AEGOInternal SSD 240GB Hard Drive SATAIII Solid State Drive for PS4 Tablets PCs Macpro(240GB SSD)

If you have an old computer that you are thinking about getting rid of because it is too slow, you may want to reconsider and just replace the hard disk drive (HDD) with a solid state drive (SSD). My old laptop is an Inspiron 3250 with an I5-3210M 2.5 GHz dual core processor, 8 GB RAM, USB 2.0 and SATA 2.0 Samsung Spinpoint 500 GB HDD.I ordered the AEGO 240 GB SSD for $24.52 delivered to the house. When partitioned and formatted, the usable space was 223 GB. This means the cost per GB was about $0.11. I also purchased a SATA-USB cable on Amazon for $4.18 because I wanted to clone the existing HDD onto the new SSD (more on that below). If you are going to use the SSD in a desktop, you probably have a spare SATA cable & power lead in your desktop. If not, you could use the SATA/power cables for the CD/DVD player in your desktop until you clone your existing HDD. The SATA 3.0 SSD is compatible with the SATA 2.0 interface that was in my laptop. I did not achieve the 550 MB/s read or 490 MB/s write speeds advertised (see below) but that is likely due to the less capable SATA 2.0 interface I have in my laptop.I ran the free version of CrystalDiskMark data storage benchmark software on my laptop testing the HDD and then the SSD after I had installed it. The performance difference is really quite amazing. I have attached a picture of the results of my testing. Essentially, the read speed went from a range of 83.5 Mb/sec (small file) – 101 Mb/sec (large file) on the HDD to around 496 Mb/sec (all files) on the SSD. The write speed went from a range of 72 Mb/sec (large file) – 95 Mb/sec (small file) on the HDD to 430+ Mb/sec (all files) on the SSD. Just for giggles, I ran the benchmark test on the SSD while it was connected to my laptop using the SATA-USB cable. I achieved an abysmal 34.6 Mb/sec read and 28.8 Mb/sec write speed using this configuration. I only mention this for folks who may be considering using an SSD as an external drive with the SATA 2.0 interface and USB 2.0 connections found on many older computers.As far as normal boot up, it used to take about 60-90 secs to boot to the Win10 login prompt and another 30-60 secs before the system was fully ready. With the SSD installed, boot time is around 20 secs and fully loaded less than 5 secs later.A few words about cloning…. Nerd Stuff …….I was able to replace my current laptop 500 GB HDD with the AEGO 240 GB SDD by cloning my old HDD to the SSD. This process gave me an exact copy of everything that was on my old HDD without loosing anything but a slow HDD.If you plan on replacing an existing, working system boot drive with this (or any other SSD) and do not want to reload everything onto the new SSD from backups or original OEM disks there are a few things to consider.I recommend you backup your current system and FULLY investigate any item I mention below before trying it yourself, since not all systems are the same and technology changes rapidly. There are several good YouTube videos that will help.1. Your system may use the older Bios based MBR (master boot record) or the newer UEFI based GPT (GUID partition table). It is important to know which boot method your current system uses. I used a free cloning program called MiniTool Partition Wizard to check my current HDD method (GPT) and initialize my new AEGO 240 GB SSD to GPT. If you are cloning the old boot disk, it is easiest to use the method currently used by your HDD. Your SSD will come unformatted and you will need to make sure it is initialized in the way your system boot operates.2. If you want to downsize your storage like I did, understanding how much of your current disk is actually needed is vital. Most, if not all free disk cloning software, clone either entire disks or individual disk partitions. Your new SSD usable size must be the same or greater than your current HDD used space plus active non-disk partitions.a. Understand that only about 93% of any SSD will actually be usable due to the way your computer calculates available space. If you get a 256 GB SSD, only around 238 GB will be usable.b. Your HDD contains partitions that do not show up as drives. These may include the boot or GUID partition, diagnostic partition, wintools partition, special recovery partition, etc. Each of these partitions take up space that will not show up by simply checking the properties of the C:\ drive. You can determine all partitions and their sizes on your boot drive by using the Disk Management software included in Windows.c. Win10 Disk Management software will not allow you to resize the operating system (OS) partition significantly, since there are a couple of unmovable files written near the very end of the partition. One solution I found was to use the MiniTool Partition Wizard software to resize the OS partition to something larger than the space actually used up on the OS partition, but not so large that the new partition plus the space used by the other partitions found in (b.) above exceeds the usable space available on the new SSD. This will move the “unmovable” files to the end of your resized partition.(New OS partition size) + (Total size of other non-disk active partitions) < (SSD available space)d. If your current HDD is 500 GB, but you have only used 30% for your operating system files and other programs, photos, documents, etc. you would only need a SSD of atround 200 GB to clone the needed parts of your HDD. My old HDD was 500 GB in total size, but I had only filled it to around 131 GB (26%). My problem was I purchased a 240 GB SSD and the current 500 GB HDD had only one operating system (OS) partition which claimed the entire available space of the disk. I resized the partition as described in (c.) and left the remainder of the HDD unpartitioned, since I was replacing it with the new SSD. This software will also allow you to extend any partition you created on the SSD to use the remaining capacity once you have cloned your old disk.There is a free cloning software package I found called Macrium Reflect that allows you to select and clone only the partitions of the existing disk you want to the new SSD. My GPT HDD had a total of eight (8) partitions which consisted of an EFI system partition, diagnostics partition, wintools partition, a few small empty NTFS partitions and PBR images partition for my computer recovery. The software allowed me to drag and drop the partitions to clone onto the new SSD in the same order they existed on the HDD.When I was finished, I replaced the HDD with the AEGO SSD and booted the system normally so I could write this review.Hope this helps someone ditch their old mechanical data storage device and satisfy their need for speed provided by an SSD.

