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5.0 out of 5 starsFAST, RELIABLE, GREAT PURCHASE
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2017
When one of our laptops began getting drive errors, it was clear we were on borrowed time. After looking around at the options, I decided that an SSD was the way to go, both for speed and reliability, but also to add some additional life to an older Lenovo laptop. I read a lot of the reviews on Amazon, but quickly found that just about every SSD had great reviews. Tech comparison tests weren't that much help either, since even the slowest SSD beats the daylights out of a fastest HDD. So, I ultimately turned to a UserBenchmark site and studied the SSDs for performance and price. The Mushkin Reactor looked to me to be the best combo of performance on a budget; using the latest MLC flash memory and a high-quality controller.
This computer runs my wife's business and the HDD had failed with barely a whimper. Every computer comes apart a little differently, but for me the installation went very quickly and smoothly. The Lenovo Z575 laptop recognized the drive immediately and I set about to making a clean install of Windows and restoring her files from the network backup drive. After about 5 months of daily operation (so far), everything works great. The computer starts up so much faster with the SSD, and it runs quite a lot longer on the battery. Neither of us is a high-power user, and there may be better drives for gaming or workstation use. For our needs though, this was a great purchase. Happy wife, happy life!