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

Overall I am very pleased with this Sandisk SSD. I had previously purchased other brands of SSDs for my personal machines, but a family members hard drive failed in their MacBook, and I decided a SSD fit the bill for a replacement. This particular user hardly uses any disk space. Their old stock drive was less than 25% full, and it was a 200GB drive. So I recommended this SSD, ordered it, and installed it. The user is extremely pleased with is performance. It used to take their Mac over a minute to start, but now it boots in 16 seconds flat. And when it is on and being used, the Macbook flies right along. It was an amazing speed boost. I am very satisfied with this purchase.

First of all the drive works well. Entry level so dont expect super duper fast reads and writes. Two stars drop off because of the difficulty in transferring from the old hard drive from the laptop to the ssd drive. I know that cheap is the key word here and that no software utility or other means of cloning come with the drive. The drive that I was replacing had Windows 10 and on a fairly slow laptop which I was wanting to speed up. A free cloning utility is available, EaseUS and that part was painless except that once completed, the boot sector on the cloned drive needed repaired to be bootable. So, since I have no Windows 10 installation disk, Microsoft allows download of repair disk image which has to be installed onto a flash drive or DVD. An hour or two later after digging up the required programs, the drive was fully functional. Next since I wanted to test the drive, I downloaded the Sandisk SSD Dashboard program. What a joke that is! Never had a program refuse to run if the screen resolution didnt suit the program. Well, another visit to Sandisk site an.after several adjustments to the supported resolution, the program came alive. I went to the performance section clicked and up popped another program problem with my computer. Back to Sandisk support site, digging found there was two possible solutions, edit a registry key if it existed; it didnt. Then go to the command line and enter a string of characters and it didnt work either. So after fooling around with this dog and pony show I flat out quit wasting time and uninstalled SSD Dashboard and classified it as another piece of useless software.

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.

Works great. I put one in my three year old bargain ASUS laptop and it made it into a whole new machine. Boots into Windows 10 in under 10 seconds. I put a second one in my five year old desktop computer and it has made it much faster. I was thinking I was going to have replace both computers as they were so slow, but with the SSD I figure I can keep using them for another year or maybe two before I am forced to upgrade them. Installation was easy in both computers and both seem to working well.

I have been using this SSD for about a month now, and so far no regrets. The price point of the SSD was significantly lower that others of similar capacity. Boot time on my system with this SSD is 20 seconds, compared to a conventional HD at just over 2 minutes. Application launch time appears to be about 2-3x faster as well. As for reliability, time will be the judge, but since I have been using other SanDisk products for 15 years without any issues, I am confident this SSD will not disappoint. As other users have noted, this does not come with cloning software, but there are many available for free.

I got this as a replacement for a hybrid SSHD (which is part SSD, part spinning hard drive) in my 13 2009 MacBook Pro. Compared to the hybrid drive and the regular hard drive (HDD) that I had in the MacBook Pro before the SSHD, there is a noticeable speed increase when launching apps. To my surprise, however, boot-up speed is only slightly improved from the SSHD, which is a little disappointing. Heres the thing though... if you compare the read / write specs of this drive to the newer Samsung SSDs, and such, youll note that this drive is a bit behind, but really, you need to take three things into account: *1)* What youre paying (probably significantly less for this SanDisk, vs. a Samsung) *2)* The fact that its a SanDisk (which is better than a no-name brand, at least) ---and, most significantly--- *3)* The fact that you might be installing this drive into a machine that might not be able to support the max read / write speeds of the newer Samsung SSDs *anyway* So, for the above reasons - in addition to the problem-free install experience - I am giving this item five stars.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525, I bought it 7 years ago, 2009. I wanted a new laptop, but I really dont know what to do with my Dell, so I decided to do some research on speeding it up and I read about changing the hard drive to SSD. It worked like a charm! Ive been using this product for a year now and I didnt have any major problems, besides sometimes my laptop cant read the hard drive upon startup, but its an easy fix I just have to restart it. I highly recommend upgrading your old laptops hard drive with this one, its cheaper than the other SSDs which makes it a lot better! So I upgraded my laptop and its now running in Windows 10. Its like I bought a new laptop for just $50!! Hopefully this can last me for 7 more years.

Based on reviews and other information I had read about the SanDisk SSDs, I decided to purchase this drive for a client of mine who needed some faster, more reliable storage on their home desktop computer. Physically it doesnt differ much from any other SSD, and in terms of read/write speeds its pretty snappy. There was a noticeable difference in the start-up time of the OS (Windows 10), right off the bat. The wake up time when the computer was in sleep mode was also MUCH improved and this is exactly what both I and my customer were hoping for. At this time Im unable to comment on the longevity of the drive, but barring any hardware defects, I believe it should last a sufficient amount of time. That being said, I always choose to maintain regular backups of my important documents/pictures/etc. If you are looking for a great SSD that will positively impact your start-up times and file transfer rates, this SanDisk SSD will do the trick.

For a quick replacement to upgrade my grandmothers laptop speeds, it was well worth the price. It is not the fastest on the market, but a reliable SSD nonetheless. I would go with the Extreme Pro models for my own devices, but to simply gain a boot and xfer speed increase over magnetic HDDs, it is a great investment. With todays options, the boot speeds on SSDs are pretty similar unless you get to the real high end ones.. and this does not give a massive benefit if xferring files to/from a magnetic drive (due to the magnetic drives bottleneck), so if you can pick one of these up cheap, it can be another storage drive to be able to take advantage of other SSDs xfer speeds, but I mainly purchase these type of models for simple HDD to SSD upgrade jobs. I would recommend to others as long as the price is right/reasonable.