The primary hard drive on my desktop died and I needed to replace it. I kept hearing how amazing solid state drives were, but previously the price of my preferred 1 TB primary hard drive storage space prevented me from giving into the hype. I finally decided to try it out and return it if I wasn't 100% impressed. I installed it and ran my factory restore from a usb drive onto my brand spankin new solid state drive and it is freakin awesome!!! Boot up time is ridiculously fast! Searching, scanning, installing, and anything that reads/writes to the hard drive are done in a fraction of the time. There's other good stuff, but stop reading and just buy it! You can thank me later.