• Reviews around drive (2.30 of 5)

    SanDisk Ultra II 960GB Solid State Drive (SDSSDHII-960G-G25)

    • Good price - installed in laptop after cloning the then existing hard drive - no problems.
    • For now it's just gathering dust; it probably would make a speedy external drive if I wanted to use it that way.
    • but I am still not in a position to fully trust this drive after the failure of the 1st
    • Very nice drive
    • Just snagged this awesome drive for $350, and it works like a charm
    • Maybe the software didn't set up the partitions correctly because the new drive is somewhat larger than the original, though that seems a pretty common thing for a hard drive replacement.
    • So so so happy with the hard drive.
    • I got the kit to clone my hard drive and it worked like a champ.
    • pretty decent drive, price is good and speed is fast
    • I own several of these well priced drives and they are quite reliable with no issues for the past
    • SSD hard drive fits that very description.
    • I would strongly recommend this drive to my friends and family and wouldn't hesitate purchasing one again.
    • The drive was a dream -- fast and big.
    • This drive totally failed after 4 months!!
    • Fast shipping, hard drive seems to work pretty good
    • On one application that I knew was slow, using my old Hard Drive, I compared it to the boot up and "ready time" using the new SSD drive.
    • Got it to replace my original PS4 hard drive, install was easy and it's nice to have more space available.
    • Pro (core i7, 2.8ghz cpu), I attached an existing WD Passport 1TB USB 3.0 external / portable hard drive, and my new Sandisk 960gig SSD enclosed in a Patriot USB 3.0 external case... copying a 12 gig folder of mixed mp3 files to the WD
    • After two months of use the hard drive stopped working
    • I used the Corsair 2.5-inch solid state drive and hard disk cloning and was able to do everything myself without paying a tech guy (
    • That said, big SATA SSD's appear to be turning into commodities, as even less expensive drives push the SATA bus to the limit
    • Excellent drive easy set up, seems rock solid
    • very fast drive vastly improved load times for operating system.
    • I utilize this as a secondary hard drive on which to place Carbon Copy clones.
    • This drive is dead as a doornail
    • 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD) with Read Up To
    • the drive turned on, but writes slower than my old hard drive.
    • I got this fantastic hard drive on sale for very nice price,I was looking for 1 Tb SSD so it can handles my Steam games
    • My primary hard drive is a very fast Samsung
    • The drive works well and is fast, I put it in as a replacement drive in my 2010 iMac.
    • This drive isn't super fast but it is very quick and a huge jump over a regular HDD
    • The drive works as it should
    • The original drive was a 1TB Hard Drive with 5000RPM
    • Fast drive for my Windows 10 OS build plus fast storage and retrieval of docs and especially photos.
    • Note, hard drive had 430 GB used.
    • I would highly recommend this hard drive to anyone who shops on a budget like I do.
    • Great drive, Windows loads in seconds as opposed to minutes using the standard hard drive
    • I used it in static mode only, slaved to my home computer as an outboard drive.
    • Used EaseUS to clone hard drive onto this
    • and I regret purchased upgraded hard drive for my MBP directly from Apple
    • This drive has been working reliably now for over 5 months.
    • Doesn't show in the BIOS and doesn't show where I mounted it to another system as a portable hard drive
    • I did I hard drive speed test with Crystal Disk Mark and it went at the same speeds that it was advertised at.
    • Am I so unlucky to get two bad drives in a row
    • 3.0 Converter for SSD/HDD - Hard Drive Adapter Cable).
    • I really like this hard drive.
    • Fast drive
    • The build has been running for about a week with no issues, the drive is working well and the computer is faster on boot up and working than with the old SATA III
    • so I couldn't bring myself to just discard it and opted for replacing the hard drive with this Solid State Drive
    • 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD) with Read Up To
    • The drive itself is great.
    • I replaced a 1TB hard drive in my laptop and my boot times went from 3 minutes plus to about 35 seconds
    • During synthetic testing, the drive slows down somewhat when the 8GB cache fills up.
    • I would recommend for any desktop pc!The product was easy to install, just like any hard drive and fast
    • Converted my old drive in my Lenovo T530 to this SSD and I love it.
    • Excellent drives so far
    • Note that to install this on a MacBook, you will likely need a USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive Adapter Cable (to copy the contents of the hard drive onto the new SSD) and a T6 Torx screwdriver such as theWiha 96706 Torx Screwdriver.
    • This drive is amazing
    • Use this as my gaming hard drive for my laptop, runs fast and reliable, no issues so far.
    • A good drive at a great price
    • My Hard Drive size is 750 GB
    • Clone my hard drive?
    • Hard drive failed on 25 August of 2016.
