SanDisk SSD PLUS 1TB Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 535 MB/s - SDSSDA-1T00-G27

SanDisk SSD PLUS 1TB Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5 inThis SSD worked as hoped right from the box. First I copied a single 375 GB file to it from a rotating disk, writing at about 240-250 MB/s (according to Microsoft) the whole way, no throttling down for overheating. Then it was installed permanently in the desktop computer and the side cover closed. Using a test script, RoboCopy copied a single 57.8 GB encrypted file 5 times in immediate succession from a RAM drive to the SSD in an average of 190.2 seconds, for an average speed of 304 MB/s. We're talking real MB here BTW, not some dopey Microsoft MiB labeled as MB.Then when the /J RoboCopy option (no buffering) was used the speed dropped to about 250 MB/s, which is about what the computer gets from modern SATA or USB-connected rotating drives. Not great, but much better than the ancient 5400 RPM drive that it replaced.The computer was built here a little over 3 years ago, with an AMD 5950x CPU in an ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero mobo. It has 128 GB of fast memory, half of which is allocated to the RAM drive. The new SSD was (and still is) connected to a standard SATA port on that mobo and mounted in one of the computer's drive slots with a 2.5-in to 3.5-in adapter. No special cooling was used.Two days earlier I had received a Silicon Power "SP 1TB SSD 3D NAND A55 SLC Cache Performance Boost SATA III 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive." Installed in the same way, and using the same practical tests, that drive initially seemed to perform well. However it soon started throttling down during a big transfer from RAM, from about 440 MB/s to 30 MB/s. This was unacceptably slow, and didn't improve when I attempted to cool the drive. It was initially faster than the SanDisk, but the heat-management algorithm was way out of whack. That drive is already packaged up for return. Too bad - I've had other experiences with SP that were quite good.

I bought this to replace the HDD in my laptop and have had no issues with it and it's much faster than the old one and in the year or so that I've had it it's worked pretty great

Amazing upgrade for old but powerful laptop. Super easy switch.

Love sandisk

I put this in my old HP Pavilion dv7 and it is like a new computer. Boots fast, no long delays when I have a bunch of Chrome tabs open. It works great.I used an old version of Casper that I had on the computer to copy the system disk to this one (the computer has 2 drive slots). After reading a review that a person had problems, I already had 2 HDD's so I copied the system disk to the other disk for backup. Then installed the SSD in the second slot and copied the system disk to that one. Worked like a charm.It works so well I do not need to buy a new computer. $63 instead of $600.

Just installed this new SSD and I must say my old PC now has some PEP! However, cloning with the provided software was a grueling 2 day process that had me searching the software providers support forums for hours! In my case you couldn't just go through the standard "clone" process.When I tried cloning via the software I would get through some of the steps, and then if would just take me back to the beginning... No error messages whatsoever.On the occasion I would make it to the final step and click "proceed" the software interface would just vanish from the screen. I could see it was still running via the task manager, but was it cloning? Who knows?After searching I came across a post on the software providers forum that said don't clone, but create a recovery USB with the software. Once the recovery USB is made, restart the PC, go into the BIOS and change the boot order (you also may need to disable secure boot as well) THEN when you restart the PC the recovery software will run THEN you can use the actual clone process via the recovery software. I did run into one error there where it said my "disk was locked" but a restart seemed to fix that issue. It took about 2 hours to clove my 987 GB of data. Unplugged my old HDD and plugged in the SDD, restarted the PC, got a BOOT error (just need to enable secure boot again) restarted again and BAM! Lightning fast computing here I come!

Storage is good. Not the fastest data transfer rates, but is more than sufficient for the system build.

Turned a practically unusuable, HDD-based Dell Inspiron 3880 nad a bit of work into a new PC, for $60.