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

Works perfect and wow is it fast. This is the only way I will build a PC again. Boot times are almost instant. I installed Windows on it in less than 15 minutes. After installation I just pointed all the data-heavy folders to my other terabyte drive and I was good to go. If youre building a new PC this is required buy. Just as important as a video card or ram. One recommendation. Only plug in the SSD for the install. I had my other drive active during the install and windows made it the boot drive even though the OS was on the SSD. I had to reformat both and start from scratch to get the boot and the OS on the SSD.

I have a Dell Inspiron 1525, I bought it 7 years ago, 2009. I wanted a new laptop, but I really dont know what to do with my Dell, so I decided to do some research on speeding it up and I read about changing the hard drive to SSD. It worked like a charm! Ive been using this product for a year now and I didnt have any major problems, besides sometimes my laptop cant read the hard drive upon startup, but its an easy fix I just have to restart it. I highly recommend upgrading your old laptops hard drive with this one, its cheaper than the other SSDs which makes it a lot better! So I upgraded my laptop and its now running in Windows 10. Its like I bought a new laptop for just $50!! Hopefully this can last me for 7 more years.

The Bad: These arent the fastest SSDs available today, Feb-2016. They are based on the SandForce chipset and for some thats a problem. The Good: They are cheap, and they are available in smallish sizes for good capacity/price ratios. For me, that makes them the perfect upgrade from rotating rust in older computers. Especially those computers running as servers or embedded machines. My favorite application for these SanDisk SSD Plus drives is as upgrades from spinning disks in Linux|BSD servers. They are perfect as the Boot/Root Drives in those applications. They are available in the tiny sizes 32G, 64G, that Open source OSs can use. And they are wholly appropriate in any application where your speed will be limited by the SATA bus. They are also good for those people upgrading older Macintosh hardware. I have a 60Gb SSD Plus in my Mac Mini media server. All of my media is stored on the network anyhow so I dont need a lot of storage there. But this drive is worthwhile for the improvement it provides in boot and program load time. Ive brought new life to my very first MacBook by replacing the rotating drive with a 120Gb SSD Plus. That machines boot time dropped from 2+ minutes to less then 30 seconds. And the laptop is quite usable for web browsing and email again. All of the machines I mention are limited by their SATA Bus which is generally SATA I or SATA II. I those situations, the speed difference between this and one of the new Samsung EVOs is irrelevant.

I bought 2 of these and used them to clone my wifes and my laptop hard drives so we could use the cloned drives to install the free Windows 10 upgrade and still have Windows 7 hard drives to go back to if we didnt like Windows 10. They worked great for that and these 240 GB drives have enough space for Win 10 and all the programs we need to run. My wife doesnt have a lot of other things stored on her computer so it was big enough for all her needs. I have terabytes of pictures, home movies and videos stored on a second 2 TB internal HD in my laptop and several USB HDs so the 240 GBs was plenty for my system drive. I would recommend these to anyone who needs a fast system drive without a large amount of on board storage.

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.

I bought this SSD to breath new life into my 7 year old laptop and what a huge difference! It actually makes the laptop useful again! I used a third party software to clone the HD in the laptop, and once that was complete, swapped out the old HD for this SSD and the laptop fired right up! You can feel the difference right away! Everything is more snappy, not just the power up and power down! Just opening programs and surfing the web is snappy now! I decided on this 120GB SSD since this laptop is used really for surfing only and not storing a ton of data. I dont know the long range life of this SSD however so far so good! I highly recommend this SSD! I know folks are concerned with read/write speeds for an SSD, I am just a normal user and all I care about is the new user experience I have with this SSD! For the $$, you really should move to an SSD for your laptop!

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!

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.

Got this on sale a few months ago. Worked great for a while, really helped speed up one of my old desktops. It started acting up about a week ago with read/write errors causing me to have to restart multiple times to get the the OS to boot. Now its completely stopped working. Had to go back to my old HD after spending 2hrs trying to get this SSD to boot again this morning. Overall this has pretty decent reviews but next time Ill spend a little more on a higher quality drive. **Update - I wanted to revise my previous review as it turns out the problems I was having were from a failing power supply and not this HD. Installed a new power supply and is working fine again so Im happy with this purchase.

Installed this SSD on a white MacBook 5.2 as a replacement for the original 120 GB HDD. I was amazed at how easy it is to replace the HDD on these computers, after a long slog replacing the HDD on my 2007 iMac. Disk Utility immediately recognized the SSD, formatted it, and I was able to upgrade the computer to El Capitan and restore the apps and files from Time Machine. All that took longer than the SSD installation, but was simple and straightforward. Watch the videos that OWC has uploaded to YouTube before replacing any HDD in a Mac; they are the best produced and easiest to follow. Result: MacBook now boots in 30 seconds flat; previously took a minute. Apps load almost instantaneously. Would be even faster but the SATA 2.0 in old computers is a bottleneck for data. Wish Id installed an SSD instead of a hybrid drive in the iMac.