Description
Easy upgrade for faster boot-up, shutdown, application load and response (As compared to 5400 RPM SATA 2.5” hard drive. Based on published specifications and internal benchmarking tests using PCMark Vantage scores.)
Boosts burst write performance, making it ideal for typical PC workloads
The perfect balance of performance and reliability
Read/write speeds of up to 530MB/s/440MB/s (Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon drive capacity, host device, OS and application.)
Shock-resistant for proven durability —even if you drop your computer (Shock resistant (up to 1500G) and vibration resistant (5gRMS, 10-2000 HZ/4.9 gRMS, 7-800 HZ), Temperature (from 0 degrees Celcius to 70 degrees Celcius))
Compatible devices: Desktop
Note: Products with electrical plugs are designed for use in the US. Outlets and voltage differ internationally and this product may require an adapter or converter for use in your destination. Please check compatibility before purchasing.
clachris –
This is the fifth one I bought Set up quickly I bought a Drive Cloning Device to switch out an old HD with this SSD. The Cloning device couldnt talk to the SanDisk, BUT their inhouse cloning software worked perfect and fast. Dont bother with cloners, just use their setup software, you will be happier. this unit makes the whole system run sooo much faster.
cbrillow –
SSD drive prices are down probably about as far as theyre going to go, starting in the 20 range for a 120128GB model and around 100 for a big 1TB model Note that these are not premium devices from the biggest names, but theyre good, solid, wellperforming drives.Ive updated several of my older desktops recently one of which has a spinning drive thats starting to show signs of failure, and another which is my mostused everyday computer thats now about 4 years old, and was equipped with a 1TB spinning drive. Figured it would be a good time to hedge against eventual failure and improve system performance at the same time.So I opted for this SanDisk TB SSD, which was onsale for under 100, and put it in in place of the existing system drive.I used Macrium Reflect Free to clone the existing system to the SanDisk, which was connected to the system via a USB3 external drive enclosure. Prior to cloning, I had to initialize it in Windows 10 disk management so that the system and Macrium Reflect would recognize it. From that point, it was an easy process, just following the prompts and letting Macrium do that hard part.It didnt take long, despite the fact that the original 1TB drive was well over 50 full. I didnt time it I started the cloning process and went to dinner. When we returned, it was finished, showing an Operation Completed message.At that point, I powered down the system, removed the power and data cables from the original drive and connected them to the SanDisk. The system booted right away and I really mean RIGHT AWAY Its always a treat watching the first boot of a computer thats been fitted with a new SSDSmooth as butta My system took right up where it left off, but runs significantly faster using any applications that are diskintensive.Great purchase
Edward D. –
When one buys this ssd drive, you are given a web URL to download the ssd dashboard. That sw is fine. It gives you a link to download a sandisk specific copy of the True Image software. That software cannot see the SSD drive when connected via a USB adapter as used when upgrading from the internal HD to this SSD. True Image have not replied to this fault in their software and I am using AOMEI partition assistant instead. The software utility recommended by Sandisk should work with their drive
Anonymous –
I would recommend as a first SSD boot drive. Will be easier if you use this on a fresh install of windows.. Since its only 120gb, you arent going to be able to clone a 2 year old hard drive that youve been using everyday.. there just wont be enough room. Get windows, your drivers updated, and get the most important programs installed and then clone. Place everything else like pics, downloads, and your xxx on your old hard drive. I joke, but you know what Im talking about. lol
Davep50 –
I love the speed and quality of this sad drive. Used it in my MacBook Pro 13 late 2011. Its now super fast even in basic menu functions. Boots super fast under 1 min. Even cut down on my fan staying on All the time. Would highly recommend Thanks again
xx101 –
Good drive for the price. Seems a little slow as digital SSDs go but that could be my imagination.I build new PCs with 1 new SSD every 3 weeks, this one just seems a little slower than others I have used. Recommended with reservations.
keithanme0 –
Absolutely transformed my 7 year old laptop. As fast or faster than day one. It took me a week to install with a new operating system and set everything up but well worth it. Longer battery life, quieter, much faster boot up, less heat, lighter. Saved me a fortune because I dont need to buy a new laptop.
Anonymous –
You may get it or an alternative cheaper online but well done Argos for holding a decent branded SSD in stock on a sunday. Not the fastest but most will never notice and way faster than a HDD.
richardy6b31 –
While not specific to the SanDisk produce, an SSD drive is the simplest, and best value, upgrade for any computer to increase speed. I initially bought one for my notebook which was frustratingly slow compared to my desktop and it immediately became very usable. So much so that I got a bigger one and installed the operating system and scratch drives of my desktop computer in it, leaving all the data on big conventional drives, and the improvement was equally worth while. Far better spend your money on one of these first before considering more memory or faster processors.
Dominic –
My SanDisk 480GB SSD failed in the first year of use. I was very happy with the performance of this drive until it stopped working. SanDisk did offer to replace the drive at no cost but the whole experience was so disruptive I didnt bother sending it back for a replacement. The cost of the drive was nothing compared to the cost of its failure. With all the time spent recovering files, lost work, and downtime. No thanks Not going to risk it again.
Stampede88 –
I plugged this in, powered up my pc, and it works. You know how many songs Ill never listen to again, or pictures Ill never see can fit om here, 1T worth. 1010 would purchase for more stuff i dont need.
Adrian –
This is a short review as this device is easy to sum up in a few words. It does exactly what it says on the tin and is made by a reliable and trusted manufacturer. I use this as a scratch disk when video editing. Its fast and I expect it to be reliable…Thats about it.
Anonymous –
I bought this with the intent of reviving an old desktop that was a favorite of mine. It was so SLOOOOOOW but after installing this with Macrium software the desktop is back to its old self. Kind of like Frankenstein Great product
James J –
Nice product, boots and loads quickly. Not had any issues since install. Been using these for OS discs for awhile now, perfect size for it with a little room to spare.
bjwil91 –
I bought this SSD a couple of years back for my ASUS X54CRB01 laptop before the OS failed and when the laptop was struggling to stay up and running. 3 Years ago, I installed the SSD into my main desktop PC for the OS Windows 10 Pro x64 since I put my ASUS laptop in storage for a while until I can get it back up and running and the speed has increased by a lot when booting Windows. The OS was on a 150GB partition, plus a 100MB System Reserved partition, so I moved the partitions to the 480GB SSD backed up the data first and its been working for a long time.
a4andrew –
Lags are a thing of the past for my 4 year old laptop that was using a 5400RPM spinning disk. I expect this upgrade to prolong my laptops life for another couple of years. The nice thing is that I can then take this drive and put it in my future computer. I only wished the capacity could have been a little bigger at least 512 GB in which it would be easier to clone. It makes it a lot harder when you go from a bigger disk to smaller disk My source disk was 500GB so going to a 480GB disk was chore.
ElJefe68 –
Great drive. It has invigorated my trusty Dell Latitude D630. Had to pay attention upon install no spacer is included, so I had to angle the drive to ensure it connected to the SATA header.Once that was done, though, everything else was easy as pie. Reinstalled Windows 10 via USB, and my old laptop was up and running in no time. Everything has worked good since.
w4mmp –
This SSD works fine. It replaced the system drive in my PC. The downside is, the copy software SanDisk supplies does not work. The PC would hang during a boot. I found a free utility to perform the copy of the hard drive to the SSD. After this was performed, the PC booted fine from the SSD. This issue has been mentioned in other reviews of this SSD.
Anonymous –
240GB SSD drive to replace an old HD the difference it makes boots in seconds instead of minutes. Easy to install what more could you ask for.
Patrick H. –
SATA SSDs are like appliances now. They all seem to blend together and one works pretty much the same as another unless you worship at the altar of benchmarks or Crystal Diskmark. This will make you computer seem like a funny car running on nitro if youre coming from a spinning hard drive. If not…. more of the same. This a good, cheap drive and thats the best thing about it.
denis0260 –
Paid a great price. The SSD is just as quick if not quicker than a Samsung I already have. Its well made. The proof will be in the long term, SanDisk are a well know quality company, so I think its a winner.
marant5312 –
Drive is extremely responsive. This is an awesome way to boost your laptop performance. I do a lot of presentations and demos for my customers… It has really improved the overall performance of my laptop. I recommend this hard drive for anyone looking to make similar improvements to their laptop.MA
SpenReyn71 –
This SSD was added to an older pentium laptop to try and make is usable again for Windows7, worked well, not top rte performance but made it viable for web browsing, email, etc. We saw at least a 25 performance gain, even though the laptop only had a sata II controller. With a slightly newer laptop with a sata III controller and replacing a hard disk drive you would see even better gains.
Astroguy77 –
Ive had 3 sandisk SSD drives fail on me in the past year or so. The average life expectancy is from 13 years on their SSD drives. Their support has been great at replacing them but it is a pain to have to deal with the replacement and data restoration every time it happens. Ive got spinning drives that are 1015 years old and still work fine so there is absolutely ZERO reason for an SSD to continue to fail like this. Giving 2 stars only because their support is good at replacing their flawed drives. Wont be buying any new ones again at any price.
flyroger –
I used the solid state drive to replace a slow hard drive. I replace it in one of my laptops and it was so fast I did the same thing to another laptop I have. Using the proper software to transfer from one drive to the other is a must. The drives work perfect.
gman863 –
I have installed over a dozen of these for clients over the past year, all have performed flawlessly.This is a dirt cheap way to turbocharge the boot time and performance of both older and newer PCs that currently have a standard spinning hard drive. The readwrite time is up to 10x faster than a traditional drive you will not believe its the same PC after installing one.Is 240GB enough space For an average user, yes. You can check the amount of space being used on your current drive by opening File Explorer, leftclicking on the C drive and looking at the amount of file storage youre currently using. If the number is 160GB or lower and you dont plan on adding thousands more songs or hours of cat videos to it you likely dont need anything with a higher capacity than this.
