Excellent choice for a budget. Used my BestBuy card rewards and was able to get it while on sale for a total of about $80. Using a Sabrent heatsink, we have had no performance or temperature issues. Very easy to install after watching 2 youtube videos.

Picked this up after a lot of research and I couldnt be happier. The price/performance and capacity of the drive was just unbeatable and I’m sure this one will last me a long time.

Impressive read and write speeds. Excellent price point for most users.

Working great so far. The Crucial software worked great to get everything transferred and installed too.

I purchased my Crucial drives to put into a hardware RAID, since my motherboard came with a ROG hardware RAID card and I wanted to get some use of it, and transition to mostly NVME-storage across the board. Drive software like WD "drive" (not so creatively named) and Samsung Magician cannot update firmware or do much of anything with drives in RAID (or if, like me, your mobo defaulted to VOD-on and IRST) ... so Crucials were a good fit. I was looking for a midrange with good specs and good reliability. So far, it seems like I've gotten that, and I have no complaints about the Crucials. Despite not being the most expensive Gen-4s (like Firecuda or Black) I'm getting pretty good specs. I have a second RAID of Samsung 980s (I updated the firmware on a different mobo using SamsungBIOS and then transferred them physically over) and they don't perform much better, though hosting C drive or OS slows any partition ion my experience, even when that Windows it isn't actively in use.