
if your motherboard has a slot for an m2 drive get one of those, even the M2's are selling relatively cheap compared to their normal price right now.

I'm using the drive to store files, given how cheap SSD drives are I definitely would NOT advise using it as say your C/Windows drive. Great for desktop storage and also for backups? or if your MB doesn't support M2's the crucial MX500 2.5 form factor drives are selling $52 for 1 TB size right now on best buy and newegg (they go in and out of stock at amazon for about the same price too) I did some research apparently surveillance drives are just fine to use as desktop drives in general and my surveillance drive has been working great for backups too, just recently restored a windows backup drive image from it actually using macrium reflect. and it works great as a desktop drive too. oddly enough it was the "approved" drive to go into the Direct TV DVR add-on (basically just a usb dock you hooked up to the DVR) we've stopped using since then when we stopped using DirectTV. Funny story, I ended up using a surveillance drive as a desktop drive.