Anonymous –
Very good SSD, I bought an external case and its a external Hard Drive, SSD, 1Tera Capacity. Worth money Thanks Argos with Argos Card and second day delivery
oleksandrmitskevych –
Dont get me wrong, the priceperformance of that little thing is excellent. Just dont expect it to hit 400MBs constantly. Id recommend it as an alternative to an HDD for storing anything, but standalone as the single system drive would not be a good idea. The whole SSDexperience feels sluggish and slow Operating system start up times are not comparable to say even a Samsung Evo 850, they are more in the range of an SSHD, just a tiny bit faster.
superbad1369 –
This item is great, my PC is so much faster with it. It was a pain to get working though and took almost 8hrs. The supplied software was not very informative. Here is what I found worked. Install the device software, restart your PC. Connect the device to your PC to be cloned, your PC will not recognize the device so you have to go to Disk Management under computer management and right click and do new spanned volume or something like that, you can find that on the web all over. Then you can use the supplied software to clone your old HDD. Good Luck
tokolocha –
New lease of Life for my PC, upgrading from HDD to SSD was a great decision. Also this Scandisk is good quality and good value.
Brandon H. –
I purchased this drive to be a primary boot device on my Windows 7 desktop and replace an HDD. Booting to Windows takes less than 5 seconds on average with this SSD, on the HDD my computer took at least 20 seconds to load Windows. One downside to SSDs is that they are currently much more expensive per GB, for this reason I purchased the 120GB model for Windows, Applications, and Games. My desktop still uses standard HDDs for storage as they are much more cost effective per GB when speed is not a crucial factor.
3DPC –
I love the Sandisk SSD Dashboard It shows all the SMART information on the drive and also has a life remaining bar, so you know ahead when to replace the SSD. After 2 years as a boot drive, mine has 96 life remaining, with my software SSD at 99 life remaining. I havent tried other SSD brands, but I dont need anything that this brand doesnt already have.
kujonox –
I really like this ssd drive it has many good qualities way better then the kingston ssd drives. It doesnt over heat performs pritty good very fast boot times. Only faults i found were its a 111gig not 120gig like stated in description and id like to only pay 100 Dollars or less for a 111gig drive even if ssd. But compared to all the other ssds out there your getting a big bang for your buck especially if youve never tried ssd you in for a treat it changes boot time from two to three mins like with a rpm drive down to less then sixteen seconds boot time. And everything is almost instantaneous
Anonymous –
The benchmark below was run on an Ivy Bridge i5 with a Z75 chipset running Windows 7 x64. The drive was formatted NTFS and attached as a secondary. Test file size was 1GB. AS SSD Benchmark 1.8.5636.37293 Name ATA SanDisk SDSSDA12 SCSI Disk Device Firmware 10RL Controller iaStorA Offset 1024 K OK Size 111.79 GB Date 232016 110950 PM Sequential16MB Read 522.12 MBs 32.63 iops Write 403.59 MBs 25.22 iops 4K4K Read 24.17 MBs 6188 iops Write 74.46 MBs 19063 iops 4K64Threads4K64Threads Read 153.45 MBs 39284 iops Write 272.49 MBs 69757 iops Access Times512B Read 0.054 ms 18454 iops Write 0.160 ms 6232 iops
jflimeiii –
Bought this for my gaming rig. The 2TB 7200 rpm regular hard drive would hang up occasionally playing Red Dead Redemption 2. I installed this and moved all my games to this drive and the difference is amazing. Will never use a regular drive for my games again. Load times have been cut in half or more across all the games I play. I have a smaller version for my operating system Win10 and the computer boots in less than 20 seconds and 8 seconds is the hold time to enter the BIOS.
Klingon00 –
I installed this on my aging MacBook Pro and breathed new life into it. I replaced the older, slow 5400 RPM hard drive and the improvement was immediate. Restoring everything from time machine was quick, booting takes seconds, not minutes. I also made sure to enable TRIM using the trimforce command to extend the life of the drive. All in all a good upgrade for a good price that would work wonders for just about any aging laptop.
autouniondkwf12 –
Set up the SanDisk with Windows 10 on my old laptop, which now has a new lease of life. Runs faster and smoother Thanks
Courtney –
This is my 2nd unit. Works as expected. SanDisk is very reliable and reasonably priced with BH discount..Shipping was accurate and punctual as always.
sean r. –
i have used this exact model ssd to upgrade my old Samsung laptop, and a new hp that i purchased as a present for my mother. both worked out great, and continue to years later. also put one in my brother in laws budget gaming pc to give it a little boost. has done the job well. picked this one up because the sale price was great, and my spare Kingston ssd has been claimed, so i bought this to replace it, as i like to always have a spare ssd just incase, as downtime is nonoption for me personally. would definitely recommend to anyone looking for decent speeds for light gaming , or heavy personal use. as for heavy gaming, or video editing, ect, probably an m.2. otherwise, great drive, great price.
Ben42 –
Purchased this hard drive to upgrade laptop storage from HDD. The difference in boot time and program start time is incredible. Simply did an image copy of the HDD and put on this product and it worked out of the gate and provided a superb upgrade for an older laptop that now feels pretty modern.
mrblack5050 –
I am no PC guru but I just built my second home gaming PC. Now I did have 3 partitions on this hard drive out of the box. I tried to install Windows 10 and Windows 7 for testing purposes but a system error told me it could not install Windows on the primary partition because it was a GPT format. It took me some time and research to figure out how to fix this, and in the process I started getting a boot manager missing error which also delayed me. In the end, I had to unplug the ssd, boot from cd, plug in the ssd once at the Windows install setup screen, refresh and format ALL partitions, delete all partitions, new all partitions, reset the pc and finally begin the install. In a nutshell functional but painstaking. That was my experience.
jpuckface –
Bought this SSD a couple of days ago, and I wish I bought a Samsung SSD instead. First off, I had a rather difficult time locating migration software to clone with. Samsung uses its own. I finally found Anomei Backer upper. I finished cloning the old HHD to SSD, shut it down installed the new Sandisk SSD and it wouldnt boot. I restarted into the bios, then nothing but a blank screen. It appears to have fried the motherboard. My girlfriend is really ticked off now. It was her PC that I was trying to upgrade. OMG Im returning the Sandisk as soon as I finish this review. If I could I would give a zero rating. Thanks for nothing Sandisk. Never again.
Walter –
Works great Had a problem with cloning old drive. Too many bad sectors. Formatted and reinstalled Windows, all is well
raythebike –
Bought before Christmas to replace the spinning drive in my laptop. Although both drives were nominally 1Tb the Sandisk SSD was marginally bigger, which made cloning the drive straitforward. I have a dual boot Linux Windows set up, and both OSs now boot rapidly. From selecting the OS to login screen, 11 sec in Linux, and 17 sec in Windows 10. Launching applications is also noticeably quicker. Too early to know about reliability as only been in use a week or two but seems fine so far. Did not look for cloning software on Sandisk website, as Clonezilla a linux based clone tool worked fine for me. burned to a USB live disk the process took around 2 hours to clone the 1Tb drive, which has about 650Gb data.
stevemedia2 –
By reputation and experience SanDisk have always managed to produce excellent storage devices. This new device has been installed in my HP Elitebook 8570p. The SSD it replaced was only 240GB and it was starting to give me some problems due to it being quite full, photographs and music primarily. This new SSD Plus is noticeably quicker on startup and video editing activities. Youll have to take my word as I didnt really benchmark the old one but this is like the brown stuff of a shovel The Old one is now in the the desktop and so my overall PC performance is really good.
Gabo –
Ive had nothing but good experience with SanDisk products, this is no exception. Great little drive for the price, if youre not storing a lot then 240GB should be more than enough. SSD over standard HDD is an incredible performance upgrade, you can breathe a few more years of life into your aging system with one of these at a minimal cost.
as1mov –
Ive tried this SSD in Fits ALL my computers it works great in both my laptops my Desktop Really speeds up boot up time I formatted it and installed windows 7 64Bit on it and away it went. WOW what a difference. No matter what computer you have Id really advise anyone to use this as the Boot drive rather than the SATA hard disk, you can then use your SATA drive for storing all your progs etc. All in all, a great deal at the price Highly recommended.
TECU –
I purchased this item several months ago. It seems to be working okay. I always get these survey questions too far after I made the purchase. I used it on a trip to Europe. I used it for my storage drive. It seems to be working okay. I now use this item as a file drive for my desktop computer. I also use the same drive but with 1 tb as my C drive and it also works great. I hope this is sufficient information for you
mk –
After struggling with a painfully slow laptop for a while I decided to experiment with replacing my drive with an SSD. Read through a lot of reviews which said Samsung EVO 850 is the best one for budget buyers. Its price was somewhere around 110 all around the web and stores.I still wanted something cheaper and went through a couple more youtube videos. One of the suggested this hard drive as the one that works best for average users and that there would NOT be a noticeable difference bw Samsung and this one. I got this for around 75 from walmart and it has been positive since. The laptop became 100x faster and that saved me money which I would have to spend on a new laptop. Now Im running windows 8.1 with ease on a 6 year old Intel core 2 Duo machine. Go for a bigger one if your budget allows.
stevejanbenmatt –
I bought 2 of the Extreme 120. According to SanDisk website httpwww.sandisk.comproductsssdsata, the writespeed is better than that of Ultra Plus models. I tried to boot 2 Dell Latitude E5430 1 with Ultra Plus, 1 with Extreme II. Both showed same result in that regard. There may be slight difference, but its not noticeable. The Extreme II has 8GB less comparing to the Ultra Plus, though. One important difference is in the dimension. The specs posted on SanDisk website showed both models are 7mm thick where in fact, the Extreme II that I got was actually thicker by possibly 2mm. Im not exactly sure of the mm difference, but it is for sure thicker. This caused a problem when using the Extreme II in the Latitude E5430. Since its a bit thicker, it cannot be seated 100 all the way with the SATA connectors. The hard drive bay of the laptop can handle the drive, but there is a little notch at the corner of the bay that prevents the Extreme II to be fully connected to the SATA connectors. For that reason, I had to resort to using the Ultra Plus model instead. Just a note of caution as I was able to put the Extreme II to use in Desktop PCs.
loubie –
This SSD has been a great replacement for physical drive in a new high performance desktop machine. As expected, OS boot and load time response were enhanced noticeably. The only thing I can think of that would make it even better for the consumer, is to include image transfer software.I solved that by purchasing another, internal WD HDD separately, for backup that included the Acronis image software download for moving OS and data.
shortcolt –
Was sceptical at first because of the price, packaging wasnt confidence inspiring either. HOWEVER, for the money you cannot complain. The drive was in excellent condition, and marked with REFURB as stated in the description. Installation was a doddle, and windows was installed with relative ease. The drive is lightning fast and has dramatically improved the performance of a once obsolete laptop. Very impressed, Would highly recommend to anyone on a budget looking for an upgrade.
daddygez –
Recognised as soon as it was plugged in, even if it was connected via usb, quick format and ready to go. Im getting transfer rates between ssd drives of around 150mbs.
