Kingston HyperX SH100S3B/240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (HyperX Upgrade Kit)

Pros: Speed

Cons: Cost Capacity

Overall Review: I had to purchase two of these drives for some executive laptops. They installed in a snap and didn't give me any problems. The performance is blistering. They were installed in laptops with SATA III controllers and ArcGIS now loads in about 5 seconds. Boot time is 13-15 seconds after all the apps were installed and the system was added to the domain (down from 4 minutes). Aside from the apparent cost issue, these are a great investment for performance. No other single upgrade will give you a bigger gain. I also have an Intel SSD that I have been using for about a year in my laptop that has worked flawlessly. I can't go back to using a traditional drive.

Pros: Fast- Boots Windows 7 before the splash screen animation completes.

Cons: Would like to buy a second one for RAID 1, but just too expensive for now.

Overall Review: Installed as boot disk with Windows 7 in "RAID-ready" mode on ASRock Z68M-ITX/HD motherboard. Did not have to update the SSD firmware. No BSODs, and goes to sleep and wakes up just fine.

Pros: The build quality evident in this drive and the goodies included in the kit finally convinced me to take the plunge into the SSD pool. I have been very happy with the performance and lack of problems (so far). I installed this device into my desktop running an LGA1156 board that does not support SATA III- the ASUS Maximus III Formula. The boot times are noticeably faster, as are shutdowns. My computer is going to and from sleep without any issues. I turned off hibernation to save disk space so I have no comment to make regarding waking from hibernation. Installing this drive was a breeze since it comes with an external enclosure and migration software. Overall I am very happy with the purchase.

Cons: The price per gigabyte is definitely a downside, as is the small size of this drive. It's so fast that I want to install everything on it, but I can't. I am using a secondary standard HDD for overflow. Manufacturers need to start reporting exactly how many usable GB of storage you will get once a HDD is formatted. This 240GB model has 223GB available under Windows 7 and trust me, you will begrudge the "loss" of the "missing" space. Finally, I am having a minor issue with Firefox. Downloads act very strange with this drive in a manner that did not happen before. I get strange pauses once a file downloads. The computer always pulls out of these pauses, but I am wondering if they are related to the SSD.

Overall Review: Having one of these will NOT completely transform your computing experience if you were already running a bleeding edge rig. Yet, the increase in responsiveness of my system is very nice. An SSD is a luxury right now. Wait until the prices come down a bit. Windows Experience Index reports 7.8 with this drive.

Pros: This beast is fast. Pretty sure it out runs pretty much all or if not MOST SSD's out there today. SATA3 rocks...however I installed it on a SATA2 board on an ASUS G73JH-X2...really wished it had SATA3. It's running at SATA2 Speeds, but still is amazingly fast, just waiting til I finish building a new desktop or the newer G74SW 3DE model which has SATA3 and this thing will be a beast. Kingston Tech Support is awesome! They are very friendly, with very low wait times. Waited about 2-4mins to talk explain why it wouldn't install the first 5 times...but seems ASUS Recovery system method is kinda !@#$%. The Upgrade kit method worked for me, I just wanted a clean fresh install. Other than that....I can't imagine going back to 7200rpm. Laptop boots in 9 seconds.

Cons: Well....mainly just wish my laptop had Sata3

Overall Review: Thinking about Kingston HyperX memory as well.

Pros: Fast and easy to install with the bundled material. WEI score now at 7.9 and a total boot time from pushing the on button to being ready to go of perhaps fifteen seconds. I remember my first PC clone...a Leading Edge, and a great machine for the time; I would insert the five and a quarter inch DOS floppy disk, go outside to smoke a cigarette, walk around the entire house to check on the various greenery, and then come back inside only to find that the OS still had not finished loading. Trust me, youngsters, this is way better. I held off for a long time waiting for the price to fall on SSDs; then Newegg, bless em, did the Godfather thing and made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Like I said, between the bundled software, and the hardware, including the drive, the converter and the USB device, the thing is almost painless to get installed.

Cons: The instructions could be a little easier to follow, but common sense will out. I have a mental habit of making things more complicated than they actually are, so I had some initial (and minor) problems of my own creation. This is really a snap guy. I promise.

Overall Review: If you read my review in the motherboards section detailing the problems I've had (and continue to have with ASUS Customer Satisfaction) over the P8P67 debacle, you will know that I expect good service and performance for money paid and raise a stink when I am not treated right. At this point, I do not feel that there will be a problem with this purchase. I sometimes wish Newegg would keep a running tally of the companies who build well and do well by their customers and those who don't. Such a roster would be subjective as blazes, but when you see the same things...good and bad...cropping up again and again, the patterns tell you something. My hat is off to Kingston, Corsair, Lian Li, Cooler Master, Ultra, Intel, AMD, Polk Audio, EVGA, and MSI (mostly)...all these guys and some others too have treated me right over the years. Those other guys...the A_ _ S guys and some others too...no longer get my trade. Thanks Newegg; you are as good as it gets at what you do

Pros: Tossed this as my main HD in my new gaming rig and it loaded win 7 no problems, boot time is roughly 14 seconds and I only keep around 30 gigs free on it. I am never going back to using a regular spinning disc HD. Everything loads extremely fast (but there is still load time in most games) and this drive is 6-8 times faster then my 7200 rpm Seagate.

Cons: Sata cable it comes with is very flimsy and depending on how tight the fit is it may bend/break but cables are cheap.

Overall Review: It all comes down to do you want to pay for speed or not, you can get a 7200 rpm drive of the same size for about a quarter of the cost of this if not less.

Pros: Everything...boots Windows 7 in 8 seconds. No problem going into or out of sleep mode. Never had a BSOD. Screaming fast for every game I have thrown at it. And its so quiet!

Cons: There are no cons to this piece of awesome.

Overall Review: After hearing of problems with the latest Sandforce SSDs I hesitated about buying one but this Kingston has no problems what so ever. It can't seem to do anything wrong. It even installed so easily you don't even need instructions lol.

Pros: ~Blazing Fast, was reviewed to be the fastest out off all the SSD's when it launched and its still around the top position now! ~There is no latency with this card that can be felt in everyday tasks everything that is not bottle-necked by another component feels smooth and fast. ~Noise level is almost nonexistent (you can not hear this drive unless your trying to with equipment.) Much quieter than a standard high rpm hard drive. ~Kingston's in box packaging inclusions really did it for me to make upgrading my hard drive a breeze i didn't need to go into the garage to get tools as they even included a screwdriver! ~Comes with Drive copy software, but i didn't use it as i wanted a fresh install anyway.

Cons: Price Drive capacity These are not enough to outweigh the benefits so this looses no egg's from me as i knew this getting into SSD tech as anyone looking for this kind of performance should be.