shocked me. over 3000mb/s. I thought my 2.5" SATA SSD was speedy at 400mb/s. As long as you have a relatively new Motherboard which has a Gen 3 M.2 SSD port you are going to thank me for reccomending such a piece of hardware. This is INSANE! It seems like every time they make something smaller it gets faster/better by an order of magnitudeI only got the 500GB one, my trusty Kingston 240gb SATA SSD, and a 7200rpm 2TB BarraCuda with a 256 cache SATA HDD. I think nearly 3TB of storage space should be enough for now, yet one can never be sure with some games taking up over 100GB of disk space now. Maybe I'll grab another of these (a 1TB one....just to be sure). Honestly, I think our governments are in contact with aliens and jacking their technology. I remember buying a Crucial MX100 256GB around 6-7 years back, and being in awe of the speeds......read speed of 415, write speed of 319, and a mixed speed of 288, Now we have something 90% smaller, well under a decade later my read speed is 2673, write speed is 2350, and mixed speed of 1524! 10 times smaller and 6 times faster. We need to get into Area 51 and steal that alien technology, QUICK!!!! LOL

This product was perfect for me, well packaged and free Cloning software from the Crucial website made the update path very simple! Works well in my Dell Laptop which met the compatibility test, so basically plug and play and very quick to do. This is the third laptop I have upgraded with Crucial SSD's and all went smoothly without any issue and perform well. Conventional 'spinning' HD to SSD provides an amazing performance boost.

I wish I had bought this ages ago, my laptop is so fast now. The price is great <£50 and the performance is amazing. I went for the 500MB option as I did not need 1TB. Easy to install into my laptop and the the Acronis software downloaded for free from the Crucial website and used to clone all the information on the HDD is so user friendly. Cannot fault it at all

This ran too hot in an enclosure. Otherwise its a great product.

For the size and speed of this drive, I think it's great value for the money. I'm using this as my OS drive which I needed to format in order to upgrade to Windows 11. Installation was a bit tricky since my gpu and fan were in the way but I imagine a new build would be trouble free. Cloning the drive was a breeze and so far it's running like a dream.

An incredible change! It replaced a standard 2Tb hard drive that had been used in the PC from new, about 5 years ago. It’s a high spec video editing PC running Windows 10 Pro, 32Gb RAM and separate hdd’s in RAID 0 for video files. I was drawn to this from a review that showed how the price had dropped recently. I was pleased that my Gigabyte GA Z170 motherboard was advanced enough to make it compatible (even though 5 years old). It was a simple matter fitting it to the motherboard then using the provided Acronis software to clone the original C hdd to the SSD, disconnect that drive then boot from the SSD. The speed difference was amazing! From fully booting up in about 30-35 seconds (previously about 150 seconds) and doing everything so fast. A fairly accurate comparison would be the time to clone a hdd to hdd of 9 hours using USB 3.0. Then the hdd to SSD about 90 minutes!!! At roughly 4 x the cost of a mechanical hdd, its not cheap. But the feel to video editing and Photoshop use is amazingly improved.

It perfect I buy for hp I 5. 6th G Laptop work it fast and smooth I am Happy from crucial SSD

The SSD is operating as expected. It is fast and everything is great. I have been mulling over this upgrade for over 5 months now. I needed something faster than a 7200 rpm HDD to support my local server installations. This solution is working just fine. What surprised me most was how easy it was to copy over my windows installation to the new SSD from my existing HDD. Login to the Crucial website and download the Disk clone utility. Crucial has provided Adonis for the disk clone. After installation of the software suite, just select the source and destination and hit go. I had about 300 GB to be copied over and that took about 3 hours. I rebooted my PC and manually entered the boot menu (press F2 on ASUS while on the startup screen). Now there were two entries. I selected the second boot option and changed the boot order. And that is it, Windows booted up on the new SSD which had arrived 4 hours back. No hassle of installing the drivers or supporting software. Everything copied over just as is. All my projects and even the RDR2 save game was copied over with success. Next step was to just re-format the HDD and I was done with the upgrade.

