Skybbles
Are you a person who doesn't have a lot of money? Do you have a laptop that's almost 3 years old, and has had two drive replacements, both of which failed? Do you want to restore your laptop to its former glory? Then this drive is for you!Even if I've only had this SSD in for less than a week, I can say that it has made my laptop faster than ever. It also removed a very noticeable "bulge" from the last hard drive in here, which was a bit too thick for this laptop, even though it was 2.5in form factor. The laptop's boot time is much faster, it is overall much snappier than it has ever been, and it's also much quieter because of not having a 5,400RPM disc spinning inside it during its uptime.I might update this post way into the future, and I'll see if it fails really quickly or not. For now though, it's doing it's job very well, and I'm even tempted to buy it for my next PC build!EDIT 12/20/2018 -- It's still holding up, after a few months of every day continuous use. I have started to notice a faint buzzing noise while using it in bed...EDIT 5/29/2019 -- Almost a year now, and we've only experienced a few occasional total freezes. However, it is still as fast, and still as reliable as when I bought it.EDIT 5/6/2021 -- Still going strong. I have installed linux on the machine and even when this drive is used as swap, nothing fails. Still very fast and responsive, and even more so not that I am using Linux as opposed to Windows.EDIT 4/9/2022 -- First failure! Some files mysteriously disappeared from the drive and were unable to be caught bt e2fsck. The drive is still as fast, though.EDIT 7/8/2024 -- The drive is currently installed on my 3d printer's Klipper machine, and has had no failures or anomalies after over 12 months of such use.
Cool Hand Luke
Fast and cheap. Works immediately upon plugging it in. I bought a couple of others to try to save $4 and it wasn't worth it. Spend the $4 extra and get this fast drive instead of a $4 cheaper one that has SMART failure. This drive is the perfect upgrade for old laptops and desktops. Bought two and will buy more in the near future.