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

I bought four of these for a new system. It has been six months now and I am pleased with the speed. However one of the units was defective and when I got around to the installation it was past the Amazon return period. So I returned it to SanDisk the supposed 10 year warranty. After several tedious e-mail exchanges they said I could return it, which I did 6 months ago. After one month they acknowledged receipt of the item. But I have not heard a word since then. Hence the two star review. The ten year warranty is nice but if they dont honor it the promise isnt worth much. It is a good product but dont buy it because of the warranty. Update 9/5/2015 I have had the 4 units now for about a year. Use is moderate. I am a software developer and I use one drive for compiling. The other three receive less use. SMART reports bad sectors on 3 of the 4 drives, ranging from 10 to 40. I am told that this is not sufficient to return the drives under warranty, but most of the drive health utilities that I have recommend that I watch the drives carefully, especially the one with 40 bad sectors. I am lowering the review from 2 to 1 star. I cannot recommend these drives. I got a couple of nasty comments because of a typo in the original post. I said I returned the drive to Samsung. That was a typo. Of course I sent it to the manufacturer (Sandisk). That should have been obvious. You cant just send drives back. You have to call and give them the serial numbers and get permission to return. I had Samsung on my mind because I just purchased Samsung replacements, which so far are working great. It was an honest typo. No need for the nasty comments.

For a long time, I resisted the temptation of getting an SSD because they were expensive as well as occasionally unreliable. Finally I decided to treat myself, and I cant believe it but it actually makes such a huge difference - mainly in game loading times and even when opening a file explorer. Ive been using this for a few months now and its been great. Of course, I do wish I had more SSD storage, but this has served me well holding my OS and games. This SanDisk is really fast and has given me no troubles that some of the older SSDs allegedly had a few years ago. The drive was easy to install and get running.

Good replacement for my EVO 850. My EVO 850 was a very fast unit except for one particular application: writing email in my gmail account online. Each time I would type, I had to wait seconds to see my text appear on the screen. I found nothing on the Internet that explain such phenomena. Everything else was blasting fast with my EVO. Following a friend idea, I ordered this unit, cloned the content off my EVO 850 onto it and gave it a try. With my naked eye this unit is very fast. There is plenty of benchmarking data for that available out there to tell you if it is faster than the EVO 850 or not. What was important for me was to be able to use my online gmail account like I was used to. And it did. Im very happy with that swap. As for my EVO 850, I got it re-purposed in another rig where Id enjoy its fast speed.

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!

This drive is freaking awesome. My computer (Early 2011 Macbook Pro with 4 GB RAM, 2.3 GHz i5) just went from dying DOG to flying GOD. Here are some of the observations, after swapping out the stock Hitachi 5400 rpm drive with this one: - Write speed of 480 MB/s and - Read speed of 520 MB/s (based on BlackMagicDesign Disk Speed Test, so take it with a grain of salt) Pros: - The PRO version provides the higher write speeds, almost double of regular drives - 10 year warranty (vs 5 years max. of the competitors) Cons: - None really (although some may argue the higher price, but the Pros stated above justify that IMO) Tip: Assuming the general idea for buying this is to improve your computer speed, you should consider looking at how much RAM you have and if your system is starving. In my case, Activity Monitor was showing that 4GB ram was maxing out so I upgraded to 8GB. With my normal usage which includes using Adobe Photoshop and illustrator, my RAM consumption was contained within 6GB, so the 8 GB RAM upgrade added a nice boost as well.

An absolutely incredible upgrade. My initial benchmarks indicate boot time at 20% of the original time, maybe lower. Database programs and processes run a lot faster when using the disk for a database. Even browsing and video is greatly sped up, as the time to load cached images and video content is very fast, so it even appears to improve the quality of the displayed video. I guess with the old green hard drives, the time the browser program takes to load the data is enough time to reduce image quality. An absolute must for any personal or computationally intensive business computer. Certainly good for servers too.

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).

The SanDisk extreme pro was a great upgrade to my laptop. It has speed up boot times to less then 15 sec before that it took over 60 seconds or more to boot. Installing programs is lot faster than before. Going form 100mb to over 500mb read and writes speed up the computer a lot. Updating computer is a lot faster. Programs run a lot faster with a SSD. The drive is lot less fragile then a HDD. You do not have to worry as much if you accidently drop your computer about it breaking because it has no moving parts to break. This SSD is good for computer because it is durable for a laptop Because a laptop gets thrown around a lot . Over all the product works well in a laptop or tower because of how it not made of moving parts to break if you drop it. I have drop my lap top a few times and the drive still works. The program that you download to monitor it is good. It gives you a lot of info on your SSD. The product is good. Very high quality. Order came soon after ordering on this site. Have had good luck with product.

This is a great SSD! The speed boost that you get when you change from a HDD to SSD is unbelievably fast and different.I purchased this SSD about 2 years ago and it is still going strong! One of the best upgrades that I have done to my laptop. I used to hate turning my laptop off, because of how long it would take it to boot back up. With this SSD the computer boots and shuts off in less than 10-15 secs compared to over a minute and a half for the HDD. This SSD comes with a long 10 years warranty, which is a plus! If you are thinking about upgrading to an ssd, DO IT! It will be one of the best performance boosts that you can do.