PNY - 240GB Internal SATA Solid State Drive

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Picture this - I had just bought a 2nd hand laptop and it stumped me what the problem was - I had a 1 tb hd, core i7 processor and 12 gigs of ram. and. still. really. slow. Even after taking to a computer shop, it still was quite laggy, and my brother actually recommended me to upgrade to SSD. Albeit the storage space is smaller, the performance MAKES UP FOR IT TENFOLD. Trust me, making the switch to SSD was a game-changer, and this was super easy to clone my current drive on, and install - took about maybe about 3 hours for the whole process. And now my laptop does not take 3 hours to boot.

this is regarding a 2014 Lenovo B50-30 with 4GB ram and 500GB hard drive (mechanical) I can't speak to the longevity of the PNY ssd as it has only been in computer for a couple of hours. But it is like I am on a newer different computer. It was taking me minutes to boot up now it is seconds. I sit there twiddling my thumbs when trying to load outlook or power point now they open in no time. I was scared to death of cloning my hard drive, but the link/software provided by PNY made it a breeze. Very happy with my purchase Best Buy, can't wait until the 4GB of ram that is suppose to get here tomorrow.