SanDisk Extreme PRO 240GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD)

I took the plunge and replaced my hdd on my Asus S400C laptop with a Crucial MX100 and it went flawlessly. I then decided to go for broke and replaced the 1 Tb hdd on my Acer TC-605 with the Sandisk Extreme Pro 960 Gb. I love how my computers are no longer clicking away all the time with the poor hard disks seeming to work their little hearts out. I am sure there is a good reason why after a few months, Windows computers just seem to keep working harder and harder and get slower and slower. I know it is because of all the stuff we put into them, but I have always kept my computers cleaned up and it still seems to happen. I am hoping that changing to ssd drives in both my computers will remove some of that issue; right now it seems to be working. I just replaced the hdd on my desktop last night and used Farstones DriveClone 11 Free Version (http://www.farstone.com/software/drive-clone.php). This software is easier for the non-geek because it does one thing exceeding well--clone your disk. It also has a fast mode which I used to back up my ~700 Gb of files in only about an hour. The only thing I had trouble with was getting the computer to recognize the ssd simply because I am not really into this stuff. I did a bit of googling and found how-to sites on how to use disk manager to assign a new drive letter and then I was fine. Another issue I had was in physically installing the ssd in the computer. I went to a computer store and a guy simply gave me a plastic 2.5 to 3.5 chassis. This was helpful but Acer bolts the hdd up against the side of the case and doesnt use the traditional horizontal stacked configuration any more. I ended up installing the ssd on the plastic chassis and then simply using wire ties to hold the whole configuration in the slot where the old massive 3.5 hdd had been. As this computer just sits and never moves, I think that will be just fine. If the idea of doing that bothers you, then you may wish to open up your computer and see if you can find the correct 2.5 to 3.5 adapter. I scoured Amazon and could find nothing that had the correct configuration of drilled and tapped holes to mount in my Acer. (I needed to be able to mount to the bottom of the ssd adapter.) If you are contemplating replacing your hdd in either a laptop or desktop, the time has come. Prices have gotten reasonable and the technology is mature. I can sit in my home office in complete silence, no longer listening to that annoying hard drive always working away--it is amazing how nice silence can be. In summary here is what you need: 1. Find a ssd you like. I recommend a name brand with a large installed base so that you can capitalize on others experiences. I have a Crucial in my laptop and a Sandisk in the desktop and am pleased with both. I went a little more budget on the laptop but stepped up on the desktop and got the best: the Sandisk Extreme Pro. You cant beat a 10 year warranty. Computer years are like dog years so a 10 year warranty is like a lifetime. Also, get the largest capacity you can afford. 2. Get the ssd enclosure. You will need this enclosure because you have to have a way to connect the computer to the new ssd in order to transfer the system from one hard drive to another. In other words, you put the new ssd in the enclosure, transfer all your stuff to the ssd via the usb port on your computer, and then remove your old hdd and replace it with the new ssd. I got a Sabrent and it was fine. I didnt even bother to put the cover on as all you really need is the usb adapter. Search Amazon for hdd enclosure 2.5 inch. 3. Get the migration software. Again, I used the free Farstone DriveClone 11 and was really pleased. I downloaded others but the Farstone is easiest for non-geeks if all you are doing is cloning. 4. Set aside some time and take the plunge. While pricey, making the change removes a huge annoyance (noise) for those of us who live on our computers and it also speeds up booting and working with large files. My computers are fairly new so if you have older computers, you may want to do more research. I so love the silence. The speed is nice too!

An absolutely incredible upgrade. My initial benchmarks indicate boot time at 20% of the original time, maybe lower. Database programs and processes run a lot faster when using the disk for a database. Even browsing and video is greatly sped up, as the time to load cached images and video content is very fast, so it even appears to improve the quality of the displayed video. I guess with the old green hard drives, the time the browser program takes to load the data is enough time to reduce image quality. An absolute must for any personal or computationally intensive business computer. Certainly good for servers too.

Holy cow this is a game changer. Not only was it quick and easy to install (and Im no technical magician either) but the results far exceed my expectations. Toshiba Satellite Radius P55W laptop with dual-core i7 Intel processor and 8 GB of RAM now boots up in under a minute and apps launch instantly. My laptop (1 year old at the time of this writing) is good but is known for its slow mechanical hard drive. I am still in disbelief. No issues with the cloning process. I closed the case, screwed on the cover, booted up the machine and the speed boost was instant with zero glitches.

AVOID!! I purchased 2 of these drives. The first failed within 1 week. SanDisk sent a replacement. The second (the original, not the replacement) then failed 4 months later. Thats 2 out of 2 failed! Usage was mostly just read. There is clearly something wrong with this model. Infuriating for such an expensive drive. I have several of SanDisks 480GB Extreme II drives and had no problem with those. But SanDisk has lost a customer. I am buying only Samsung from here on out. No problems with the Samsung 850 Pro 1TB and 850 Evo 1TB. Given the Samsung firmware fiasco with the 840 Evo, I was trying to avoid Samsung. But Samsung drives have never failed like this. UPDATE: now it is a year later 11/17/2015 2 out of 2 of the replacement drives also failed. Now today, yet another failed. Every single 960GB drive I have purchased, or have been sent as a replacement, has failed. These are running windows virtual machines on esxi (mostly read, not as server, are used as web browsers). I have never had this problem with any of the Samsungs or other brands I have used. This is totally unacceptable. I wasted $1,500 on these drives and untold hours having to reinstall, take the hardware down, etc. Never again.

