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SSD works as advertised and was easy to install into my Lenovo 17” laptop (roughly 1 year old laptop).
I bought SanDisk partially because I’ve always had good luck with them (and their parent company Western Digital), but also because they used to include a cloning software. The cloning software is no longer included, but if you have the SSD in your system, you can download “Acronis True Image for Western Digital”. To clone the drive from my laptop, I installed it and my new SSD in my desktop and did the clone there. Not as easy as I remember with the previous software, but doable as long as you have an extra couple of SATA cords and power cords.
The SSD replaced a 1TB Toshiba 2.5” mechanical drive which was so slow that the laptop was virtually unusable. Now, the laptop runs smoothly, the way it should.
Swapping drives on the laptop (Toshiba Ideapad3 17 IIL05) was pretty straightforward – remove 10 screws from the back of the laptop, pry the rear cover off, remove 4 screws holding the hard drive bracket, unplug the combined SATA/power cord, remove 4 screws holding the drive to the bracket, swaps drives and put it back together. All laptops will be a little different, but this is my second swap and both were pretty easy.
| Hard Drive | 500 GB Solid State Drive |
|---|---|
| Brand | SanDisk |
| Series | SanDisk Ultra 3D Internal SSD |
| Item model number | SDSSDH3-500G-G26 |
| Product Dimensions | 0.71 x 10.06 x 6.99 cm; 54.43 g |
| Item dimensions L x W x H | 7 x 101 x 70 millimeters |
| Colour | Black |
