This is probably one of the best/fastest sata ssd’s you could buy at the moment; Very fast e reliable; I have been using it for many months and never had a problem, actually, I have sold several of these to clients and NEVER had 1 failed. I’d definitely give it a BIG 5.

I added this to an older PC of mine that was taking a significant time to boot up when I used it; it now starts in a fraction of the time and appears generally quicker in all operations. It is very easy to install, silent in use and appears to run quite cool. I’m really very pleased with it.

As this PC is not the fastest anyway I have not placed it under any stress, beyond some light video editing, but it works well for everything I have so far tried.

Been using SSHDs for a while, they’re terrific, both as replacement drive in a laptop, and new drive in a homebuild PC. Seem hugely more reliable than standard hard drives, of which a half dozen have failed on me over the past ten years, while none of these have. No moving parts to wear out or go wrong. Just remember, defragging them isn’t actually recommended, don’t know why but they advise against it, you won’t need that extra speed anyway. This one now comes in minimal packaging, as opposed to the ostentatious boxes sandisc used to use.

I would have preferred the portability of a pen drive, but at the time of purchase, this was great value for it’s capacity, respectful read and write speeds and it’s gb to price ratio was more cost effective against the pen drives available. It’s fast enough for my needs, for serious gamers, no a super fast m2 stick would be better. casual gamer’s probably be satisfied with it’s speed? regarding the portability, I attach a sata to usb adapter to it so it can be powered by a usb port and I can take it with me on my travels with my laptop. Again this addition adds to it being a little bit more of a hassle to take around than a small pen drive, but it’s not a deal breaker for me.

I purchased this to install in an i7 laptop that had always been a bit sluggish. I assumed it was the disk causing all the problems so swapped it out. Gone is the time to make tea while booting up as I can’t make it out of the room and into the kitchen before it is ready (under 15 seconds from around 2 mins pre replacement).

The price was good and delivery speedy.

One star down as the casing is plastic and it gets quite hot, so a metal case as a heat sink might have been a sensible choice but I guess that adds cost.

UPDATE: This has been used nearly every day since purchased in 2019 so still going strong 2 years later as I would expect.

480GB Version (65.02)
Product bought 16 Jan
Writing date 3 July

I had a hard drive in my PC for a long time and decided it was time to upgrade. Searching for an SSD brought me to this one which has a good capacity for the price.

Once I installed it, I fresh installed windows onto my SSD but that was because I wanted a fresh start for my PC. I’m honestly not sure if there is an easier way to transfer from the hard drive to the SSD (there probably is) but that is the method I chose. Installation is easy but make sure to choose the right drive (i.e. if you have a 1tb hard drive and a 480gb ssd, choose the drive which has the 480gb capacity).

Using the SSD on a day to day basis has been an enjoyable experience especially after having a hard disk drive. It may not be the fastest SSD, but it does the job. Loading time for windows and for games have significantly lowered (make sure to actually install the game onto the SSD and not just steam for example otherwise the loading times will stay the same).

All in all, it has been one of my best purchases. No problem with delivery and product was easy to use.
[Any questions, message me. Happy to help :)]

This was bought as an upgrade to my wife’s ageing laptop, which not having a lot of ram (only 8G) and a slow HDD was taking around 4 or 5 minutes to wake from hibernation and over 6 minutes to get a functioning desktop from a cold start.

For some reason the disk didn’t have any included cloning software and the packaging didn’t indicate where it could be downloaded, I haven’t seen anyone else mention this in the reviews so perhaps I was unlucky (or just incompetent and missed something), however I had some other free disk cloning software lying around which worked fine.

Plugged the SSD into a spare external disk caddy and the cloning software took about 5 hours to clone the original laptop. Another 5 minutes to swap the disks around and the laptop booted up and worked perfectly.

Boot time from cold is now down to about 40 seconds and waking from hibernation closer to 20 seconds so all in all a very successful and affordable upgrade with minimum fuss and bother.

Just make sure that if you are upgrading an existing machine you might need to source some cloning software and a USB to SATA adapter as well.

Money well spent on making my wife happy.

This disc weighs less than a handful of feathers. Very easy to install. This SSD is the most cost effective upgrade that I have done. The change in computer performance is staggering, everything is now working much faster on my eight year old self build PC. I didn’t use any of the utilities for imaging the disc, so can’t comment.

24/10/2019 – Purchased a 1TB SanDisk Plus for my very slow laptop. The positives first. Once fitted to my laptop it is now superfast, no need to be thinking about a new laptop. The Acronis WD free software cloned my original hard drive with no issues, it took about 1.5 hours to clone my drive with the new SSD disk connected via one of the laptop USB ports.
The negatives – Support from SanDisk is not very good, contacted them a few times with various things to try when the SanDisk dashboard and the Acronis WD software wouldn’t detect the SanDisk SSD drive when connected to any of my USB ports. After a bit of experimenting with different USB to SATA cables/cradles I finally managed to get the dashboard and Acronis to detect the SSD drive.
Having read feedback from several Amazon customers and also on-line forums about the issues with using Acronis WD cloning software I’m really disappointed and surprised that the manufacturer hasn’t addressed these issues.
Anyway, once installed, well just wow describes my laptop performance boot up and shutdown times are amazing, all the Microsoft office software that once took ten’s of seconds to open now opens in a blink.

It’s a simple, though time consuming process, to clone the existing HDD to the SSD. The use of USB/SATA cable allows the SSD to be connected without opening the computer, and is essential when intending to upgrade a laptop. The cable is very cheap (a few pounds only) and one end attaches the SSD and other plugs into a USB port. If you have USB3, then make sure you get a USB3 cable.
If, as often happens, the SSD is not visible in File Explorer (or whatever system you are using), then you must use your system’s utility to initialise it. When that is done it will then appear as just an empty disk.
The next job is to clone the current hard-drive to it. If the SSD is smaller than the HDD, then you will probably need to re-partition the HDD to shrink the partition first. This will result in empty space which you never, and will never, use, so it doesn’t matter. Once the HDD partition you want to clone will fit onto the new SSD you can use a free program such as Macrium Reflect to do the cloning. Re-partitioning and cloning can take up to 4 hours, so be prepared.
When the clone has finished, you can simply replace the HDD with the SSD (with the computer switched off, of course, and reboot to experience the amazing reduction in boot time.
If your computer can accept 2 disks, then you can replace the HDD with the SSD, and plug the HDD into the other cable which is usually available. You then use the SSD as the main system disk and your old HDD as additional storage.