Features:

  • Easy upgrade for faster boot-up, shutdown, application load and response (As compared to 5400 RPM SATA 2.5” hard drive. Based on published specifications and internal benchmarking tests using PCMark Vantage scores.)
  • Boosts burst write performance, making it ideal for typical PC workloads
  • The perfect balance of performance and reliability
  • Read/write speeds of up to 535MB/s/450MB/s (Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon drive capacity, host device, OS and application.)
  • Shock-resistant for proven durability —even if you drop your computer (Shock resistant (up to 1500G) and vibration resistant (5gRMS, 10-2000 HZ/4.9 gRMS, 7-800 HZ), Temperature (from 0 degrees Celcius to 70 degrees Celcius))
  • 3-year limited manufacturer warranty
but so far this has been an excellent upgrade.

Recently purchased this SSD to upgrade my old HP Pavilion dv6000 Intel Centrino based laptop running Windows 8.1 with its original Toshiba 160GB SATA drive. I read many posts and reviews on how to go about performing this upgrade and I ended up using a free software called EaseUS Todo Backup. It worked flawlessly in cloning my old drive to the SanDisk, which I connected via a USB adapter. The old laptop now boots fast and all functions requiring hd read/write are much faster than before. It seems the battery life also lasts longer too. I can't yet speak about the longevity of this drive, but so far this has been an excellent upgrade.

it did make a fairly significant difference to boot times and usage The customer was very happy, and the price is hard to argue with ...

I use these in older laptops,\ Customers I have needing an upgrade to a much older laptop usally get this on my recomendation. It's not as expensive as a Samsung drive but it does the job just as well on an older computer that cant really fully take advantage of the speed anyhow. This one went in to an old dell, it did make a fairly significant difference to boot times and usage The customer was very happy, and the price is hard to argue with when you compare the performance to price ratio. An ssd of any kind is hands down the cheapest and fastest upgrade you can do to a computer. They always provide a very obvious performance upgrade. This old laptop feels 5 years newer now and then some. Will buy again and soon

Easy to Install in mid 2012 MacBook Pro9,2

I noted several reviews that talked about finding software to clone the drive but there's an easier way... I bought this SSD for a mid 2012 Macbook Pro, and this was as simple to install as any Hard Drive; I used the same process I have used for numerous drive replacements. I use an external HD enclosure with a regular HDD for Backups. To install this SSD, I first installed it in that same enclosure, and used Disk Utility to erase and reformat the drive. Then I installed the SSD into the laptop and put my Backup drive in the external enclosure again. I restarted the laptop (which then automatically booted from the Backup drive) and after it booted I selected the option Restore From Backup. System used the (external) Backup Drive to copy everything to the new SSD. It took about two and half hours to transfer around 500 GB. When it was done the system worked perfectly, and much faster than the old one! (This is exactly the same method I used in the past to install a new HDD.)

Dramatic Speed Increase for 2011 Macbook Pro

My friend came to me upset that his 2011 Macbook Pro was getting unbearably slow, so I recommended that rather than buying a new $2000 Macbook and having to deal with the hassle of reloading all his software and transfering documents, that he simply spend a tenth of the price to speed up the one he currently has with this SSD. I helped him do a clone of his old hard drive to this SSD and after that was done we loaded this in and turned on his computer, and everything was still there but his loading time was at least 5 times faster than previously, and his applications loaded almost instantaneously. He is very happy with the performance increase. One problem you may run into is that you may have to re-input the product key for your Microsoft Office software if you have that installed, as it is tied to your hardware and any hardware changes like this one will deactivate your current registration.

Very cost effective upgrade on ThinkPad X140e - my sixth one of this same SSD

I have now purchased six of these SanDisk 240 GB SSD. Originally I was paying over $60 each but this was just under $42. It makes a very cost-effective upgrade on an inexpensive system. I just installed this yesterday in a Lenovo ThinkPad X140e (of which I've purchased six) with no real issues at all. The X140e was purchased as refurbished "damaged hinge" but I can't find anything wrong with it. I paid less than $100 for the laptop supposedly with a 160 GB HDD and no promise of Bluetooth or a web camera. They wanted $25 each to ensure those would be included but they were both installed anyway. I also got a 320 GB HDD. These come with Windows 8.1 but our product ships on Windows 7 and CentOS 6 and I have to test there. I have installed Windows 7, Windows 10, CentOS 6 Linux, and Ubuntu 14 Linux on them. I love that I can swap out the disk to get a different OS. I've sort of standardized on this SSD as perfect for this purpose. I've kept this latest X140e at Windows 8.1 just to play with it some more. I tried going to 16 GB RAM - which helped with the performance. Then I decided to see what an SSD would do for this combination. I was very happy to find out the price was so low now. To clone a somewhat larger 320 GB HDD to this 240 GB drive required a bit of a trick. The trick was to: defragment the HDD, shrink the C: partition by about 100 GB, do a Windows image backup to an external 2 TB USB 3 disk, create a bootable USB "repair disk" on a thumb drive, replace the HDD with the unformatted SSD, boot the thumb drive and restore the image to it. After the restore was complete, I booted without the thumb drive installed and it's running exactly as it was before but on the much faster SSD now.

