TCSUNBOW MSATA Mini PCIe 120GB 128GB SSD Solid State Drive (30 50 mm) for Pos Machine and Game Machine

Nothing to write home about. Its not the greatest but its cheap and works just fine.

This SSD worked perfectly for my Dell Inspiron 17r SE 7720. I got the package a day earlier than the guaranteed delivery date. Inside the clear plastic packaging you get the SSD and two mounting screws. Always consult your device’s documentation on installation instructions, but my laptop was easily user upgradable. This probably won’t satisfy everyone, but to me any bump in performance is an improvement, and because my laptop was going to be my productivity machine at home, it’s more than enough for my needs. The SSD was super fast for what I needed my laptop to do, which includes running office apps, emulating old games, and functioning as my test bench for IT related tasks for school. Very satisfied!P.S. the drive also has 3 LEDs on it. I don’t think that serves me any special purpose, but prolly good to know for other buyers.

If you are looking for a cheap SSD to have in a Technology Timeline Display, the TCSUNBOW MSATA Mini PCIe is the perfect fit. If you are trying to obtain an affordable SSD for use in a computer this SSD falls short. The device has very poor driver support it does not detect by any of the seven DELL and ASUS laptops or the two desktops I have. The nice thing about the drive is that it does an outstanding job at being a dummy card; thus making the laptop or desktop look cooler and feel faster. Another nice thing is that the SSD can be whatever size you want, if you use your imagination.

This drive is a mSATA solid state drive fitting mini pci express card slot on my thinkpad T430. It is not a widely used and supported format (unlike M.2), so I was happy to be able to find one on amazon, although the storage/price ratio is much less economical than most hard drives. The main purpose is to load the OS while using a large 2.5 inch SSD hard drive as storage so I could separate the read/write IO traffic.It worked to certain extent for that purpose, however compare to my standard SSD hard drive, the read/write speed of this drive is much slower and nowhere close to the claim 200MB+ speed. Loading win10 on this drive takes much longer than loading from the 2.5 inch drive.

Using this with a zif adapter in an older Fujitsu ultraportable, it is more than enough to saturate IDE throughput. Machine runs far less loud and hot now that the hard drive is out of it. Who knows about the long-lasting durability of this drive at the moment, but given the lack of new zif drives, I'm sure it is far more reliable than picking up one of the many used zif spinning hard drives floating around. It has already lasted a couple of months of use just fine.

It fits loosely but at least the screws give it great support.

I purchased this to replace a failing IDE drive for a laptop that is running specific production software that is not compatible with OS more current than XP.My first device failed on write sector but the second one was delivered in 2 days and drive cloned perfectly on the replacement.Great replacement for my aging IDE with a mSATA to IDE adapter.

The price is low but not the durability of the drive. I've now been running on this storage for a few weeks now (I believe) and I'm actually sad that I didn't jump for the 256gb option. Hell, might do it anyway just so my HTPC has a msata drive as the primary (it's a mini itx 4th gen board).