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I normally hate writing reviews there are this negative, mainly because that means I've had a terrible experience with the product. For the first couple of months while I used this, I loved it. Quick, easy to install, and best of all, inexpensive. 1TB for >150$ on an M.2 drive is phenomenal. Then, I started to have crashes 2 months in. At first I thought it was drivers as it would only happen in games, or when running high intensity tasks. I also thought it may have just been a simple registry error in the 3 years I've been using this installation, with only cloning between new drives. Then, one day this week, I left my computer running with Halo: CE paused to go make dinner for myself and the family. When I was back, I was greeted with an unfriendly black BIOS post screen: "Please attach drive with OS". I restarted, the windows loading circle started, but it never booted. The computer just looped between trying to load the windows recovery and windows normally. I then used the recovery USB I keep handy for this very purpose. Nothing would work. I tried linux, nothing. I finally resigned to reformatting as I had a backup for this very problem were it to arise. The reformat wouldn't take. I am sure this drive is toast. I will be submitting a warranty claim come Monday and I will report back as the saga continues. This can either come back as a save by crucial, or an epic failure. Update 5/6: Epic failure. After much back and forth I finally convinced crucial to cover shipping. They do not care about customer relations. Their standard practice for RMAs are for customers to ship them back the drives on their own dime. I don't understand this policy, which is actually quite common in the PC industry. It's a tiny m.2 drive. Just eat the 5$ and keep customers. I've had other companies send me replacements without sending out the original after just seeing the symptoms and a receipt. Crucial has some serious work to do to get my patronage back. From now on, I'll stick with Samsung or WD.