I bought four of these for a new system. It has been six months now and I am pleased with the speed. However one of the units was defective and when I got around to the installation it was past the Amazon return period. So I returned it to SanDisk the supposed 10 year warranty. After several tedious e-mail exchanges they said I could return it, which I did 6 months ago. After one month they acknowledged receipt of the item. But I have not heard a word since then. Hence the two star review. The ten year warranty is nice but if they dont honor it the promise isnt worth much. It is a good product but dont buy it because of the warranty. Update 9/5/2015 I have had the 4 units now for about a year. Use is moderate. I am a software developer and I use one drive for compiling. The other three receive less use. SMART reports bad sectors on 3 of the 4 drives, ranging from 10 to 40. I am told that this is not sufficient to return the drives under warranty, but most of the drive health utilities that I have recommend that I watch the drives carefully, especially the one with 40 bad sectors. I am lowering the review from 2 to 1 star. I cannot recommend these drives. I got a couple of nasty comments because of a typo in the original post. I said I returned the drive to Samsung. That was a typo. Of course I sent it to the manufacturer (Sandisk). That should have been obvious. You cant just send drives back. You have to call and give them the serial numbers and get permission to return. I had Samsung on my mind because I just purchased Samsung replacements, which so far are working great. It was an honest typo. No need for the nasty comments.

I felt burned by Samsung and their 840 EVO SSD. Latest fix requires machine to be always on to make sure data is moved around -- to prevent read slowdown. And the slowdown isnt from 1 week old stale data -- so I dont know how review websites can rate the fix. In fact, the review sites were wrong the first time Samsung released a fix -- hence Samsung came out with yet another fix. Samsung does not want to support or provide a path to 840 PRO or 850 EVO/PRO line ... even if you are willing to pay the difference. Ive been extremely pleased with this SSD. Consistently fast.

I had no idea just how much faster my computer would be with this hard drive. Its one thing to intellectually know the difference in speeds between a spinning platter and flash memory, but to actually experience it is something completely different. If you want to use it in a PC, you might want to get a mounting bracket to make it fit in a full size bay, as this is a 2.5 inch drive, but it should fit perfectly into a laptop drive bay. Also, a Google search on optimizing your OS for running on an SSD could serve you well. A modern OS does many things to improve traditional hard drive efficiency that will have no effect on an SSD, and might even use it up more quickly. Pro tip: Make sure you have plenty of RAM and then disable Virtual Memory. Or use a standard hard drive for Virtual Memory, but I prefer the first option.

I had to add a third solid state since I had filled up the 500gb model I had with games and my main drive is only for windows. Its fast with a small footprint compared to the standard hard drives I used to use which is true of almost all solid states. Having a third drive did slow my boot time slightly but only enough to barely notice, compared to other computers it is a fast boot up. Its a good solid state drive and am happy with my purchase.

I used this in an IBM Thinkpad T530. Works very well. For me, I took out the dvd tray, slapped in a hard drive caddy with this ssd, then used MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition 9.1. In their software its an easy migrate to new HD/SSD button, hit apply, it reboots, and copies everything to the new drive. Then I replaced the hard drive with this ssd, put my dvd rom back in, and rebooted. With a desktop, just connect this to an empty SATA slot with the power cord, and run the same software. Windows 10 came back up without any issues. Easy and painless. Loving the additional speed and size. 10 year warranty gives me peace of mind.

I bought this drive to replace an aging Raptor drive which I feared was failing after 10 years of solid use. My Raptor drive was only 74 GB and was so heavily strapped with the excessive Windows 7 64 bit load, that I had to move all of my resource intense programs (Video Games) to a secondary drive. Even after doing this, every time a Windows update popped up, I would have to go through and make space on the drive for the computer to run properly. Out with the old and in with the new. I purchased this drive along with the Corsair 600Q quiet case with the hopes of cutting down on noise as well as improving operation. I had no desire to purchase a new Windows operating system so my plan was to backup the Raptor onto the SanDisk. My original plan was to achieve this by using the method of backing up to an external drive and then rebuild onto the new drive. I actually started down this path until I loaded the Dashboard program onto the drive. This is when I noticed that the drive came with a one time use drive transfer program. Rather than looking a gift horse in the mouth, I took at shot at using what was intended to be a simpler process. I have to admit that I was impressed at the ease of installation of the SanDisk drive with the provided software. I started up the program, answered a few basic questions, and hit execute. Thinking that there would be something else to do at this point, I waited for the next prompt. After a minute I felt pretty safe that the prompt was not coming so I headed off to mow the lawn thinking I had a few hours to kill. After about 30 minutes I came back in to find, much to my surprise, that it was more than 60% complete. Twenty minutes later, before I was done weed eating, the program was done. Power down, disconnect the Raptor, and reboot. My system started up immediately, just like it did before...with one exception, no more 10k RPM whine from the old Raptor drive. To date I am extremely happy with purchase and would strongly recommend the SanDisk Extreme PRO to any of my friends.