So, I needed to make my iMac 2013 faster because the thing has great ram, a pretty good processor and just a run of the mill HDD. Well, I got this today, switched it out, and installed Mac OS within 19 minutes. If you install mac often you know that well, that's fast as heck. I then tested the SDD against all kinds of benchmarks and the thing performed pretty well. Write speeds were about 400, and read speeds almost hit 500 which is closer to advertised than the big boys. I couldn't have asked for a better affordable SSD. 14 bucks is more than worth the amount of speed I got from this thing, brought an old dying iMac back to life.

I purchased the 240Gb model to replace an aging 1 Tb boot HDD that I migrated over from an older system (long story). I was planning on placing it in an AsRock B450M-Pro4 and Ryzen 3 2200G system (using the APU iGPU instead of a discrete video card), but gave up after repeated fresh installs of Windows 10 and assorted video and chipset driver updates yielded the same results. While I was able to significantly speed up my boot time (from 45 seconds to 11 seconds), decrease load times of applications such as web browsers and Office 2016 applications, and accelerate normally disk heavy apps like CCleaner and AV programs, I could NOT get games to play nice with this drive as the OS drive, even if the games were on other drives. I would repeatedly experience screen tears or system lock ups. I could see game activity if I Alt + Tab'd between active programs, but as soon as I selected the game, it would go back to freezing or showing video artifacts. This *only* happened when the SSD was the boot drive; switching back to the older HHD with the SSD disconnected restored functionality. I ended up removing the drive from my system; after the ability to return it had passed, of course.Jump ahead a few months, and I'm building my son a computer for Christmas, using my old hardware that I upgraded from. (AMD FX6300 on a Gigabyte MB, using an Nvidia 750Ti GPU). I had purchased a 2 TB WD HDD but decided, what the heck, I'd toss in this SSD as the boot drive, leaving the hard drive for games and storage. Fresh install of Windows 10, updated all appropriate drivers (including the latest Nvidia), loaded up a game that had not worked on my system, and held my breath. Lo! and Behold! Success! The drive works flawlessly, and has breathed new life into an aging system.Granted, I had not done extensive testing on my computer, but it seemed like the common denominator was the driver (current or one/two iterations old) for the iGPU Radeon Vega 8. The default VGA driver included in Windows 10 did not appear to cause the issue, and I could access games without the freezes/tearing, but honestly, the default driver was not up to the task, and it was not an enjoyable experience.So, TL;DR - great drive for updating older tech. Look elsewhere if you are adding it to a newer system.

Had been going through too many HDD wipes and new hard drives before finally trying my first ssd. Never had my machine work like this.

So this is a basic and run of the mill SSD. I love saying that.It allowed me to take a "Broken" Macbook Pro from the grave to life. (Typing on it now.) This drive does what I need it to do and gives me enough storage to run two Linux Distros on the same computer. (Elementary OS and Kali Linux) Speeds could be a tick faster and the build quality has me mildly worried a few years down the road but overall for what you pay, it's a steal.

Gets the job done, doesn't run hot, was cheap, can't complain

Drive was a perfect upgrade, very fast

Fast for a Windows 10 installation. Definitely worth upgrading to SSD even on an old system/cpu, difference in system response times is unbelievable, 6 seconds boot from power off to a loaded windows 10 sign-in screen, updates take no time at all now, used to take atleast 4x longer.

Used this once formatted as a back up for windows via usb3 left permanently pluged into PC. Have checked the files and has backed up everything i want on the hour when PC is turned on,

Perfect upgrade from a HDD, easy to fit with little knowhow

Great price for SSD no problem fitting or setting to work. can't comment on reliability at this stage.

This SSD drive does what it says it does, easy to set up and easy to use.