Had a 6+ y/o HP 15-DA0047NR laptop that was OEM with 8 GB Ram, Core i5-1350U CPU, 1 TB 5400 rpm SATA HD, and Win10 Home. MS allowed upgrade to WIn11, but became a sloth with both boot times, ie over 30 seconds just to go from black HP boot screen to Windows Log In, then another 4 minutes to complete the boot process to where the hard drive light went out!
Installed the 8 GB Ram Chip in extra slot, and this SSD fit right into the extra PCIe slot next to the battery, allowing the SATA to remain, and replaced the swollen battery that the HP Bios had been warning about! The Crucial website had a diagnostic app that checked out my system, but also provided them with the model # of the laptop for compatibility, wasn't sure if mine could use one prior to doing this step.
First booted back to SATA HD, then downloaded/installed and ran the FREE Acronis True Image cloning software selecting default settings for cloning existing HD/OS for booting to new SSD, took a bit over an hour. Had previously backed up the Docs/photos files to a USB Flashh drive. Then rebooted computer again, accessing the BIOS to select/change the UEFI boot devices, it found the new SSD, and reordered it putting it first in boot order, and then completed the boot.
Took only maybe 10 seconds to go from HP screen to Log In, and then only 20 seconds to complete the Windows OS boot and all other programs, ie Defender, AVAST, BlueTooth, sound card apps. Now only takes a few seconds to load a program like a browser, or my Outlook email program, etc.!
So, I am very happy with the performance, speed of this SSD, it has make a quantum difference in how my old laptop performs. I don't do any gaming on it, so I can't provide a review of it's performance in that category, but I'm sure it will perform well there, too.
My old HD was only using about 150 GB for the OS and files, so I'm not using much space(less than 20% of the 1 TB) with this SSD, but read about it's best to have a lot of head room/space to help it not wear out as fast, as well as the number of writes done to it. So you'll want to keep that in mind if you'll be buying one for a gaming machine.
Hope this helps you make a decision about getting an SSD for your system, and using Crucial's units.
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