Customer Ratings & Reviews

I remember when I thought..Hmmm SSD.. sounds so good, but the price! It will be a long time before I can test drive one of those, and then.. they became more cost effective than I could dream and I wouldnt turn back, Noticeable speed from the moment you boot, and now at a price we can all afford and so many cloning softwares for free its a breeze to tap your old drive and load it all to the new ssd. I have three of these in three separate home builds. so far they have been dependable, and have made a singificant speed difference.

This was a great purchase. My computer is much faster with having this SSD to run my OS. Frees up space on my HDD and glad I got it. Should of got a couple more

Installed this drive on an three year old HP 2000, 8GB RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics. Utilized drive cloning utility and received SMART error which was cleared upon auto installation of drivers and a reboot. Instead of performance issues due to HDD R/W performance SSD performance now allows me to max my CPU usage; Overall laptop is faster due to data transfer rates but still has its limitations.

I was able to buy this when it went on sale for USD59. I really didn't need it – I just thought I had an extra one one in case I were to build another computer. A few days later a friend of mine brought his laptop over and it was having problem with its hard drive so I went ahead and replaced his hard drive with this one. It is happily and very quickly running Windows 10 (automatic activation was without any problem) and it is big enough to have all his programs installed plus room for data. Thank you Best Buy for selling this at this price during the holiday break. His laptop now boots up very quickly, and shuts down very quickly, as well. It is almost like giving a new life to a computer.

I purchased this SSD to replace the boot hard drive for an older laptop. While the capacity is smaller (240 vs 320), this is not intended as a gaming machine. The laptop has a second drive bay available for future expansions should I need it. Also, while not the fastest or largest SSD out there, it was a good price/performance match for this upgrade task. Installation of the SSD was easy. It was recognized by the system without issues and the OS installer disk (8.1) was able to locate the drive for a 'clean' setup and installation. The laptop now boots much faster than with the older HDD. Ready for work!

The PNT CS1X00 series use the reliable Silicon Motion controller. The CS1200 is a bit faster than the CS1100, and the CS2X00 series is even faster, but any of these SSD are great upgrades from a hard drive. If you are a gamer, you need a bigger drive, but for most home use the 240G is sufficient, especially if you have the old hard drive available for library storage. The price goes up and down fairly often depending on other vendor's sale prices--be patient and you can get this at a great price.

I use this SSD drive in an external case that supports USB Attached SCSI (UASP) which enables high throughput speed. The drive is used to run a Windows 7 virtual machine off my Macbook Pro Retina using Parallels. The drive is fast enough to feel native. In fact, the OS image on this SSD runs faster in Parallels than it did when that same image was being run natively on a PC Laptop on a rotary drive. It's hard to beat the price! So far zero issues with it.

For $90 dollars before tax, it doesn't get much better than this particular SSD. I've been able to maximize my laptops performance with this drive. Sure, it's not as good as a differnt drive by samsung or intel, but it's still more than capable and significantly cheaper than the other brands. I'd buy it again.

I got the SSD while on sale and it was worth more than the original price for me. It's super fast and no HDD that I have come across can compare. It's more than enough room to store my OS as well as to have whatever primary game I am playing installed to (I have a backup drive for everything else).

Replacing your boot drive with an SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for your system, whether in a desktop or a laptop. So instead of dual-booting the primary drive in my desktop between Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Technical Preview, I decided to add this SSD in as an additional drive, and install Win10TP. Install was dead easy, since it was going into a desktop -- make sure you either have a bay for a laptop-sized drive or an adapter bracket. The drive itself is pretty slim, so it included a spacer for installation in a laptop, just in case. The performance is fantastic, and it made me wish I'd switched to an SSD a long time ago. This drive may not be among the highest rated, but it's a good value, anyway.

I bought this for my grandson when the regular hard drive in his laptop started to malfunction just weeks before completing his freshman year in college. Replacing the old hard drive with a Sold State Hard Drive meant settling for less storage (240 GB as opposed to 640 GB) in exchange for a far more reliable hard drive--one which will not crash if someone drops a book or bounces a basket ball on the keyboard (both of which apparently contributed to the malfunction of his old hard drive). The price was excellent for a 240 GB SSHD, and my grandson doesn't feel he needs more storage than that. So far the SSHD has been working just as we expected it to; and we're very pleased with this purchase.

I usually buy the Samsung Pro SSDs when I'm purchasing them for work, but when I was looking in the store, there were no Samsung SSDs. Disappointed, I grabbed this SSD, since it was on sale at the time, and decided to give it a go. It's working as expected. Boot time and shutdown time were dramatically improved. I didn't benchmark this drive, nor do I do much data-intensive work on my computer. I mainly bought this after I upgraded to Windows 10 after thinking that maybe my 7-year-old hard drive in my Dell desktop was on it's way out. It didn't fix the problems I was having, but like I said, boot times were noticeably faster. For the price, you can't go wrong.

Reviewing the PNY - CS1100 240GB Receiving fast as advertised speeds with this. Replacing a Toshiba Q Series Pro 128Gb with this one. Not as fast as the Toshiba on paper but in real world usage I cannot tell the difference. Awesome deal purchased during a 4 hour sale for 1/2 the cost of the Toshiba 128Gb ssd. I am using this as my boot ssd and have also put Origin games on it. Loads game fast. No lag during multiplayer. This unit has been replaced with a new version but I don't believe the new version is any different. Even box is the same.

Needed a 240gb SSD to resurrect an older Macbook Pro and the price was right on this model. No problems so far and it's doing the intended job!

Cloned my old HDD over to this one and the performance difference is night and day (as most people with basic tech knowledge already know). This drive is in a laptop, so no secondary mass storage drive is in use. Read and write speeds are great compared to a HDD and zipping and unzipping large files, watching movies, streaming videos and all around performance have improved. Startup to use time is about 9-12 seconds! Great SSD for the price! 240GB was plenty big for my needs and it was also on sale.

Plugged it into my HP laptop and it made it significantly faster. Very affordable, easy and beneficial upgrade.

I bought this drive to replace the HDD that was in my brand new laptop computer. I had to boot up the old operating system first and it was unbelievably slow. What do you expect for 5400 rpm? Anyway, when I booted up on this one I installed windows 10 in less than 10 minutes. That goes from boot up clear through logging in. I could not be happier with this product.

I bought this SSD for an older laptop that I also purchased at BestBuy. It was just what it needed. It starts up and shuts down instantly now. speeded up opening and closing all programs. At $74 it was a cheap tune up for a mid grade Toshiba laptop. have bought a 2nd one since then for my daughters mac. Its worth every penny for the speed you get. I recommend doing a memory upgrade as well. If your going to open it up, Change or upgrade both.

This was on sale at the time I needed a new SSD to repair a laptop with a failed hard drive. It worked as expected - far faster than the conventional drive it replaced. I wasn't particularly concerned if this was the "best" SSD available. I was fixing an old laptop and needed a drive the same day, and at a good price. This drive met both criteria, and has worked without any problem for months now.

I was suspicious that my hard drive was beginning to act up so I decided that for me, speed was more like mop tante than size so I bought this on sale at the store. It was easy to install in my MacBook Pro and I downloaded flawlessly from my Time Machine backup. No troubles so far and boot speed is better.