Review on Zheino mSATA SSD 512GB M3 Mini SATA SSD: Reliable Internal Solid State Drive for Mini PC, Notebooks, and Tablets by Victor Garro

In short, this is a solid mSata SSD. Comes with the appropriate screws for my use in a Dell laptop. A new installation of Windows 10 Home has been running for two months now without any problems. Lang: Most laptops these days make upgrading/expanding hard drives relatively easy. The difficulty is usually that you want to use it as a boot drive/OS drive, especially on older models. Specifically, I received this for a Dell Inspiron 17R - Model 5720 (Intel i5-3210M) laptop running Windows 10 Home. BEFORE you install this mSata/SSD, make sure you have the latest BIOS, whether you download it or not! To boot it from mSata/SSD, there are still a few steps to be followed. Below are the general steps to help determine if this is right for you. Model specific installation: Dell Inspiron 5720. Fresh install of Windows 10. First of all I have to say that I tried to image the old hard drive to the new one. Works but performance issues [I've checked TRIM settings and what not as I'm advanced computer savvy] (mainly probably due to old apps and how they've been updated from Windows 8). Remove the old hard drive and leave mSata/SSD installed. Install the operating system. When Windows boots for the first time, go into BIOS and set boot to mSata. Check the forums for details - I believe there are several pages in the Dell community. Make sure you can boot. Reinstall your old hard drive. And see if it boots on mSata/SSD. Adjust the BIOS as needed. Since then I've reinstalled Win10 a few times and now I can install it directly to mSata/SSD without removing the HDD. But it took me a few tries in the bios to get it right. It's just easier to ditch the old hard drive for the initial setup. WARNING: I booted from the old drive to get some encrypted data and copied it directly to the SSD. Rebooted to mSata and fine. I had to reinstall the entire operating system. The old Windows 10 build (pre-1903) hard drive must have done something to the new SSD build (post-1903) and blah blah blah. Lesson: Make sure you download/copy/transfer ALL your data. I highly recommend reformatting the old hard drive or removing it entirely (I did the latter and set the hard drive to spin at high speed for data). Or avoid booting during OLD HDD period!