SanDisk SSD PLUS 240GB Internal SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, 2.5"/7mm, Up to 530 MB/s - SDSSDA-240G-G26

I received this 240GB SSD in yesterday's mail on the 1st day of the 4-day promised delivery range. I was able to clone my C: harddrive to the SSD using the "HDClone 4" software (free version) that I have used for several years to backup the harddrive. It was as simple as cloning another harddrive, in fact, the SSD appeared just like another harddrive -- no change to anything (it plugs-in the same as any IDE harddrive). After a simple swap with my laptop's harddrive, it booted the 1st time into Windows XP with no glitches.My system is a 2007-vintage Toshiba A105-S4384 laptop, Windows® XP Pro Media Center Edition (SP3), Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5500 (1.66GHz, 667MHz FSB), 4GB DDR2, 160GB 7200rpm SATA Revision 2 harddrive,The SSD drive performs admirably. I've tested several different application's load times as well as cold boots into Windows. Results are consistently 50% to even 40% of the time taken by the replaced 7200rpm harddrive. With SATA Rev. 2 support, you should not expect the blazing speeds advertised -- they are based on an SATA Rev. 3 system (the SanDisk website explains this). Nevertheless, this SSD drive kicked my system into high gear -- it is much faster than it ever was.I was not able to download the "SanDisk SSD Dashboard" software, as Windows XP is not supported (Vista and forward are supported). Apparently, Dashboard is required to download firmware, so I wasn't able to do that. It may not be beneficial anyway, as XP is so old.The SSD drive itself is smaller than a standard 2 1/2" harddrive, and is almost weightless. It generates almost no heat.For the price ($67), this is a very good deal. It's an excellent product, and if you have SATA Revision 3 (see the BIOS), this will be a blazing fast drive with no risk of a head crash, and no need for defragmentation.

I already have one of these that was used as a Windows 7 boot disk in an older HP tower desktop system where the motherboard died.I bought this to replace the 460gb mechanical hard drive in a used Windows 10 HP i7 3rd generation laptop to provide faster booting like the other desktop. The increased boot speed using these SSD's is astounding compared to the old mechanical drives.I am right in the install process, so I will return and update this when done.Newer systems like my new Intel i7-8700K build have ability to use even faster NVME m.2 SSD drives, but this type of SSD works well for most older systems that don't have M.2 capability, and they are CHEAPER! I plan to use my older one as a video editing scratch disk in the 8700K system because it still works great.SanDisk is a good name in memory and SSD's, so you can't go wrong for the price.The biggest issue with installing these in an older desktop computer is that it may not have mounting brackets or holes and screws to fit in the older style 5.25" drive bays, or even the 3.5" bays. Another issue is older PC's may have four pin power cables, when this SSD uses a more modern connector, thus you need an adapter. So plan accordingly and either research the cable and mounting issues early, or allow time to deal with them when you install the drive. Another issue is the drive does not come formatted, or with a CD with user guide, drivers or info on formatting, so you have to find and download the manual, and know how to format the drive (called initialization). As soon as you get the drive running, I suggest you find a way to make a backup, and ALSO a clone using Acronix software. If this drive replaces an existing one, you will need to first clone your existing drive to this one AFTER formatting this new drive. That will require a cable or external device to run the drive while cloning it, then you remove the old drive and insert this one as the boot drive (I assume).I will post an update once the drive is running. My old laptop seems to have a slot for a second drive, so I can move the original mechanical boot drive to that slot (using a cable and kit I had to find and order) and use it for data only. Then setup an automated backup system using Acronix (the one I standardized on).