Western Digital 250GB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 550 MB/s - WDS250G2B0B

This is a great little M.2 for the price. I installed the 250GB in my mid-range gaming laptop and am very happy with the performance so far. Boots up in seconds and overall my games run much smoother. If you are upgrading from a HDD, prepare to be blown away by the speed of these little dudes! For the average and even above average user, the SATA M.2 offer more than enough speed and performance. I personally didn't need a high end M.2 for my laptop, as it's not my main device. What's great about M.2 is you can keep your current hard drive and boot the OS and your favorite games from the M.2, keeping the old hard drive just for regular storage.Although these are faster than traditional hard drives, don't expect performance equivalent to a higher end NVME M.2, which run easily ~$40 more for the same amount of storage. If you're looking at building a high end gaming PC, don't skimp out on the M.2 and buy a NVME, not a SATA. There's a noticeable difference between the two and it's definitely worth the cost if you've already splurged on other components. Just make sure your board is compatible before you buy.I've seen a few reviewers complaining about there not being mounting hardware included. As with most M.2 drives, it does not come with the standoff or the screw. Those will usually be included with your motherboard or you will need to order. Be careful the screw fits properly and is not too long or you could damage the other side of your board. It HAS to have a standoff (the little riser) or it will not install properly!Overall I'm very pleased with this SSD, especially for the low price.TLDR;-Noticeably slower than higher end (NVME) M.2, but still fast enough for most users unless building a very high end gaming rig.-If you don't have mounting hardware, purchase some as it is not included.-Check your owner's manual of your motherboard or your laptop to make sure your computer is compatible with M.2 if you're unsure. Not all of them have slots for it.

So, this junk laptop came with a standard "Hard Drive" which was massively slow, bottlenecked the entire system. It was like I was back in the 1990's the tech was so bad.Finally, found out it had an SSD slot in it, but this particular model could only apparently take "Standard" M.2 SSD's of this type, NOT NVME's... per the Manual for my laptop as found on HP's website.Was going to get a Samsung one, but would have had to wait, and it cost a little more, and this was a cheap laptop for backup only, so, didn't need to bother, a WD should be good enough.Anyway, put it in, and it works AMAZING... The speed is light and day. So fast that I don't even know that I would notice the difference on this laptop between it and an NVME.I mean seriously, it's like at least 30 TIMES faster than the Hard Drive...Anyway, it works great, updated to the latest Windows 10, Windows Update had most of the drivers already, through the "optional updates" also. Think I only needed to go into Device Manager and manually update the Graphics card. I then installed the Intel Drive Assistant, and it found two more that need updating apparently, graphics card and wireless card. Seems all good...Happy to finally have the laptop how it should have been in the first place, at least in basic functioning. One flaw with these also is the keys not being backlit... Anyway, backup, so I don't care.

I upgraded the HDD on my laptop to this ssd and run them in tandem - using this ssd as the boot drive and location for some games. I immediately noticed faster boot times, and much better gaming experience. It would have been easier if this ssd came with arconic to clone or transfer the disk image. But, using free online cloning program was relatively easy to figure out. Overall very happy with the performance and price point.

I bought this to upgrade the storage on my Acer Swift 1 that only had 60 gigs to start with. Very easy upgrade, a few screws, pop in the HD, and then on to formating. I used Marcrium to clone my HD to this WD HD. Worked perfectly. Once that was done I used AEOMEI partition wizard to combine the boot partition with unused space. From there just went into BIOS to set the new HD as the primary boot HD. Easy enough, took about 30 minutes.

Purchased this as a replacement/addition for my old Lenovo laptop. After installing it and re configuring the partitions, the laptop was working again and getting updates.

Got this open-box from Amazon warehouse deals, so purchased at 0.25 cents/GB plus tax. Mine didn't come with any instructions, just the drive in a plastic clamshell. It would have been nice if WD had included something on the drive that made it more obvious which key goes where. Acronis WD edition was easy-to-use to clone my old drive.Caveats: doesn't come with a screw, as is well-noted. If you need a screw, ask the in-house tech people at your employer (if possible). It's likely they have a bucketful of loose ones.It is blazing fast to boot/load/update windows 10. I might get one for our other machine.