Welcome to the New Century

I have had this running in my system 24/7 for six months and it is still going strong. I will periodically update this evaluation and report if the drive is still kicking. Don't listen to the naysayers about solid state drives not being reliable. If anything, they are MORE reliable than mechanical hard drives. They are also considerably faster, produce less heat, and make zero noise. The people who say otherwise probably also believe that records sound better than Compact Discs. My gaming system has no mechanical drives. My case doesn't even have a bay for an external drive (DVD-ROM). Even with an i7-2600k and 980Ti graphics, my system can barely be heard at idle. The SanDisk SSD is one of the reasons. Mechanical drives are very noisy, as are fans. I run a fanless-cooled CPU and a fanless power supply and the graphics card fans are thermostatically controlled. Other than this, a couple of very quiet Noctua case fans keeps it cool. Conventional hard drives actually contribute to hardware failure because they help produce a lot of heat, the major cause of component failure. Jump into the current age. Buy an SSD.

SUPER Performance for Great Price

I've purchased this SSD to upgrade my HP Pavilion Wave 600 PC from 3.5" HDD to this 2.5 SSD, lucky me, there are screws for both 3.5" and 2.5". It fitted perfectly, and with the help of Macrium Reflect software, I was able to clone the HDD to SSD smoothly within 16 min (9% used out of 1TB). Now the PC super responsive, boots up and open apps instantly unlike the HDD which was always overloaded just by windows processes. See images before and after. Read Speed: 500+ MB Write Speed: 350+ MB

SanDisk SSD works well with MacBook Pro (2009, 2012)

I purchased 2 of these for use with my older MacBook Pro's. The 480GB model was on sale for $99, and i was in the market. In my case, the plan was to install as replacement for internal spinning boot disk, and then do a clean fresh install (Yosemite on mid-2009) and Sierra on (mid-2012). Install was a breeze, there are several videos on YouTube. I would rate as "EASY". Following instructions easily found on Internet, I had already created a USB-flash installer for the MACOS. Powered-up system with new SSD installed and held down OPTION key. I was able to pick the USB drive where the installer resided (you wont see the SSD disk at that point). From there, easily used Disk Utility to format SSD and then installed new instance of MACOS. SImple and easy. As several reviewers mentioned, this is not the fastest SSD out there, but notably improves speed of system startup and any disk access for older MacBook Pro laptops. However, unlike others, I am not taking a star away because SanDisk doesnt represent itself as top shelf speed. At the price, this is a 5-Star product. I cannot speak yet to reliability, but SanDisk has strong brand reputation for flash storage, so I expect little issues.

FASTEST COMPUTER IN THE HOUSE NOW

Worked perfectly, I backed up my laptop drive using EaseUS Todo backup home, which is free, made a whole drive clone using the easy interface. Plugged the SSD into the laptop using a cheap hard drive dock. Once the clone was done, I simply took the hard drive out of the laptop, slapped the SSD in and powered it up. It was exactly the same computer and files, but booted into windows in about 8 seconds. Usually this takes 3 minutes. Usually once in windows it is about 5 minutes before you can actually open something and use it. With the SSD apps are available and open instantaneously after getting to the desktop. Made the old laptop feel and run faster than any computer in the house. I highly recommend this upgrade, and because of the low price of this drive, it is absolutely worth every penny.

Perfect for an OS and your most important apps

Windows 10 boots like a dream. The worst speed bottleneck on computer speed tends to be the hard drive, and this is a great way to fix that and save a lot of time and headaches just from pressing power. My pc now boots in a fraction of the time compared to my old HDD. My recommendation for excessively large media files and games would be a secondary hybrid drive if you are trying to save some cash there. You'll boot your OS so fast with this thing, that you won't mind having to wait a second for the other drive to spin up in those sessions that do require media usage, and with a hybrid drive it learns your usage habits and tries to put a little built in solid state memory to work with making load times still somewhat preferable over a regular drive. But i digress, BUY AN SSD. This one is solid for the money, and works quite well in my 8 or so months of heavy usage.

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