Pros: Excellent performance at an econo SSD price point. I have had good luck using these SSD drives to upgrade older desktops and laptops that need a boost in the HDD department. Typically raises the Windows 7 benchmark disk test from 5.9 to 7+ range. Boot times are also greatly reduced.

Cons: Does not come with the cool software that Sam$ung offers, but it doesn't have their higher price either.

Overall Review: I recently had an older M$I desktop mainboard that the BIOS could see the SSD drive, but Windows 7 Pro 64-bit could not boot from it. I had to turn-off the UEFI+ legacy compatibility mode in the BIOS and have it operate in UEFI mode only. I also had to unplug the SATA cable for a WD SATA HDD data disk on another SATA port. Then Win7 was able to boot off the new SSD drive. I don't think this had anything to do with the Sandisk SSD. More likely a Windows/BIOS issue. Highly recommended.

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Overall Review: On 1/2/14 a reviewer gave a 1-egg rating and said, "Cons: This hard drive came unformatted and unrecognized by my computer." as the reason. Of course it did...ALL new SSD drives come unformatted. To give that as a reason for a 1-egg review when it has nothing whatsoever to do with the how good an SSD drive is or isn't is completely off-base and suggests a much lower Tech Knowledge than the "3 - Average" that the reviewer gave themself.

Pros: '* This drive cranks out over 83,000 IOPS in random write speed. That's huge. That basically means speed and lots of it. '* True SATA III if your motherboard supports that 6Gb/s rate. Mechanical drives running standalone can't leverage that speed unless they are in RAID, yet manufacturers push that as if it's a big deal. But with SSDs, that's a huge help and this SanDisk supports it. If your Mobo is the older SATA II 3Gb/s rating (which mine is), it's backwards compatible. '* The SanDisk uses less power than a 7200 rpm drive and it runs cool. Very important. '* Going to this SSD from a mechanical drive (WD 300GB Raptor) made my WEI Drive score jump from 5.9 to 7.8... finally, no default 5.9! I first installed it on a SATA II port and got 7.4, but then moved it to a SATA III port and got a near-perfect score. However, even an older SATA II board scores a 7.4, so it's worth it.

Cons: Given SanDisk's flash memory reliability, I'd have to say none other then price-per-gigabyte vs mechanical drive, but that's a crazy comparison anyway, because when you factor in speed vs mechanical, it's all worth it.

Overall Review: 128GB doesn't seem huge if you've been running bigger drives, but here's a suggestion for Windows users, and many have done this setup: Grab an SSD, install Windows and all of your apps on the SSD, every program you want to run. Put NO user files on there, instead, keep your big mechanical as your 2nd drive for all files/pictures/etc. By default your MyDocs/MyPictures/etc WILL get written into your profile which means they will be stored on your SSD, so the easy solution is to create those folders on your mechanical drive (you can name them whatever you want, you don't specifically need to use "My Documents"). Then, right-click those new doc and pic folders (and video, whatever) and add them to the appropriate Libraries that are named Documents, Pictures, etc. You can remove the priginals from the libraries if you wish. Anyway, now all your doc will be on the mechanical drive and your programs will default to those folders because of the Libraries. Libraries are a great Win 7 feature!

Pros: I have built several home/office/gaming PCs with this SSD, and they have all worked fine with no issues. The owners of the PCs have all been extremely happy, as they have never owned a PC with an SSD. They have been blown away by the performance vs. a spinning hard drive. Attached to a SATA III connection, this scores a 7.5 in WEI with Windows 7.

Cons: I have a much more expensive Samsung 840 Pro drive in my gaming PC, and it is definitely faster. Loading Windows and all the updates was much quicker on the Samsung SSD, but once all the updates were completed, the real world performance difference between the two drives became negligible.

Overall Review: If you get it for the "right" price, this SSD is an amazing performance to value proposition.

Pros: Quiet, fast, as you were expecting.

Cons: I can't think of any so far.

Overall Review: My motherboard is SATA II so I only get about 211 MB/s read. Still it does much better than a mechanical hard drive. Windows 7 installed in 15 minutes, boots in around 10 seconds after the BIOS is done. Windows 7 rates it at 6.9. The biggest difference I noticed is just the speed at which the little things happen. Opening a browser, looking through folders, opening a settings dialog, are all instant now where before it took a second for each of those things to happen. I had no idea I was waiting so often for my computer. It is evident that my processor is now part of the bottleneck when loading some games (It can't decompress data as fast as the hard drive can load). I didn't expect that would be a factor in game loading time. I'm nervous about it's longevity but the speed is very nice. I look forward to when I get a SATA III motherboard and can see it's full speed.

Pros: I own just about every SSD made, and this one seems just too good to be true. If you have an ultrabook or subcompact and care about size and weight, this is a 7mm drive that weighs 1/4 to 1/3 as much as most drives. It has a lightweight plastic case, but who needs a heavy metal box inside a laptop or desktop anyway? The specs are wrong, and the measured weight for this drive is only 1.2 oz! Other drives weight 2.5 to > 4 oz. Moreover, as noted by PD above, it's amazingly fast. In fact, I it boots Windows 7 Pro as fast as any drive I have ever used-yes, any drive including Sandisk Extreme, Intel 520 series, Plextor M3 and M5, Kingston HyperX, and Samsung 830 series drives. In addition to the incredible speed and feather weight, has anybody noticed the MTBF numbers? The 128Gb is 3.0 million hours, and the 64Gb is 4.1 million hours. These are three to four times longer than a lot of quality drives. I contacted Sandisk in an attempt to determine the kind of NAND and controller used, but they indicated that they are unwilling to disclose these at this point in time.

Cons: I have trouble overcoming my usual view that if it seems too good to be true, it usually is. So far it seems to be truly good. How can such a fast, lightweight, and durable drive cost so little? Hopefully a reliable reviewer will take one apart for us and disclose the details hidden inside.

Overall Review: I own a dozen of these now and plan to buy more. Hopefully the future buys will perform as admirably as my first batch.

Pros: Decent performance, but in the low range as far as SSD drives go. ATTO Benchmark shows 269-321 mb/sec transfer rate for WRITES and 327-374 mb/sec for READS. I purchased a Toshiba pro 128gb SSD at the same time and that is in the 400 mb/sec range for reads. I also have a pair of ADATA sp900 in a Raid0 array that easily reach 1000mb/sec+ speeds for WRITES and approx 550mb/sec speeds for write as a single SSD. I paid approximately the same for all drives, on sale, the Sandisk was about $10 less than the Adata, the Toshiba about $10 more than the Adata, so my best value for speed was the Adata, but this is a decent drive, we'll see how it holds up over time.

Cons: No bracket for 3.5" installation, but for the price I wouldn't expect it (Adata sp900 included it).

Overall Review: This should be a great upgrade for an older laptop with SATA.

Pros: Speed seems fine, nothing extraordinary from an SSD.

Cons: Super cheap casing, very flimsy. Feels like if I dropped it, it would break in half.

Overall Review: Unless you get a really good deal on this, just go with a more expensive brand.