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

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.

Replaced old spinning drive in laptop, and now it runs like new and better!! Its been over a year with this SSD, and the laptop so continues to purr along with lickety quick response. Was very easy to replace.

This drive is freaking awesome. My computer (Early 2011 Macbook Pro with 4 GB RAM, 2.3 GHz i5) just went from dying DOG to flying GOD. Here are some of the observations, after swapping out the stock Hitachi 5400 rpm drive with this one: - Write speed of 480 MB/s and - Read speed of 520 MB/s (based on BlackMagicDesign Disk Speed Test, so take it with a grain of salt) Pros: - The PRO version provides the higher write speeds, almost double of regular drives - 10 year warranty (vs 5 years max. of the competitors) Cons: - None really (although some may argue the higher price, but the Pros stated above justify that IMO) Tip: Assuming the general idea for buying this is to improve your computer speed, you should consider looking at how much RAM you have and if your system is starving. In my case, Activity Monitor was showing that 4GB ram was maxing out so I upgraded to 8GB. With my normal usage which includes using Adobe Photoshop and illustrator, my RAM consumption was contained within 6GB, so the 8 GB RAM upgrade added a nice boost as well.

This is a great SSD! The speed boost that you get when you change from a HDD to SSD is unbelievably fast and different.I purchased this SSD about 2 years ago and it is still going strong! One of the best upgrades that I have done to my laptop. I used to hate turning my laptop off, because of how long it would take it to boot back up. With this SSD the computer boots and shuts off in less than 10-15 secs compared to over a minute and a half for the HDD. This SSD comes with a long 10 years warranty, which is a plus! If you are thinking about upgrading to an ssd, DO IT! It will be one of the best performance boosts that you can do.

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.

Bought this to replace a cramp and aging (much more expensive at the time) OCZ Vertex 3 128GB on my personal rig. Although it isnt a move from conventional hard disk to SSD but I can clearly see the difference for my day to day computing and the occasional gaming. Boot up is clearly faster and smoother. I dont ever bother with benchmarks anymore as most good stuff are pretty well reviewed and I caught this at a bargain price. Very happy with my purchase.

I have a MacBook Pro (mid 2009) (MacBookPro5,3) and had been noticing recently that it was spending more time than usual waiting on the hard drive (spinning disk). Having had similar issues over the years with PCs running Windows, I decided it was time for a new hard drive. I could find very little information about this SSD being installed in my generation of MacBook but decided to take the plunge. I decided to physically remove the Macs optical drive as well because it was no longer in use and I felt that it was holding down the SATA speed to 1.5 gigabit which was experience in other PCs. After removal, I filled the slot with silicone to prevent someone from putting a CD in the slot as well as to not cause any airflow issues for cooling. I plugged the SSD into my USB port using a special cable and then used Carbon Copy Clone to transfer all the data. The number of used bytes on the SSD went down dramatically probably because the hard drive marked sectors as unusable. After I physically installed the SSD, a boot was lightning fast and the SATA speed was now 3.0 gigabit. Here are the numbers from Xbench: Results 374.17 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.10.1 (14B25) Physical RAM 8192 MB Model MacBookPro5,3 Drive Type SanDisk SDSSDXPS480G Disk Test 374.17 Sequential 236.59 Uncached Write 364.51 223.80 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 289.39 163.74 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 120.64 35.30 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 413.43 207.79 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 894.13 Uncached Write 1322.55 140.01 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 534.14 171.00 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 2157.36 15.29 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 723.69 134.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Extremely fast SSD. I wanted to use it as the sole drive in an older PC (with an ASUS model P7P55D PRO motherboard), but was reluctant to connect the drive via the relatively slow SATA II interface on this motherboard. Instead, I mounted the drive on an OWC Accelsior S (PCI to SATA Drive Mount card; see product link:

Pros: Fast read/write speeds, decently priced Cons: None When it comes to SSDs, there are manufacturers who use their own controller and there are ones who use third party controllers. SanDisk uses Marvell controllers, which are pretty popular. This SSD is built for performance with similar specs to the Samsung 850 Pro. The Samsung, however, uses its own controller, which you can argue is better because they have direct control over the components that go into the SSD, but you probably wont be able to really tell the difference during normal usage. At the time of this review, the Sandisk is $189 vs $217 for the Samsung. If youre looking for a primary SSD for your OS, this wouldnt be a bad choice. The Samsung 850 and 950 are also good, but they tend to be a bit more expensive with similar specs. Intel SSDs are also top of the line, and the price reflects that.

Very happy with the speed and capacity, but Im having second thoughts regarding the price and what you get when compared to similar drives. Granted, I got it mostly because of the warranty and a hopefully better product to trust my data on, so thats what I was actually putting my money, not really on performance. Using it as a boot/home drive in a desktop with Linux and btrfs, there is no noticeable day-to-day difference when compared with a drive from the budget or OEM/enterprise series of SanDisk.