Sandisk Ssd Driver

I paired this with a SanDisk SSD and works perfect in my desktop.

I'm use to buying only Lexar and SanDisk brand for flash drivers and, but, this Transcend brand name flash driver is excellent...just as good as the big name brand names and, plus, much much less expensive.

I can't get over how much faster the G-40 is compared to the SanDisk Extreme SSD V2! This will be my new go-to SSD from now on!

I was able to dock my SanDisk 480gb Extremem Pro SSD just fine with this.

Needed something to hold my SanDisk SSD. Solid protection and fits nicely.

Sandisk SSD drive is excellent. It is light weight and performance is really good.

Pros: Very fast startup, Very easy to install using Samsung's Data Migration Software. I installed the 850 PRO by migrating my boot HDD to the 850 PRO and replacing the HDD (my C: drive) with the much faster 850 PRO. Everything went very smoothly in my Windows 10 AMD desktop. Cons: Samsung could do a better job on instructing the user on how to prepare the system prior to the start of data migration. For example there should be a set of instructions informing the user to make sure the AHCI driver is loaded on the Windows 10 system prior to the start of data migration. If you don't use AHCI you will not get the maximum performance from your ssd. If you install the AHCI driver after migrating the data to the ssd and then replacing the hdd with the ssd, you may lose the ability to boot the computer from the ssd. Windows 10 does not install the AHCI driver in a fresh install of Windows 10. Samsung should have step by step instructions on what to do to make sure we get best performance for which the ssd was designed.

This is my 3rd SSD. I think all laptops should ditch the spinning rust :) and boot from this. This 1TB replaced my DVD drive, so, my laptop is running on two SSD. The first SSD which boot the OS is showing it's age and slowing down. I might swap this 1TB to be the booting driver later. Windows 8.1 recognize it easily and I just had to format it, 64kb size for me. File (large) transfer at about 180 MB/sec, between 2 ssd. USB3 using Win8 driver to this 1TB can do 70MB/sec. If price was much lower, I would have gotten it sooner. Also, by now, I like to have a 2 or 3 TB. :)

This SSD is fast and compact. It works fantastic as a daily driver. Works great for storing photos and videos. I just plop it in my bag and go.

This SSD supports the new PCIE 4.0 standard. My laptop supports only the previous PCIE 3.0 standard. So, I was thinking the speed would still be the same as before given the situation. I was mistaken. This new SSD boots up faster than my previous 970 EVO Plus, so it is in fact an upgrade and future proof. However, the problem is not with the drive, the problem is with the Samsung driver. Samsung is at this writing only, making a driver available for their SSD's UP TO AND INCLUDING the 970 series only. There is no Samsung Elpis controller driver for this model. So, Windows 10 uses the built-in standard Microsoft NVME driver for Windows 10 that was written in 2006. Almost 15 years ago. So, I imagine that as soon as Samsung releases a new driver for this device, it will be even faster. Love it.