Mdcorman –
Thought motherboard was not picking it up. I showed in bio but not in windows. Got it to register wound up being broken. went with Samsung qvo instead sandisk didnt even register on its own downloadable program you can get from sandisk and it dodnt even work on the adapter you buy so it can click in my corsair sata hubs
James F. –
I was running out of space on my old 74Gb 69.2Gb actual system HD. Needed a larger hard drive to add programs and possibly a Linux Distro for my astronomy science. Please note that youll need a 2.5to3.5 adapter to fit it into normal desktop bays. Also note that Im using a Shuttle SN27P2 circa 2006 that does not support Sata III but works with the SSD anyways at Sata II speeds
TobyWong –
Great SSD, its fast and works well. The thing to be aware of, I did have to install their software to get my pc to recognize the disk. I have a different brand already installed in my computer that was immediately recognized and expected the same from this SSD. This was just a minor inconvenience and not a big deal, if you are installing this drive into your pc then you are advanced enough to deal with the software install imho.
as1mov –
A real bargain and great for speeding up the computers startup time. From an extremely reliable source and well packaged for transit. Ideal for replacing your start up drive in order for an extremely quick boot time. All in all, a very worthwhile addition for any system, desktop or notebook.
David –
Our Dell Latitude 15 5000 had the standard hard drive that came in it and it was extremely slow. We installed this drive and it immediately made the laptop fast and usable. Chatted with Sandisk Support about the software needed to clone the old drive. It worked great and booted up the first time faster than it ever has. iTunes now opens in a couple of seconds where it had been taking more than 30 seconds and would sometimes fail.
Thomas S. –
All, in all, do not buy this drive. It seemed like a good idea at the time when it was on the daily deals here on newegg. Now that Ive been trying to get the installation of windows on my system to clone to this drive, Ive gotten a very bad taste in my mouth for sandisk or any of their products. I have also tried rebooting my system from a windows install disk and install a fresh copy. Nope. No way to install an os tot his drive, so it isnt a drive. It is a paperweoght.
Mendon –
The SanDisk SSD Plus are known to be reliable and of quality and durability. It has a great warranty if something should go wrong. It was easy to install and put an OS on it. The product went quickly and without any issues. I recommend them and feel safe using them. This a great way to add life to an old system that has grown slow over the years.
Dewman1980 –
I have purchased several of these now and they are as advertised fast and so far reliable. Put this in my laptops to add space and speed. Plus the price was exceptional for the size. Will buy again and recommend to anyone looking for a drive.
Matt2012 –
Not as fast as some of the other ssd drives I have used but works fine for my intended purpose. Using this drive to store a few light load VMs. Load time has increased a bit over standard drive storage.HDTune shows the following transfer rates for my systemMin168 MBsecMax231 MBsecAverage213 MBsec
dandanricers –
It was really simple to setup as I just watched a YouTube video on how to add another SSD. The storage size is perfect for all my games and photos that arent able to fit on the main drive and shipping was very good. Please note that I did buy this on sale for much cheaper than on Amazon. Great product.
dragonne50 –
ive never dealt with ssds before and was concerned about installetc. so i got 250 gig at a great price. feears were unfounded and now the only thing i regret is not getting 1 terebyte. transition is easy especially if you use Macrium reflect to clone the old hard drive. easy.
StuckIn44125 –
How can you go wrong with an SSD Wait, I know buy one of some other companys BX series Been there, done that. But with this awesome SanDisk drive you wont have those silly overheating problems the other guys didnt bother to tell us about. This drive flies Its so light it feels like it could be full of clouds. The speed difference for any system is see title amazeballs You can take pretty much any computer as long as the operating system supports SSD drives and youll be able to avoid buying a new system for at least a few more years. Desktop or laptop, solid state is the way to go
David L. –
I will definitely buy a 2 Terrabyte drive as the Gig price contines to fall. I have one drive bay left in my beautiful, pristine but antique Lian Li all aluminum midtower case. I am putting all my many obsolete electromechanical drives WD Blacks Blues, Seagates, etc to work as backups I also need another 1 Terrabyte SanDisk so I can retire my wife,s 640 Gig WD Black covert her PC to an all SSD drive desktop. She currently has a 240 480 SSD as well as the Black.
mkks73 –
I have replaced the ssd with my old harddisk.. and the computer is performing really fast.. Not in just to boot up but in running applications and browsing internet as well.. Really good product..
CTK2112 –
SSDs are by far the most significant tech development in years. I will never willingly buy a product with a mechanical hard drive again. SandDisk makes what seems to be a reliable product. As with anything, you should always backup your data because with a SSD, a failure could mean zero access to your data, so that might be considered one serious flaw, but it hasnt happened to me yet, so I got that going for me
BRockville –
the drive is not protected in strong case so handle with care. Strange size 240GB instead of 250GB.I bought it to replace the 500GB harddrive so slow w Windows 10. Current data occupied is about 145GB, I spent hour to shrunk the diskspace to make it fit for imaging, but Clonezilla doesnt accept that. After Google, I found out Sandisk allows to download WD Acronis, and it worked perfectly.
Jake –
Got this drive to work with my Atomos Shogun Inferno and EVA1. Can handle everything except PR RAW HQ at 240p everything else is good. Way cheaper than the 12 bit capable drives.
DSCMH –
If youve got an machine that youre about to throw out, dont. Buy one of these, download the migration software, and move to this. Ive got about a 7 year old laptop my wife uses. I thought Id have to buy her a new machine but thought Id try this. It was like getting a new PC, saving me the time and expense of getting a new one and moving her to that. She was happy, too. My sons gaming machine also runs much better now that hes running on one of these.
Nguyenb504 –
Installed this product in my 2011 MacBook Pro. Runs amazing. Quiet as ever. Also, I believe it helped my MacBook run cooler. The case stays cooler longer and I almost never hear the fan turn on. Definitely worth the upgrade. Do this before RAM if youre noticing your programs are taking too long to open. Perfect remedy. Wish I did it sooner
RJS001 –
Decent solid state disk SSD, much faster lower power use than traditional momentum HDD, and I can fit 2 in the same space. Only warning nominal capacity is 1 terabyte 1 TB actual as formatted for NTFS is 930 GB seems pretty typical for 1TB SSD as another brand I bought is the same. But, it was less than 100 on sale so that was my price point. Might drop a few tens of more in the next 6 months, right now was the time to buy.
Jason9999xz –
There is a review stating that this is a false item description from February and Walmart still hasnt updated the listing. This is not an external drive, it is internal or would require an external enclosure to be purchased. You can see in the picture that it says nothing about being a USB external drive, unlike the description. All this from the description is a lieImprove your data storage with this SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB External Solid State Drive. It performs up to 20 times faster than a typical hard disk drive. It delivers faster startups, shutdowns, data transfers and application response times. This SanDisk external SSD also offers quiet, reliable performance and dashboard status monitoring for your favorite media applications. The SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB External Solid State Drive comes with a USB cable, power adapter, Quick Start Guide and more. It is seamlessly compatible with both Windows and Mac systems.
Jimm –
Quite honestly the product was unusable as purchased. It had apparently sat on the shelf for a very long time. I went to Mcafee to get malware, spyware and virus protection and and as configured by Office Depot ,Mcafee would not load onto the computer. The windows program needed 179 updates. Then Mcafee protection would load. I spent four hours with a technician from Mcafee loading Windows program updates and then Mcafee protective software. That session cost as much as OD charged to put in the new hard drive
Dan the Computer Man –
Purchased 4 of these drives, 2 failed within weeks, and the other 2 failed 3 months later. The drives are fast but the quality of these models are junk. I have never had issues SanDisk products before but I would skip this particular model.
bluefireice –
This is a budget SSD, and doesnt benchmark like the top end drives, however so few people will ever notice. I have run this side by side with my EVO and MX300 drives, boot times and load times are almost identical, unless you sit there with a stop watch and count fractions of a second, you will never notice.I put these in friends and family builds all the time now.
Anonymous –
This was has been my first and only SSD, so far and its still alive and kicking. I havent noticed any slowdown yet and its used daily. Im happy with it and for the price, its pretty hard to say no unless you can find a largerfaster drive for similar price.
TRLIII –
Using this drive as a secondary drive. Zorin Linux on primary drive. Installed Windows 10 on this drive. Easy to install. Easy to set up. Highly recommend this drive
Anonymous –
Good value for money, lightweight and much faster than HDD, good upgrade for laptop. When fist connected does not show up, so you need to go thru computer managament and formate it to recognizeble format. Happy enough with my purchase.
Mr.Dana –
My laptop was running agonizingly slow and it often took 30 minutes or even an hour at times just to boot up. The IT guy at work told me that the best thing to do would be to upgrade my hard drive to a Solid State one in order to boost performance. I relayed this information to the salesman who showed me a few options. I choose this one because of past success with this brand.My performance boost is through the roof. My boot up time went from 30 or 40 minutes or more to just a few seconds. I no longer have any lag time in functionality and the software programs all open and run nearly instantaneously.My frustrations gone, I now all but have a new laptop.Very pleased with the results Im getting. And i can hold off getting a new laptop for a few more years
Dana –
After a lot of benchmarking see image…this drive has a terrible sustained rewrite speed.This DriveFirmware UH5100RLSusWrite 10s intervals 286 240 158 46 49 37 MBsMy 4 yr old Crucial 250GB SSDSusWrite 10s intervals 341 284 286 291 295 294 MBs
WDBrig –
I bought this to replace the HDD in a 2 year old basic desktop system. It was an inexpensive way to boost performance. Installation was straight forward. Documentation is online. No other hardware included with SSD.Problem arose after downloading and running the free Acronis cloning software. This is a Western Digital San Disk owner licensed version. The new version is not listed in the online instructions.After running, apparently successfully, my computer would not boot from the new SSD drive. After a couple attempts to troubleshoot I downloaded and ran the free version of AOMEI Backupper. Problem solved.System boots faster and loads software quicker. I am unable to achieve maximum data throughput probably due to limits of my SATA interface but still much better.SanDisk needs to resolve software issue but pleased with drive.
