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Crucial M500 120GB SATA mSATA Internal Solid State Drive CT120M500SSD3

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Crucial M500 120GB SATA mSATA Internal Solid State Drive CT120M500SSD3

Description:
4KB Random Read: Up to 62,000 IOPS 4KB Random Write: Up to 35,000 IOPS Max Sequential Read: Up to 500MB/s Max Sequential Write: Up to 130MB/s Used For: Consumer Controller: Marvell Height: 3.75mm MTBF: 1,200,000 hours

Details:
DetailValue
ManufacturerCrucial
UPC649528764218
Conditionnew
Model NumberCT120M500SSD3
ClassificationSolid State Disk
 

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Affordable, awesome as an OS drive

review by seepra

CrystalDiskMark results:

Sequential
read: 465.0 MB/s
write: 124.8 MB/s (depending on what you're using the SSD for, this might be a non-issue)

512K
read: 410.4 MB/s
write: 127.5 MB/s

4K QD32
read: 235.6 MB/s
write: 121.0 MB/s

There was nothing special or remarkable about installing the device (it did come with two mSATA sized screws tho), and consecutively installing Windows 7 Pro on it was a breeze on my Lenovo Y500. After a month of usage, there has been zero issues I've sometimes faced with SSD drives (especially OCZ), no BSoD, drive not "disappearing" from device manager, no reboots or hangups.

Booting Windows 7 Professional is incredibly snappy, after pressing the power button it takes about 8 seconds to be in the log in screen. The system responsiveness increased remarkably in multi-tasking and I'm very happy with the purchase.

ProsCons
Very cheap, fast read speedssluggish write speeds (for an SSD)

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