The Crucial P5 500GB HD (3400/3000MB/s) did what was asked and more. It definitely made our office HP 15-cs3073cl laptops all around better performing. It is a really decent laptop, but the hard drives (1TB 5400rpms are garbage). It was an easy way (cost efficient as well) to upgrade a our laptops (that supports NVME M.2 with a M Key - the little slit on its end. There are B keys, M Keys and B/M Keys on different M.2s) so you are way ahead of most admin/staff laptops in school districts. Now, I have this super fast Crucial HD as my main hard drive and the old 1Tb 5400rpm HD as by back up. This is great because I have speed and still space to store pictures and videos, etc.. So, if you have a laptop and it can use a MVME M.2 HD w/ a M-Key, do not hesitate to purchase this one. A+ Product. UserBenchmarks: Crucial's P5 500gb M.2 got a score = 258% (exceptional.) My WD Black SN750 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB got a 283% (exceptional.) My Samsung 860 Evo 500GB got a 118% (Outstanding). My WD Blue 1TB (2012 - 102% Outstanding. The original HP15 WD WD10SPZX-00HKTT0 (5400rpm) got a 61.7% (Good...BUT IT IS SO SLOW next to a SSD or M.2.) If this was a grading scale...a 61.7% is not good it is barely passing in education. Plus, it is really easy to see the difference. Startups, downloads, and updates take FOREVER on the the 5400rpm HD. If you have never updated your drive...then you do not know what you are missing. Just saying.... Side note: This is the easiest area to cut costs when purchasing a laptop/computer and EASIEST way to update it on a budget and still save money in laptops and computers. Ram is another area. Crucial makes both. Latops - you typically can't upgrade much other than the HD and RAM. Most higher end laptops have some wiggle room, but not in all cases. When you buy it...if they give you "upgrade options"...then you know where you can add or subtract down the road. Keep in mind that in some cases they even solder the RAM to the board - which makes it difficult to do much there. To Clone: Crucial makes it easy. All you have to do is... (You must have a M.2 connection and a SATA connection. At least one of each to do the following. Otherwise, you will need to search online on how to clone your hard drive with what your present setup looks like.) Most laptops and computers have at least 2 connections. One may be M.2. If it is not, then do not but this hard drive. You can use my directions below, but not with this hard drive. 1.Download the Software and Install it: Acronis True Image for Crucial (other brands have the same thing also) - do a search Crucial Clone Software. 2. Install the new hard drive. DO NOT REMOVE your old hard drive at this time. Please leave your old one in as your MAIN still. Let it boot up. 3. Find your NEW HD. It can be found by running DISK MANAGEMENT on your computer and formatting your new drive to add it to your computer. (It should be found under "THIS PC" shortcut on Win10. 4. Make sure your new hard drive is the same size or larger than your old one. (Remove some programs that are easily reinstalled - like video games if you need a little space.) You want to CLONE everything over to the new one. I went from 500gb to 500gb...the amount moving over was smaller than the new empty hard drive. I deleted a couple of video games too - off the record of course. :) 5. Start Acronis software and Clone (under tools) your old one onto the new one. If the old one is a 5400rpm HD...go eat lunch or dinner. You will have some time. Our 500gb - 5400rpm HDs took about 30-45mins. A 500bg 2.5 SSD - 10 minutes max from start to finish. 6. Once it is cloned, turn off your computer and either disconnect the SATA connection or take out your old hard drive. Start up your computer and it will find the new hard drive. If the process results in a corrupt set of files on boot, I did not mess with it. I reinstalled my old one and booted from it and formatted the new drive and started over. (I was not wasting time "fixing" a fresh CLONE. Who was to say other errors might not show up later?) I wanted to be safe versus sorry. Shortcuts get me in trouble sometimes. 7. Once you are ready to boot form the new drive, disconnect the old one again. If it boots, then it should be your main one now for booting. 8. You can shut it down and reconnect or install the old one and it should be your backup drive now. Go to "THIS PC" and see which one is your "C" and which is your "D". If it is not correct, you should have noticed the load up time in the beginning was ridiculous if using the 5400rpm and/or it is labeled as "C". How do know which is which? Well, once I clone my original drive, I delete something off of it to make it smaller. Secondly, I look at the total sizes. Typically those are not identical. In my case, one is 464gb and the other is 931gb. Pretty easy for me to tell them apart.) 9. If everything worked out and the M.2 is now your main drive, then you are good to go! Enjoy. 10. If it did not work, then you will need to shut your computer down and go into your bios. If you do not know how to get into it...look it up. Some are f2, others are f8 or F12 and mine was F10. 11. Hold the specific F-key down when you restart it and enter the bios. You will need to change the HD boot order. It needs to be your M.2 first and then the other drive. Save your progress and restart. 12. Check how fast it starts up. Then check "This PC" if it is correct, then all is well. 13. If it is not...then you probably did not save your work when you entered the bios. Try that again. 14. Most of this can be found on the internet as well. Best of luck. THANK YOU, CRUCIAL for making my upgrade EASY.

Its amazingly fast!

Lo tengo desde hace más de 6 meses, y sin ningún problema. Va super rápido, si vienes de un ssd normal, notarás mucho la diferencia de carga y trabajo. Nada que envidiar a los SSD Nvme samsung, calidad precio son inmejorables. Actualizo: Cada días más contento, tengo la versión de 500gb, más de 5 terabytes escritos, y me marca vida útil 100%. Si pudiera cambiarlo, ampliaba a la versión de 1TB. El próximo será el P5Plus, preparado para Gen4. Si andáis con SSD Sata III normales y lo utilizáis para ofimática o navegación Web, no vais a notar diferencia, pero si movéis gran cantidad de archivos, y con un gran tamaño, RECOMENDADISIMO. Nada que envidiar a otras marcas.