SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB 2.5-Inch SDSSDA-120G-G25 (Old Version)

This drive had operated nearly flawlessly since 2015 when I originally purchased it. Today 5/8/20 this has changed. I was using my PC normally, browsing on chrome when Windows crashed with a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED bluescreen. Upon restart I was greeted with the dreaded NTLDR missing boot error. The next step was to throw a Windows 10 ISO in so I could try a repair. The repair utility saw the drive, and claimed it had a storage capacity of 0 bytes. Following this I attempted to read the drive using an external enclosure. The drive was not detected on multiple machines using this method. These series of events has lead me to the conclusion that the drive has died. No S.M.A.R.T. warnings provided. I checked the Sandisk SSD dashboard a week ago, and it claimed the drive was in good health. This failure has caused me to lose important data tied to my college classes, data which had not been around long enough for the backup window to kick in. This event has been a intense frustration all day, and now I am faced with trying to either find a way to restore the data, or start fresh without my files. For this reason, I cannot currently recommend this drive for long term usage. The only reason I am giving it two stars instead of one, is that while it was working, it was a well performing drive.

Received THE 240GB DEC 1st. The bios saw it and i installed W10 by USB. very stable so far. SANDISK SSD PLUS KICKS fast! :D. I clean installed windows 10 last night. Downloaded google. From power button to password 25 Password to desktop 5 secs. P.s. go-to msconfig and change your boot options from default minimum to max usage. Update your BIOS/UEFI TOO! 2. my Toshiba is a dual-core celeron CPU with sata 3 mobo (crucial.com told me) Thats all you can ask for. update aug 28th. having this SSD is outstanding. longer battery, no noise, less heat.[ the CPU and ram are working harder]. and impact resistant. . my only regret is i should have gotten the 240GB which has double the write speed. So far ...no complaints. Honestly the best thing you can do for your laptop....if you buy a new laptop. take out that HDD and install sandisk ssd+ OCT 1ST...STILL WORKING GREAT. NO PROBLEMS...my Sandisk 120 has been flawless since 9_22_15. Recommended!

This is the second one that Ive purchased and installed. The first one went into a high-end ASUS Ultra Book. The hard drive that came with the laptop was starting to go bad, so I googled how much it would cost to have the hard drive replaced. I punched in the exact model number for my laptop, and a YouTube video came up showing how easy it was to install a solid-state hard drive. The YouTube video was very helpful, Im very glad that I purchased the precision screwdriver set from Amazon at the same time. The torx bits necessary to undo the very tiny screws on the back of my laptop wouldve been extremely difficult to find otherwise. After cloning the original hard drive onto the new solid-state drive, I had my computer apart and back together in about 15 minutes. As soon as I touched the power button, the computer booted up much faster than it ever had. The one thing that surprised me the most was how quickly some of my more demanding programs booted up. Originally, it took almost a minute and a half for my Dragon NaturallySpeaking to boot up and begin working. Previously, I had noted how long it took from the time I spoke the word until it printed on the page. With the new solid-state drive, the time taken to go from the spoken word before that word appeared on the screen, was at least 10 times faster. (I am dictating this review on Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 11. I also purchased the software from Amazon, at a price much lower than I found anywhere else at the time.) Best of all, was video games. I know its a solid-state drive has nothing to do with the video card performance, but the video games I play the most, booted up much faster, and played much more smoothly. I have an older Dell desktop, it was starting to run very slowly. Because I was so pleased with how well my laptop was performing, I decided to do the same thing to my older desktop. Because the solid-state drive is so much smaller than the desktop hard drive was, I had to buy an adapter, six bucks, no big deal. Same as before, I called the hard drive, installed it, and was extremely pleased by the results. Even when it was new, this older Dell computer never worked as fast as it does right now. Dont get me wrong, I am not a computer technician, truthfully, they scare me to death. But installing the solid-state hard drive couldnt be any easier, remove some screws, replacing screws, plug the cables back in, put the cover back on, start it up.

