PNY - 120GB Internal SATA Solid State Drive

Bought a couple of these on a Deal of the Day for $19.99. Even if you have a slimline computer that has no room to add another hard drive, you can fit one of these somewhere in the case with either double-sided tape or a small piece of velcro and use it as a boot drive to speed up an older computer. In the package, it includes a link and serial number for Acronis True Image Data Migration Software.

For the price of this SSD it is well worth the performance. 5 stars for that. Having said this, DO NOT expect the performance of expensive SSDs. Actual speeds of this SSD are as follows, this is right out of the box, empty SSD. X99| i7-5930K test bench SATA3. I've included screenshots of the benchmarks. Sequential: Read | 321 Write | 277 Random IOPS (Internal Operations Per Second): Read | 46,875 Write | 53,466 Now this is much faster then any HDD for sure, and for the price It's excellent performance. To my knowledge it does not have a DRAM cache, or controller which is why it's not as fast as the top tier SSDs that cost 2 or 3 times more. add a ram cache in front of this SSD and get thousands of MB/s speeds. If you need a fast drive at low cost, this is it. I paid hundreds more for NVME drives, but needed this to run a DayZ Stand Alone Dedicated Server and it gets the job done much faster then the HDD I was using. I am very happy with this purchase, and the price is unbeatable.

The PNY CS900 120GB SSD is an amazing solid state! It has improved my startup speed from and HDD by over 3x!! It is also extremely quiet, so quiet that it doesn't sound like that laptop is on. Applications also startup way faster and is a great HDD replacement or an extra drive to speed up system speed with a great price! This SSD gets a 10/10.

This is a boot drive requirement if you game on pc, this will help you boost your game quality if you have games on your boot drive and also make the boot time for windows tremendous, this boosted my boot time from like 30 seconds too 2 seconds it’s amazing product :) m

This ssd was bought to install windows 10 in it for a gaming pc I built, now to install games you need a separate bigger drive. For the task that I have it doing is fantastic for the price and I would highly recommend.

This drive was lightly used for I/O and is now a paperweight.

This is a small hard drive, but at the time of this writing (4/2020), it's large enough to hold Windows 10, and still have some room to throw all your cat photos, you downloaded off the internet, on to it. If you're looking to upgrade your computer, you can do this and RAM. Those two upgrades (do this one first) are HUGE. If you have an old hard drive in your laptop, it makes it feel like you're using a computer from the stone age. Once you upgrade it with this, assuming you have enough RAM, you'll feel like you just bought a new computer. If you want to breath life into your computer, don't plan on loading it up with 5+ graphics intensive, modern games, then this is for sure for you. I found that in most computers, you can use the media creation tool (from Microsoft), to create the Windows 10 install disk, and put the operating directly on this hard drive, and somehow Microsoft just seems to know you had it previously installed. Just remember, if you do that, to buy a thumb drive, and copy all your cat videos, cute kid videos you haven't had time to upload to Facebook yet, along with the 10 hours of snoop diggity dog music you have stashed, and hiding, on your old computer, onto that thumb drive, prior to trashing the old hard drive. You may also want to smash the old hard drive to bits, if you don't know how to do a proper formatting. You wouldn't want the pirates to get a hold of your financials.... This item, much like go faster stripes on a sports car, is the most important upgrade you'll ever make to your aging computer/laptop.

I use an older desktop with a 3rd gen i7 3770. Which u would expect to be quiet slow to keep up with today's systems, but with the simple switch from a HDD to SSD to hold my O.S. and a few necessary main software programs it improved the speed and overall performance of an outdated computer 10× over runs close to the speeds of most 7 to 8 gen computer's. For a cheap and easy upgrade that you can't go wrong with. If storage size is the issue for you you can use your HDD u just replaced for the rest of your media, programs, & whatever else you want to store on your pc with out breaking your budget by going from a 1TB HDD to a 120 GB SSD. All in all great product to invest in if you want/need a greater performance in upload & Download speed. I would recommend this product to any one buying a new storage drive than using old HDDS. 2 THUMBS WAY UP.