Ok, works great and probably deserves more stars. What people don't realize is that all you need is the cable. You can download the software. I don't know many people who RELY on CD-ROM drives. I haven't built a system in the last five years that included one.

I've had this ssd for almost a year now and it still works great and it boots up windows 10 in less than 10 seconds

Steer clear of these SSDs; they offer nothing but disappointment.

Well here goes...The product works and seems to be a good fast replacement for the old 1 TB spinning hard drive that I replaced. Problem is that it took way too long to get this in and up and running. Here is what happened. I Physically installed the drive and connected the cables.

The decreasing price of flash memory means SSDs are more accessible than ever. That's doubly true of cache drives, which use smaller amounts of memory to improve performance when installed in systems that still use hard disks.

I researched SSDs for a few hours and this was one of the highest-rated drives in its price class. Installation was simple but I had to use an external SATA-to-USB adapter to clone my existing Windows 7 installation directly.

It's your average modern SSD. Sequential read/write is great, but has pretty bad random r/w. Still a LOT faster than an HDD - it gets beaten by higher quality SSDs on random r/w benchmarks (eg. my ~6 year old Intel 320), but you likely won't notice any difference in normal use.

Very light (noticeably lighter than my laptop's old HDD) but still feels and looks reasonably well-designed -3 year warranty -Pretty strong sequential r/w speeds (about as much as you can expect from a modern SATA III SSD -Apparently an MLC drive so maybe it'll last long

-Slow random r/w -Cheaper options exist (unless you get it on sale

at the recommendation by an IT friend I had this installed In a Dell Inspiron 3670 when I bought it from Office Depot. It is amazingly fast and if you want to enjoy the fast computer start up and program launch I would highly recommend it. It's worth the cost to me.

speed at startup; speed when launching programs

not the fastest ssd out there (but doesn't really matter with a SATA2 controller...) and it works fine so I'm pleased.

Works fine

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Drive started to develop bad sectors after a few months, and when I attempted to use the SanDisk utility to generate a SMART report, it simply reported Failed.... When I contacted SanDisk to request an RMA--having already removed the drive so that I could take photos of the front and back of the...