Crucial Technology CT256M550SSD3 M550

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May, 2024

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Not all that reliable

I read good reviews about this drive and did my research well ahead of time. I pulled the trigger and bought 3 of them. At this point in time, 2 of the 3 come back as failed to my storage controller. Somehow they still boot and store the data, but...

Reasonably fast. Not that expensive.

Firmware flashing is a pain on computers with a UEFI rather than a BIOS. The hard disks are hardly reliable. (I'm at a 66% failure rate.) Still not as fast as some of the other drives.

Dec, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Went bad in less than 90 days!!!

I already ordered a replacement HD from newegg but it looks like with their present shipping system it will take 10 days to get here.

I ordered this for my new shuttle computer. I was careful to check out the compatibility first. It worked will for 2 months.

Went bad in less then 3 months but used on a motherboard (shuttle) it was designed for!

Aug, 2015

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Really fast!

I was skeptical about all the claims about booting with an SSD but am very pleased with the results I experienced. I installed a clean copy of Windows 7 on the SSD and then transferred all my data files to the old C; drive after reformatting it. Once...

Easy to install. Extremely fast.

I found no negatives for using this product.

Dec, 2014

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Consumer review (newegg.com)

Crucial M550 mSATA SSD

Switched from a Crucial 256GB mSATA SSD to a 512GB because I needed more space. Both have been excellent investments. The performance is unmatched. Gave my older 256GB SSD to a co-worker, and he loves it. Says his laptop now boots up in about one-tenth...

Apr, 2014

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