• Reviews around performance (4.55 of 5)

    (OLD MODEL) Crucial M500 480GB SATA 2.5” 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal Solid State Drive - CT480M500SSD1

    • Great performance enhancer.
    • Cheap and small but has a nice performance as secondary drive.
    • Amazing performance!!!
    • The drive also runs about 27 degrees C. Less power and better performance
    • Improved performance a great deal.
    • Great quality and performance
    • Good solid performance, not as fast as Samsung 840 evo
    • It did its job but the performance isn't very good
    • They really enhance the performance of the hard drive in the computer system.
    • Great product and after nearly a year the performance is still amazing
    • Overall performance across the board improved and its ability to open programs way way faster was awesome.
    • Greatly enhanced the performance of my laptop.
    • No problem though, I could use it in my desktop PC fine, where the performance is very nice
    • This drive is absolutely fantastic as a great way to enhance the performance of any PC.I have built a gaming
    • Fast Shipping, Faster Performance
    • I get really good performance out of it even using it externally through USB 3.0Using Black Magic software with 5GB stress I get
    • great performance improvement, computer ready to go in 30 seconds.
    • Excellent performance and works flawless
    • Great performance
    • Considering the tremendous performance advantage and the lack of mechanisms that potentially lead to inevitable failure, the SSD will always be my first choice for the operating system
    • Great capacity & performance.
    • Revolutionized the performance of my aging Macbook Pro
    • Now although the memory of my laptop is still 4GB, the performance improves significantly.
    • Perfect fitEasy InstallationInstant performance boost
    • Perfect fitEasy InstallationInstant performance boost
    • "cheap" ssd with large capacity and very good performance.
    • Performance is vastly improved over the old slow mechanical hard drive
    • They needed computers with an excellent performance per dollar ratio
    • This SSD dramatically enhanced the performance of my 2009 model Macbook Pro.
    • I get really good performance out of it even using it externally through USB 3.0Using Black Magic software with 5GB stress I get
    • before spending near 1K in a new laptop I wanted to give it a try after reading how having a SSD can improve performance
    • Awesome performance - simple and easy installation after cloning
    • Performance is amazing with zero lag and amazing fast boot times.
    • Fantastic performance!
    • It was a dead easy way to boost the performance of an older laptop
    • Noiseless, ridiculously fast performance.
    • a great value and still amazing performance
    • 120 GB SSD = improved performance my old dual core Linux laptop.
    • For best performance, install Windows (or OSX) and all your applications on the SSD, and store everything else like your music, photos, videos on another HDD
    • Excellent performance
    • Seriously, an SSD is the best performance bump you can give a machine and this drive is pretty top tier.
    • The 160gb in my Mac was nearly full and performance was sluggish, so I ordered the Crucial SSD.
    • awesome performance
    • With the upgrade I won performance and speed.
    • the performance boost to my older PC.
    • Amazing performance upgrade
    • Drastic performance increase in my laptop once I switched.
    • The performance has been superb as have all Crucial drives!
    • Performance wise, my Windows 7 Performance Score jumped to a 7.7 and feels great to have so much free space on my system drive (the OS had slowly grown to consume my entire 36GB SSD).So far, very pleased with the speed and performance for the price.
    • Great performance bumps over a standard drive, definitely worth it
    • It's definitely enhanced the performance of the Windows 8.1 OS I'm running as well as apps like Photoshop and InDesign -- everything boots a lot faster
    • Great performance!
    • Excellent upgrade for a HDD user to boost performance
    • but you want to boost the performance of an older model.
    • Dollar for dollar, this is the best performance upgrade you can add to your PC or laptop
    • Improved the performance of MacBook Pro Mid 2012 with 1TB HDD
    • This SSD met my needs perfectly offering excellent performance, reliability, and features for the price
    • Like the performance
    • I got this because it had good performance for how cheap it was.
    • great performance improvement, computer ready to go in 30 seconds.
    • When I was researching SSDs, people kept saying it's the single greatest performance-enhancing upgrade anyone can do to their computer
    • I purchased this for my wife's 2011 Macbook Pro due to the original one beginning to fail and show disk0s2: I/O errors
    • Crucial Tech support is only open M-F, daytime hours.
    • ’s not as hot as before
    • I purchased this SSD years ago back when it was still new on the market, but this is a warning to any one: my drive came with 9 bad SSD blocks out of the box (even though the drive still works fine as of this review).More over there are much better faster SSDs available (Samsung 850 or 860 EVO or Crucial MX500), so buy something else
    • Works as expected, very fast and easy to use.
    • The laptop runs just hot as