Kingston UV400 120GB Solid State Drive (SUV400S37/120G) 2.5 inch, SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) Stand-Alone Drive

No, it's not the fastest SSD you can buy, but it is certainly several times faster than a traditional hard drive, and at a great price. I used it in an older computer-- it makes it feel brand new! If you've never used an SSD, you don't know what you are missing. It is the most effective way I've ever seen to speed up a computer. And, it's cheaper than trying to upgrade the RAM, processor, motherboard, etc.In my tests, I found that it increased my computers boot time from about 60 seconds down to about 20 seconds. Programs open and close much faster, too. I found that it was about 5 times faster than my original hard drive in certain benchmarks, 100 times faster in others.If installing in a normal computer (not a laptop), you will probably need an extra bracket to make it fit into a normal hard drive slot. I used this product, but there are several others: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G57BN1M/ref=cm_cr_ryp_prd_ttl_sol_15Since there are no moving parts, you don't technically need the bracket-- you can just jury-rig it into place, maybe even use zip ties if you want. But the bracket is more professional ;)

Works as advertised. My reboot times and general loading times are SO MUCH FASTER now. If you're still on a standard HDD. Get yourself an SSD.Biggest Pro: (Only in the 'Upgrade Bundle Kit' version) They include an external case with a usb cable on it. So you can plug the ssd into the case, and basically use it like a giant thumb drive. Picture attached. (I put my old ssd in the case, so I have a nice big portable usb drive now.) It also came with spare cables that could be needed if you're installing on a standard pc motherboard.)Pro: Install process followed the standard ssd install, no weird quirks or anything. Just google your computer or laptop model with "how to replace ssd in my <blah>", you'll find a video that will teach you how to do it.Pro: I like the little kingston logo, the face. I told my kids that we have to put this person inside our computers to make them work. They ate it up.Maybe a con: It was shipped in a floppy manilla envelope... not exactly how I'd want my precious hard drive to be shipped. But I'm not deducting any points against it because the drives are apparently durable enough to have not been damaged at all. And if they were damaged, I could have just sent them back to Amazon.

Works perfectly for my fairly low productivity(gaming/research) needs. I have had no issues or failures on either after using them for a year.I used two of these to make my PC dual boot Microsoft/Linux. I use a Samsung 850 SSD for Windows gaming and two Kingston for a pair of Linux OSs I use for work. The performance difference between the two hard drives isn't enough to prevent the Linux distros from booting faster, so I assume the performance differential between Sata 3 SSDs would be relatively unnoticeable in everyday use.Their low quality case manufacturing makes them quite ugly in person, but I put two of them in a tandem "Internal Hard Disk Drive Mounting", and those just look so good in your PC's internals that it doesn't really matter.My motherboard does not support NVME, otherwise I likely would not have bothered with Sata 3. This is a really cheap HD that I am only fine with using until my next big upgrade.

I bought this in 2016 to replace my second HDD which failed in my 2012 laptop. Believe it or not, this SSD is still going strong with no noticeable issues.