It’s pretty simple. Adding an SSD to your desktop or laptop is the simplest and most effective way to breathe life into an older machine, or dramatically speed up even a newer. Because they don’t rely on platters and all of that physical movement, solid-state drives are unfathomably faster than regular old hard drives. And, when they’re NVMe drives, they’re even faster, as they’re not hindered by the slower SATA bus.
Thanks to the fine folks at Crucial, we’ve got one of their 500GB P1 NVMe M.2 SSD’s to give away. It’s worth about R1400.
Says Crucial:
“Whether you are trying to get in the game faster or store all your precious memories, the Crucial P1 SSD delivers. Capacities start at 500GB and scale to 1TB. Accelerate performance with the latest NVMe PCIe technology. The P1 is designed to be the only storage upgrade you need — storage, speed, and dependability. Accelerate everything.”
Of course, you’ll need to have a laptop or desktop that supports M.2 drives. Whether you use it as a system drive or just as storage to speed up your games, it’ll make a monumental difference to your general computing experience. Heck, even if you don’t have a PC you could use it in an external M.2 enclosure to give your PS4 or Xbox One a boost. Want to win it? Yeah, of course you do.
How do you win it? Well, just fill in this here form. You’re allowed one entry per unique email address and must reside within South Africa to be eligible. Also, commenting on this post will net you a bonus entry; just tell us why you want the drive. The competition will run until 2 February 2020, with the winner announced on the site on Monday 3 February 2020.
Good luck–and thanks once again to Crucial for supplying the prize.
Last Updated: January 15, 2020
Cathal
January 15, 2020 at 14:17
My poor Crucial 256GB SSD feels lonely.
David - John Milne
January 15, 2020 at 14:17
Winning this SSD would give me an excuse to buy a compatible Motherboard (and upgrade my PC)
PoisonedBelial
January 15, 2020 at 14:17
I’d love to put that in my desktop, purely because my mechanical hdd for games just isn’t cutting it anymore 🙁
Yozzie
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
Oh yea. That reminds me… *goes off to order another M.2 SSD*
Flippen COD and it’s 150GB+ bullcrap.
Frederik Mundey
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
I thought a 250GB Sata SSD would be enough when I built a new PC in 2018, but then I got Red Dead Redemption 2. Currently I only have RDR2 and Anno 1800 on my SSD. So getting a bigger and FASTER SSD would be amazing.
Raptor Rants
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
*enters competition*
Pariah
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
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Raptor Rants
January 15, 2020 at 16:36
No!
Pariah
January 15, 2020 at 19:41
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Raptor Rants
January 15, 2020 at 19:48
*flips tables*
Yozzie
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
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Admiral Chief
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
HAH
Pariah
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
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Yozzie
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
xD
Raptor Rants
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
wow….
Yozzie
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
This was such a good show
Admiral Chief
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
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Raptor Rants
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
Not this time
Pariah
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
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Admiral Chief
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
Saving this one https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/87758c9b9f6749fa81479fe8a418a445c143b33b44204d93a2874a52f1eb4e34.png
Admiral Chief
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
Wait….what….CH actually doing a tech give-away????
Raptor Rants
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
back off fluffy
Geoffrey Tim
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
yehboi
Admiral Chief
January 15, 2020 at 14:18
Awwwyosss
Admiral Chief
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
My reason for entering?
My birthday is 1st of Feb, so this will make a glorious gift
HvR
January 16, 2020 at 09:37
Well my birthday is next week AND this is my 10th year oozing my valuable knowledge and intellect unto the Lagz/CH comment section.
Admiral Chief
January 16, 2020 at 10:14
Hehehe, also my 10th year here…
Admiral Chief
January 15, 2020 at 14:26
My reason for entering?
My birthday is 1st of Feb, so this will make a glorious gift
Tarryn Smith
January 15, 2020 at 14:34
Awesome
Septicspleen
January 15, 2020 at 14:34
Cause running games / pc on my old af drive is just no fun any more ;(
Bob
January 15, 2020 at 15:07
SPEED
Muhammad Ahmed Nana
January 15, 2020 at 15:48
ooooh…. I’ve been looking to upgrade my SATA SSD to an NVMe one.
CrAiGiSh
January 15, 2020 at 16:13
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HvR
January 15, 2020 at 16:36
I entered because I know that Geoff wants to make me happy and a 512GB NVMe will make me happy.
Also can not fit anymore SSDs in the current case.
Metal_Masher
January 15, 2020 at 16:44
I have this 1tb version of this NVMe drive in my gaming laptop which I cloned my previous 1tb hdd to it and loading of various apps/games is so much better and the hdd was replaced with a 1tb patriot ssd to add additional storage capacity to my laptop while ensuring fast loading time for any apps/games installed to it. I would recommend this NVMe as a budget device for those that are a bit cash strapped but wanting fast drive for there pc this device will serve your needs.
