SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB Solid State Drive - SDSSDA-120G-G26

These SSDs work well and don't break the bank. I used them on 7 PCs at work that were about 7 years old to keep them running longer instead of buying new ones. They speed up the PC so much, it is almost like getting a new one in most cases.These are not as fast as the Samsung SSDs, but they are also a lot less expensive.If you have not installed these before on a desktop PC, typically the Spinning disks are 3.5 inches and these are 2.5 inches so you may need an adapter if your case does not have 2.5 inch slot. I was able to just drill some holes in the 3.5 inch plastic bracket in the PC so that the 2.5 inch SSD would fit, so I did not have to spend any extra on adapters. If putting them into a laptop, these will most likely fit without needing an adapter, but definitely check with the manufacturer and check the thickness too. I have run into one laptop that needed a spacer to make the SSD thicker or it would not fit and would not make contact, but i think that is pretty rare (but this one does not come with a spacer). This one is 7mm thick so you may not end up with a laptop that requires a thinner drive, but I would verify with the manufacturer just to make sure.These do not come with cloning software, but I recommend doing a clean install of the OS anyway and that is what I did in all but one case and I did clone the disk from one PC that had been recently re-imaged with software that I got included with another brand of SSD and that worked great.I purchased 7 of these and had no DOA drives and no problems so far running them everyday in a business setting.

I work in IT. Most people don't know what they want or need because nothing about electronics is ever really explained. A friend of mine came to me with a decent Toshiba laptop and a standard hard disk drive (well, the 3.5" anyways) and after routine maintenance on her computer, I identified the drop-dead slow speeds to be an indicator of a failing hard drive. It was time to replace the hard drive.She ran an 8.1 Windows OS. Her daily usage consisted of internet browsing, sometimes on sites like Netflix and Hulu with streaming content, but most of the time she'd be visiting her bank and credit card websites so she wasn't a heavy computer user. For something like this, I would recommend this hard drive. It's ridiculously cheap, and maintains a lightning speed for minimal laptop use. I'd even recommend it for moderate use because, honestly, with the way electronics have to be replaced every 2-4 years, it's just silly to drop much more than that on a hard drive.I would only search for a better product if I were intending for a drive to go into a high-demand system or a server. High-demand systems to me are gaming systems or any system that needs to be using applications like photoshop, illustrator, etc. on a regular basis. At that point, it would make more sense to invest in a higher capacity and higher speed drive. Please keep in mind that 120 GB is not a lot of space considering how much content (photos, videos, applications) that we put on a system. If you use a cloud-based storage service for your media than this should also be a decent pick for you.

Throw away your laptop HDD, this one will run better with windows 10. Just make sure you disable services like super-fetch or else your computers just gonna jest doing something for nothing. Having a HDD for windows 10 means 100% of the disk will be used due to the loads of crap installed onto the computer by windows. I NEVER have problems with the SDD but these things should not store important information due to not being able to recover information once it has a problem. Because once one part of the SSD is bad you can't recover the information unlike a HDD where there's still a chance damage hasn't entirely taken out the HDD. The only other problem that I have is with the GPU because clearly to have a hard running program that uses intense graphics has an impact on the GPU which causes an entire problem all of its own. If only we could do something about that. This product has lower amount of storage but to store all the data would cause a problem if said device were to go out so having a cheaper SSD isn't going to harm you entirely. I suppose you could go after a hybird of the 2 devices and install both a SSD and HDD but have them both run.

I purchased this to replace the HDD in a Dell 5559 laptop. I arrived quickly. I downloaded Sandisk's Dashboard and the manual. The manual recommended the cloning software, bu EZ Gig. I searched for it and downloaded it. I tried unsuccessfully for two hours to clone the drives. The program would find recognize the SSD. I tried reformatting, installing the SSD, but nothing worked. I then saw that Dashboard had a link to a WD cloning program. I downloaded it but it too would not clone the drive. It would start a reboot, but not complete the clone. I tried one other program, but this did not work either. I finally gave up and called Sandisk tech support. This was a waste of time. All he told me to do was to get Amazon to replace the SSD. I told him that I was able to use the SSD as a mass storage device and that I didn't think the drive was bad. He told to try and load Windows 10 on the drive, which I did. I was able to boot from the drive, but I still could not get the SSD to clone from HDD! My gripe is not with the drive, but with Sandisk. I wanted help with the cloning. I could have save a lot of time by loading the OS from the start!