OCZ Vertex 3 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) VTX3-25SAT3-120G

Pros: Installed as boot drive on an Alienware M17X r3. Windows 7 boots near instantly, and easily reaches rated transfers with no issue. Apps open/close almost as soon as you lift your finger. Really helps with hefty apps like Photoshop (loads in 3 seconds -vs- about 26 on the HD that came with the laptop). I use this primarily for art/3D/video editing, and it does not disappoint.

Cons: None. No issues after almost two months of usage.

Overall Review: Using this in conjuction with an old Vertex 60GB (as a scratch disk/pagefile drive) and everything is fast as can be.

Pros: Shave 75-90% of the time off of everything that is ran off of this drive. Extract and install CCC and drivers, under a minute! Sleep in about 2-3 seconds and resume is just as fast. From in the desktop, reboot and back into Google in just under a minute. Full Malwarebtyes scan is 5m9s

Cons: None to be had.

Overall Review: Very nice drive adapter included. The 'My SSD is faster than your HDD' sticker is awesome. Coming from a 3+ year old Patriot Warp drive this thing is outlandishly fast. Haven't bothered to speed test it, the responsiveness shows its capability just fine.

Pros: - Fast - Affordable

Cons: None so far.

Overall Review: Installed without any issues into my Lenovo L512 laptop. Clonezilla'd from a Momentus XT (1st gen.) that was starting to develop the "click-of-death" to this OCZ and got the speed and performance one would expect. Can't beat the price!

Pros: I have to say OCZ.. period, it's a Great brand. Size is cool. SPEED, SPEED, SPEED.. Blazing (see other thoughts). Easy FW Upgrade. (I did it the 'Linux' way with a disc. Easy to use). Set both as secondarys to an HDD, then upgraded the FW). Created the Raid0 and installed to it. HDD is now a secondary drive for Music, Photos, Document, Program Files (programs that don't need SSD speed).. etc.

Cons: The bracket to 3.5" offed '1' screw hole to mount? Not a Con for me, but if you can't just use features in your case for a 2.5" install, you'll be using one screw on the bottom. It's not an HDD.. if you have too.. one screw works.

Overall Review: I just setup Raid 0. WOW! Bench32: Read 10657481/Write 949653 (8192.0). That's around 100 times faster than an HDD. Printer install program 'auto' stated 14min install timer. Done in 2 :) Boot: 15sec to using it. Install: 10min, and I was giving it a Name.. My quickest experience, EVER! Awesome belongs to these.. I'm flush with awe.. these blow my 2-OCZ Vertex2 120's in (same Raid0, same bios setting, same PC).. mbsp Doubled! Backwards compatable works, but these SataIII's make me glad I did upgrade, and not just be happy with my SataII's (there going in my HTPC, Raid0). My Vertex2's have been great for over a year in Raid0. I expect the same success from these, and reviews agree. My 'ALL' is installed and updated time for a clean install just went... Zoom, Zoom, Zoom Yea... who's your daddy now... owners of these are! around 100 times quicker than an HDD.. are you still thinking if you should?.. your missing the experience of your PC speed life.. Buy 2 for your Sata6

Pros: Blindingly fast Small form factor perfectly quiet

Cons: Disk tray adapter could have had more options for different configurations. **The things below aren't "cons" but they are very important depending on how your going to use your drive and I didn't have room in "other comments". *IMPORTANT* These disks MUST be updated to the latest firmware (at least 2.11 if you intend to install an OS). *IMPORTANT* If you intend on using the SRT caching feature AND running your OS on the same flash drive you MUST run Intel's Intel's rapid storage tool on the drive FIRST. NOTE** You will only be able to create an 18gb cache when OS and cache are on the same drive. You're saying to yourself, how can I configure SRT with Intel's Rapid Storage tool BEFORE I load the OS?? You can't you must connect a spare disk, load windows, configure your flash drive for SRT using Rapid Storage, then load Windows. Google it before beginning, your sanity may depend on it. If your new to building PC's I would advise two separate flash drives for SRT

Overall Review: The the reviewer below that claimed it was complex, it's not. Download the "OCZ tools" and wait for the software to discover the drive. Hit update, twiddle your thumbs for 10-15 sec, presto. The problem is that if your firmware is old you must update the drive on another PC before you can install windows on the drive. Also for those using a portion of the drive for SRT cache (a feature of the Z68 chipset), you cannot load the OS on the drive first, but it can be done. The firmware update is not an option. As of this writing 2.11 is the latest and fixes many of the issues that have caused complaints listed in the comments here some of which are the result of users who don't know how to use the drive. All and all the technology is still fairly new at the consumer level and SRT is still in it's infancy, though very worth the result if you have the knowledge to make it work. I can't knock egg's off because it's hard to use in some situations as that has nothing to do with t

Pros: Silent, Fast and reasonably priced considering the high speed

Cons: Ofcourse cheaper is better

Overall Review: I am a software developer and the product that I work on takes around 28 minutes to compile. I compile the product around 4-5 times a day on an average. Sometimes it's a lot more. I upgraded my system with this drive and a 2500k sandy bridge processor (I was using i7 860 before). I could not believe my eyes when I saw the compilation time after the upgrade. Yes it was only 3 minutes and 48 seconds. I don't care much for the benchmarking tools and numbers. For me this is my benchmark that how much time it is saving me. And with this drive I am saving around 2 additional hours a day.

Pros: This was installed on my new Sandy Bridge setup and I am floored at the performance increase over an already fast system. Pulled as advertised transfer speeds greater than 500MB per sec with AS SSD Benchmark Utility.

Cons: Tad pricey for 120gb, I really wish I could have gotten the 240gb model at around $400, but its the price of performance.

Overall Review: If you use an Intel SATA adaptor as most recommend, do not forget the Intel Rapid Storage Driver and seek out a SSD tweak guide for other stuff like turning off defrag and indexing if you are using this for Windows. Also if your intent is to use ACHI (Advance Host Controller Interface) for performance reasons, make the bios change before your new clean install. Would definately recommend a 6gb Sata capability to truly use the speed capabilities of this drive, although it is not required.

Pros: -Fastttt, runs at advertised speeds. Used ATTO benchmark and it had a max read of ~515MB/s and max write of ~500MB/s. -From BIOS post to desktop takes about 10 seconds.

Cons: -None so far

Overall Review: Remember, if you want to get the most out of your SSD, put the drive in AHCI mode BEFORE INSTALLING WINDOWS. Then when Windows is installed, disable Prefetch, Superfetch and the scheduled defrag. This will ensure that you get the maximum performance and lifespan out of your SSD. There are plenty of tutorials on this subject online.