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3.0 out of 5 starsYou have to already know how to install it
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2019
They make it sound like anyone buying this 2.5" SATA III Solid-State Drive (240 GB) can install it. Not so much. I figured my new gaming computer, which already had one SSD with a SATA connection, would be able to accommodate this new drive. The drive comes with a brief set of directions--basically, turn off the power, remove the cover, connect the drive into the SATA power connector and the SATA connector on your motherboard. Well, it isn't clear where that is on my computer, so I watched a youtube on installing a SSD. He said you need to buy connectors (or they should be included with the drive, but they aren't). His computer interior looks a lot different than mine, so the video was of no help. So...I suppose I'll have to pay someone to install it. Will update when it's in, but it's frustrating that they make it sound practically plug-N-play on any computer on the product page and even in the instructions, but in reality you need to know what you're doing as they aren't going to be of much help.
UPDATE: The computer guy said this drive wouldn't work with my new computer unless we used it to replace the current SATA drive, so we put it in a computer that's something like 8 years old but which could take a SATA drive. He installed the drive quickly. He said that it had good performance, but it was being limited in transfer rate by the old motherboard in the computer. It's working fine.
