2.5 160Gb Hdd Solid State Drive

I recently got a SanDisk 1TB SSD (Solid State Drive) and used a drive cloning device to clone my old 1TB Hard Disk Drive (HDD) to the new SSD. It works wonders in my 15 year old computer! It really speeds up drive-related activities, perhaps as much as 3 or 4 times faster. I think my old HP laptop computer is either a SATA or SATA II type, so I suspect those with a SATA III system would see even better speed results when going from a HDD to a SSD. Gotta love it!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I can't figure out why I was opposed to ordering my new computer with a Solid State Drive instead of a HDD. Perhaps I was leery of the technology. I since replaced the HDD with the Samsung 860 Pro Solid State Drive. Before it to several minutes for the system to boot, now it is almost instantaneous. The overall performance of my system has increased 100 fold. Kudos to Samsung for their continuously innovative products. They made me a believer.

Solid state drive worth it.

excellent little solid state drive - and powerful

At work, I have upgraded a dozen desktops and laptops with hard drives by installing this SSD. It fits in the space of a 2.5 laptop drive. Many desktops have mounting points for a 2.5 drive. If not, a storage bay adapter is available for a few dollars. Unless an M.2 slot for NVMe SSD's is available, this is the best way to make a PC orders of magnitude faster. With increased use of cloud storage, a 500GB SSD is more than adequate to replace a 1 TB HDD especially in business settings. My experience with Crucial/Micron memory and SSDs has been very positive. That's why I keep buying/recommending them. If you leave the HDD in a desktop PC, make sure you get the SATA/power cables for this SSD.

Bought these along with some 2.5 external drive cases for backup drives. I had 2 external HDD fail so bought these SSD to replace them.

I had an older laptop with an i7 CPU but Task Manager showed that the HDD at 100% slowed down the overall performance. With SSD technology so much improved and more affordable, replacing the HDD with this SSD resulted in a laptop that boots up almost immediately and runs Photoshop and Lightroom so much faster. It also uses much less power so the battery lasts longer. Acronis True Image for Crucial is a free downlead which lets you copy the entire HDD drive to the SSD mounted in an external USB drive. Next you remove the HDD and insert the SSD (if there is only one 2.5 slot). In the very rare situation in which the image copy did not work, the original HDD can still be used. Newer laptops use the smaller and faster M.2 form factor NVMe drives, but for older 2.5 drives this is the product to get. Make sure the drive is compatible with your PC or laptop which it is in almost all cases.

I used this drive to clone a laptop hard drive to a solid state drive. Worked well.

This adapter allows a 2.5 SSD to be mounted in a slot for a 3.5 HDD. It is a solid piece of metal, and the mounting holes are precise.

This is an extremely reliable and easy to use Solid State Drive. Once initialized it's easy to clone form a Hard Disk Drive to this unit. Take out the old drive, insert this drive, and put your seat belt on.