Update, May 2023. The original drive has worked flawlessly in my desktop. I also put various sizes in 3 laptops and another desktop over the last 3-5 years and all have not had any issues.
Love the speed of this SSD as replacements for the slow HDDs in both my laptop and desktop. Please note, I do not have experience with other SSD drive performance.
My 2012 Dell XPS with win 8.1 went from about 2 minutes to boot and log-in to 18 seconds. I also put one in an old Dell Inspiron 7010N Win7 2011 laptop that I was ready to get rid of because boot time was averaging 3-4 minutes, even after cleaning up with CC clean, removing programs from the computer and startup, etc. The laptop now has a new life and boots up very quickly as well.
I had never performed any replacement of a drive before nor used cloning software tools, which were not included.
For the XPS desktop on Win8.1, I used the clone disk feature from the free version of Partition Wizard. This was easy and went very smooth (make sure to learn how to change boot options in your Bios settings).
On the laptop, Partition Wizard seemed to work fine, but upon booting with the new SSD, I would only get a blinking \. After 2 more attempts and failures, I successfully tried the free version of Acrium Reflect.
My advice...be prepared to use a second clone tool, and make sure to have your original boot hard drive handy in case of problems, so you can clone it by multiple tools if need be.
| Hard Drive | 512 GB Serial ATA-600 |
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