Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsQuality, Speed, Ease of clone and setup
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2018
I was very pleased with the ease of setting up the cloning software provided by Crucial official web site. Installation was a breeze. Running it is really easy, just choose the "auto" mode, don't try to be clever, you may mess up inadvertently. My cloning task took about 30 minutes on a USB 2.0 connection. The rest is to pop the SSD into my laptop, replacing the 1T HD, and reboot the system. One piece of advice when you replace the HD with the SSD. In this sequence, after you shutdown the computer, unplug the AC power, removed the battery, press the "ON" button 5 seconds to drain any remaining current in your laptop, then open the back of your laptop to expose the HD you want to replace, at this point, one more time ground yourself by touching any metal table lamp, metal table leg, the metal wall of your frig, except the wall socket ! if you can't find any, carefully touch the metal screws of your laptop HD mounting bracket. You don't want to zap any of the computer chip on your laptop mother board and end up buying a new laptop, because your laptop warranty is voided when you replace the original HD with a new SSD yourself instead of an authorized dealer (like BestBuy) . Performance wise, on speed on boot up time, and application launch time, it is a dream come true. Normally it took me about 16 minutes to finish launching all the build in software of my Dell i5 Model 5559 15', now it took 1 minute and 40 sec best and worse 2 minutes 20 sec. Launching Firefox is a flash ! By the way, I use the Crucial cloning software to do a normal "disk clean up" on the SSD, it took about 1 and and a half hour to complete the task and removed 50 G of system junk from my old HD, and the entire system ran even faster with a clean bill of health. I will stick with Micro Semiconductors' Crucial SSD from now on and recommend to all my friends ! Do you know the flash memory they use inside is a 3D chip ? I did some research, this means there is 56 layers of memory stacking up like a 56 story building ! Amazing !
