SANDisk SSD - any good ?

[Dolby]

Just something like this :

SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB 2.5 Inch Internal SSD

240GB Capacity Internal SSD Read speed up to 530MB/s Write speed up to 440MB/s 2.5Inch SATA III 3 Year warranty

www.incredible.co.za

 

[Grouter]

I've fitted a half a dozen or so of these.
Did exactly what it said it would on the packet.
No complaints.

 

[Dolby]

Great - thanks.

One other thing ... lifespan ?

I see I actually have a SANDisk (oops) which I'm giving to my mom .

I bought it about 3 or 4 years ago and her PC is not great. So, I was thinking of buying the new one for me and giving her my old unit ... I just don't want it dying

 

[Grouter]

I had a 120 Gb Sandisk in my daily laptop from about 2014 till 2018. I upgraded to a 240 Gb, and put the 120 in a Macbook pro for my niece.
She uses it daily (for about two years now).
I asked her recently "How's your Macbook doing?"
"Still going like a rocket Uncle Grouter!"

 

[Grouter]

Great - thanks.

One other thing ... lifespan ?

I see I actually have a SANDisk (oops) which I'm giving to my mom .

I bought it about 3 or 4 years ago and her PC is not great. So, I was thinking of buying the new one for me and giving her my old unit ... I just don't want it dying

I'm battling to think of an SSD that I've seen or heard of die......I can't. I've done probably 100 or so HDD to SSD clones and upgrades over the last ten or so years, and as far as I'm aware every single one of them is still going.

 

[Dan C]

Never had issues with Sandisk. Years now.

 

[Johnatan56]

Great - thanks.

One other thing ... lifespan ?

I see I actually have a SANDisk (oops) which I'm giving to my mom .

I bought it about 3 or 4 years ago and her PC is not great. So, I was thinking of buying the new one for me and giving her my old unit ... I just don't want it dying

You can check the Smart stats on it to see if it considers itself to still be in good health.

SSDs usually die gracefully, so easy enough to clone data onto another drive.

 

[rrh]

Is the disk cloning software supplied by SanDisk adequate for a dual-partition Windows HDD, or would you recommend a third-party solution ?

 

[Grouter]

Try Aeomi. It's free and works well.

 

[rrh]

Many thanks

 

[Rickster]

Good but they dont have DRAM cache, right?

 

[|tera|]

I have the 240GB SanDisk in my laptop.
Sure, it's an SSD, but I would rather use a faster Samsung or Intel SSD if I had the choice.

The drive doesn't perform that fast.
I've completely configured Windows for optimal SSD settings, but during file transfers and installations it's still a bit slow. Laptop is an i5 with 16GB RAM.

I also suggest going bigger.
240GB gets occupied way too soon.
If I had a TB drive that would be cool.