I bought 2 of these. I use one in an old Dell D620 I made from scrap parts that's been running for 15 years, and another for terminal experiments with Linux Mint.
The one in the Dell is dual boot for Windows 7 I use for service calls. It has sped the old laptop up incredibly. I also installed Linux Mint for everyday use.
The other one is for creating custom Linux Mint installable ISOs for flash drives for portable or desktop systems.
At the price I paid, the speed is great. I've been pounding the daylights out of the Linux drive for weeks. Boot time is fantastic.
Since I didn't need a lot of storage for my use 240G served my purposes. I generally shy away from SSDs because they degrade over time depending on the amount of writes and deletions, so in my applications of low disk rewrites they should serve me for a long time.
I went with Crucial because of their long history in the memory business. About 8 years ago I specified a Crucial 320G SSD for a friend who wanted to build a new system for his recording studio. At that time it was $340. We mounted the Windows OS on the SSD, but data storage is on a standard HDD mirrored RAID. The state of the art has had quantum leaps since then, but the system is still running strong after 2 Windows upgrades. Since the system allowed, we also installed a 64G Crucial SSD for a cache drive. Considering a cache drive handles a lot of rewrites should bear witness to Crucial products.
I have never been disappointed by a Crucial memory product. I still have systems from the early 2000's running as they should.
| Memory Speed | 1 |
|---|---|
| Hard Drive | 1 TB Solid State Drive |
