Review on 💨 Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe Internal SSD - CT1000P1SSD8, with lightning-fast speeds up to 2000MB/s by Udders Sharma

This is a fast ride and a great payoff. To make it really fast, I had to take an extra step. I bought this to replace the SATA M.2 boot disk on my Dell 5570. I'm no IT guy, I'd say I know more than the average bear, but not as technically advanced as some of the other reviews you might see here. Hardware wise, I've replaced RAM, changed the SATA III drive from HDD to SSD, and the like. I will take some time to explain the installation process for those like me. Before I start SECURE your data. SECURE your data. MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR DATA. *** DISCLAIMER *** I'm not a professional and I'm not telling you what to do or giving advice, just sharing my experience with this product. 1. I used the tool on the Crucial website to scan my system to see what drives would work on my system/motherboard. I already knew I had an M.2 connector but wasn't sure if I could upgrade from SATA to PCIe. The tool gave me a list of what would work and I just copied the part number and looked it up on Revain.2. Along with the SSD, I also bought an enclosure/adapter to install a new Crucial drive for cloning from the boot (C:) drive. After looking around a bit I was sure I would buy one for PCIe not SATA, they are not interchangeable.3. To clone my boot (C:) drive to this new Crucial drive, I used the free version of Marcium Reflect. I just google and watch some youtube videos to figure out how to use this particular software. I've used cloning software before, but each one is a little different, so I just wanted to make sure I got all my ducklings lined up. Once the clone is created. I removed the back cover from my laptop and replaced my old SATA M.2 SSD with this new Crucial PCIe M.2 drive. The only difference from replacing RAM is that there is a 0.5 inch set screw on the M.2 connector. When I tried to restart my computer I found an error in my BIOS saying there was no BOOT DRIVE CONFIGURATION.6. I restarted the computer and pressed F2 during boot to get into the BIOS (this depends on the PC manufacturer). 7. I went to the BOOT MANAGER and added the path to the new drive. Since I've never had to do this, I just look at the path on the old drive and use the same path on the new drive.8. Restart and Windows loads without problems.9. Speed test performed with the free program CrystalDiskMark. The result is the first frame with a maximum speed of 1523.22. While this was a definite improvement over my SATA, I still thought it was faster. After a little research, I discovered that Crucial has soothing Storage Executive software that optimizes drive performance.10. As soon as I installed the Storage Executive, I opened it up and wasn't thrilled. An option in the software that speeds up the process is called Momentum Cache. I quickly realized that the software didn't recognize that I had a Crucial branded SSD on my motherboard. So I had to do some more research and found that I needed to change the BOIS from RAID to AHCI.11. I googled RAID on AHCI and read a few posts, very easy. When researching why it wasn't being recognized, I found a post on the Crucial website that made it seem complicated - WRONG, it was simple.12. After switching from RAID to AHCI, I rebooted the machine. I ran all boot processes, then ran CrystalDiskMark again and got results in the second number with a top speed of 5231.59. I hope this helps some people.