Will
January 15, 2020 at 17:23
Guys, please stop entering. I can’t win if you all enter too.
HvR
January 15, 2020 at 17:56
Where the f…. did all these people come from?????
Rudi
January 15, 2020 at 18:49
I’m a single part away from my new man cave PC, the CPU (coming next month). Already have a WD Black SN750 500gig M.2 SSD, and a second one would be amazing! Good luck y’all!
Gerlu De Bruin
January 15, 2020 at 18:57
Would love to win this SSD to increase my storage capacity 😀
Kieran Luke Druzynski
January 15, 2020 at 14:34
Sweet deal!!!!
G8crasha
January 15, 2020 at 14:59
Wish it was a 1TB, but hey, something is better than nothing I guess. You only have to run your OS on it I suppose! I’ll keep my 1TB SSD for my games.
P.S. Bonus entry: I need to be able to minimise and maximise my web browser quickly when someone walks into the room for obvious reasons. Do you know how much RAM you use when you have tons of Incognito browser tabs open. My swap file gets plenty of use, and my swap file would sit on this drive!
Admiral Chief
January 15, 2020 at 15:14
o_O
HvR
January 15, 2020 at 16:28
“shwaffle file”
Son of Banana Jim
January 15, 2020 at 21:30
Lol, who are all these people in the comment section? What’s going on here? Oh…!
*inserts details, clicks submit*
Jarrod Lane
January 15, 2020 at 18:41
Lurker gotta enter. (Also need decent load times please!)
Rudi
January 15, 2020 at 18:49
I’m a single part away from my new man cave PC, the CPU (coming next month). Already have a WD Black SN750 500gig M.2 SSD, and a second one would be amazing! Good luck y’all!
Josh 'Nobodyyyyyyyツ' Bott
January 15, 2020 at 19:04
My brother just got a new PC (2nd hand) with a 500GB HDD, would be an amazing upgrade to his system giving him the fast load times I get ( He notices whenever i use my 😛 )
Ruth Jo-anne Burns
January 16, 2020 at 00:30
I’m a streamer branching into content creation this would be a life saver
RK
January 15, 2020 at 21:01
why???????? because cod mw!
Dresden
January 15, 2020 at 22:28
I need the space so badly! My fossil 512gb harddrive just isn’t cutting it anymore.
Stevoz
January 16, 2020 at 07:30
Laptop hdd busy failing, so being able to replace with ssd will be awesome!
Werner Deetlefs
January 16, 2020 at 07:55
Yes… give it to ME!
Thys vN
January 16, 2020 at 09:42
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Denise Simons
January 16, 2020 at 13:35
No need to worry about space anymore for anything! Commons let the winning begin……
Jarryd Junkin
January 16, 2020 at 14:43
Well you can never get enough space when you xo video work ?.
Stormac3
January 16, 2020 at 21:54
Would make an epic late Christmas gift, I mean I never even got a card.. *sniff*
Aj ATi Morkel
January 18, 2020 at 15:31
I have the need for speed. YES YES YES !!!
Thabz
January 21, 2020 at 16:26
Breathing heavily… I’ll finally be able to open my CAD without the dreaded fatal error
Tbone187
January 22, 2020 at 09:42
Not sure if it’ll work on my Laptop but worth a shot! I could use some Ram to go with it. It’s an old i7.
Tbone187
January 22, 2020 at 09:42
Not sure if it’ll work on my Laptop but worth a shot! I could use some Ram to go with it. It’s an old i7.
KitKat
January 25, 2020 at 11:32
😀 i’m literally at 40gb left of space and each day i get closer to a panic attack waiting for my computer to die 😀
Roger Justin Krishnan
January 26, 2020 at 21:03
It’s been my goal to get a new PC for a couple of years now, the funds just haven’t availed themselves yet… This would be ideal to stick into said “new machine”, this would be great for the video creation and editing I have been thinking of getting into and even some gaming!!! #FIngersCrossed
Mario Mumba
January 28, 2020 at 11:48
I bought an asus tuf gaming laptop which only has a 7200rpm 1tb hdd, it has an M.2 slot but not ssd?, what is a gaming laptop without a super fast ssd like the Crucial 500GB P1 NVMe M.2 SSD to load my windows 10 and my games faster.
oldhat
February 3, 2020 at 23:53
Who won???
Geoffrey Tim
February 4, 2020 at 07:32
https://www.criticalhit.net/technology/heres-the-winner-of-the-crucial-p1-nvme-ssd/
Aplogies, we got loadshedding unexpectedly.