fasssst---- they are worth the money and effort

I got one for my desk top that was refurbished at a fraction of the price of a new one. Refurbished to me means it has been gone over by Sandisk and is probably better than a new one. In transfering information from my old boot disk which was a 120gb ssd3 I was getting speeds of over 6gb per sec showing in the task manager. I also turned off allow files on this drive to have contents indexed. Defrag now was set to never and prefetch and superfetch were also turned off. These all shorten the life of an ssd and add little to an ssd speed. They are for a hard disk. My startup times are very fast once I get past my bios. My bios takes longer than the actual startup when the ssd takes over. I also put a 120gb Sandisk Extreme in my laptop. It's like a new computer. It runs longer on battery ,it's cooler and a hell of a lot faster.Read full review