Review on 64GB MTS800 Transcend SATA III 6Gb/s 80 mm M.2 SSD (TS64GMTS800) by Jon Manning

Last year I built a computer from very cheap components, the only good thing was the motherboard (MSI Gaming 7 Z97). ) and PSU (Corsair 850W) like every other part could easily be upgraded in the future (i3-4130, waiting for the i7 Broadwell to be more affordable; 4GB RAM; Intel HD Graphics; and a cheap 1TB HDD , which I had lying around). Little by little I started upgrading all the components, 24GB RAM and two 7970 Crossfire graphics cards and now a 512GB SSD. I noticed that the mobo has an M.2 SSD slot, which I've never seen before, and found that handy. I like to keep my PC's cables clean, so the idea of having another drive with two cables (SATA and power) didn't seem appealing. When this SSD got a little cheaper I picked it up to see what all the fuss about SSDs was. Wow. just wow. I thought my computer was running slow because the CPU is slowing everything down, but no, it was the hard drive that couldn't handle it. I cloned my Windows 8.1 (10 now) to an SSD, ran TRIM and my PC is flying at speeds I still can't believe. Boot time takes less than 10 seconds from pressing the power button to the login screen, while it took over a minute or two on a hard drive. Programs open immediately without waiting. Again, I didn't do a clean install, just cloned my Windows partition to the SSD, which makes the results even more impressive. I haven't done any real speed tests, but I can tell you that GTA V's story mode now loads in 20 seconds for me instead of 2 minutes as it used to. What I love most is that my computer looks the same, the graphics cards cover M.2 so everything stays as clean as the day I assembled it. I think the only downside is that I can't procrastinate while I'm waiting. so that everything is loaded because everything is instantaneous. Literally instantly. Now I really believe in SSDs and will be upgrading the rest of my computers/laptops to SSDs because of this computing life changing experience.