Crucial P310 2TB 2280 PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD – Up to 7,100 MB/s – Shift up to Gen4, with Acronis Offer, Internal Solid State Drive (PC) – CT2000P310SSD801

My Alienware x15 laptop had a 512GB internal drive, ordered to keep the costs down. Unfortunately, with 4-5 good games installed, it is maxed out. Realizing it had a second SSD slot, I decided to add a second drive. Shopping around, I decided on the Crucial P310 2TB 2280 PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD. Crucial has been around a long time, they have a good reputation, and the $140 price tag was great for 2TB.But the joke was on me. Dell got cheap when they built my laptop, and installed two 256GB SSD's instead of a single 512GB. While technically I got what I paid for (512GB), they used up both drive slots, leaving no room for expansion. The dirty buggers. So after cursing Michael Dell and his perfect hairline, I said the heck with it, and decided to replace the small factory drives with the Crucial. But I didn't want to have to download a Windows boot disk and reinstall everything from the ground up. Luckily, EaseUS Disk Copy Pro software has been around for decades.First I had to connect the new drive. So I bought a Sabrent USB 3.2 Type-C Tool-Free Enclosure and installed the Cruicial drive in it. Then I installed EaseUS Disk Copy and followed the simple wizard to do a sector-by-sector copy on the laptop's drive to the USB external drive. It is so easy you almost feel guilty about it. In less than 30 minutes, I had the new Crucial drive installed in the enclosure, formatted, and had copied everything to it. I turned everything off, moved the Crucial to one of the available slots on the laptop, and it booted perfectly the first time. Like nothing had happened, except that I quadrupled my storage space.The new Crucial drive is responsive, and has lightning-fast transfer speeds. It was easy to install, so much that I regret not doing this a lot sooner. I have faith in the Crucial brand, as I think they have proven themselves over many years to have high quality products. I would definitely buy this again (and am already considering getting a second one for that other drive slot).

It works, installed on a gigabyte mb & installed there software.

Works great in my PC. Simple installation, decent speed. Linux itself was having issues keeping it mounted (yes, edited the right files) but I don't think it was the drives fault - it was my specific distro and Steam. Connectivity has been fine besides the Linux/steam issues. Haven't clocked the temp, but I don't notice it getting overly warm.

Runs cool, efficient, has just enough cache to get the job done, great NVME per cost/performance ratio.

Reads and writes well. Not too far from described reading and writing speeds. Temp remains cool as well.

Easy install and no compatibility issues. I wanted a hard drive that is known to be reliable, and I wanted a large enough drive for not only games but also video editing.

I am pretty good with computers, so instead of reading the instructions I figured I'd just partition it and format like any other. I have a brand new computer so I figured it would find it easily. It didn't. Hours later, embarrassing unmentionable mistakes later, I realized I never did try the downloadable software. Five minutes after that it was up and running perfectly. Don't be me; download Acronis from their website. Otherwise your computer won't even know it's there. Four stars because I don't like it when a pc can't recognize a drive even exists. That's just wrong. But definitely worth buying for the price. In fact I just bought another one 3 weeks later and used the software this time. The software only partitions so make sure to format as well. The instructions probably tell you how to do that. I didn't read them of course, that's what Google is for ;)

Great price, blazing fast, super easy to install in a GKKtec EVO X1 mini gaming pc.