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8 year old laptop running like new now!

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2023

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!

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Maybe NOT so easy to install.

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2017

The Sandisk website says: "Easy Set-up. The SanDisk SSD Plus comes with easy, step-by-step instructions and cloning software to help you set up your new drive." Well, that is not true. The ONLY item included in the SSD's package is a sheet of paper with warranty information. You can find installation instructions on the Sandisk website, but you are not likely to have much luck with these instructions. Windows 10 file manager will NOT see the SSD until after it has been INITIALIZED and FORMATTED using DISK MANAGER. You can also download the Apricorn cloning software referenced in the instructions from the Apricorn website, but this software appears to be proprietary and gave an error message that it could not find an Apricorn SSD. I downloaded EaseUS Todo Backup and ran the cloning utility. It worked fine and the system booted with the cloned SSD after I installed it with the Sata cable and power cable where the previous SYSTEM disk was located. It boots a lot faster than with the old WD Black HDD. Applications start a little quicker also. You will see MANY 5 star reviews here on Amazon with one-liners saying how easy it is to install. Funny, how they all sound like they were written by the same person. Did you notice that to? It is easy to install, but only if you have done it before or can find some better instructions than Sandisk offers. Good luck.

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8 year old laptop running like new now!

Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2023

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ITBob

Great SSD, good price.

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2017

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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.

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MonkeyPaw

Worked great on an old Mac mini, now in an old Mac Pro!

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2017

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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.

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★AM1 Engineer★

Budget solid state drive!

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2017

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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.

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MexiQuin

Very impressive

Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2017

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I will say, upon first receiving the device, it felt like the casing of the SSD was made with a cheap-ish plastic. It felt light and fragile, but that's to be expected, as it is not built with the same heavy metal components as an HDD. Once I plugged it into my PC, however, I could definitely notice the difference. I tested Windows 7 Home Premium on it, and it booted tremendously faster than I've ever seen it boon on a standard hard drive. It only sat on the boot splash screen for roughly 3-5 seconds or so (normally it would take a few minutes to boot as well as warm-up once it was on). I don't notice any warm up time with this hard drive. Then I tested Windows 10, which boots even faster because of its "fast startup" technique. Overall, I'd say that this is a very good product and I am far from disappointed. Just make sure you know how to use a secondary HDD for storage and not the SDD itself. 120 gigs gets eaten up real fast with this thing.

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Jeff Paretchan

Excellent! Great product at a great price!

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2017

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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.

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Devon Zafuto

Great upgrade for boot drive

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2019

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I bought this to use in my desktop as a boot drive. Programs load very quickly and booting from a shutdown is very fast. However, I had to do a clean install since the storage size of this is much smaller than my HDD (1 TB). It was a bit of a pain to get everything set up, but once I did I found that this SSD does the job and does it well. Highly considering purchasing a sandisk 500 gb as an upgrade for my older laptop.

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Vakhtang Jaliashvili

The SSD is requested for my ACER ASPIRE ONE D255 and it works very very cool. No technical problems regarding BIOS and everythin

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2017

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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

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D. W. Rose

Drive Would Not Clone

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2017

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I purchased this to replace the HDD in a Dell 5559 laptop. I arrived quickly. I downloaded Sandisk's Dashboard and the manual. The manual recommended the cloning software, bu EZ Gig. I searched for it and downloaded it. I tried unsuccessfully for two hours to clone the drives. The program would find recognize the SSD. I tried reformatting, installing the SSD, but nothing worked. I then saw that Dashboard had a link to a WD cloning program. I downloaded it but it too would not clone the drive. It would start a reboot, but not complete the clone. I tried one other program, but this did not work either. I finally gave up and called Sandisk tech support. This was a waste of time. All he told me to do was to get Amazon to replace the SSD. I told him that I was able to use the SSD as a mass storage device and that I didn't think the drive was bad. He told to try and load Windows 10 on the drive, which I did. I was able to boot from the drive, but I still could not get the SSD to clone from HDD! My gripe is not with the drive, but with Sandisk. I wanted help with the cloning. I could have save a lot of time by loading the OS from the start!

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this one will run better with windows 10

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2018

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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.

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