Although i use windows 8.1 on my laptop i still had a spare hard drive with the Windows 10 upgrade installed, i keep this updated and might one day use it instead of 8.1, with this in mind i looked for an SSD as using Win 10 on a 5400 rpn hard drive was sometimes like wading through treacle



the main reason for choosing the Transcend was price but also because i have had experience with the brand and their support is second to none,as soon as the drive arrived i installed it in my laptop and used a usb caddy to connect the original drive to the laptop, using Acronis cloning software i cloned the hard drive to the SSD which took around 30 minutes, when it had finished i rebooted and in less than a minute had Win 10 running as usual but much faster, it has noticeably improved the overall performence of the laptop with app's now opening in a couple of seconds at most, the Edge browser now opens in just one second,as soon as it is clicked on it on the screen ready to go



the SSD itself came well packaged and was very well protected in the box which also contained spare screws and an installation guide and a warranty card, i registered the drive on the Transcend website which activates the warranty,from the website i also downloaded the SSd Scope software which allows many different options from testing and benchmarking to getting the full specs of the drive etc, it will even download any updates for you



also available for download is a free recovery programme which can recover deleted files etc from any drive



given that my laptop is only Sata 2 i will not be getting the full Sata 3 performance from it but it has improved the Windows 10 experience enough for me to make it a sound purchase, i wouldn't hesitate to recommend this to anyone looking to improve a sluggish pc