    • Great drive while it lasted
    • I bought the StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive Adapter Cable, which worked perfectly
    • Just remember to go to the Partition Hard drive utility to format the drive
    • When it failed, the drive is unreadable and you cannot access any of the data (glad I had daily backups)
    • Bought on a good sale to use in a MacBook Pro - works as expected and the MacBook Pro is much snappier now that the hard drive is out of the performance equation.
    • This size allowed me to double the capacity i previously had on a standard hard drive
    • So this is not related to the quality of this drive, just another drive is needed for fast drive write speed of 4K video.
    • Very solid and fast SSD drive
    • 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD) with Read Up To
    • It's been a month now and the drive is still flawless.
    • The performance increase from hard drive to these SSDs is amazing, I wish I had done it earlier
    • all data is irretrievably lost even if we got the laptop back.)So if all you want is an SSD for a desktop, this drive is fine if you can get it at a good price
    • The old hard drive ran at a read write speed of about 50 MB/sec.
    • Ran our of hard drive space on my old SSD drive.
    • now I'm back downgraded to my old physical hard drive less than half the capacity with outdated files, and trying to get a replacement from Amazon, since the seller told me to contact them directly for the return
    • It is a secondary hard drive on my pc, but I used it to transfer a lot of older drives onto it and also have it as to install and save games, which I know I will have plenty of space with both drives on my pc
    • 2.5-Inch 7mm Height Solid State Drive (SSD
    • It is hands down better than the 750MB hybrid hard drive I had been using.
    • I'm not data transfer expert neither too much worried about speed, just want it to have a second hard drive for games, recordings and music and is way much faster than my old mechanical hard disk.
    • This drive is not fast enough to capture 4K recording from a Black Magic Hyperdeck
    • Needed a 2.5"-to-3.5" adapter to fit the smaller drive into the existing hard drive bay.
    • , SanDisk would not send a replacement until after they received & evaluated the defective drive, which meant it took over 2 weeks to get the replacement
    • Windows 10 is outstandingly speedier with the Solid State Drive.
    • Upon receipt, I cloned my existing Western Digital 640GB 4500 RPM drive with the new SanDisk Ultra II 960GB SATA III 2.5-Inch SSD utilizing Amazon’s (iDsonix USB 3.0 Dual Bay 2.5-Inch and 3.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive Docking Station (IDD-U3201-1).
    • I got this to swap out my 750GB hard drive from my 2012 17" Macbook Pro
    • It was wonderful at first, having such a fast drive with lots of storage.
    • I reinstalled windows 10 on the new hard drive and have not experienced any issues since then
    • I like it now that it's working but the software that it came with (to clone your existing drive) didn't work and the help I got from
    • I do understand that some % of electronics will fail in the field, may be i got a bad drive.
    • Awesome drive, made laptop very quick
    • The installation was really fast and easy, it comes with free drive clone software, but you have to supply the cable
    • No more motors in hard drives!
    • Fast and affprdable drive
    • and then performing hard drive maintenance (uninstall unused programs, defragmenting, etc.)
    • I think i got a faulty drive because it is not detected sometimes by laptop
    • I have an Alienware 17 laptop with an Intel Core i7 chipset that was running RAID with two 750GB hard disk drives (HDD).
    • I made it my C: drive and left the hard drive in as well.
    • Amazing speed compared to a conventional hard drive
    • I love solid state drives!
    • so I couldn't bring myself to just discard it and opted for replacing the hard drive with this Solid State Drive
    • Replaced the 750GB hard drive in my Macbook with this 1TB SSD
    • I really like this hard drive.
    • This drive has died on me twice
    • Doesn't show in the BIOS and doesn't show where I mounted it to another system as a portable hard drive
    • My choice for a durable small backup drive.
    • I can now put all my games on an SSD and not worry about filling it up!One thing to note when buying this, it does NOT come with a SATA cable like some hard drives or higher end SSD's do.
    • I highly recommend this product as a replacement for your old-style hard drive (make sure the device meets the specifications of your PC).
    • very reliable ssd drive
    • Specially on a laptop where low quality hard drives reign supreme
    • I would highly recommend this hard drive to anyone who shops on a budget like I do.
    • Great drive, Windows loads in seconds as opposed to minutes using the standard hard drive
    • I used this SSD to replace a failed 3.5" 1TB Seagate Barracuda Fusion drive in an Apple iMac
    • I replaced the 1TB Hard Drive in my Win 7 desktop with this SSD.1
    • If you're a gamer, I wouldn't make this your main drive, but honestly one wonders if the lay person would notice any differences
    • Great drive for the price
    • I contacted online troubleshooting with the news that my drive is most likely dead
    • If you read reviews in other places, you will find that this particular drive has serious reliability issues, the 480GB and 960GB versions being affected more often
    • These are good drives I am sure
    • I cloned the laptop using Corsair 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive and Hard Disk Drive Cloning Kit CSSD-UPGRADEKIT, installed the new SSD and it worked great.