Anonymous –
I bought this to rebuild a 4 year old i7 Windows 10 laptop that had a bad hard drive. The SanDisk was a good size for a main system drive. Id recommend a Windows PC have at least a 200 GB system drive for most peoples apps and general use.Gamers and heavy video and graphics users would need a much larger drive, but this was good for a general purpose laptop and the SSD should last more than twice as long as a standard HD, which tend to fail after 2 or 3 years. Installation was easy and performance was good. No unusual problems.I didnt rate 5 stars because it does not perform as fast as higher end SSDs and did not include software to transfer an existing hard drive to the new one. But for the price, I was happy with it.
Patrick P. –
Not a knock on SanDisk….T5500 onboard SATA is 3GB. Tried THREE different 6GB SATA cards to boot the SanDisk off of and the Dell BIOS only saw each as a Mass Storage Device but NOT attached drives so NO Bootable Device. You could see thecards in the POST but would never see the attached SanDisk drive. Even tried it with a HD Drive and got the same results. Looks like Dell hamstrung the BIOS…BLOODY WEASELS…Go Figya. SO…the SanDisk is only running at 3GB off the System Board but is it still blows the doors off a HD drive. If anyone has successfully found a 6GB SATA Controller that works in a T5500 NONRAID environment let me know. Looking at whether I can still get the 6GB performance via a Bootable external eSata enclosure. UPDATE 2172016 Found a FANTASTIC INTERNAL SATA III card that works with the Dell T5500…. See that review here httpwww.newegg.comProductProduct.aspxItemN82E16815461002
DK –
I purchased the SSD Plus of this drive in February for an exceptionally good price. I think I know why it was priced so low I think it was old inventory Anyway, it died 7 months later no warning just dead all data lost. The 3 year warranty does not cover postage to ship it back the Sandisk in Guelph Ontario, but Best Buy agreed out of goodwill to replace it as an even swap with this Ultra Plus version it sells now. Initially they wanted the price difference for this upgrade, since the SSD Plus was discontinued from their product list. I was a bit suspicious because the packaging did not say Ultra anywhere on it. So I asked Sandisk who confirmed with the model number SDSSDA480GG2 that the new drive was indeed the SSD Plus. not the ULTRA 2 like Best Buy in the US sells, model SDSSDHII480GG2 I concluded that the Ultra Plus that Best Buy in Canada sells is merely the SSD Plus drive under a different product description perhaps to distinguish between the new and the old inventory. Nowhere on the drive or packaging does it use the word Ultra. So it is not. You can check out all the drive models on the Sandisk web site. Basically, there are three levels of drives the Plus. Ultra 2, and the Extreme. There is no such thing as Ultra Plus that Best Buy posts in the online product description.
Elizabeth –
This SSD lasted only 1.5 years before dying never had any SSD or any type of drive die so soon… Im unsure if the Windows Update was complicit in the death but the update did not yet kill our second PCs 240 G SSD which is also a San Disk and that one is 5 years old so far
Anonymous –
This drive works OK for a boot drive in a system that doesnt do much. I had it as the OS drive for hyperv server for a while and in that case it worked fine. All of my VMs were on other storage, so it really just sat there doing nothing. But, trying to use it as an actual intensive system drive has been frustratingly slow. I have a 6 year old 180gb intel drive that performs better in daytoday usage.
Anonymous –
I also have a Kingston 240 gb SSD about 4yrs old. I wanted a larger drive so purchased the SanDisk based on price per gb. I am very pleased with the product. It was delivered right on schedule. The SanDisk web site was really helpful regarding the installation and it all went without a hitch. Basically, i cloned the 240gb, to the new larger SanDisk SSD, removed the old SSD, installed the new Sandisk and booted up. All done and working fine
Anonymous –
I bought two of these replacing a desktop 7200rpm HDD and a laptop 5400rpm HDD. Starting from the packaging, this SSD looks and feels cheap. I doesnt come in a box, in a plastic and paper packaging instead, much like a shaving razor. It comes with no additional accessories. Its housing is made of relatively soft plastic which just adds to the cheap feel. I feel if I squeeze it a little itll break. Installation was no problem. There is no cloning software included or even recommended. I used Macrium Reflect and was not able to properly clone the partition from the desktop drive so I had to do a clean install. The cloning of the laptop drive worked, but not to a 100 for example MS Office had to be reinstalled, perhaps there are other affected programs I havent found about yet. The speeds in CrystalDiskMark 5 arent impressive either the advertised reading speed of 535MBs is nowhere to be found the closest it came was 377 MBs the write speed was closer to advertised at 360MBs. This is very disappointing for an MLC drive which is the main reason why I bought it. It did bring a noticeable improvement to the laptop, but almost nothing to the desktop. I recommend the drive to price sensitive customers, but if you can afford another 3040 Euro get something else. The 3year warranty is also almost the bare minimum.
Aldrisang –
My laptops hard drive started to go bad, so I figured since I had to go to all the trouble of tearing this HP apart to put in a new drive such a pain HP… Id replace it with a Solid State Drive. Theyre not so expensive. It now takes my computer only FIVE SECONDS to load up fully from Hibernate, making Sleep obsolete The drive is also super lightweight and makes no noise. Ive included a sidebyside benchmark comparison of my 5400rpm HDD and this SanDisk drive. One note though, for those who may have read somewhere that cloning software is included its not. I recommend the free version of Macrium Reflect.
AnthonypDillon –
I can not believe that I have gone so long without using a solid state drive. This SSD improved my computers speed exponentially to the point that I feel as though I have a completely new system. I highly recommend this to anyone that has slow loading of processes as well as avid gamers. Allaround great buy
JohnnyMicro123 –
I have an old Dell Latitude laptop that has been a workhorse. But through the last few Windows upgrades it has slowed down to the point of being unusable. Before replacing it I thought Id try replacing the hard drive with a solid state drive. I knew it would be better, just didnt know how much better. This Core2 Duo laptop with 4GB RAM went from unusable to running about as fast as my i5 8GB desktops. Well worth the cost.I dont think theres anything special about the SanDisk I just selected it because it was the cheapest one they had in this capacity.
Aaron C –
This is my first time using a Sandisk SSD and I have no complaints with it I dont know how the speed compares to the other SSDs on the market but since it is many times faster than a mechanical drive it is a very economical upgrade It doesnt come with transfer software but the manual recommends a free download that works fine.
JOHN N. –
1 starts in Indianapolis, 2 mission is to deliver to Fort Wayne. Steps Goes the the middle of Ohio, then to the middle of Illinois, then to Fort Wayne, then back to Illinois, then to Pennsylvania, then to Michigan, and finally back to Fort Wayne. Good thing it wasnt supposed to be delivered in Indianapolis as it would still be on the road maybe via Mars. Seriously, this was so unreasonable I should be sent another one free for the agony.
CrankyOldMan –
This was a good deal for bringing new life to a old pc. Sandisk makes some good stuff so your know it will last. The capacity for the money is very good, and the fact that I can get it at my local store was really nice. I like buying stuff the old fashioned way, In Store
yuppsadams –
Wow, had an old 2010 HP 17.3 in laptop that had some issues from the whole Windows 10 free automatic update So purchased this hard drive and had the laptop running like new in now time Now its super fast to boot up and runs great Setup for the kids to use but find myself jumping on it from time to time because its so quick to fire up shutdown when you done
Anonymous –
Purchased in November 2015. One of the three drives I bought is completely dead and wont show up in the BIOS in either of the desktop machines I have. Do not recommend purchasing because of this. I typically wouldnt write a scathing review like this, but to have such a complete drive failure in ANY brand new product after such a short period of time is plain old bad. The machine that had the drive failure was my wifes officemild gaming rig. It barely gets two hours of use per week. The drive was set up correctly the first time and had a completely fresh installation of Windows 10, as well as having almost allnew oldstock hardware. CPU AMD Phenom II x4 955 Black Not OCd MB ASrock 970M Pro3 mATX RAM HyperX Blu 8gb 1600mhz PSU Seasonis SSR650RM CASE Noctua DS4 GPU HIS Radeon 6570 IceQ
rock1stock1 –
Ive been looking to replace the HDD in my late 2011 MBP for some time. After finding a great deal on this SSD, I decided to go for it. The difference is night and day. Apps no open quicker than ever before and it seems as if the battery goes a longer distance, although I havent measured it against my old one. Coming from a 750gb HDD to a 480gb SSD was my only worry but after installing this drive I am happy that I made the switch. If you are looking to extend the life of your computer, I suggest this SSD. Only con I can think of is that the size of this thing is incredibly thin. In the 2011 MBP the original HDD is alot taller than this unit, so you may have a problem securing this unit in place so that it doesnt move around. Other than that, this is a great replacement for the price.
ALDI –
At the same time i replaced a non working 1 TB HD and upgraded the QUAD LAPTOP to WIN 10. Boots faster and IO to drive are faster. WIN 10 did not slow it down as some have expected. The hope is this extends the life of my 5 year old laptop. As usual good product and service from MICRO CENTER.
jinzte0 –
Good quality and reasonable price. I purchased it for changing my old hp laptop PC HDD. Almost past 2 months, working properly. My old laptop is working very quickly.
techinator –
This is a fantastic price for 1TB of SSD goodness. Most HDD drive replacements to SSD will use SATA interface and SANDISK is a name brand device selling for OEM prices. Used this drive to replace a 1TB HDD in a HP AllinOne Desktop to give it superior responsiveness for applications and games. Highly recommended.BTW, I am keeping the OEM HDD as a backup in case I need to factory reset the AIO in the future. It could also be used as a system back with an external USB kit.
uberdogcat –
Im the beginning I was speptical about the low price for the item, but I think lets go and hope for the best…Is exactly the same SSD that others sell for a price difference between 20 euros or more. Highly recommend
585robbie –
Excellent all round product. Great for upgrading older laptops. Reliable and cost effective.
geraldchristie6 –
Easy migration and outstanding performance. Installed very easy into my Lenovo Y410P. As hard drives are one of the simplest upgrades. Performs faster than the 830 I am already using in another laptop. Appears to be as rugged. Caution on using Rapid Mode. Shortly after turning on my PC malfunctioned and I had to reinstall OS.
jrbuch86 –
Product works exactly as described. This replaced my old hard drive 320gb capacity. Its small, light and plugs right into my desktop PC. A little difficulty formatting it, but this was due to lack of motherboard support for Boot to USB without a bios flash. No fault of the hard drive.
btugadawg –
I purchased this drive from MicroCenter because it was on sale and gave me 1TB for about the same price as a Samsung 500GB. The Samsung drive I have in another computer IS faster I think. The Samsung was easier to install because the one I purchased came PREFORMATTED for Windows 10 where the SanDisk drive did not. I spent about 45 minutes trying all types of different connections inside the box thinking I had a computer problem before I finally chatted with Sandisk support and then I learned that the drive was not formatted. Once formatted, the process went pretty well. There also were NO instructions in the SanDisk packaging that I bought. You can figure it out online. Bottom line buy Samsung if the price is close because it is easier to install and has instructions
Halvy –
I use it with Linux so I dont know how it performs in MS. So far I find it everything sSDs are cracked up2b. I have not fine tuned it yet.. and still am getting generally 35 times the speed of hard disk drives. They are worth the extra money, no doubt. and like many others say.. buy as much as you can afford, because youll be glad you did
Ken –
This drive is much faster than the old hard drive in my laptop. The computer boots faster and there is less delay when I launch a new program. Well worth the money.I would have given the SSD 5 stars except that I had a problem with the installation, and SanDisks support was not able to help. The cloning software, which was included with the SSD, was unable to clone from the C drive a hard drive that was set up in a Raid 0 configuration. Basically, that allows the computer to cache data coming off the drive so the net result is faster reading. Fortunately, I have been making image backups of my C drive. To get the SSD drive to work, I had to physically install the drive, then using the recovery USB flash device, restore everything to the new SSD. The installation software a special version from Acronis does not allow the user to back up and restore the way I did with another 3rd party program. The drive works great now, but there was no information about how to solve my problem in any of the SanDisk literature, and their support tech did not know what to do.