Please see UPDATE 2 for more details on the sequential read speeds. UPDATE 1 is based on an erroneous benchmark. This is my first experience with an SSD and I must say that Im quite pleased so far. I wanted a second storage device for my ThinkPad T420 on which to run Linux and wanted to try an SSD, but didnt want it to be too expensive. After reading some reviews I decided to go with this one; it seemed good for its price. I also did some research beforehand on how Linux and SSDs interact. The distribution I selected was SparkyLinux 4.0, which is a Debian testing derivative. I mounted the SSD via the T420s UltraBay, using a third-party caddy. This was extremely easy and was done in about a minute. During installation, I put the /var and /tmp partitions on the laptops internal HDD, since these directories tend to get written to frequently. After the initial install, I set the swappiness to 1 and enabled trim manually by editing /etc/fstab, adding the discard and noatime options. These steps were all taken in an effort to reduce wear on the SSD. To further reduce wear, I also installed profile-sync-daemon. I should mention that SparkyLinux does not appear to have hibernate functionality installed by default; I had to actually install the hibernate command before it would hibernate properly. Once everything was set up, it was off to the races. The computer boots up in less than 10 seconds and application launch times are considerably faster than with any HDD Ive seen. I havent conducted any benchmarks, but given the low price and the stance of other reviews, I cant imagine that its winning any records. Still, it seems to be a great budget option and Im very pleased with it thus far. It gets 5 stars because its super cheap and is tangibly much faster than an HDD; any complaints have to be measured against its price. I am now considering getting another one for a different laptop and will update this review if I have any issues down the road. UPDATE 1 (10-09-2015): I finally did some benchmarking and as it turns out, the drive only exhibits a sequential read of ~290 MB/sec, which isnt even close to the advertised 520. This is a bit disappointing, but I dont care too much as its still plenty fast enough to meet my requirements. Although my requirements are not high, the lower-than-advertised sequential read is probably information that people will want to know, so Im mentioning it. Right now, Im not sure if the drives a lemon or if something else is slowing it down. Ive heard some claims that that the T420s UltraBay doesnt reach SATA III speeds, and its also possible that the caddy Im using is the bottleneck. A final possibility is that its a driver issue in SparkyLinux. Since I need to do more research on this matter and Im still satisfied with the drive, Im not changing my rating yet. Cached reads, incidentally, are ~4500 MB/sec. UPDATE 2 (10-09-2015): I decided to use a different software benchmark to test the drives read performance and it reports that in fact, the sequential read performance is ~510 MB/sec. Its good to know that it was a software issue that produced the previous result. Of course, no drive ever actually hits its advertised performance, but this drive comes very close and I dont think anyone will feel cheated. UPDATE 3 (10-10-2015): Ordered a second one for the aforementioned different laptop, a ThinkPad X131e, and dropped SparkyLinux on it as well. I used the same adjustments as before to reduce wear. Once again, the sequential read is ~510 MB/sec, so thats 2 for 2 good drives now. Whatever SanDisk is doing here, it seems to be working. The performance gains are significant for this slow computer. Boot time has been cut in half, programs start up quickly if not instantly, and hibernating went from agonizingly slow to completely tolerable. Its still slower than the T420 - obviously, the SSD cant fix its underpowered CPU - but its not a laggy mess anymore and honestly, thats all I needed.

So I consider myself relatively tech saavy, having put together my own rigs multiple times without much problem. I decided to get this to replace the stock HD that came with my old dell m1330. i thought a simple swap and fresh install was the prescription for the evening and proceeded to do what i would normally do, swap out the old hd for the ssd and pop in my OS disc and reinstall. totally wasnt working. the bios (A15) detected the drive correctly, and sata was set to AHCI, but all i got was a blank screen with a blinking cursor at the top. tried formatting on my other computers, setting up partitions, bootsecting it..nothing got past the blinking cursor. well, to make a long story short, i couldnt do a fresh install and the only thing that was able to get the computer to boot off the drive was to do a complete clone of the stock HDD. :/ sure, it boots up a whole heck of a lot faster, but id much prefer it if i coulda done a fresh install. hmm..still might try that now that it actually sorta works. hopefully its not a faulty drive. just in case someone is planning to do a clone, i used EaseUS Todo (http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm). *** EDIT *** ok, after a little more digging, i think it was my laptops dvd drive that is screwy, which made booting up with a blank SSD (and an improperly-functioning dvd drive) impossible. im boosting it up to 5stars cuz the ssd actually works, and i cant be unfair to give it any less since i think the problem was on my end.

