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

It dropped $50 since I bought it January 26, 2015 but I dont care because it was worth it to breath new life into my aging 2008 MacBook Pro. My system bus is the only thing that keeps this from truly ripping as I have sata1. Nothing I can really do about that as I also maxed out the ram to 6Gigs despite Apple saying it would only take 4Gigs. My reboot time is around 55seconds as compaired to it being closer to 5 minutes or so w/the 7200RPM drive that it shipped w/from Apple. I only wish I had done it sooner. There are many other SSD drive options w/better storage for the buck but none w/ a TEN YEAR WARRANTY or even close. That was the clincher for me and that I have had SanDisk products that I have had good luck w/in the past didnt hurt. But it was definitely the TEN YEAR WARRANTY that hooked me.I even bought an iosafe just so I could get the longer warranty and data recovery after having had sooooo much lost data over the years (on my systems and systems in studios I recorded in/worked in). Did I mention the TEN YEAR brother scratching WARRANTY that this comes with? Ahhhhhhhhhhhh yea. The only reason I havent ripped out my Super Drive and put one in that space as well is that my system architecture wount support it :( It was relatively easy to install. I watched a bunch of utube videos and took it super slow and got some canned air and cleaned it out while I was in there. Oh ya my whole system runs cooler and the drive fluctuates from 90s to low 100s when I am really pushing it on a hot day. Also my battery life is way the fuzz longer (like hours longer) than it ever was. So in many ways it was like jumping up to a newer computer. I will get another one at some point to run as one of my external/backup drives (the 960GB if the price dropps).

This is an amazing product. My wife had a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro that I was considering replacing. While the laptop worked well, we just noticed things were taking longer and longer. She could not have as many programs open as she could in the past, etc. In hindsight, programs have become more memory intensive, more photos from mobile devices, higher resolutions, faster internet, etc. I read a few reviews and decided to replace her 5200rpm hard drive with solid state. OMG!!!! AMAZING!!! Her laptop is as fast as the new stuff in the stores. What a great, great investment this turned out to be. I ordered the extra cable to help with the cloning process. The software for cloning was already on my mac but the cable was helpful. After the clone, a few minutes to install, POW! As a matter of fact, I was so happy, I ordered a second one for my office PC which is not a laptop. Boot time went from 85 seconds to less than 10 seconds. Everything is snappy fast. No brainer here!

I use this to record video from my camera with an external recorder. I usually use

I chose this drive after reading Toms Hardware reviews for best performance for value SSDs. So far so good. I use it in a desktop setup, and Windows 8.1 boots so fast you barely have time to see the loading screen. Plus there is so much space on the drive that I dont have to be picky about what programs I install. I still have a 1TB HDD for long-term data storage, but its getting closer to the point where I might forgo HDD altogether if SDD storage keeps getting larger and more affordable.

I bought this drive to replace the 5400 rpm drive that came with my laptop which was now slowing down to about a whole minute to allow me to start using the computer at start up. At the time it was a bit more expensive but I believed in the brand, quality, and its reviews. It has vastly sped up my system and it still is ready to use in under about 20 seconds from restart. I might look into getting another Sandisk drive with larger storage since my computer has taken on about 100 gigs of homework software projects and games over the past few semesters.

Blazing fast, cut my reboot speed by 50%. NOTE: This is a bare SSD only, without screws, cables, brackets, or cloning cable & software. I also picked up the following: 1) AFUNTA 6-Inch Sata Power Y Splitter Cable Adapter - M/f (Power Cable) to provide power, from Amazon 2) APRICORN Notebook Drive Upgrade Kit (cloning cable & software) from Best Buy 3) A standard 2.5 to 3.5 ssd adapter from my local computer store. Of these three additional items I had the hardest time finding the power-Y splitter. Couldnt find it in any local computer store.

I have a MacBook Pro (mid 2009) (MacBookPro5,3) and had been noticing recently that it was spending more time than usual waiting on the hard drive (spinning disk). Having had similar issues over the years with PCs running Windows, I decided it was time for a new hard drive. I could find very little information about this SSD being installed in my generation of MacBook but decided to take the plunge. I decided to physically remove the Macs optical drive as well because it was no longer in use and I felt that it was holding down the SATA speed to 1.5 gigabit which was experience in other PCs. After removal, I filled the slot with silicone to prevent someone from putting a CD in the slot as well as to not cause any airflow issues for cooling. I plugged the SSD into my USB port using a special cable and then used Carbon Copy Clone to transfer all the data. The number of used bytes on the SSD went down dramatically probably because the hard drive marked sectors as unusable. After I physically installed the SSD, a boot was lightning fast and the SATA speed was now 3.0 gigabit. Here are the numbers from Xbench: Results 374.17 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.10.1 (14B25) Physical RAM 8192 MB Model MacBookPro5,3 Drive Type SanDisk SDSSDXPS480G Disk Test 374.17 Sequential 236.59 Uncached Write 364.51 223.80 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 289.39 163.74 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 120.64 35.30 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 413.43 207.79 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 894.13 Uncached Write 1322.55 140.01 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 534.14 171.00 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 2157.36 15.29 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 723.69 134.29 MB/sec [256K blocks]

I originally bought this to see if it would be compatible with SanDisks Ready Cache software. (It isnt.) I have a 5930K based custom computer. Originally, it had a 1TB HDD with a 32 GB internal SSD cache, as well as a 32 GB external SSD Ready Cache. I still only got a 5.9 for the storage User Experience Index. I rebuilt the computer by replacing the HDD with this SSD, and moving the original HDD to the D: drive. The storage user experience index is now 7.9. My wifes laptop has a WD hybrid 120GB SSD plus 1TB HDD drive, and her storage user index is 7.8 When I rebuilt the computer, I started from scratch, and Windows 7 installed the fastest ever. The key was this SSD, and I loaded Windows from my Blu-Ray Writer. I have a lot of gadgets on my screen, and after I log in, they appear almost immediately. Ill be taking an FPGA programming class next year. I had one this past winter, and the software spent a lot of time reading and writing to disk. This will speed up the calculations immensely.

I bought this drive to replace an aging Raptor drive which I feared was failing after 10 years of solid use. My Raptor drive was only 74 GB and was so heavily strapped with the excessive Windows 7 64 bit load, that I had to move all of my resource intense programs (Video Games) to a secondary drive. Even after doing this, every time a Windows update popped up, I would have to go through and make space on the drive for the computer to run properly. Out with the old and in with the new. I purchased this drive along with the Corsair 600Q quiet case with the hopes of cutting down on noise as well as improving operation. I had no desire to purchase a new Windows operating system so my plan was to backup the Raptor onto the SanDisk. My original plan was to achieve this by using the method of backing up to an external drive and then rebuild onto the new drive. I actually started down this path until I loaded the Dashboard program onto the drive. This is when I noticed that the drive came with a one time use drive transfer program. Rather than looking a gift horse in the mouth, I took at shot at using what was intended to be a simpler process. I have to admit that I was impressed at the ease of installation of the SanDisk drive with the provided software. I started up the program, answered a few basic questions, and hit execute. Thinking that there would be something else to do at this point, I waited for the next prompt. After a minute I felt pretty safe that the prompt was not coming so I headed off to mow the lawn thinking I had a few hours to kill. After about 30 minutes I came back in to find, much to my surprise, that it was more than 60% complete. Twenty minutes later, before I was done weed eating, the program was done. Power down, disconnect the Raptor, and reboot. My system started up immediately, just like it did before...with one exception, no more 10k RPM whine from the old Raptor drive. To date I am extremely happy with purchase and would strongly recommend the SanDisk Extreme PRO to any of my friends.