    • Nearly 1TB of Solid State Drive (SDD).
    • Bought Acronis True Image to clone my 1 TB hard drive onto the SSD, but could not get it to work
    • Have a 6yr old computer and started getting a "hard drive failure is imminent " error
    • Now you know where it is and if the primary drive fails then remove the PC computer's power and unplug the failed drive and plug in the archived one and you are back in business
    • I used the free (trial) software to clone my old hard drive, and it was super easy to partition and clone the new drive
    • This is a great upgrade for this machine, I highly recommend this drive for any SSD swap.
    • I got this fantastic hard drive on sale for very nice price,I was looking for 1 Tb SSD so it can handles my Steam games
    • I replace my main hard drive on my Dell XPS 8500 and my Windows 10 PC is now booting within 10 seconds
    • I actually purchased this drive to have a SSD USB 3.0 external, and it works great
    • UPDATE on 27 Feb 2017:I have taken the original hard drive I ordered 2 years ago and converted into a backup/data drive.
    • Nice to see 1TB of SSD down to $250, this one converted my son's 2012 MacBook Pro to a smoker, boots in 18 seconds, but would boot in 10-12 if we lost the optical drive
    • It was the first hard drive I installed, so it was a bit of a challenge, but that's true for every hard drive ever made, so not a negative
    • In-line Digital Thermal Sensor for iMac 2011 Hard Drive Upgrade
    • im glad i went with a new one because the hard drive has to be absolutely clear/empty when respawning the alienware.
    • Pro (core i7, 2.8ghz cpu), I attached an existing WD Passport 1TB USB 3.0 external / portable hard drive, and my new Sandisk 960gig SSD enclosed in a Patriot USB 3.0 external case... copying a 12 gig folder of mixed mp3 files to the WD
    • Fast shipping, hard drive seems to work pretty good
    • Great drive, took the clone perfect and it's fast i5 8 gig ram
    • loads in seconds versus minutes on the old hard drive =)
    • Excellent drive, great performance, plenty of storage space.
    • I hope this has been helpful to you and enjoy your new SSD Drive
    • Update June 30, 2017: SanDisk did replace the defective drive, however unlike my experience with Western Digital & Seagate hard
    • 2.5-Inch to 3.5-Inch SATA Enclosure SSD/HDD Aluminum Hard Drive Adapter (25SAT35HDD).
    • Fast drive!
    • 2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive Adapter
    • MacBook Pro's hard drive.
    • Just snagged this awesome drive for $350, and it works like a charm
    • I replaced my 1 TB hybrid laptop hard drive with this drive and it has performed greatly
    • Best drive I have ever had.
    • Great SSD drives for the price
    • Good price - installed in laptop after cloning the then existing hard drive - no problems.
    • The drive is significantly faster, consumes less power, and is completely noise free - what's not to like!
    • This drive has rejuvenated an old macbook pro to even faster levels than before.
    • I never really knew how much a standard Hard Drive slowed down a computer.
    • Excellent drive.
    • Upgrade hard drive for my
    • Maybe there are faster, more expensive drives out there.
    • I bought this item to replace the stock 1TB hard drive in a Mid-2011 iMac
    • Even though she booted off the SSD with files on the normal hard drive, she immediately said her computer was noticeably faster
    • Upgraded to the solid state due to crash of the old hard drive......seems faster.
    • 2.5-Inch SSD hard drive.
    • I really like the SanDisk SSD Dashboard software; it's easy to see how well the drive is performing and whether it needs new firmware (mine didn't).
    • The new drive is working fine
    • This drive worked for about 20 minutes before it stopped showing up in my desktop
    • It used to get so hot so fast with the mechanical hard drive
    • Had to resize partitions since hard drive was 1.8 TB and this is ~ half the size
    • I've been looking for a Solid State Drive for some time now and just couldn't justify spending the money to pick up a large SSD
    • Replaced all my hard drives with SSD's
    • Great drive that extends battery life and provides a much smoother PC experience
    • or you could simply disassembled a spare USB SATA to USB 3.0 HD enclosure and then plug it into an available USB 3.0 port (recommended).For the cloning software, I used Apricorn (free version) EZ Gig IV Cloning Software to clone the hard drive of my laptop to the SSD which took about ~45 minutes
    • No more having to off load stuff to an external hard drive
    • After a long a frustrating day of trying to diagnose the issue and speaking to Sandisk customer support, I came to the conclusion that the hard drive had failed without warning
    • just put this in on valentines day..its like nite and day from the old hard drive...which took 45 too 55 seconds to boot up..this hard drive with el capitan boots up in 12 too 13 secs
    • Awesome drive
    • Yes I should've had his laptop backing up, but I got lax in the last few years as most hard drives now have great reliability.
