Review on 💾 Crucial BX500 960GB SATA Internal SSD - CT960BX500SSD1 with 3D NAND Technology by Tim Woods

I bought this drive to replace a spinning drive in a laptop that was often slowing down due to hard drive latency. The machine runs Windows 10 Home and Debian Linus Buster. While not the fastest SSD available, it is much faster than the original drive. There is no longer a 20-minute period where the Windows side runs slowly waiting for the update and virus scan to complete. On the Linux side, there is a sync with the cloud storage provider for all my important files. This went from 5-10 minutes after a reboot to less than 1 minute. The Lightning deal was too good to pass up. At the regular price, you can get more performance for about $10, so it might be worth spending the money to run a little faster. Large writes (on the order of 20GB) are only about twice as fast as the original drive. However, I am very happy with the purchase and the performance is much better. I don't use hibernate anymore because the machine boots up so fast it's not worth the effort (battery still draining, occasional resume issues causing reboots, etc.).