SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 530 MB/s - SDSSDA-240G-G26

If you're going all SSDs and don't want to rely on external drives, storage is still a bit of a problem. Most boards only have one or two M.2 slots, so if you want to keep going you need SATA drives too. Especially if you don't want it to cost an arm and a leg. These SATA drives aren't as fast as NVMe, but they're still pretty fast. For just about any normal task they should still exceed any reasonable requirements. Games run just fine on this drive and it's still fast enough for most high performance tasks like video capture or etc. Maybe UHD in uncompressed video couldn't keep up, but I think for most normal people this drive will do just fine.So far this drive seems to be reliable. It doesn't run especially hot or anything, so I have no complaints.

I received this 240GB SSD in yesterday's mail on the 1st day of the 4-day promised delivery range. I was able to clone my C: harddrive to the SSD using the "HDClone 4" software (free version) that I have used for several years to backup the harddrive. It was as simple as cloning another harddrive, in fact, the SSD appeared just like another harddrive -- no change to anything (it plugs-in the same as any IDE harddrive). After a simple swap with my laptop's harddrive, it booted the 1st time into Windows XP with no glitches.My system is a 2007-vintage Toshiba A105-S4384 laptop, Windows® XP Pro Media Center Edition (SP3), Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5500 (1.66GHz, 667MHz FSB), 4GB DDR2, 160GB 7200rpm SATA Revision 2 harddrive,The SSD drive performs admirably. I've tested several different application's load times as well as cold boots into Windows. Results are consistently 50% to even 40% of the time taken by the replaced 7200rpm harddrive. With SATA Rev. 2 support, you should not expect the blazing speeds advertised -- they are based on an SATA Rev. 3 system (the SanDisk website explains this). Nevertheless, this SSD drive kicked my system into high gear -- it is much faster than it ever was.I was not able to download the "SanDisk SSD Dashboard" software, as Windows XP is not supported (Vista and forward are supported). Apparently, Dashboard is required to download firmware, so I wasn't able to do that. It may not be beneficial anyway, as XP is so old.The SSD drive itself is smaller than a standard 2 1/2" harddrive, and is almost weightless. It generates almost no heat.For the price ($67), this is a very good deal. It's an excellent product, and if you have SATA Revision 3 (see the BIOS), this will be a blazing fast drive with no risk of a head crash, and no need for defragmentation.

Very good product.Laptop runs way smoother now.

Been using this for years and still going strong. Really easy to install and setup and has plenty of space. My computer recognized it as soon as I turned it on. Well worth the money.

Using these in a raid 5 and they perform pretty good. No failures after a couple months

Have installed several of these (240GB models) with good results in older laptops to keep them viable for folks who can't afford new laptops - so far so good. Installed one in an old Dell D620/Core2 CPU/4GB RAM, an old Acer Aspire 5733/Gen1 i5/6GB RAM, and an old Sony Vaio/Gen2 i3/8GB RAM. The drives have to be initialized first - so they have to be installed into an external USB case and plugged in/initialized via Disk Management - then they can be physically installed in the target box. I generally don't clone anything – just do a clean WIN10 install from a USB stick then install the original drive in an external USB enclosure and copy any required data/files back to the new drive. All the boxes I have done so far were already running WIN10 and were recognized by the MS servers/"activated" immediately. I dual-partition the drives with a 60 GB "C" drive which has proved ample for installation of programs, to include MS Office installs – then move the “library” folders (“Documents”/”Music”/”Downloads”/etc) over to the “D” drive (generally ends up being about 163 GB of free space – which is enough for folks who are not actually WORKING with these systems).SO..if what you're trying to do is prolong the life of a functioning laptop for use as a browser/e-mail/internet box, these drives will do the trick at a fairly low cost – as the SSD will make a NOTICEABLE improvement in speed/fluidity. As a few other reviewers have pointed out though - the "Sandisk Dashboard" software is kinda' buggy (thus the 1-star deduction) - it may or may not function correctly - I conclude (based on several builds) that this is hardware dependent; if I can’t get it to run correctly I'll uninstall the drive, place it in a USB enclosure/plug into a box with a functioning “Dashboard” build and check/update the firmware that way - then reinstall it back in the target box.I have noticed that WIN10 seems to run much better from an SSD (of any size/make) and the process of building the OS via “Media Creator” tool (/USB stick) (once a formidable and painful task) is fairly straightforward/painless – I rarely have to go back and dig up proprietary/unique drivers anymore (old Nvidia components being the main exception). Takes around an hour to install the drive, build the OS and install Office/browsers/etc. Hope that helps!