![]() ![]() With light use it seemed ok, so I think it was an overheating issue. Eventually after a few reboots, the drive stopped being recognised at all.So I let the laptop cool overnight, and the next day the drive had reappeared. One game said the install dir was corrupt, and after a reboot Windows saw the drive as a RAW device, so chkdsk wouldnt run against it. It worked at first, and seemed as capable as the Samsung drive already in the laptop, although it was perhaps slightly less responsive.However after the drive was about half full think a day of installing all my Steam games, the problems began. ![]() But sadly the crucial lasted less than 12 hours. But I steeled myself, and I managed it although its a bit scary. ![]() I bought this for my MSI GS65, which I ordered with this drive.The GS65 is difficult to upgrade, as the motherboard is in upside down so its a lot of work to install a 2nd M.2 drive. OS on SSD and data on physical spinning drives, but that adds weight you just have to ask if its worth it or not. There is an argument for having 2 storage devices. Its also a lot more lightweight which may appeal.I really recommend this device if it fails of course it fails big theres no sectors to recover but if you have a good backup strategy it should be fine. The results have been amazing Windows 10 takes 3 seconds compared to maybe 15secs, but the real difference is once you are into Windows theres no waiting for everything to work. I removed the old HDD in the end, but I suspect if I put it in now it would be okay and the system would know to boot off the m2 device.In terms of performance, so far so good… I used this to replace a 1TB 7200 SSHD hybrjd on an i5 laptop with 20GB RAM. One note of caution it is difficult to keep the existing HDD in when you install this as it uses UEFI rules about which device boots. I cloned a 1TB drive to this so the size was identical. You then remove the old HDD and youre ready to go. I thought it was a bit mean that the screw wasnt included in this product hence the dropped star on installation.Crucials website features software to clone the existing HDD onto this. Thinking back to when I once bought a 3.5 HDD featuring 250MB for 249.99 and was pleased about it… the fact I just bought a 1TB m.2 SSD which is about the size of a folded playing card puts things into perspective.Installation is easy you slot it in the m2 slot and a screw holds in the other end. ![]()
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