Integral V Series V2 Plus 512GB 2.5 Inch Internal Solid
Integral V Series V2 Plus 512GB 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Hard Drive (SSD), Read 550MB/s, Write 520MB/s, SATA Interface 6Gb/s | Black
Ultra-fast boot speed
Make your desktop or laptop computer feel like new again with faster boot, load times and more reliable performance than HDD.
10 times faster than traditional HDD
With speeds up to 520MB/s* Read and 470MB/s* Write, the V Series 2 approaches the limits of the SATA III interface.
Boosted apps and games
All games and apps will benefit from much faster load times and more efficient multi-tasking.
Choose Integral for reliable memory
Integral solid state drives are hard-wearing, with extreme shock resistance, zero noise and no heat generation.
Disclaimer:
1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes. When formatted, actual user storage capacity is less. This is an industry applicable standard across all memory storage products.
Speeds based on internal testing; performance may vary depending on host device.
| Weight: | 50 g |
| Dimensions: | 6.98 x 10.02 x 0.7 cm; 50 Grams |
| Brand: | Integral |
| Model: | INSSD512GS625V2P |
| Colour: | black |
| Manufacture: | Integral |
| Dimensions: | 6.98 x 10.02 x 0.7 cm; 50 Grams |
In a world of multi terrabyte NVMe drives this seems out of place but it’s a terrific substitute for an old spinning disk when paired with an adapter in a vintage computer. A brilliant little drive.
Once you get into your laptop this is easy to fit. Close it up, format, mount it and away you go.
Brilliant!
Only drawback, no screw…..not in my laptop and there’s none in the kit!
Good job I had a wee screw of my own……
My 9 year old ASUS machine had reached the point where booting up was so slow I was considering a replacement machine. As this SSD was so cheap I thought I would give it a try. The positive result is that my machine went from a 10 minutes start up and very slow rendering of browser pages to around 30 seconds for a startup and a thoroughly acceptable web browsing.
The negative side is that it doesn’t come with any software for transferring the existing boot disk and you will either need to source some software (I failed to find a good free solution) or reinstall from scratch.
If you are OK with that then this disk is great value and will postpone that windows 11 upgrade for a while yet.
Only had it a few weeks used it to put a bit of life into an old iMac, runs a lot snappier but still hangs which I think is a ram limitation more than the SSD.
Read reviews of many SSD’s giving problems after a few months, so far so good will update after 6 months
Several months (and lots of uninstalling and re-installing games) later, I’m still getting the level of performance one would expect with an SSD.
The performance improvement that comes with replacing the HDD that comes supplied with the PS4 with an SSD is remarkable, even with the base model. Loading times are reduced significantly, and in some games you may even notice a slight boost to frames per second.
All-in-all, Integral have been one of my go-to brands for SSDs for a while. I would fully recommend this SSD if you’re planning to swap out a PS3’s or PS4’s HDD with an SSD, but it would also work great inside a laptop or desktop.
Changed rating from 3 to 5 stars
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Don’t use this product for any important data that you wouldn’t want to lose. I purchased 2 units around 6 months ago to replace on old and failing HDD in my desktop PC. They were both installed on the same date and setup identically using a GPT partition in Windows 10.
6 months down the road and one of the devices has failed. The PC is reporting a SMART failure on one drive (see photo) and within Windows the device is now showing as GPT Protective Partition which seems to mean my data is gone unless i want to throw money at buying dubious software that might be able to rescue my data, but no guarantees.
This drive is great for say putting your movie collection onto a second drive for a Raspberry Pi media center to take on holiday with you, but dont use it for anything that you cant afford to lose.
Since purchase, it has been deployed 247 in a powered SATA hard disk caddy attached to a Raspberry PI. The PI boots directly from, and is constantly reading and writing to it. I am able to utilise a 2GiB swap file to deal with the load imposed when firing up a number of docker containers as well as general use.
The SSD hasn’t skipped a beat for me so far, while serving a machine permanently on **fingers crossed**. I may even consider this brand to upgrade a laptop in future now.
On current evidence I can only recommend it. Should my future experiences reveal otherwise, I shall report them here.
My only grumble and the reason I’ve removed a star is the screw holes (for the mounting screws). The are incredibly cheap and badly finished with metal burrs on the inner edge of the screw. This makes it hard (well impossible) to fully screw in the mounting screws. If you have freakishly short mounting screws then you’ll probably be OK but if you are reusing mounting screws from an older drive (as I was) you might find they don’t fit. I guess I could have run a tap through the screws to clear out the burrs but I should not have to do that (besides the screws are probably so cheap they’re completely disintegrate).
Delighted to report that this drive did the trick, making it startup within 10 seconds and wake from sleep in under 2 seconds. I can’t speak for the longevity of the drive (as this is a cheap drive, reliability is the first area to be compromised on) but will update this review later if any issues come to light later on.
At time of purchase, this was the cheapest SSD you could buy new on Amazon, at only 12 – you’ll be hard pressed to find anything cheaper – you could go second hand, but those will be a mixed bag with almost certainly no warranty backing it up.
My main piece of advice if buying this, would be to a) acknowledge it’s a cheap drive, so don’t expect much, and b) backup any important data on this drive elsewhere so you won’t be upset if/when it does die on you.
Otherwise, so long as you’re aware of the likely drawbacks of going so cheap for a piece of computer hardware, you really can’t go too far wrong spending just over a tenner on this drive. It’ll bring life back to otherwise barely usable computers, saving them from being scrapped for at least a little while longer.