Automatrix –
I purchased this SSD as a replacement for an aging HDD. I could not afford the money for a Samsung and was not about to fiddle with the drives from Inland. This was right in the middle, and it is a brand I know and trust.Install was smooth and the drive runs great so far. I will definitely consider it in the future when I upgrade the disks on my other Windows boxes.
Robert C. –
Already had a USB adapter for the disks, and had Macrium Reflect installed. Just used Disc Management to initialize the disk, then Reflect to clone it. This was the third one I installed in six year old laptops, one for me, and two for family members, and it made quite a difference from the original spinning drives.
S.Keiffer –
The difference in speed that a SSD makes is like the difference between night and day.Im now booting into Windows in under 15 seconds, when it would take longer than twice that with a standard SATA mechanical drive.And the silence instead of hearing thespinning of the platters is amazing.Im sold.
Anonymous –
If your laptop needs a boost and is still running on a mechanical drive, youll definitely feel the improved performance with an ssd, ANY ssd. There are better ssd in the market but for now, the 2.5 sata protocols are all pretty much equal in performance. Well just have to see how well this drive holds up for everyday use.
Ethan –
This SSD is Great for its price, but it lacks the write speed that similar drives have. Nonetheless its great for a raid 0 configuration because it gives you 240GB at twice the speeds for a very low cost. Overall, I would recommend this product to people that want the speeds of an SSD for a family desktop or laptop upgrade, but dont quite have the budget that PC enthusiasts have.
Arthur H. –
I promised to do a swap of my laptop HDD to SDD when the price dropped, which it finally did. The process was straightforward to clone my HDD to the SDD. The physical replacement went smoothly and the SDD worked as advertised. My expectations were blazing fast speed, but I only noticed my laptop became CPUintensive instead of HDDintensive good. Boot time is about 35 faster and normal operations are a little quicker. Biggest finding was you dont defrag a SDD, so get rid of your defrag software before you partake. Also the SDD has a physical life…didnt know that one either. In any case, it appears to be a solid change for me and it has met my base expectations. Definite B if we had to give it a grade.
ksj519 –
I was a bit skeptical because this was selling far cheapr than elsewhere. It was delivered in sealed retail packaging and has the usual Sandisk quality and reliablity. Why pay much more for similar branded ssds from other manufacturers Gives new life to devices still using spinning mechanical drives. Used freely available software to clone from an existing hdd.
Pierre G. –
I have had an OCZ Agility 3 120GB SSD drive in my Windows 10 Pro 64 bit system for the last couple of years but it was getting full, so I decided to proactively upgrade to a 240GB SSD. I found this one as a Black Friday deal on NewEgg. I used Macrium Reflect free to clone to the new SanDisk SSD. Booted right up about 13 sec and havent had a hiccup since Couldnt have been any easier. I love SSDs.
galee9778 –
Great SSD, bought Sandisk in the past and never had any problems. Its easy to install once you manage to get the screw from underneath my laptop out to release the cover. Steps are 1 search for Download windows 10 or Download the media creation tool you will need a blank USB drive about 8GB 2 install the media creation tool and follow instructions to create a USB image 3 Power off machine, swap your HDD for a SSD 4 In the BIOS boot to your USB stick usually F12 or F2 and change boot order 5 For partitions, click New to create parition Windows creates boot partitions too 6 Continue to install windows 7 connect to your WIFI internet, download all the drivers and updates 8 Done Normally takes about 1 hour to downloadcreate USB image, 10 mins to swap HDDSSD and about 2 hours to install Windows with all the updates. Now you have a REALLY fast machine, enjoy Simply unplug your old HDD I recommend getting a cheap USB connector andor drive enclosure to use it as a backup device and plug in the SSD. I done a refresh install of Windows
Jesse C. –
Normally I would just return it as defective after less than a week, but I cant because I threw away the retail packaging. I know better, but it happened. So Im stuck with it. Its a shame, because Ive been buying Sandisk USB flash drives forever and Ive never had a bad one of those. I normally only buy Samsung, ADATA, or WD SSDs, but I recently bought a Patriot Scorch NVMe for a game drive and its good so far so I thought Id branch out a little. I went out on a limb with this Sandisk because the price was right and I had previous good experience with the brand. I learned my lesson hard, from now on Ill just stick to what I know, and always… Keep. The. Packaging.
climarnet –
Perfect. Easy installation and configuration. Easy clone procedure. Everything perfect . Its so fast to access and retrieve data and to run software. Boot up time reduced significantly. Well pleased.
Rebecca R. –
I just bought this solid state SanDisk hard drive, to replace the original hard drive in my very new laptop, which crashed after less than 4 months. I cant really speak to its long term viability, but was very glad to find a higher quality replacement drive which will likely not have the same failures that the original drive did. I intend to maintain most of my important files on a separate flash drive, but dont anticipate any problems with this new solid state one.
hrudy –
I suspect I had a defective product. However, this SSD fell into the category of almost working. Having something almost work is much worse than being DOA. I was getting terrible performance, dropouts, hesitations whilst using this SSD. So I had to go through a lengthy troubleshooting process.Eventually, I replaced this thing and switched to a competitor and magically my problems went away Hint The competitor is vertically oriented, in that they make the flash, controllers, and firmware. It will be a long time before I buy an SSD from a systems integrator.
rmiiirusty –
I purchased this ssd as a system drive for a recent gaming build with a west. digital backup drive. It was easy to set up and when all was said and done… I was pleasantly surprised. With my particular build, The computer goes from push button to desktop in 12 seconds consistently. Every click of my mouse has instant response. I have built with OCZ Agility 3 and Vertex 3 and was pleased with them in the past, but the quickest boot up I ever had with them was either 1517 seconds. I only gave 4 stars for value as I believe all ssds cost to much. I would be happy to see prices on all ssds drop to at least 50 centsGig. If you are in the market for a good ssd and are willing to pay 1.00gig or so… This is the best one Ive ever used, to date.
challenger75c –
The SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB has been a good choice for long lasting performance. I have several in use and have had no failures.
Lewis –
I recently got a SanDisk 1TB SSD Solid State Drive and used a drive cloning device to clone my old 1TB Hard Disk Drive HDD to the new SSD. It works wonders in my 15 year old computer It really speeds up driverelated activities, perhaps as much as 3 or 4 times faster. I think my old HP laptop computer is either a SATA or SATA II type, so I suspect those with a SATA III system would see even better speed results when going from a HDD to a SSD. Gotta love it
Jennifer S. –
Wow, did I get an outlier or something I am blown away with this little drive. It feels extremely fast and I am getting 503MBs sequential read, 425MBs sequential write, and 25MBs 4k random read. Did I get the best one of the batch or do these things all fly Very impressive especially considering its 120GB size that are normally a little slower than 240s and 480s.
Terry R. –
Sandisk offers software like Samsungs Magician as a download on their website. It gives you the ability to update firmware, run S.M.A.R.T. tests, and benchmarks. The firmware in the drive I received is the latest version. Be careful not to break the SATA power connector. When I was connecting the drive I pushed too hard on the connector and thought I broke it yikes. Luckily I did not, however the board the connector is attached to bends very easily.
Tony H. –
We are replacing a old Hitachi HGST 5400 drive, not for speed , but to get the drop and temp protection a SSD offers over a Mechanical Rotational Disk. If we had only gotten 30MBs it runs at, we wouldnt have complained, as speed we had wasnt an issue. But 9.8Ms is ridiculously slow. It took most of a work day to transfer just 250GB. Thats not even mentioning the It doesnt turn on bit. We trust SanDisk, or did. We were on with SanDisk Technical Support for Two Weeks, and Sandisks official response was SanDisk will not guarantee speeds ANY SPEED unless the drive is plugged directly in to a motherboard port on a limited set of motherboards. No PCIe cards, No Raid controllers, no adapters, no Caddys, no External box, and no other Motherboards To put this in perspective the 7 year old, 5400rpm rotational disk the SSD was replacing does 30Ms write. No other drive we tested was even close to as slow as this thing. Our Intel SSDs work just fine. Everything the same, only unpluging and pluging in different Harddisks We tried both Win Xp and Win 7 with no difference in speed. We really like SanDisk, and have three SanDisk SSDs from 1992 that still work today. But Intels skull trail line beat them on speed, so most of our SSDs are Intel. But in this case we didnt need the speed, so we when with the trusted SSD maker Sandisk. This has been a Huge surprise. We are returning it, and replacing it with a Mushkin. Who, we precalled Tech Support. Mushkin says there SSD work in everything without limitations unlike the SanDisks SSDs
joelado –
Looked up this SSD to put in my MacBook Pro. It was considered the best. I put it in my machine and it works really well. I used an OWC Mercury Electra in another MacBook Pro and it was the very best, but the SanDisk works well, just not the very best.
