This is my second PNY SSD: got a CS1311 for my main laptop (this one that I'm typing on). Was replacing the battery and fan in my son's HP x360, and decided to take the SSD plunge for him while I had the case cracked open. The drive is a featherweight and dropped right into place of a slim HDD (also has an adapter for 9.5mm height I think). The i5 laptop is now much more responsive. Comes with a key for Acronis True Image, but hear me out. If you're using Windows 10 you'll probably get the most benefit from a clean re-install of the OS. It's a little more work to back up your files and restore your software keys, download and install drivers, etc.: but the performance difference is night and day. Most people that don't notice much speed difference going SSD cloned from their old hard drive (especially if you're still on an OEM installation). You can Google a utility from Microsoft to make an installation USB stick. Wish these were not so much more per GB than HDDs, but the performance difference is worth it. My son doesn't use much space, so I was able to buy this about 1/3 the size of the original HDD with plenty of room to spare.

This ssd was purchased about 48 hours ago and it has been in use in the laptop for about four hours now. It has replaced a 500GB 5400 rpm conventional hard drive that was manufactured in 2012 (according to its label). The expectation is not for the laptop to perform like a new one because it is six years old. The expectation is for the laptop to perform better, which it does. Startup is faster as one might expect/hope. The ssd also is considerably quieter. Mini Partition Wizard made the setup much easier than Acronis, a code for which is included in the box with the ssd. That setup was abandoned for one that proved much more efficient. My experience with PNY products goes back many years and includes memory, flash drives, and video cards. Like all of those products, this one should last for a long time while extending the life of a laptop. Then it may find itself in another machine and will continue to work fine. The price was good and the store pickup was smooth as usual.

Renew your old laptop with an SSD. Boot times are awesome! The PNY SSD's come with a free Acronis downloadable transfer software. You must use it with a PNY drive. Use the Clone Disk feature. It will copy all of the partitions that your laptop needs. It will use MBR or GPT. It will shrink the partitions as needed. Just look at how much space you are using on your current drive and purchase a SSD drive that is 2x that amount. This helps with Wear-Leveling. I had a 750GB HDD (only used 100GB) and transferred to a 256GB SSD. The disk clone software from Acronis is well worth any difference in price you may find on a bargain SSD. Install the software with old HDD installed and get a SATA-USB adapter to connect the PNY SSD. Transfer is fast if you have USB 3.0. It even copies any Restore partitions from the original HDD. I've used PNY SSD's on several computers flawlessly. Note, Acronis True Image does not work with Windows XP. I've used it with Windows 7, 8, and 10.

I bought this SSD for my aging laptop and boy did it make a huge difference! My laptop had an old 5400 rpm drive and it was really slow. I put this in it and my laptop went from almost being thrown out to being my new media machine. It loads my computer so fast after powering on that I can completely turn it off after every use rather than putting it to sleep. It's faster powering on with the SSD that waking up from sleep with the old drive! This SSD also comes with the Acronis software and let me tell you that this software is a lifesaver. I was able to transfer all of my old files to the new drive and make this my new boot drive so easily. This is the best transfer software I've ever used. On top of everything, the price of this drive was stellar on sale. I got it for only $23 for a 240gb SSD, which is a fantastic price for any drive. Highly recommended.

I have gone through 2 of these SSD's in two years. I put one initially into my mothers new laptop to replace the HDD. At the beginning it worked good, however then after about 3 months just out of nowhere it failed. DONE, no more data, cannot connect to it anymore, etc.... I though I might of just bought a dud, it happens, so I went back and bought another one. Now after about another year since that, DONE, no data, not connecting, again! This is in my mother's business laptop, thankfully she had a backup, but what if she didn't? She would have lost extremely crucial data that would of shut her business down. For the price they're ok, if you think of them as disposable SSD's and not as something made to be reliable.

I got this drive 2 months ago to upgrade a laptop, it worked very well for the 2 months that it worked. let me get my taxes done allowed me to make a bunch of document files on it. I started to login one day to get some work done and my laptop froze up for a long time which was very odd. i rebooted to to find everything was gone I was unable to recover anything as the data was gone. I returned it to best by only to get a smarty, "if you had purchased our service plan i could replace it and you would be on your way." so i called PNY for an RMA, i have to ship it to them to verify that i know the drive is bad and that i didn't not tamper with it. Needless to say, if I'm going to have to deal with vendors directly then from now on i'll deal with them directly. And the next one won't be a PNY this is the third drive i have have had that has just self destructed.

If you havent done it yet, make the switch to SSD. My boot times are so fast now, I turn my computer all the way off when i am not using it. I sacrificed power for convenience. No more. Installation was a breeze. Put in the case, plug up the two wires, boot up. Once in windows, go to disk management to locate and format the new drive if it doesnt show up on its own. If you are cloning windows from another drive, there are several free softwares that do this very quickly and youre set. Remove the old drive or go into bios at bootup to select the new drive as your boot drive. Bam, enjoy the speed! Its not a 5 min job, but is worth the time to do.

Love having an SSD now and love the much better load and restart times I get to enjoy from using one. This one in particular is nice because it's a decent size to use as a boot drive and still has enough room leftover to put a few select items on that you may want to load faster than others like specific games or programs. I would highly recommend anyone who isn't using an SSD to make the switch over to using one. If unsure how to go about it or worried it might get goofed, there's always the GeekSquad people to help out or even do the whole thing for you, and at the price this SSD is listed, 100% worth the price point.