SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB 2.5-Inch SDSSDA-120G-G25 (Old Version)

Purchased this product when it was the Deal of the Day. I could not be happier with my purchase. My mid 2009 MacBook Pro was in bad need of an upgrade. I was faced with either spending $1000 on a new MacBook (on the low end) or spending roughly $100 on a new solid state drive. Switching the drive out was super simple. I used a USB to SATA cable that I ordered and cloned the old hard drive. After several hours of data transfer, I installed the new drive and now my 7 year old MacBook runs like new! I highly recommend this product, especially if you have an older MacBook that has gotten sluggish and needs new life!

I mainly bought this for my Xbox One and I also purchased a Inateck housing for my SSD. If youre looking to speed up your Xbox One or maybe even your PS4 by shaving down some seconds from your load time then this will help you out. Before it would take me almost 2 minutes from powering on my Xbox and arriving in the tower in Destiny. Now it takes me about a minute and 27 seconds. Think about it if you can save yourself 2 to 5 minutes a day from your gaming experience from loading, you could probably save yourself 20 to 30 hours a year by shaving off load time.

Boot time on Windows 7 is 15 seconds at most, with an AMD 8370e processor and 12gb DDR3 ram. Most of the time Im first in-game on CSGO, and Im sure this drive has something to do with that. Negative part about this drive is it makes my Western Digital blue drive seem slow as a snail, and my laptops 5400rpm drive like a snail in molasses. Ive been debating buying a second one for my laptop, with the only thing stopping me being having to do a fresh install of Windows. If youre on the fence with an SSD, its a very noticeable and worthy upgrade.

I bought this SSD to breath new life into my 7 year old laptop and what a huge difference! It actually makes the laptop useful again! I used a third party software to clone the HD in the laptop, and once that was complete, swapped out the old HD for this SSD and the laptop fired right up! You can feel the difference right away! Everything is more snappy, not just the power up and power down! Just opening programs and surfing the web is snappy now! I decided on this 120GB SSD since this laptop is used really for surfing only and not storing a ton of data. I dont know the long range life of this SSD however so far so good! I highly recommend this SSD! I know folks are concerned with read/write speeds for an SSD, I am just a normal user and all I care about is the new user experience I have with this SSD! For the $$, you really should move to an SSD for your laptop!

I ordered a total of 3 for use in 3 of

I LOVE IT!! Seller delivered on time! Product works even better than I expected, Now I just need an upgrade Motherboard.. Right now Im stuck with a SATA II .. 3Gbps.. And my boot time is still less than 30 seconds! This is simply the FASTEST upgrade I have ever done to my pc!! Hands down.. It even took my windows 7 install in record time..I do HIGHLY recommend going to the you tube academy to learn how to correctly move your temp internet files to your regular harddrive. Pics and docs, and music, maybe not so hard for most of you.. But equally as important.. yes its limited to literally Millions of reads and writes.. but why waste them when you can simple relocate them to a regular harddrive.. program files as well. BUT< you can change the storage location when you reinstall, this imfo IS NOT included in the instructions. so you must seek it out on your own, Bot no fear, the You Tube Academy has you covered!

I recommend a backup of files, and a fresh install of windows. Use your old HDD for storage and installation of less used programs. If you decide to use this for anything, it should be that you make this your primary drive and install your OS on it. I went from about 120 seconds boot up time to about 20 seconds to a full desktop. Google, SSD vs HDD and you will hit the buy now button. I must tell you, If you have HDD and want to try SSD, buy this and nothing less. More would be better. I quickly filled this up with windows 10 and a few origin games (bf4 ect..). The speed is amazing. I will NEVER use an HDD as my primary EVER again. You should too... Cant wait till 4 tb of this thing is for sale @$100. 10 years ago HDD came with 250gb now 1tb is the standard. my entire pc is faster. EVERYTHING is fast. No joke, even software installed on my secondary HDD is faster. Its as if my ram responds quicker. Hard drives are holding you back. My Rig FX 8350- R9 270X - GSkill ram- the rest is irrelevant.

This solid state hard drive may be an older model, but it works just fine in my older laptop computer. Indeed, this hard drive is bigger than the original drive that came with my laptop, so its an improvement in size and speed. Although this drive has been supplanted by newer models, at this price (around $110) its a bargain for older model computers, like older laptops and older desktops, because youll see greatly increased performance over traditional spinning hard drives and lower power consumption. My notebook computer is a good example of this--the old hard drive would take over a minute to boot into Windows and finish loading drivers; this hard drive does that in about 20 seconds. Indeed, if the interface were more modern, it probably would be even faster, because the limiting factor is not the hard drive but the hardware on the laptop. Installation was a snap; cloning was easy (I used a desktop cloning device); and it runs just fine. I can definitely recommend it as a way to get increased performance from older hardware, because the bottlenecks in performance these days are really in the area of hard drives and interfaces and not in RAM or processor speed. You can add new life to old computers simply by getting a fast but cheap solid state hard drive. This SanDisk is perfect for that.

This purchase was made to upgrade a PC desktop. I was using a 120-GB SanDisk Extreme. I upgraded the OS (WIN 7) from 32-bit to 64-bit. And I am waiting for the WIN 10 free upgrade to arrive. I needed the Free Space on a primary drive that this SSD did provide. I removed the older 120-GB SSD and plugged this in its place. With the PC Shut Down, I popped the DVD drive. Inserted the 64-bit install DVD and hit the power-on button. The OS installed quickly. About 20-25 minutes. I loaded the Intel Installation utility driver. And let Windows[tm] Update Service do the rest. (WUS) My PC has been rolled back to integrated audio and video--awaiting the WIN 10-update. Ill update PCI express later. I always use SanDisk for storage. I have never had a SanDisk failure. Even under trying conditions. My flash drives, camcorder SD, Digital still SD. SanDisk is always my first choice. === I bought another 240-Gb SSD This will upgrade a Win 7 32-bit to 64-bit and then Win 10. SanDisk is very much a favorite piece of hardware. I have never had a SanDisk product fail--in over 6-years.

This drive had operated nearly flawlessly since 2015 when I originally purchased it. Today 5/8/20 this has changed. I was using my PC normally, browsing on chrome when Windows crashed with a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED bluescreen. Upon restart I was greeted with the dreaded NTLDR missing boot error. The next step was to throw a Windows 10 ISO in so I could try a repair. The repair utility saw the drive, and claimed it had a storage capacity of 0 bytes. Following this I attempted to read the drive using an external enclosure. The drive was not detected on multiple machines using this method. These series of events has lead me to the conclusion that the drive has died. No S.M.A.R.T. warnings provided. I checked the Sandisk SSD dashboard a week ago, and it claimed the drive was in good health. This failure has caused me to lose important data tied to my college classes, data which had not been around long enough for the backup window to kick in. This event has been a intense frustration all day, and now I am faced with trying to either find a way to restore the data, or start fresh without my files. For this reason, I cannot currently recommend this drive for long term usage. The only reason I am giving it two stars instead of one, is that while it was working, it was a well performing drive.