Inolew –
Fast and reliable, Ive had mine for 2 years and have not lost any sectors and its still going strong. I have an active file to shut the drive down when its inactive for 20 minutes and activates when I open access the drive. I use it for heavy number crunching when memory is not the answer when it come to writing programs to crunch the numbers. Its held up to my 450rw drives but its much faster than disk drives.
david d. –
I did a disk copy from my 2 TB HD to this copying about 400 GB of information. It took 36 minutes. I swapped the cables and fired the PC back up. The BIOS wanted to boot from the old HD. I removed the cable from the old HD and had to go into the setup to have the BIOS acknowledge the SSD. After that, it booted with not problem. I reconnected the old HD and it still booted fine. My mistake, not the device. Update on 2282017 Thanks to Newegg, I sent the SSD back. I was just at 30 days. I got a refund instead of a replacement, gun shy I guess. All of the issues went away once I stuck the old HD back in AND deleted the dashboard software for the SSD. Some of the problems remained, IE crashes and problems with some gaming software, until I deleted the dashboard software. Anyway, I paide 265 for this drive and now they are still at 265 and being advertised as 315 normally. I think after 3 months of being on sale, the sale price isnt the sale price anymore. I dont like this type of advertising. Just thought that this might help somebody looking to buy a cheap SSD. Ill wait a bit longer and probable go with more robust drive. My system because some people ask Windoze 7 64 bit Intel Core i54690K Devils Canyon QuadCore 3.5 GHz with ZALMAN CNPS10X Extreme 120mm CPU Cooler G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB 2 x 8GB 240Pin DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MSI GeForce GTX 1070 DirectX 12 GTX 1070 GAMING X 8G SAMSUNG S32D850T Black 32 5ms WQHD Dual HDMI LCD LED Monitor 1440 Rosewill BlackHawkUltra Full Tower Gaming Computer Case
Tim B –
Used this to replace a spinning disk drive in a laptop purchased on boxing day 2011. Once I figured out that I needed cloning software that allows for cloning to a smaller hard drive seems to be rare among cloning softwares and that I needed a USB to SATA cable, the actual physical replacement process was quite easy. Now my laptop is honestly like a brand new laptop. For the price, which was the Black Friday 2016 price, this was a fantastic purchase and has definitely extended the life of my old computer. Its gone from barely usable to speedy and quick. Positive impact to general performance, massive impact on speed of bootup, speed of turning off, and loading time for documents and applications. Super happy
Homerdan –
Wonderful substitution for my 1T byte Seagate drive that lasted only 11 months. Totally sold on speed and performance as a replacement now that prices have fallen substantially.Replace all your rotating hard drives before they crash and you lose data as I did.
Philip –
I researched SSDs for a few hours and this was one of the highestrated drives in its price class. Installation was simple but I had to use an external SATAtoUSB adapter to clone my existing Windows 7 installation directly. SanDisk would like you to buy their adapter, which only works on their drives, but I bought a universal USB adapter for only a few dollars more. This was for an older laptop and the performance improvement was well worth the money. Note that SanDisk makes statements about SLC caching but I believe the drive itself is MLC, which is probably true of nearly all lowcost SSDs.
Richard –
I had a tower machine with a 256gb SSD that I upgraded to this SanDisk 1TB SSD. I plugged the SanDisk SSD into a NewerTech Voyager dock and cloned the 256GB drive to the 1TB drive with Acronis True Image. Then I turned off the tower and swapped the SSDs. Piece of cake
dbtk44 –
SanDisk seems to make excellent SSD drives, and of all the different brands Ive used quite a few , SanDisk appears to be the most reliable and consistent in my personal experience. They may not come out on top in the various speed tests with other competitors, but in realworld operation they will satisfy all but the most IO speed obsessed techie. Well worth the price. If you REALLY want to speed up your system, an SSD drive is far and away the BEST investment you can make…with 10 times speed increase over a traditional hard drive as the return on your investment.
Gohan472 –
The SandDisk 1TB SSD Plus is one of the best high quality yet affordable SSDs on the market.It has high IOPs, high overall disk throughput for SATA based SSD technology, and it has an excellent warranty backed by one of the most reputable Flash Storage Manufacturers in the entire world.I highly recommend this drive, especially if its sub100 as of 5182019Be on the lookout since Flash Memory should continue to steadily decrease in price over the course of 2019
Martin C. –
The screws from the hard drive in my laptop fit perfectly. No spacer needed with the hard drive caddy Lenovo T400. These are laptop sized drives, so it makes sense that they use the same screws as laptop hard drives to mount. My second SSD the first is a Kingston and I like them so far.
Anonymous –
The title says it all. I recently bought two for my pc. 1 for Mac OS and 1 for windows. I did speed tests on both and they come around 510530 read and write. I am looking to buy my 3rd one for my MacBook Pro as it only has a 5400rpm hdd. The reason why I hide this was cuz after I put in all my filters like price, speed, and ratings. I came down to this one. It is handsdown the best ssd for 250gb. I never had the other ones but assuming they are the same can make this the best ssd out there right now at 74.99. Thats a really good price and Im hoping it would be cheaper Black Friday and maybe I can get a 480gb for my Mac. 100 would recommend
gram12 –
This has really increased the speed of an otherwise slow laptop. Easy to install. It now boots really quickly and does the tasks I need it to without any lagging which I used to find really frustrating. Installing this has been a good and affordable way to give a new lease of life to a tired family laptop.
A M. –
UPDATE 08112016 Installed in system Core i54590 ASRock Z97 Extreme4 16GB DDR32400. Were using this as our DVR recording drive because of its high endurance rating 320 TBW and superfast response when searching, skipping ahead or back, etc. when watching recorded programs via VLC media player. VLC is a good media player that allows us to use its graphic equaliser to boost mids and highs to make dialog crisper and clearer for our ageing ears. However, when we skip ahead through the commercials VLC is somewhat laggy with our previous WD and Seagate spinning hard drives. Now, skipping ahead and back as much or little as desired its all very snappy just like it would be if we used Windows Media Center. Windows Media Center is the best player for recording and playing back, BUT theres no tone control of any kind. Tried the X400 first as a game drive to check if it installs and loads games as well as my existing Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD, and the X400 worked just as well as the Extreme Pro. So, no problem using it as a fast data drive or for operating system drive. After a week or two i deleted the games and set it up for DVR use the PC is also our HTPC. Some numbers ASSSD Seq. RW 502460 4k RW 3591 Total Score 1056 Respectable mainstream performance at a few dollars above entrylevel price makes this an attractive option for many users. Yes, the Samsung EVO 1TB is faster and it costs way, WAY more of your hard earned dollars. If you want bragging rights get the Samsung. However, the Sandisk X400 will boot up and open all your programs and games just as fast as the EVO, plus it has very high endurance and the 5year warranty. All that and a much lower price. Looks like a winner. Think ill order one.
chaosjav57 –
Easy to clone as sandisk provide free cloning software on line. This is the fourth sandisk drive i have purchased.
Keith –
I used Samsung EVO SSDs for years before buying this drive at a good price. However, I almost immediately noticed a difference in read and write speeds, compared to the Samsung drives. It hangs a lot more, something that never happened with the Samsung.
rhkenguser –
So good not to have to keep unloading and loading files so there is enough room to work. Saves hundreds of hours when storage is not an issue. The 1 Terabyte is fast and easy to install. Has BMR system and can be booted by legacy or UEFI systems.
Amirhossein B –
the hard disk is pretty fast. easy to install.I am very happy with the product all in all. The only reason that I deducted one star is the cloning software could not recognize the hard disk connected through a USB connection to transfer filesso I had hard time finding another software to clone my disks given their different sizes . So no problem with the device at all it is just a minor software issue . I will buy this again
welrdelr –
I put this solid state drive in a old Window XP system and it really made a difference. I had a hard time programing it as I was trying to run Windows 7 in a 64 bit mode. Unfortunately my computer was a 32 Bit so I just kep Windows XP.I also upgraded my Windows 7 with a solid State drive and it could not operate faster.I would suggest that when you are upgrading you choose the X86 64 bit option.Microsoft no longer offers a virtual machine for running 32 and 64 bit programs.That is not right that they should cut off past programs in a effort to make people upgrade. I for one am very satisified with Windows 7 and if it becomes impossible to go on line with windows 7 I will consider not using the Internet maybe not lol.
HugoDahl –
Got this to replace a dyingdead HDD from an older iMac. The performance boost from this upgrade alone makes it feel like a whole new computerCombined with the linked 2.5 to 3.5 drive adapter from Sabrent made it all fit perfectly.
gardenengines –
I bought this to speed up an old laptop running Linux. It was simple to install for me with not much computer knowledge and everything worked without any problems. My laptop boot in about 30 seconds now, which is much faster than before.
wingl –
Wanted to see what the fuss was about SSD drives but the cost kept me away. When I saw this on sale, figured Id try one. I expected a slower drive since other drivers were much more expensive. Was u surprised. Windows bored up in about 10 seconds after post. Makes my PC snap. Im very happy with it and highly recommend it.
drmayf –
I received this old laptop from a friend and decided to upgrade it to see how far I could take it. The last thing was to install a SSD to see if boot up was faster. So I searched for a SSD and found this one, with free shipping and, to me, a great price. It arrived ahead of time which was nice. fter a few moments of looking it over, I installed it. I removed the SATA drive adapter from eth rotating drive interface and put it on the SATA SSD drive. Then installed it into the laptop. I booted the system and it recognized the drive without issues. I then installed WIN 7.1 Pro and subsequently upgraded to Win 10 Pro free, of course. I can now get to a useable screen with this old dog in about 40 seconds and this with only 2 GB of RAM and an AMD SEMPRON cpu. Like I said, old, but now working pretty dang good I can certainly recommend the SanDisk SSD for projects like this, no issues at all for me I am certain that anyone who can use a screw driver could also install one of their own in their old dog as well.
Anonymous –
Ive purchased several different brands of SSD in the past, including Mushkin, ADATA, Samsung, Western Digital, and Team Group. SanDisk is the slowest of the bunch by a country mile. Specifically, random read times are atrocious. I could bore you with numbers from Crystal Disk benchmark, but in real world terms my PC with a Mushkin SSD went from a 5 second boot to windows loading screen to a 12 second boot to loading screen. ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. Maybe SanDisk makes a FASTER version of SSD drive, but so far the SSD PLUS is a big MINUS in performance.
iselcars –
Boot time was almost 2 mins, but with this SSD, around 30 seconds. Not only faster, now plenty of storage too. Not rated the fastest SSD, but way faster and should be more reliable than the disc hard drive it replaced. Like having a new computer without buying one
Douglas B. –
Using this SSD to improve an outdated laptop used for simple things for a customer of mine, the Sandisk SSD did a great job coupled with some improved RAM to satisfy the customer in every aspect.
