SanDisk Extreme PRO 240GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD)

Works as advertised and was easy to install. Used the clone program referenced by another purchaser - Macrium. Very fast at sata3 and still fast at sata2 (180 MBs on old pc). Programs and files load almost instantly and should make the old desktop pc useable for the next couple of years. The old 500gb drive is used for DATA and the new C-Drive is used for the operating system and programs. I did not want to remove the DVD drive so I just put it in the same mount. It fit perfectly between the DVD drive and the cage around it.

I have had this model of SanDisk SSD (first one returned to SanDisk about a year ago) for just over 2 years. The SanDisk drive is installed in an HP Mini 2102 laptop, that was initially running dual-boot, Ubuntu 1604 and Windows 7 Starter - 64bit. In August 2016, I took advantage of a free ugrade to Windows 10 Home (later I observed this was the 32 bit version of Windows 10 and suspect the switch in bits was related to the Atom processor in the laptop). What a mistake I made. The first problem I observed was screen updates were sluggish and large pauses would occur. I suspected a video driver issue and proceeded to update drivers using a third-party software solution. No changes. Next thing I knew Windows 10 wanted to update to 1607. The upgrade process required a lot of boots and many of them would hang with the disk activity light solid. Contacted SanDisk and they decided to send me a new drive. After restoring from a backup, I was able to get the update to 1607 to complete with only a couple disk hangs while booting up only. I was now observing the disk activity light a lot more. When screen updates would hang, I now noticed the disk activity light being solid and would recover , 20 seconds being the longest. I started using hibernate a lot more to avoid the solid hangs. Also, I observed that when Ubuntu got sluggish, the disk light would go solid, but would recover in less than 5 seconds. Now Windows 10 update 1703 becomes available around April 2017. For some reason, I decided to move the SanDisk SSD to another laptop - HP HDX 16. The update to Win 10 1703 went without a single hang in the HP HDX 16. My conclusion is the SATA/??? controller on the HP Mini 2102 has problems or the driver-controller has issues. The Windows 10 Home driver being much worse than Ubuntu 16.04 driver or the Windows 7 Starter. Going to contact SanDisk again to see if any updates from a year ago and share my experience. Should contact Microsoft about the 32 to 64 bit switch-aroo since the drive may be going into a computer with a lot more memory than the 2.97GB restriction for 32 bit. Or, visualize it on Ubuntu 17.04 64 bit.

I built my gaming pc using the extreme pro 480gb as my main internal drive. Build: Gigabyte z170x gaming 7, i7 6700 cpu, geforce 980 gpu, corsair vengeance 16gb pair of ram, windows 10, azza 1000 r tower, cooler master geminII cpu fan,ect. The sandisk extreme pro works fantastic in this system. Everything I do is very quick and after hours of use the temps are low and fans never kick up to high speed. The boot up time is nearly instant.

This hard drive has great transfer rates. I really liked that Sandisk has software that lets you be in control, when youre running Windows 8 they recognize that the prefetch/superfetch, trim, and disk optimization is handled automatically by the OS so they dont walk you through redundant tweaks. The channel saturation is very nice, it keeps the sata 3 running at its highest capacity. The disk is stable, and the 10 year warranty is great peace of mind. If I run into any issues Ill update this review, but so far Im impressed by the speed and ease of setup.

Great specs, but high price. Maybe worth it for the reliability, I am happy with this and will likely look into a larger capacity in the future I have usually had good experiences with this companies product and this was no exception. No crashes, but I would still recommend not relying on it %100 for backups.

To get the best performance to 530MB/s seq read, youll need to install in main slot of your machine, with high speed SATA3 6.0Gb/s port Otherwise the transmission speed will be limited by SATA2 of your optical disc drive slot. Anyway good SSD in medium level with SanDisks own 64Gbit 19nm MLC cell, old Marvell 9187 but more stable, and cheaper than 850 pro. if you have more money you can choose Intel 730, or PCIe for desktop. Ill give a s*** to sumsungs so-called 3D V-nand, you know reason. Avg. random write 65-95MB/s, enough for Win10

Replaced old spinning drive in laptop, and now it runs like new and better!! Its been over a year with this SSD, and the laptop so continues to purr along with lickety quick response. Was very easy to replace.

I purchased this SSD to replace the HDD that came with my laptop. Using the free utilities to transfer all of the data from the computer was really quite easy and only took about 30 minutes (youll need to buy a USB 3.0 SATA III hard drive adaptor cable if you dont already have one). Once the data was transferred I was able to install the drive and it booted right up. Performance for my laptop has improved dramatically. After running benchmark tests between the HDD and SSD, the SSD read and write speeds are over 6 times faster than the HDD. The machine itself runs noticeably faster, quieter, cooler, and the battery life is much longer as well.

I have a recording studio and a recent Mac Pro Cylinder computer. I needed a fast external drive for making music with my DAW software (Logic X). I tried a few different USB3 SSD and hard disk connections until I came to this drive. I use these in my Atomos Ninja 2 video recorder and that is how I got on to using them for my DAW. This disk mounted on an Atomos USB3 drive sled reads and writes at over 360 MB/s as measured with Black Magic Design disk speed test. This was the fastest drive Ive tested. By contrast my OWC USB3 SSD only writes at 150MB/s and reads at 205MB/s by the same measure. My Seagate 7200 3-TB hard disk drive which is Enterprise class reads and writes at 180MB/s so this SSD is really a big step up in speed. Its working great as my DAW SSD now, fast, quiet, cool running and Amazon makes it affordable and easy to get. Good music and good computing to all!

To review the SSD itself, Ive had zero issues, its small, easy to mount, easy to install. To review the impact of having an SSD, It shortened my 2 minute boot times to around 3 seconds, I load into games insanely quick, and the SSD runs dead silent, unlike my previous HDD that was begging me for death.