Pros: Several times faster than none solid state drives Getting a total performance boost of about 40% on machines over the older spindle drives they are replacing Lower power usage so less heat, also more battery life in older laptops

Cons: write speeds are a little slower than some drives about 20 dollars more, but at this price point; this is much more bang for the buck. (01/30/2017) I have since tried a few types of drives that cost more and had listed better specs, and none have been any faster.

Overall Review: Installed this drive in about 25 older machines so far. No issues at all to report. I'm planning on using this drive in about 300 more machines in our environment and redeploy them. (01/30/2017) This drive is now in about 85 machines with no issues. Bought some Transcend SSD340 drives a few months back and 3 of 15 have already failed in our environment. I just wish that Newegg stocked more of these.

Pros: Fairly fast, I have been using the SanDisk Z400s and this drive took about 6 seconds longer to image. Using a OptiPlex 3020 with an i5 and 8GBs of RAM with the source on a USB 3.0 driver reader using Clonzilla. My image took 5 minutes 18 seconds from image selection to shutdown menu on the Transend SSD340. It takes about 6 minutes and 50 seconds on the SanDisk X400. And It takes about 5 minutes and 12 seconds on the SanDisk Z400s, my preferred drive at this point. I ran at least 3 comparisons using the same hardware. Getting consistent image completion speeds. The read speed may fair better, but write speeds tend to be a good indicator over performance since most drives read really fast comparted to their spindle counter parts. It was boxed very well and came with a mounting bracket.

Cons: It is about 6 dollars more than the SanDisk Z400s which I had originally chose as the drive to use for upgrading machines to solid states. I have purchased about 40 of the Z400s with no failures and about 10 of the SanDisk X400 with no failures. 2 out the 15 Trend SSD340 drives have failed. I will not be risking having to change any more of these out. The 2 drives were dead in the water in less than 60 days in production. They can't be read or reimaged. Just barely heavy enough to make good paper weights. Either pay more for a better drive or drop back to a more reliable drive like the SanDisk Z400s. I find it hard to believe these are rated this good and I had 2 out of 15 to fail after such a short time.

Overall Review: You do get a bracket with these drives, but I've found the Dell OptiPlex machines we have been using have holes in the drive holders that line up nicely with at least two of the mounting holes as long as you have some M8 metric screws. A few dollars for a box of 25 at your nearest Ace.

Pros: Fast drive, imaged quickly, pretty design, had Plextor replace 3 of these, have just had two more die.

Cons: Died in less than 3 months, all 5 of them. It is really annoying to deploy these in production and they just stop working. Users would call with the dreaded message about as they were working the PC just froze then it would come up to the bios screen saying the drive could not be found.

Overall Review: All had the Jan. 2017 manufactures date. Could just have been a bad batch and 3 have already been replaced by Plextor, of course I had to ship the drives to them and do RMAs. I have 2 more to RMA now. Crossing my fingers on the 3 back in production that were replaced.

Pros: Fast read times and much better overall than an older spindle type drive. Will easily boost an older machines performance by 35 to 45%.

Cons: Write speeds are much slower than the Z400s; which is usually around the same price. This drive took 20% longer to write the same image to it in the same machine configuration.

Overall Review: Depends on what you are going to use this in, but own about 40 of these now with no issues. If you are using this for a none power user's machine; it is great. But the 20% faster write times of the Z400s make it the better buy if these drives are fairly close in price.

Pros: No sharp edges, good paint job, plenty of venting, easy to mount a 2.5 or 3.5 inch drive.

Cons: Bottom mounted power supply. Heat rises and all.

Overall Review: Not a big fan of the power supply being on bottom, so be sure that you have a power supply with long power connectors. Not this boxes fault really as power supplies have been on top for years. Good sturdy box and would be easy for the newest system builder.

Pros: Fast Shipping and Reliable memory.

Cons: none