Team Group Ultra L5 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) T253L5240GMC101

Pros: Performance is on par with other budget 120GB SSDs, but typical new part price is significantly lower. We have not experienced a failure of any of these SSDs we've purchased and installed. If you're worried about buying a cheap SSD that's not from Crucial, Kingston, Intel, or Samsung, here's a little info. What most people don't understand is that all these SSDs sold by newer and lesser known brands (Team, Apotop, Mushkin, etc.) are 99% the same hardware as more expensive SSDs with the same underlying controller. Manufacturers take the "reference design" for any given controller chip and design their parts to match that design exactly, then send the design off to a third-party factory for the actual fabrication. The only difference between this drive and other budget 120GB drives would be what company name is on it and what the market price is.

Cons: There aren't really any bad things I can say about this product. It's a "budget" SSD and not a "performance" SSD, so of course the performance could be higher, but then the cost would be much higher than it would be worth. They're two totally different markets and most workloads don't need the extra performance anyway.

Overall Review: Our computer shop gave about five of these a shot since they were the first brand new 120GB SSDs to drop below the $40 mark and Team has always been a reliable brand despite being a relative newcomer to the market. They are the best value in budget SSDs and that's what we want to pass on to our customers.

Pros: *Quick..it's an SSD *Decent construction - doesn't feel flimsy *Value Oriented... 39.99 for 120GB is hard to beat! *Windows 8.1 Boot Time = 45 Seconds (not bad)

Cons: *First Team SSD, so I can't speak to reliability yet. But so far it's been working just fine. No Cons.

Overall Review: Breathed new life into an old PC. I built the following PC in 2008 for some clients who are finally ready to upgrade. Athlon 4850e, Biostar A740G+, 7GB DDR2 on a Seagate 250GB Barracuda. Was virused up and cluttered... took 2m 50sec to boot. After cleaning & tweaking came down to 2m 20sec..ugh. Clean install of Windows 7 on Barracuda 1m 56 sec. Upgraded it to Windows 8.1 & this Team SSD. 45 Seconds! Hardware is old so could probably do better. But very snappy and quite usable for their daily needs again. Crystal Disk Mark Read: 376.9MB/s Write: 139.4MB/s AS SSD Benchmark Read: 330.58MB/s Write: 133.3MB/s ATTO Disk Benchmark Read: 368.56MB/s Write: 140.7MB/s USB 3.0 over HooToo PCIx adapter Crystal Disk Mark = 205MB/s 139MB/s Performance is as expected for a budget SSD in this price range. Don't expect 550 Read 450 Write like they say you'll get. Maybe in the 250 and up sizes, but 120 won't touch those speeds. But as a boot drive.. can't beat it. 39.99...go for it!

Pros: I must say, for 50-60$, you can't go wrong here. This is the perfect drive to speed up your OS drive on your htpc or old laptop. Delivering exactly as advertised, good deal! Read IOPS at 4K & QDpt32: 64500 (advertised 70k) Write IOPS at 4k QDpt32: 35500 (advertised 40k) See Other thoughts for more benchmark results

Cons: none really, for the price, you can't go wrong

Overall Review: Without updating the firmware or anything, just out of the box, using CrystalDiskMark, READ and WRITE: SEQ Q32T1 519MB/s and 142.5MB/s 4K Q32T1 264MB/s and 141.5MB/s SEQ 514.2MB/s and 141.6MB/s 4K 27MB/s and 54MB/s

Pros: Speeds are nice as advertised. No issues with install in 4 customer computers yet.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Loving the price and my customers are loving the speed!

Pros: Fast, Inexpensive, Easy install

Cons: Drive is thinner & maybe slightly shorter than original 2.5 HD. Problem is that it will not engage the connection sockets in the back of my drive dock. This limitation was overcome by pushing the drive in extra deeply before closing drive door.

Overall Review: Excellent value as it was bought on sale. Would buy again especially for a laptop HD replacement

Pros: - It's an SSD - Fast boot times compared to regular SATA HD - Cheap. Got it when it was $59.99 shipped

Cons: No cons about the product. I wasn't exactly thrilled that newegg shipped my SSD in a padded envelope.

Overall Review: My SSD (Kingston brand) crashed on me and I needed a cheap reliable replacement. So far, I had no complaints. My computer recognized the drive immediately, and I installed Windows 7 before upgrading to Win 10. Speeds seem to be as advertised, and I can't be any happier. I don't know what else to say other than its an SSD, and it works.

Pros: This SSD tested (HD Tune) to have an average data trasfer rate 20% higher than a Samsung 850 EVO. I have two of the Samsung' sin stock. I'm switching to this Team drive for as long as they keep shiping a great product.

Cons: No issues

Overall Review: HIghly recommend for performance. I don't have any longevity data yet.

Pros: Good drive. Has been solid as a replacement for my laptop. Plug and go. No issues so far.

Cons: Not the fastest drive, but for $60 the drive is much faster than my old HD.