Hot! Newegg.com has the Crucial M500 240GB SATA III SSD Sale for $79.99 with Free Shipping. - Rated 4.5 out of 5. $125 at Amazon. Rated 4 out of 5.

Performance Boost

It is the Perfect Upgrade for a notebook. Instead of buying a new laptop. We upgraded a Core 2 Duo based Thinkpad and we're amazed. No need to spend $500+ on a new machine.

• Original Laptop boot time with HDD - 3 minutes
• Boot time with SSD after replacing the hard drive - 30 seconds
• Same performance increase on an older Core 2 Duo Desktop

This SSD has a 3 years limited parts and labor Manufacturer Warranty.

Features:

• 240GB Storage Capacity
• Up to 500 MB/s Read (SATA 6Gb/s)
• Up to 250 MB/s Write (SATA 6Gb/s)
• 3 year warranty

Installation Kit

The Crucial M500 240GB SATA III SSD Sale does not come with an Installation Kit. However, TigerDirect has the VisionTek 900537 Universal SSD Cloning Installation Kit priced around $20 plus shipping. [Update: It's $21.27 at Amazon; shipped free with $35+ or with Prime.]

The installation kit provides the consumer with a 3.5" bracket with screws, SATA to USB adapter cable, and Data Migration software to give its user with safe and easy data migration to the SSD from an existing drive.

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