TLDR; It works great, shiny metal case.
A massive speed increase for my grandpa's laptop. His old drive was failing so I put this guy in, and got a tool-less SATA to USB case to transfer the files. Clean install of Windows, World of Tanks, a few Steam games, and all his photos and whitewater Gopro footage. Yes, my grandpa kayaks all summer with us :) I did the upgrade in summer, and it's still going strong into winter.
I picked OCZ because they are manufactured by Toshiba. Toshiba makes SSD tech and their own controllers. As in Toshiba has all their own fab labs. The really pretty metal casing is kind of a shame to hide away in a laptop, but such is life. I'm not looking at a high end SSD, so I'm not fanatically doing benchmarks and catching it on fire. It works, it's faster than what it replaced, and it falls behind in storage size. Chances are if you're looking at SSD's, you already know those things.
My benchmark for this class of SSD:
It installs Windows with no extra drivers, firmware, etc. AKA: Works out of the box. *glaring at SanDisk*
It's faster than an HDD
Won't break if I look at it with a stink eye, it's not flimsy
It has enough space for what I want to do - it's not a 64 GB flash drive
Affordable
Consitent performance - It doesn't crash randomly, idk, it just works
IDK if there's really anything else to expect. It's a pretty low bar to hurdle, but some companies have a hard time with it. I'm not breaking any land speed records with this thing and I'm not expecting to.
| RAM | 120 GB |
|---|---|
| Hard Drive | 240 GB Solid State Drive |
