Kingston 512G KC600 SATA3 mSATA SSD | SKC600MS/512G

I've been using this chip in my Lenovo Idea Pad Yoga for a few months now with no issues. It effectively quadrupled my computers memory and gave it new life. For anyone not aware, it's important to note that this is not a Plug and Play device. The installation requires that you use an appropriate app to transfer Windows (or other operating system) along with all the data from your old memory chip. There are YouTube videos showing you how to do this quite easily for those not familiar with the procedure. With this memory boost you also have the capability to upgrade to a more current operating system if that is your goal. The Kingston KC600 has performed flawlessly in my computer since I installed it and I use my old chip for additional storage.

Pretty much plug an play, I just had to mount the drive.

Been upgrading an old T420, this was a nice cheap drop-in that gave it plenty of storage. Be warned that there are faster and better SSD's out there (the main drive i'm using is a samsung 850, which twice as fast), but this is a great balance of cheap and fast-enough. And at any rate, it's far better than a spinning platter drive. Benchmarked at 261MB/s on Mint's built-in disk benchmark tool, on the t420 in question itself.

Premiun SSD with Good perfomance, stable, no problems so far, highly recommended for those enthusiasts who are only looking for the best of the best in quality, especially if you are looking for SSD or NVME with Nand TLC Memory.

Inexpensive rebirth for dead laptop. This was a great price and the R&R installation took 15 minutes on a Dell 7470.

I wanted to upgrade my elderly laptop with a larger hard drive and it seemed SSD was the way to go rather than HDD. Partly for speed and lack of moving parts, and partly because I wanted to go to 4TB and that wasn't an option with a regular HDD. But a 4TB drive that's rated for the kind of use I'm expecting to give it runs to some $500, so I decided to test the waters first. Enter the mSATA drive. Yes, I know mSATA is smaller and slower but figured it would not only be faster than my existing HDD but also potentially work as a boot drive so I could have my entire SSD as a data drive, or as a backup volume for things small enough to be copied locally. In any event it's cheap enough that if I didn't like the speed boost I got I'd know to explore a new computer rather than dropping more $$$ on improving the one I have. Having never seen an mSATA drive before it was remarkably small. Installing it was trivially easy - I first installed it into a USB enclosure and cloned my boot volume onto it, then fitted it into my laptop. It took longer to get the back off my laptop than it did to fit the drive - it's literally a case of plugging it in, pushing it into place and securing it with a screw. It works a lot faster than my old HDD, which is nice. It gives me a larger boot volume than I had before, which is also nice (you can get this thing in a range of sizes, I went for 512GB and configured it as a 256GB boot volume, a 200GB encrypted data partition, and the rest as swap space. The only real downside of it is that it seems to get quite hot. The Kingston software that manages their SSDs reports it running at about 25C as soon as it's fired up and it warms to around 50C (122F) after a fairly short time even when it's not used hard. When I generated a 200GB encrypted volume on it and copied some files into the encrypted volume the software reported it reached 68C. My laptop has pretty good fans in it, and this feels like the sort of temperature that's not necessarily a good thing. So far it hasn't affected the performance but I've only run it for about 25 hours in total so far. From the top of the laptop there's no obvious evidence of anything spectactularly warm, and I haven't gone as far as running it with the back off and checking the temperature with a thermal camera, so it may be the software is reporting a temperature higher than the reality. I mention it because if you're running something that's already pushing heat limits you may want to know. It seems like the kind of situation where a fan would help, but adding a fan would mean it wouldn't fit into a regular mSATA slot any more. So overall I'd like to give it five stars but hold back a little because the temperature is mildly concerning.

Excellent product. Always buy made in Taiwan electronics. Not like the Orico garbage being sold here from China.

Beach Audio delivered promptly. Packed securely. Installed in minutes. Problems solved. This unit upgrades the 32gb board installed. Mine has issues. Computer runs like new. Also allows for downloading larger programs requiring temporary space. You will want to set Win 10 for new apps and storage on the D drive. Tip: Install the new SS drive ONLY to load Win 10. After it is loaded and operating correctly, then reinstall the D drive.