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I purchased this product for my Asus U36JC-B1 which is the super slim notebook offering from Asus. The speed on this laptop is already very good, but I know with the 500gb SATA at the heart of it, slow down would be inevitable. So after purchasing the Crucial C300 for my HP DV7-2040us I decided to pick up this newer model for my Asus. I cloned my original 500GB SATA drive to this using Acronis True Image 2009 and a external USB 2.5" case. Acronis adjusted the partitions so everything fitted perfectly, including the recovery partition which are critical on these drives considering there is no optical drive. I also made sure all setting were adjusted in Windows 7 64bit to account for the new drive, including disabling defrag and indexing, enabling TRIM, and if need be disabling LPM in the registry. Make sure you download the latest Intel Rapid Storage Driver, this can have a dramatic impact on speeds and how the drive is handled by Windows. Intel Rapid Storage Driver: [...] I am not disappointed with this hard drive, here's why: Boot times are much quicker, Application response is very quick, No unreliability issues (thus far), Battery life appears to have improved, Switching from steel to plastic makes it slightly lighter, Easy to install, remove your old SATA drive and plug this one in, easy!, Installing one of these is like having a new laptop (in my opinion) the speed increase is dramatic, over and above a CPU upgrade. I'm not trying to be a poster boy for Crucial but I am so impressed with these drives, I purchased another 2! 1x 128gb and 1x 64gb M4. I have a total of 4 Crucial drives running in different computers. I highly recommend this product.