💾 HP S700 500GB SATA III 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - 2DP99AA#ABC Review

Reduced boot time on Linux Ubuntu from 35 seconds to just under 15 seconds on HP Envy Phoenix (Intel i7 Gen 7). The previous drive was also an SSD. It also sped up my virtual box running Windows 10 Pro, which made CPU the limiting factor until I added two more CPUs from the Ubuntu side. Now I wish I had USB 3.1 Gen 1 to speed up backup and transfer of other large files.

I installed this on my HP laptop on June 01, 2018. 2 days ago I got messages about an impending hard drive failure. Of course it failed within an hour! Complete heavy failure. There was no way to access it and I had to reinstall the original hard drive. When functional it was quite fast and a definite improvement over the original. I ordered a Samsung SSD to replace this useless device!

Excellent product. Had to buy this as the motherboard has specific requirements for specific NVME drives. The motherboard is an ASRock B450M Mini-ATX. The HP M.2 I originally bought was not mobo compatible. Checked the ASRock website and found a list of compatible drives. I chose Samsung because of its reputation and Revain's prices were better than Newegg's (they still charge shipping from APO addresses!). I paid almost double the HP brand but I knew I was getting a quality product. (Uses…

I have an HP Mini that I like a lot but I don't want to use it because of the lack of speed. Granted it's an Atom processor, I knew adding an SSD would help, but it helped more than I believe. Most laptops don't have a dual SATA mount inside, so you'll need an external USB adapter, dock, or case so you can clone your existing hard drive before installation. Get an SSD that is the same size or larger, otherwise you'll have to jump through some hoops to get it to clone (shrink partitions). Cooler

THESE DRIVES ARE NO WARRANTY, HP SAYS THEY DO NOT MANUFACTURE THESE DRIVES AND YOU CANNOT EXCHANGE A NONBUY DRIVE - MAKE THE PRODUCT (or other HP SSD products). This is an HP product and is not compatible with high-speed SATA duplicators, recovery machines and some computers). Low price and that's what you get for this price. It might be better to spend another $10 and get an Intel or WD SSD.