SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB Solid State Drive - SDSSDA-120G-G26

These SSDs work well and don't break the bank. I used them on 7 PCs at work that were about 7 years old to keep them running longer instead of buying new ones. They speed up the PC so much, it is almost like getting a new one in most cases. These are not as fast as the Samsung SSDs, but they are also a lot less expensive. If you have not installed these before on a desktop PC, typically the Spinning disks are 3.5 inches and these are 2.5 inches so you may need an adapter if your case does not have 2.5 inch slot. I was able to just drill some holes in the 3.5 inch plastic bracket in the PC so that the 2.5 inch SSD would fit, so I did not have to spend any extra on adapters. If putting them into a laptop, these will most likely fit without needing an adapter, but definitely check with the manufacturer and check the thickness too. I have run into one laptop that needed a spacer to make the SSD thicker or it would not fit and would not make contact, but i think that is pretty rare (but this one does not come with a spacer). This one is 7mm thick so you may not end up with a laptop that requires a thinner drive, but I would verify with the manufacturer just to make sure. These do not come with cloning software, but I recommend doing a clean install of the OS anyway and that is what I did in all but one case and I did clone the disk from one PC that had been recently re-imaged with software that I got included with another brand of SSD and that worked great. I purchased 7 of these and had no DOA drives and no problems so far running them everyday in a business setting.

Some time ago I acquired an Acer Aspire One D260. It wasn't running well under WinXP so I installed Lubuntu 16.04 LTS hoping to give it to my daughter to use as a first computer. The machine ran better under Lubuntu but was still sluggish at startup, opening apps and loading web pages. I recently received the SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB as well as a 2GB DDR2-667 (PC2-5300) RAM Memory Upgrade for the Acer Aspire One D260 (N450). I expected more performance improvement from the SSD but figured since the RAM was so cheap - why not. Wow, what a difference! The D260 is snappy now with power on to logon screen at about 20-25 seconds whereas before it was closer to a 1 min, 30 sec. Logon is quick, apps load fast, web pages open faster, the fan doesn't run as high and as often. I highly recommend this SSD. The 120GB size is at a great price point, and this SSD breathed new life into an older machine. The install of the SSD and RAM was easy and there are plenty of videos on YouTube which show the process. So far I'm very happy.

This SSD Drive seems to work well. I'm using it to upgrade a Dell Mini Laptop and I'm using the 120gb model. Since i'm using Linux Mint on the Dell I am unable to really git a good performance rating in the upgrade, but it certainly works better than a mechanical drive. I'll see if I can find a Disk performance tool in Linux to evaluate it further. My only complaint is the Plastic shell on the drive. I'm no rocket scientist, but Plastic does't conduct heat well. For a cheap upgrade, I recommend this drive. Update: I did run a Linux Benchmard test using the Linux Mint Disk tool and it ran well. I'm not going to post the results, because it's too hard to copy from one system to another at this time. I did forget that you have to run the Linux test when the drive is unmounted so I booted with a USB stick on a Live Linux Mint and ran the tests that way. But again, the Drives performs well for a Laptop upgrade. For a high performance Desktop or Laptop, I would use the Various Samsung models, as I already do on my Windows 10 Pro systems.

Put it in my 8-year-old laptop and it runs like a brand new machine - or better!! (replaced a 5400 rpm hard drive). The best PC/laptop upgrade I've ever made. Makes a huge difference. If you have an old laptop and want to revive it, this is definitely the way to go. The laptop runs many times faster (I'd claim 10x but I don't have hard numbers to back it up). Plus it uses less power and generates less heat. Task Manager in Windows used to show the laptop running at 100% disk usage for even simple tasks. Now it's 5-10% disk usage. We'll worth the cost!

I bought this to go into a mid-2010 Mac mini, and it works great. (iFixit will help you with the instructions) Even though the mini only has SATA2, replacing the original 5400RPM hard drive with this SSD has made a substantial difference in the everyday performance "feel" of the computer. Programs that used to take several seconds to launch now open significantly faster. It's not instantaneous, as we are still talking about a 2.4Ghz Core2 Duo here, but the difference is quite noticeable, and it breaths new life into old hardware. An SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do to an old PC! 6 Month Update: Still going strong with no noticeable change in performance. I've since pulled it from the Mac Mini and dropped it into a 2009 Mac Pro, modded to 5,1. This serves as my OS drive (with users being on a spinning disk), and it still runs like a champ. I'm not an intensive user of storage, but I do appreciate fast boot and application load times, which this SSD will deliver.

I work in IT. Most people don't know what they want or need because nothing about electronics is ever really explained. A friend of mine came to me with a decent Toshiba laptop and a standard hard disk drive (well, the 3.5" anyways) and after routine maintenance on her computer, I identified the drop-dead slow speeds to be an indicator of a failing hard drive. It was time to replace the hard drive. She ran an 8.1 Windows OS. Her daily usage consisted of internet browsing, sometimes on sites like Netflix and Hulu with streaming content, but most of the time she'd be visiting her bank and credit card websites so she wasn't a heavy computer user. For something like this, I would recommend this hard drive. It's ridiculously cheap, and maintains a lightning speed for minimal laptop use. I'd even recommend it for moderate use because, honestly, with the way electronics have to be replaced every 2-4 years, it's just silly to drop much more than that on a hard drive. I would only search for a better product if I were intending for a drive to go into a high-demand system or a server. High-demand systems to me are gaming systems or any system that needs to be using applications like photoshop, illustrator, etc. on a regular basis. At that point, it would make more sense to invest in a higher capacity and higher speed drive. Please keep in mind that 120 GB is not a lot of space considering how much content (photos, videos, applications) that we put on a system. If you use a cloud-based storage service for your media than this should also be a decent pick for you.

Ordered on March 5, 2017 and received on March 16,2017. (11 DAYS!) AMAZON has worked very slowly. But the main problem is that AMAZON has received from my account initial price for this product and freeze the same amount on my account. I do hope that this was technical error and frozen amount will be unlocked quickly. Otherwise there will be twice payment for one placed order. The SSD is requested for my ACER ASPIRE ONE D255 and it works very very cool. No technical problems regarding BIOS and everything is great in this small notebook. AMAZON! Wish you luck and in future be more sensitive regarding delivery and payment schedule. Best regards, Vakhtang

Throw away your laptop HDD, this one will run better with windows 10. Just make sure you disable services like super-fetch or else your computers just gonna jest doing something for nothing. Having a HDD for windows 10 means 100% of the disk will be used due to the loads of crap installed onto the computer by windows. I NEVER have problems with the SDD but these things should not store important information due to not being able to recover information once it has a problem. Because once one part of the SSD is bad you can't recover the information unlike a HDD where there's still a chance damage hasn't entirely taken out the HDD. The only other problem that I have is with the GPU because clearly to have a hard running program that uses intense graphics has an impact on the GPU which causes an entire problem all of its own. If only we could do something about that. This product has lower amount of storage but to store all the data would cause a problem if said device were to go out so having a cheaper SSD isn't going to harm you entirely. I suppose you could go after a hybird of the 2 devices and install both a SSD and HDD but have them both run.