Buy it.

I'm A+ certified and Microsoft certified so if you want a straight review on this guy, look no further. I bought one for my business laptop and oh man, it's worth every cent. The drive is light and when I say light I mean 2oz or so. The drive is mostly an aluminum shell surrounding a small board packed with memory chips. Not a single moving part in this guy and that's what makes it great. A conventional hard drive is like a record player, bumps and movement cause damage and even failure. This removes any potential for physical failure from internal moving parts. Not to mention the MTBF is set at 1,500,000 hours or 171 years - which even if it's only 1/10th of that is 17 years. Do you have any WORKING hard drives from 10 years ago? The average fail is 1-4 years, chew on that a bit. It's $100 for a disk hd, it's $225 for this, it pays for itself after the first few days with just how fast it is. The width and length is the same of a standard 2.5" laptop hard drive. Virtually any laptop made in the last 6 years or so can support this and it's definitely an amazing upgrade from your conventional hard drive. You do NOT need a mounting kit to put this in a laptop to my knowledge. Most laptops have a built in cradle with screw mounts to support the drive. My dell had no problems or additional hardware required to install the drive.Read full review