There are so many detailed reviews that I am sure I don't have too much to add, but let me say this...
I have an ASUS ROG g740jm. Love it. I don't play games but do a lot of business computing and video watching. It always felt like it wasn't running as well as it could, however. Looking at the performance specs, I noticed that the standard Toshiba 1TB disk in it was always the bottleneck, running for extended periods of time at 100 percent when looking at the stats. The computer was fast, but lagged whenever disk access was necessary for what it was doing. I only had about 150MB of stuff used on my disk after several years, so I thought that 500MB would be more than enough, and this SSD, by a brand I trust and with good reviews, should be more than enough to eliminate the problems.
I used the Apricot Notebook Drive Upgrade Kit to clone the old disk to the new disk. Super-easy!! Took 30 minutes through USB3.0. Anybody could do that with no difficulty at all. Also bought a very nice, but reasonable, Jaway six-screwdriver bits set that had just the right tools for the job. Excellent quality.
Then, I went to the ASUS owner's manual online to see how to remove the old drive and replace it with this SanDisk. Again, I was super-careful with everything, and it went extremely-smoothly. I have a place for a second disk, but rather than put the new clone in slot 0 and moving the old disk to slot 1, I just decided to take the old one out. So I removed the old disk caddy from the computer (3 screws), and removed the old disk from the caddy (4 screws). The swap was again super-easy. Reinstalled everything, flipped the machine over, turned it on, and voila! The whole process took no more than an hour, including copying the old disk to the new.
The key here is that this is a quality product. It does everything that I expected to improve my computer's performance, and then some. It has completely-eliminated the bottlenecks where the disk is running at 100 percent, and it flies through all the little procedures when monitoring the computer's performance.
One really-noticeable place that this disk makes a difference is when using the Internet. Chrome, which I use a lot, is pretty-fast, but this disk sped it up a lot. At first I wondered why that was, then I realized that Chrome stores oodles of individual files with little bits of web pages in them. Accessing those files to display a particular page was slowing down performance of the total process. Now, with the SSD, pages just leap onto my screen. Incredible.
And just for fun, I ran a Norton full system scan. Looking through the history file, it usually took about 1:15 to 1:30 to do 900,000-ish files. With the SSD, 13 minutes. Thirteen!! How fun is that. A good example of the SSD's ability to deliver a stream of file-contained information to the CPU. Both were running at or near 100 percent much of the time. Before, the disk would be at 100 percent, while the CPU would be ambling along. No more!
Great price! Couldn't be happier.
| Hard Drive | 480 GB 1x480GB |
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