    • Sped it up a bunch compared to the hard drive.
    • very fast drive, it was easy to install and increased the speed of my laptop, quality is excellent and the best price so farvery recommended
    • Also, SSD drives work much better when the bulk of the work is reading from the drive with minimal writing.
    • I've had more trouble putting on shoes than installing this hard drive
    • I was very concerned that the switch wouldn't work or that something would be wrong but everything booted up and because of the exact Carbon Copy Clone my computer never knew there was a new Hard Drive installed.
    • it was a 500GB standard hard drive
    • A quick google has shown me that many many other people have had their Sandisk Ultra II drives just stop working and have lost all data
    • The hardware itself seems good and it is by far the best upgrade you can do on a pc that has a standard hard drive.
    • Easy install and a great performance, however this drive failed in just over 8 months in an Acer Aspire laptop.
    • Just got a random blue-screen and the drive was dead, the Acer could not recognize it after a reboot.
    • This was my first Solid State Drive and let me tell
    • I cloned my hard drive, but when I installed it the PC gave an error when attempting to load the operating system.
    • If you look at online reviews, this drive is penalized in synthetic tests, due to relying on a fast 8GB SLC cache to obtain fast speed.
    • Used a powered external hard drive enclosure to format the SSD and clone from the existing drive prior to installatoin.
    • Great drive great price
    • Putting that aside, the drive is outstanding
    • It breathes new life into anything still running a hard drive.
    • With the old 1 TB Hard Drive
    • A quick google has shown me that many many other people have had their Sandisk Ultra II drives just stop working and have lost all data
    • Probably a good drive if you get a good one, but good luck if yours is defective
    • Fits in my laptop's second hard drive slot perfectly
    • After 9 months this drive failed and after repeated failed efforts to contact the MFG. and getting
    • Finally a decent sized "fast" SSD drive at a fairly reasonable price
    • Perfect Steam drive.
    • I HOPE that the stability and the endurance of this Solid State drive will be great as well and that it will hold up a long
    • The hard drive works as expected
    • Fast Drive.
    • I re-installed the original hard drive and thankfully the computer initialized properly
    • Negates are notoriously bad drives as I've
    • I use Windows based Quickbooks and Microsoft Explorer 6 in Parallels on my Macbook Pro (mid-2012) and it took forever to launch with the hard drive that came with the Macbook.
    • Going from a hard drive to a ssd was the greatest thing but the lack of space for more write speed has its ups and downs but we'll worth the money computer
    • the only bottleneck was the standard hard drive.
    • The HDD will not be shown in the BIOS drive bay.. not to worry just proceed with the installation of the windows, it will detect the hard drive..
    • just put this in on valentines day..its like nite and day from the old hard drive...which took 45 too 55 seconds to boot up..this hard drive with el capitan boots up in 12 too 13 secs
    • Solid State Drive failed at the 7 month mark.
    • Fingers crossed for a good drive this time around
    • Highly recommend this drive!
    • Great drive, would buy again.
    • I needed a Sabrent 2.5" SSD & SATA Hard Drive to
    • Whether you're looking for a backup drive, a drive to put in an enclosure, or to replace the drive in your computer, this drive is great
    • I can say SS(solid state) drives are completely worth the extra price.
    • Great second drive fro my laptop, easy install, plenty of storage, Runs fast.
    • The drive is fast, and a perfect price for those looking for large capacity drives to store games and their operating system on.
    • Sure it's a nice drive when it works
    • and that is that I have a new computer and an extremely fast one, thanks to the sole change out of the Hard Drive from old style
    • Cloned the old drive using Apple's recovery software and this drive is great.
    • Drive died less than two months after installation.
    • My main boot drive is barely faster than this one, and running all solid state over an old hard drive makes my computer significantly faster at reading and transferring files, comparable to my retina MacBook Pro
    • Paid 199.00 for this puppy as a replacement hard drive for an intel i5 macbook pro 13" mid 2012, running Yosemite, 8gigs RAM
    • So glad to have done away with old fashion hard drives.
    • Apricorn also allows you to deselect data folders from the copying proces (necessary for cloing to a smaller drive) as well as perform variable drive partitioning (automatic or manually)
    • wonderful! fast drive
    • For the 1.75 years it was in the laptop, the drive worked very well.
    • there is little to say except that it is as advertised and runs my data at much faster speeds than my motorized hard drive
    • Service & Support get a D
    • When my computer would not boot from the SSD, I submitted an e-mail support request on the SanDisk Web site.