Unless you are running real time simulations or really, really into gaming - this is the champ of 500GB SSD's. Reliability and performance bordering on the limits of what the SATA bus can achieve all at some of the most affordable prices in the SSD market without considering any of those weird one off brands that seem to come and go. Lets also not forget that Crucial is built by Micron - the king of enterprise SSD so you know you are getting all that enterprise know how trickle down without the expense.