Samsung is reliable, but others like WD,Crucial, ADATA, SanDisk, and
Fast - of course, since I replaced a HDD; The 5 year guarantee is a nice feature too showing WD has confidence in the product
No Cons with SSD, it works great! But the Acronis TrueImage WD software would not load because it did not even recognize this as a WD drive even though I formatted it to NTFS; So I used Macrium Reflect Free to do a recovery USB drive, and the cloning, which was pretty straightforward