SanDisk Extreme PRO 240GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD)

Fast and reliable SSD with a 10-year warranty. Better than Samsung SSD in software as Samsung cloning does not support non-Samsung recovery partitions. So if you want to clone your disk to ssd and keep say a Sony revovery partition, the Sandisk comes with Acronis WD edition that supports cloning/resizing all partitions from source to destination drive. One note, that since it is a WD edition of Acronis, it will not install if it doeasnt detect Sandisk/WD drive. So make sure your external USB to SATA does not hide the name of the drive(like in Device manager) otherwise Acronis will not install. I had bought a Dugol enclosure that did that and it did not work with acronis. I had to use my old Rosewill enclosure to get it to work. After cloning my original disk to it, I installed the Sandisk Extreme pro in my Sony laptop and it worked flawlessly and it is very fast!

The drive works great and is very fast, but a couple comments- It arrives unformatted so remember to first format it when installing it. Second if you want to register the drive with SanDisk write down the serial number before installing the drive. While the SanDisk web registration page says enter the Product Code it actually requires the serial number. I found this out after installing the drive and did want to then have to disassemble the computer. While some companies put the s/n on the box, SanDisk does not. Also no software is included and must be downloaded from the web. As is common these days, the installation instructions are skimpy and in very fine print. Four years later and it still works flawlessly.

So everything youve read about this drive is pretty much spot on- its really fast and its nearly a TB of storage. Just what I needed to put all my photos & videos on for doing my editing in Lightroom/Photoshop/etc. Its definitely worth going Thunderbolt over USB2/3 if youve got a Mac to eek out the full performance of this drive. That said, there is one problem- SSDs like this do not like being turned off for months at a time. Without power Ive noticed some data corruption of some of my files. Luckily nothing major, but it was bad enough that I wasnt able to recover the data and I had a few corrupted image files. Now I keep my two Extreme Pros in a cheap powered USB enclosure when not in use so they dont have this problem and Ive not seen any more corrupted files. This is a general issue with SSDs and not specific to these drives from what I can tell, so its just a limitation of the technology. This means these drives are NOT good for archival purposes which is too bad.

I bought this drive to replace the 5400 rpm drive that came with my laptop which was now slowing down to about a whole minute to allow me to start using the computer at start up. At the time it was a bit more expensive but I believed in the brand, quality, and its reviews. It has vastly sped up my system and it still is ready to use in under about 20 seconds from restart. I might look into getting another Sandisk drive with larger storage since my computer has taken on about 100 gigs of homework software projects and games over the past few semesters.

This is an amazing product. My wife had a Mid 2009 MacBook Pro that I was considering replacing. While the laptop worked well, we just noticed things were taking longer and longer. She could not have as many programs open as she could in the past, etc. In hindsight, programs have become more memory intensive, more photos from mobile devices, higher resolutions, faster internet, etc. I read a few reviews and decided to replace her 5200rpm hard drive with solid state. OMG!!!! AMAZING!!! Her laptop is as fast as the new stuff in the stores. What a great, great investment this turned out to be. I ordered the extra cable to help with the cloning process. The software for cloning was already on my mac but the cable was helpful. After the clone, a few minutes to install, POW! As a matter of fact, I was so happy, I ordered a second one for my office PC which is not a laptop. Boot time went from 85 seconds to less than 10 seconds. Everything is snappy fast. No brainer here!

Pros: Fast read/write speeds, decently priced Cons: None When it comes to SSDs, there are manufacturers who use their own controller and there are ones who use third party controllers. SanDisk uses Marvell controllers, which are pretty popular. This SSD is built for performance with similar specs to the Samsung 850 Pro. The Samsung, however, uses its own controller, which you can argue is better because they have direct control over the components that go into the SSD, but you probably wont be able to really tell the difference during normal usage. At the time of this review, the Sandisk is $189 vs $217 for the Samsung. If youre looking for a primary SSD for your OS, this wouldnt be a bad choice. The Samsung 850 and 950 are also good, but they tend to be a bit more expensive with similar specs. Intel SSDs are also top of the line, and the price reflects that.

Extremely fast SSD. I wanted to use it as the sole drive in an older PC (with an ASUS model P7P55D PRO motherboard), but was reluctant to connect the drive via the relatively slow SATA II interface on this motherboard. Instead, I mounted the drive on an OWC Accelsior S (PCI to SATA Drive Mount card; see product link:

Absolutely amazing, took my mid 2011 iMac running Mavericks from a boot time of over a minute to under 10 seconds with absolutely no lag. I cannot recommend it enough - the pro class is definitely the way to go with an SSD and the 10 year warranty is just the icing on the cake. It makes my old iMac feel like a totally different and new machine. With it more than 1/2 full (190 GB FREE), it still is clocking in at 380-410 MB/s read and write - definitely work the money.

Lasted 7 years

Seems to work great, plugged it into my Mac Pro with this adapter: