Pros & Cons
Pros
The only concern with it is that whenever it's powered up it has a very bright red led that constantly stays on. Bought this to upgrade an old ipod 5. Cloned easily (axgear 2. Plugged it into the unadvertised slot (in the corner above and at right ang... Read More
This drive is noticeably faster, and much more space. Even on older laptops with intel i3 or older-gen i5 processors, you will notice the speed improvement. Reads and writes around 230-250 mb/s so is a nice step up from the original hard drive.
Dogfish brand is competetive in quality,price,and size. For the price, it's unbeatable. I like that the price is superb.
Highlights
Quality
With the use with an adapter it worked like a charm
Other drive i have used over heat with the constant readwrite this one works flawlesly
This is typical of old fashioned msata as far as i can tell and the msata slot in those old lenovo was not originally made to s... Read More
I had not even considered this brand when i was initially shopping as i am familiar for the last 20 years with wd and seagate
Price
I like that the price is superb
Cost was a factor so this item fit the bill perfectly
Shipping
Got it super fast and works great
Packaging/appearance
I wanted to make sure win10 system would fit in the the start drive
Competitiveness
Upgrade of a 32g ssd in my aging acer c720p chromebook
I am using this in a pfsense box
Disappointed that theyve seen fit to up the price by 10
Has a debranded intel nand chip and an smi controller
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- This product had a total of 380 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 24 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Heres a cheap boot drive
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This is typical of old fashioned msata as far as i can tell and the msata slot in those old lenovo was not originally made to support a boot drive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As this thing is too small in a plastic envelope it was dropped at front door but then was blown far away
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
A few days ago it started to report some bad sector and failed to readwrite randomly
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is my 2nd one 1st died after 23 months use cant find invoice or box to return
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Will revise report if drive reliability issues arise later
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
On a windows an i3 cou a cold boot takes 10 seconds
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Your secondary drive should be your user stuff and program files