Erick5453 –
Used this drive to give a much needed boost of speed to an old PC. The difference between running on the old standard mechanical HDD and this guy is insane. Its like its a whole new computer. Setup was a breeze with the software from the manufacturers website. It was a low footprint PC that only had connectors for one hard drive, so I needed to use an adapter to plug the new one in via USB to do the cloning. Plugging it in was easy, and the software handled cloning to the USB with ease.
Psychodude –
Pretty fast drive. Easy to install. Would be nice to have the wires. How does it work along side an old drive Used it along side the old when it carshed. Installed new operating system in it and accessed old drive to recover files. Its not a terabyte but it Wal good enoufh so I could recover old files.
armonica –
SSD Disk. If you havent had a SSD Disk its wonderful. A whole lot faster. These disks work for years. Make sure you dont run it up over 80 full.
signalset –
Sandisk SSDs are based on the history Sandisk has on SD memories and flash drives. Sandisk is a subsidiary of Western Digital WD. I think that Sandisk SSD drives have lower quality than WD drives that is the mother company of Sandisk. I installed 480GB SSD on my laptop and there is a big difference in booting up and readingwriting to SSD speed.
Anonymous –
SSD installed in old Notebook 4 years old which was slow in start up and responsiveness when resuming from sleep. Get software and guidance on how to mirror your existing Hard Disk without reinstalling OS. Coupled with RAM extension it turns to be a very fast notebook again. We are very happy with the result.
Courtney –
I purchased this 240gb SSD to run windows and other basic processes on a computer I built. It was really easy to install It is super fast I turn on the machine and the windows sign in screen pops right up. I found it was worth the price. Adorama shipped fast and the package arrived on time.
southleft –
Performance of this drive is way, WAY below other SSDs in the price range. Dont get me wrong, at home we have several Sandisk SSDs an old Ultra II, an Extreme Pro, and an X400, and they are fine. The problem with this SSD Plus model is that its Write speed is about 66 SLOWER than other competing drives. When you tell your computer to Save a file or folder, install a program or a game, or to copy a video, or music, or photos the SSD Writes the data onto the drive. That process should be pretty fast with an SSD. Unfortunately, with this model the larger the amount of data you want to Save, the slower this SSD writes Instead, consider spending just a few dollars more and get something like the Crucial MX300 which is many times faster and has a great track record for reliability. Its true that if you use one of these to replace an old, slow regular laptop hard drive it will speed up your computer, but its nowhere near as good as many other models at a similar price. Sandisk has a pretty good reputation for reliability, but thats about all that the SSD Plus model has going for it.
Anonymous –
Dont know that I needed a 480GB. I dont keep my photos and docs etc. on my C drive typically and Im not even using 250GB. I got one this large to have plenty of room for a Win7 OS and a Linux distribution or two. But its hard to get a Linux distribution to boot from the same drive as Win7 especially with UEFI BIOS. Ended up paying 37 for a little 120GB SSD for my Linux OS. Just because for 37 I didnt have to mess around with it. So if youre getting this size SSD for that maybe rethink your math. If youre getting 480GB because you are going to keep some photos and videos on your SSD for editing and reencoding… Rock on. I had about 18GB of HD video on this drive batch reencoding with my FX8350 OCd 8 cores at 4.3GHz per core liquid cooled was clipping at 315 FPS for most of it. with a fast machine this baby is fast.
Hadenough –
Replaced the ASUS Laptop hard drive with the SanDisk SSD Plus card.Laptop speed has dramatically increased. Everything works great. Highly recommend this product. No problems with doing it myself. Has extended the usefully life of my laptop significantly. Also, no worries about my hard drive crashing.
online4profit300 –
Breaths new life into any computer. After 30 years of personal computing I have upgraded hard disks, ram, graphics cards, and cpus. Without a doubt, My upgrade to SSD has given the best performance boost system wide I have experienced. The price of these things makes then a no brainerdo yourself a favour and upgrade today
barkerrd –
The compact, little hard drive has no moving parts to break down. No more Blue Screen of Death. Easy to install wi9th a ton of memory. The price is unbelievably low. Go, wellknown brand. A winner
JamesD –
Like most SSDs, this device represents the most productive upgrade to a computer that you can get. At 90 on sale, I could not not buy this 1 TB drive. Its got enough capacity for almost any normal human requirements. I cant imagine needing more, unless youre storing scores of fulllength HD movies.I recommend getting an external case for a 2.5 drive these are cheap and plentiful and mounting the SSD inside it. Plug into your PC or laptop, clone your HD to the SSD, and swap the drives. Thats it The external drive is now your backup device.I havent done technical speed tests vs. Samsung or Crucial equivalent products, but the difference from the spinning drive it replaced is so spectacular that any minor differences are inconsequential.
Miram –
Perfect fit in for an Dell laptop whose HDD was dying. As expected with an upgrade to SSD, there was a very noticeable improvement in computer speed after this upgrade. It was a simply matter of cloning using software from EaseUS not included with the drive, can be downloaded from their website and a USB to 2.5 SATA III cable also not included with the drive, available on Amazon. After the clone, I swapped drives and rebooted the computer. Everything looked identical afterwards.
apologea88 –
The challenge for me in installing a new SSD, is transferring my old HD to the new one.This SSD has everything you need in order to accomplish that. And Ive also had absolutely no problems with it the past few months. Expecting it last for awhile.Overall great value purchase.
Anonymous –
Excellent product. Easy to install. Very adequate for my needs
Anonymous –
This is my first SSD and I would have to say I am quite amazed. I put my OS on this SSD and I got everything up an running in no time at all. I would definitely recommend this product to anyone on the fence about upgrading. Since I am only really putting my OS on this drive, size wasnt important so it is a fantastic value for the price.
Danmo43 –
Since I have now gone 100 SSD on my old machine, it is like a whole new computing experience. Plus you cannot beat Micro Centers prices. I wont even discuss going anywhere else for my serious computer components.
Nick –
The SSD drive is pretty fast. It makes performance of a computer better specially running graphic intensive software like flight simulator. The only issue is the special small mounting screws are not included. They are special kind and hard to find. This makes installation inside a computer problematic. Preferably it is best to buy a drive as a kit which includes all the installation hardware.
John –
I grabbed several of these to give me the ability to work with 4K video though my Atomos Ninja V and they work fantastic. I bought the Atomos Master Caddy II 5 pack as well and these SSDs fit right in without any issue. The only thing about these that wasnt great is that they dont come with spacers to make them taller. Since I have all of mine installed in caddies permanently its not a big deal for what Im doing.The drives are nice and fast and work very well for video. I havent had a problem with any of them so far and since theyre SanDisk drives Im sure theyll last a long time.
laspron101 –
Great product good honest people. Their Software cloned my HD to SSD in less than 20 minutesI used Win 10 Settings, typed in DISK MANAGEMENT it asked if I wanted to Format I said yes, after I was formatted cloning was EASY. I like these guys they do what they say and are HONEST.
djilleos –
Reliable and inexpensive I purchased this for the sole purpose of using it in a Synology NAS. So far its held up quite well and the drives are really reliable and fast. The packaging was minimal and the set up was extremely easy.I would definitely recommend for a gaming set up or if you just need cheap tribes for a NAS set up.
Lexx790 –
Upgraded HP Pavillion G6 laptop using SanDisk 480GB SSD Plus. After reviewing directions to replace hard drive at HP support site for that model laptop, it was pretty straight forward to remove HDD and install SSD. Ended up having to reinstall Windows 10 using the tool to make usb installer from Microsoft, as I could not get the transfer software to work with my HP laptop. Laptop boots faster now, and loads applications faster.
danielmpetrov –
A great way to bring an old laptop back to life. I have an almost 6 year old lenovo laptop, which started to feel sluggish in the past year or two. A full restart would take at least 90 seconds, up to 2 minutes, programs would open slowly, the desktop would take a few minutes to fully load after restart. I decided to see how much it will improve if I swap out the HDD with this SSD, since it was fairly cheap, and from a brand I recognise. I cant adequately describe the improvement I am enjoying, and to anyone that is wondering if its worth it, go for it. A full restart now takes 25 seconds, the desktop loads in an instant, programs and windows search are very snappy, its awesome. About Windows, how to do it I personally went with a fresh install, rather than trying to copy old junk to my new drive. To people that are afraid to do it, its simpler than you would think. Go to Microsofts Create Windows 10 installation media page, and run the tool. You would need an empty pen drive. Its all next, next, and it will create a bootable drive out of your pen drive. After you backup all your important files, take out your old HDD, put in the new one, plug in the bootable flash, and switch on your laptop. Since the hard drive is empty, your machine will find the first bootable drive, which would be that pen drive, and from then on out its just a next, next installer again. Its important to note that most people have their windows licence digital on their Microsoft account. If thats the case, you do not need to enter any licence key during installation, and once you log in to your windows when Cortana prompts you after installation, everything should be working as normal. To check if your windows is activated with a digital license, open the settings app, and search for Activation Settings you should see Windows is activated with a digital licence linked to your Microsoft account.. Of course make sure that you remember your usernameemail and password.
gstreuter –
I am a principle in a software development company. As such I understand well how important it is to deliver excellent performance from our applications. While traditional hard disks provide massive capacity their performance lags that of SSD devices simply because SSDs do not need to move platters or heads to access required information.We have been upgrading all of our PCs with new SSD drives from Micro Center. Selection is great, prices are competitive and service is great.
Bowman P. –
I will for sure pick another one up eventually, maybe even 2 and put one in a laptop. Compare this to the other SSDs of the same capacity and you will find this SanDisk X400 is the best bang for the buck The performance numbers are not far off of a Samsung 850 pro and frankly in my system, I cant even tell. Only my 950 M.2s in RAID out perform it so far.
Robert P123 –
Hey allThis is just a simple SSD drive. Just kind of average performance quality. HOWEVER, it has a GREAT price. The price is simply unbeatable. So I am putting these in most of future builds.It is also simply great to retrofit laptops with. Replace the spindle HD with an SSD and you are going to lower the weight, increase battery life, and most importantly of all, you will increase speed access times on the laptop.So I recommend this for 90 of builds. Give it a try and I think you will agree with me.
