Dell Solid State Drive 256 Gb Sata

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!

If you are installing an internal Solid State Drive to your desktop computer, you'll need this SATA wire unless you are able to scavenge one off another attached device that you no longer use. It attaches to the back of the SSD (or other SATA device) and to the mother board.

Solid state drive worth it.

This hard drive replaced my 256 GB SSD, of the same make but an older drive. Boot times on the computer are about 4 seconds on, 4 seconds off, so fast my work computer (that also has an SSD) doesn't even get to the Bitlocker password before this one is fully on. 2 TB of storage is a great amount for photo storage (heavy camera user here) and light gaming, couldn't be happier with this drive!

Order the 256 gb version. It meets all the needs for my usage.

excellent little solid state drive - and powerful

I bought this card about six months ago to the SATA SSD in a Dell Precision 5810 workstation using a 1 terabyte Samsung 970 Evo Plus as the boot drive. It was easy to setup and the performance has been great. I work in technology for a living and have been buying parts like this from StarTech for 10 plus years and I've never been disappointed with their products or their support. If I were, I have no doubt they would take care of it. Before you install any kind of PCI Express card to use an NVMe SSD as a boot drive, do the research to make sure your systems supports it. Otherwise, that's on you for not "reading the directions".

256 GB memory card is great, you don't have to swap out cards in the middle of a shoot.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] It just upgraded the Steam library drive in my gaming machine from an older SATA SSD to a 250 GB NV2 NVMe M.2 drive and am just blown away by how much this single upgrade has decreased load times. I knew that NVMe SSDs were faster than SATA, but I had no idea how much the lack of PCIe was holding me back! This little M.2 drive uses a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface on my Asus ROG G550F motherboard and I've paired it up with my Ryzen 5800X CPU. I ran CrystalDiskMark on it and was shocked to see sequential read at roughly 6.5 GB/s and sequential write at roughly 2.9 GB/s! This is well over the 3.5 GB/s read and 2.1 GB/s write quoted by Kingston. I'm a little concerned about the overall write endurance of the drive: My 250 GB model is rated at 80 TBW. However, since I use this as my Steam library drive, most of my workloads are "write once, read many", so I don't think I'll ever get anywhere close to the endurance rating. Overall, I'm very happy with this drive and wish I would have upgraded my system sooner!

SSD is clearly the way to go for speeding up your old systems. This transcend 256 GB goes a long way to do that.