Brilliantly fast. I have it installed as my primary SSD on my desktop to replace the worn out old 5200 RPM HDD. My earlier boot time while running windows 7 was about 45 seconds . With this installed the boot time has reduced to about 15 seconds . I runs quiet and though deceivingly lightweight is well constructed.I havent done any read /write tests to validate the claims. However, on the basis of its functionality for the last 2 weeks I can safely say that it works well I bought the 250 GB and the memory is ample enough for the programs that i have installed and running. The programs that I am currently running on my computer are: Windows 7 pro Microsoft office 2013 Adobe professional XI Chem Draw 2 Adobe Indesign C Cleaner Skype VLC player Opera browser 10GB worth of movies and Music 4 GB worth of various books I have still about 100 GB left on my hard drive . I am so far pleased with its functionality . My comp specs are AMD Phenom processor ,8GB DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA GeFORCE graphics card. If you are planning on using the SSD for heavy word processing and occasional games and entertainment, I would gladly ask you to go for it For the price it is a very good investment/upgrade for your system.

This is the little SSD that could... I bought this drive expecting disaster... but was pleasantly surprised by its real time performance. Lets talk about entry level SSD drives. You buy an entry level SSD for these reasons a) save money b) the programs you will be running are browsing, office software and light gaming c) you want a fast boot into Windows 10.. averaging 10 seconds. d) the drive is mainly for HDTV use Even if you add this drive to an older board (even something with DDR2 and Sata II).. your boot will be in 12-14 seconds. Just understand ONE main principle of the controller on this drive. After it exceeds the fast cashe of 4 GB.. the drive will slow down. If you fill the drive past 80% it will slow down. This means if you are a developer, coder or heavy gamer, select a more advanced model or brand of SSD. Finally... the drive has the equivalent weight of a large goose feather and can be attached to the inside of a case using double-sided mounting adhesive.

My HP Dv7 series laptop needed a new drive at last, especially after upgrading to Win10, and I knew I was going to get a SSD style but was not certain of which brand. I have had very good luck with SanDisk products before so went with their 128 gb SSD drive. Since I only put the OS on the main drive and store everything on the secondary, I did not need more space. Basically, this is plug and play. I replaced the drive in very short order, inserted my OS disc and the speed at which everything loaded was impressive. I had no issues at all with either installation or performance and I am very pleased. As a bonus, my computer and the power adapter run much cooler as well. I would definitely recommend this brand for anyone needing a SSD.

I started with an OCZ ARC 100 ARC100-25SAT3-240G which worked fine except for the fact that it crashed every time youd try and sleep/resume in windows 7 64 bit. Useless like that, but I do have to say their tech support is very supportive since they shipped me a replacement before even sending mine back to them. Unfortunately it still didnt work right. Next I got a Crucial BX100 CT250BX100SSD1 which again worked fine except for the sleep/resume issue. Luckily Crucial had a firmware upgrade which fixes this issue. The crucial btw was about half the weight of the OCZ. So after dealing with issues on both previous SSD upgrades I decided to either get another Crucial since I knew it would work eventually or try out a SanDisk since their SD cards have always been flawless. Im glad the SanDisk was on sale first. It worked perfect right out of the box and is incredibly lightweight. Approx half the weight of the Crucial, 1/4 of the OCZ. Speedwise it maxes out my Sata 2 connection just fine at 280/240mbs, the others if i remember right were around 250 or so. Windows boots up in 55 seconds with this on my old laptop.

Its a perfect upgrade to a rotating drive for basic/casual use. It arrived in no-frills packaging and does not come with a SATA cable or any cloning software -which is fine with me. This drive is now swallowing traffic from 10, IP surveillance cameras at 1080p (~6MB/s each). No problems at all. Even when the cameras are recording, benchmark software shows read speeds between 55 to 62MB/s. It does not compare to other high-performance SSDs in my system but for the intended purposes and for $69 delivered to the door, its just peachy and is many times faster than a rotating disk. Might just get another one to replace the 5400 RPM drive in my casual-use laptop.