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Review on πŸ”‹ SanDisk Ultra 3D NAND 500GB Internal SSD - High-Speed SATA III 6 Gb/s, Slim 2.5" Design, Speeds up to 560 MB/s - Model SDSSDH3-500G-G25 by Mike Kimball

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Better performance, big difference in response time.

I used to have a SanDisk SSD and have been using it on my laptop for a long time. I have a 2013 laptop that I use for daily activities but not for gaming. It ran sluggishly and took over 10 minutes to load/reload, then logging in and opening Firefox/Chrome took another 2-3 minutes. I wasn't sure if it was the computer itself. It wasn't infected with malware. I decided to give it a try to see how it would work. As soon as I got it I cloned the drive to this SSD, it took about 4 hours for 350GB of data plus extra partitions. Popped this baby into a laptop and the boot time was 10 seconds. It was fast and it took an extra second to login to launch Firefox/Chrome. Shutting down is also surprisingly fast. I've always been impressed with SanDisk SD cards as I also use them for my Canon cameras, but my laptop's SSD made it 100x better.

Pros
  • NCache 2.0 technology delivers blazing speed
Cons
  • It makes me angry