INLAND Professional 1TB SSD 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (1T)

Are you a person who doesn't have a lot of money? Do you have a laptop that's almost 3 years old, and has had two drive replacements, both of which failed? Do you want to restore your laptop to its former glory? Then this drive is for you!Even if I've only had this SSD in for less than a week, I can say that it has made my laptop faster than ever. It also removed a very noticeable "bulge" from the last hard drive in here, which was a bit too thick for this laptop, even though it was 2.5in form factor. The laptop's boot time is much faster, it is overall much snappier than it has ever been, and it's also much quieter because of not having a 5,400RPM disc spinning inside it during its uptime.I might update this post way into the future, and I'll see if it fails really quickly or not. For now though, it's doing it's job very well, and I'm even tempted to buy it for my next PC build!EDIT 12/20/2018 -- It's still holding up, after a few months of every day continuous use. I have started to notice a faint buzzing noise while using it in bed...EDIT 5/29/2019 -- Almost a year now, and we've only experienced a few occasional total freezes. However, it is still as fast, and still as reliable as when I bought it.EDIT 5/6/2021 -- Still going strong. I have installed linux on the machine and even when this drive is used as swap, nothing fails. Still very fast and responsive, and even more so not that I am using Linux as opposed to Windows.EDIT 4/9/2022 -- First failure! Some files mysteriously disappeared from the drive and were unable to be caught bt e2fsck. The drive is still as fast, though.EDIT 7/8/2024 -- The drive is currently installed on my 3d printer's Klipper machine, and has had no failures or anomalies after over 12 months of such use.

The drives were reasonably priced and they are as fast as advertised.

Fast and cheap. Works immediately upon plugging it in. I bought a couple of others to try to save $4 and it wasn't worth it. Spend the $4 extra and get this fast drive instead of a $4 cheaper one that has SMART failure. This drive is the perfect upgrade for old laptops and desktops. Bought two and will buy more in the near future.

Works fine in my home server as a boot drive. If it fails I will probably cry.

Now before you go impulsively hit the buy button, there are some caveats. My clients are mostly older, very light computer users. That being said, I mostly sell these and Samsung EVOs and the failure rate of these Inland drives is only slightly higher than that of the EVO. I've installed literally hundreds of these drives and have only had 2-3 come back within the 5 years I've been using them. The write endurance of these drives is higher than most manufacturers and they use the more reliable TLC memory. They're an EXCELLENT value for the money if you're not a heavy computer user.That being said, if you're into video editing, I wouldn't recommend using one of these as a scratch disk / temporary drive. Don't use it in other write intensive applications either. That's not what these drives are designed for. If you're going to be moving files around on a regular basis then know that the performance of these drives is lackluster compared to something like the Samsung EVO. These drives are a HUGE upgrade coming from a hard drive, but they're not meant for people who actually use their computer. There are two types of computer users; those who consume (i.e. watch movies, use social media, browse the internet, etc.) and those who produce (i.e. photo/video editing, music production, CAD design, developer, gaming, storing/organizing large amounts of data, etc.).This is a CONSUMER drive. So long as you use it for its intended purpose, you'll be happy with this drive. If you do more than consume on your computer though, you should really look for something else. I highly recommend the Samsung EVO series for power users and the Samsung PRO series for people who actually create things on their computer. To compare, these Inland drives have a write endurance of 170TBW for the 240GB version. The Samsung EVO 250GB version has a write endurance of 150TBW, but it has DRAM and is significantly faster for power users. The Samsung PRO 250GB version has a write endurance of 600TBW. More expensive computer parts cost more for a reason. You're getting a better quality part that will last longer and perform better. If you're a basic user who just uses their computer to consume, you won't notice a difference between any of these three drives, but if you're a power user and/or creator, then go with the EVO or the PRO. The extra $20 isn't going to break you.

This is worked out great. Super cheap but allowed me to upgrade Easy. Did a clone of drive and plugged in and all good to go.

Major upgrade. My customer loves the performance. It plugs right in. Delivered when promised. Nice packaging. Looks more expensive than it is.

I love these. Cheapest option every time to revive an older PC that just needs to do simple things.I’ve put about 10 of these in various people’s computers. All satisfied. Ran one myself until I got an nvme drive.2 examples of great usesDell 1353 laptopCore 2 duo, 4gb ram, 15” screenRunning 32 bit windows 10 optimized for performance (remove bloatware, set to disable all of the fancy stuff “best performance” mode in settings, install only a web browser and basic document app). Works great for my needs at a local business to update their social media. Not blazing fast but with the ssd it operates fine as long as I don’t open 10 or more web windowsX3 core 2 duo towers, 8gb ram, windows 10 pro x64I refurbished a bunch of these towers and put SSDs in all the leftover ones with dead drives. I wish I had done it to all of them because these made a huge difference.

The product was easy to connect and very fast

came on time works fine