BklynPJC –
The drive was a breeze to install and has been fantastic on speed. Its been great. The inly issue i ran into was finding the software , especially the cloning software , that it says youre entitled to it doesnt come with it, all downloadable. Took me over an hour searching to finally find it. Whilw that was annoying, the drive itself has been fantastic. If you dont need the cloning software or if you dont mind searching for a bit , its a great deal. Especially for the price, I found nothing else thus size wven close to it.
Anonymous –
this item is sold as a portable ssd and it turns out to be an internal ssd, so you have to purchase a separate enclosure to make it portable at extra cost……but still cheaper to do it this way than purchasing an external ssd.
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Chris L –
Excellent if you have an older laptop that just needs alittle boost in speed. Product works well. Only reason why i didnt give it 5stars, is due to software issue. Had a hard time with the scan disk software recognizing the drive. Other then that, works great.
deandewit69 –
My old laptop is new again. It used to take up to 20min to start sometimes, it just hung and became very unresponsive, swapped out the OEM lazy susan drive for this SSD and its like new again. Starts up in less than 60 sec and I can use it immediately.
Brian C. –
My mobo only has SATA II so the readwrite speeds of this drive are restricted to around 200250 MBs reading and writing. From what Ive read, it should be readingwriting closer to 300 MBs minus a small for overhead and resistance and stuff… so this concerns me a bit that this drive might be one of those bottom of the barrel drives and even if I had a SATA III mobo, itd still underperform. Instead of deducting 2 eggs here, I can only deduct one so far due to its underperformance via SATA II. After a lot of testing, it seems to write faster than it reads. This is something that some people encounter with SSDs so now I am one of them. Everyone should always deduct one eggstar for these RETAIL drives if they come with no mounting screws. That would help send a clear message to manufacturers to stop being greedy. Actually, we should always deduct a point for their incorrect storage size calculation, too, until the industry as a whole stops with that insanity. As a single consumer, I feel powerless to wake people up so that effective changes can be made which will benefit all consumers in the end. Sigh…
veryvera –
I put this SSD in my friends old Acer laptop. Id upgraded her memory to 8gb last year but Windows 10 still ran horribly. When her Hitatchi 5400 RPM SATA drive she wanted to scrap the whole laptop. So I went and grabbed this very decent but nicely priced SanDisk SSD Plus and BOOM Her laptop runs like a dream now. Finally. Its like a new laptop and she is very happy. She doesnt do any gaming, just web surfing, and she keeps her files on an external so this SSDs specs were sufficient for those needs.
Eric M. –
The SanDisk Plus 240 is by far the best Consumer level drive Ive had yet. Im sure there are faster drives out there, especially when you go into the performance series SSDs, but for the entry level, low cost, consumer level drives, this one is the best Ive owned so far. Ive had ADATA, PNY Optima, Mushkin Chronos, Mushkin ECO2, and Kingston V300 series. Ive had the 120GB and 240GB versions on each. Consistently, the 240GB versions outperform their 120GB counter parts, most likely due to more memory pathways on the board for the controller to access. But the SANDisk is the first one that actually reaches any advertised speed. Sequential Read tests run at 550MBs as advertised. Sequential Writes hit around 400MBs. The next closest to that speed in the list above is the PNY Optima and the ADATA which are right around 350MBs Seq Read, and of course it just goes down from there. And yes, the SANDisk out performs the others in every test category on CrystalDisk, ATTO, and my own filecopy tests. Another great quality about SANDisk Plus is that it has the Sanitize feature. Ok, this might be a small thing, but NONE of the other entrylevel drives listed support the Sanitize feature, which imho should be standard on ALL SSDs. For those who dont know, the sanitize bit is like an instant Data Wipe for an SSD. Connect it as a secondary drive, or boot to the Sandisk BootUSB easily created with their SSD utility and with one click you permanently erase all data on the drive. Sanitizing prevents data recovery completely. All around a much better drive than any other manufacture is offering at this price point.
Anonymous –
I decided to replace my 1TB X300 which was one year old with this new X400 1TB. Just used Acronis to clone and installed into my desktop. Seamless and effortless. Running Asus Z170AR and I7 6700K DDR4 3200. Took my 1 year old X300, performed a secure erase on the Sandisk Dashboard and clones it into a new laptop I purchased that had 1 1TB 5400 mechanical spinner. Again, used Acronis and voila, all is well and the 5 year warranty and easy Sandisk replacement adds value.
Cody C. –
Get this if its the only local option that is in your price range. I bought this for the sole purpose of being a boot drive for the O.S. and a few key applications in my newest desktop build. It was running beside a 3tb desktop drive which was used primarily for storage. Ten days after completing my build, and maximizing all my components, I was running a Valley Benchmark which was contained on the SSD to give it a slight edge in performance. When the results populated, I left it running for full stability checks on the system. Within 5 minutes there was a fatal crash on the drive, and the system was forced into a loop boot where it would not post. I attempted to repair the boot location using my windows 8.1 disk, but this failed. After 1 attempt, the drive was no longer recognized in Bios. After hot swapping to try and reset it, trying different power lines, different sata connection spots and cables, it would not recognize. I was forced to go out and buy a new SSD to use as a boot drive in order to recover my PC to where it was. Once I installed the new boot drive Pny 240 gb SSD C1110 it worked flawlessly. I then reattached the Sandisk drive in hopes to recover the information off of it, and was able to find it in disk manager, and likewise authorize the drive to recover the files. Ill keep this drive as a backup drive that keeps the PNY Duplicated in the system should I experience another SSD crash, but Im sad to see it happen to begin with. On a side note, the build quality of the PNY is excellent in a metal chassis versus the plastic housing of this Sandisk drive. And ended up costing 10 USD less thanks to a local sale.
Anonymous –
This little 240Gb solid state drive delivers the same readwrite stats as more expensive drives, and at a lower price. Installation and setup were super easy, and Im very happy with the performance. Note that it does not come with migrationcloning software, but search for Macrium Reflect for an excellent free one. Also, the drive doesnt come with an adapter for your 3.5 drive bay, but for a PC you can let it sit in the bottom of your case. Also note this is the SSD Plus, not the Ultra II.
Victoria V. –
I ordered two of these. One to go in a 5 year old Acer Aspire 722 netbook that seemed like it was on the verge of a HDD failure. I cloned the drive with a USB 3.0 combo enclosure and 3port hub and Macrium Reflect. The upgrade went smoothly. I didnt notice a huge performance increase like many folks will describe when going from a HDD to an SSD, but it is a 5 year old netbook. I wasnt expecting miracles. I intended to use the second one as a boot drive on an older desktop, but was having problems getting my new laptop to recognize the Crucial SSD I bought to swap into it. Keeps coming up with a Hard Drive Locked message when installed and wont boot. Trying to rule out a hardware issue, I tried the clone onto the SanDisk. it never showed up as a removable storage device in Explorer or as a second drive in Macrium or Acronis. I can put another drive in the enclosure and verify that its not the enclosure. It picks up other drives just fine. I sent the SanDisk back to Newegg with a replacement request. Id really like to use it. Got the new one and it does the same thing. I cant tell that its even trying to work. It never gives any indication that its working at all, except that the computer bings when I connect it to the USB port. At this point, I think Im going to request a refund and try a different drive altogether. Neweggs return service was very good, though. Quick and kept me informed through every step of the process.
wyleecoyote88 –
This is a great item….very reasonable and great bang for the buck. Installed easily into older Macbook Pro, with no issue whatever. Its very fast….even despite connection to older SATA II. My favorite thing is that its silent…it throws nearly no heat at all…and even when Im running HiRes heavy Photoshop Illustrator simultaneously, the machine fans rarely have to kick on, even in the Texas heat. When they do, its maybe 30 or 45 seconds to cool the machine. Haha…its almost eerily quiet. If youre a Mac user….my 20 year MacOnly user opinion is this is the SSD for you. I gave this unit and seller a perfect 5 stars….and Im very happy with my purchase. It was a great deal….cant wait til SSDs come down even more so I can buy the TB model.
floatingman –
Adding an SSD to an older laptop will breath new life into old hardware. SanDIsk has an excellent reputation in the flash memory market. This has excellent performance, much better than a hard disk. One thing of note also is the warranty and return process. If this drive ever wears out you can return it for a replacement pretty easily.
cmptrnrd –
I guess it will be hard for me to go back to using the older conventional hard drives after installing this SSD drive.It increased the speed of my desktop computer noticeably. I decided on a SanDisk SSD drive because I was satisfied with their flash drives and memory cards that I have bought in the past.
bandacycle –
I installed this to house the root partition of my Ubuntu desktop, leaving swap, var, tmp, and home folders on a traditional HDD. I left these things on the HDD to prevent unnecessary writes to the SSD not sure if thats a real problem these days, but better safe than sorry and because my home folders hold a huge amount of media. The boot, suspend, resume, and program load times on my system are now nothing short of miraculous. OS benchmarks on the SSD show near zero seek time and sustained full SATA III transfer rates. Out of the package it feels like a toy, but it performs like a monster. I have never used a desktop that was so fast.My only regret is that, for my configuration, the SSD has too much capacity. With a full set of image editing, publishing and development tools on my system, Im using less than 7GB of this 240 GB SSD. I could have saved myself 25 by getting the 120GB model and still had oodles of storage to spare.
lauradaisytail –
Easy to install, using the same fittings as the previous movingparts drive. Lighter in weight and performance is improved Windows 10 operating system is ready to use after only 15 seconds from turnon. The Windows installation uses about 24 GB of storage, leaving ample space for my needs on the 240 GB drive. The only drawback is cost the original drive was 1 TB, about four times the capacity of the new SSD. A replacement 1 TB movingparts drive could be had for the same cost as this 240 GB SSD.
Dave244 –
Its fast for sure, but did not survive a firmware update Became an unmountable boot volume. Cant even use it as a door stop Sandisk was willing to replace, but they wanted the bad drive back. Not sending a drive back with all kinds of personal data they keys to bank accounts and such Ill have to eat it and try again… maybe a different brand
jojoab2012 –
Fits perfectly as a replacement to the old hard disk. The laptop accepted it straight away as a new drive. Less noise, more efficient. It is fast but this might be because of the new Windows 10 build
Alan –
Excellent product works really well. A lot faster than the old drive. Postage a tad slow, but would recommend this product and picstop.
syrphus –
Really speeded up an old laptop, even though the laptop was only SATA II. Definitely worth it if you want to breathe life into an older PC.