Great drive, installation instructions could use some polishing.
Replaced an older Samsung 840 128GB SSD (needed more space). The Crucial is actually faster to boot, usually in about 15 seconds (Win 10 Pro). Was a bit leery about using the "free" cloning software, backed everything up just in case, then followed the instruction on the Acronis website but, as others had noted, It won't find the drive if you connected as an external USB drive. Found an extra SATA cable from my build 8 years ago, connected, used Disk Manager to format and prep the drive. Was prepared for a multi-hour ordeal.....finished in 6 minutes! Swapped the drives, rebooted, and ended up on a 10 minute journey as it booted to Win 7 on my internal 1TB HDD backup drive. Rebooted to the BIOS, corrected the primary boot sequence (would have done that first if I had known). TADA! Everything is smooth sailing so far.
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