64GB Transcend PSD330 2.5-inch IDE Internal SSD Solid State Disk (MLC Flash)

I have an older Toshiba Satellite M65 notebook computer from early 2006 that still has a parallel ATA (PATA) disk interface but a gorgeous 17.4" wide screen that I use mostly for web browsing, watching movies, remote desktop activities and running MS Office. Several years ago I maxed out its RAM (to 2GB) and installed Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (the machine was originally designed for Windows XP). Everything was working great but over the years with the installation of service packs, hotfixes, additional apps and utilities, the machine had gotten quite slow and I found the hard drive to be the performance bottleneck. After purchasing the 128GB Transcend PSD330 drive, I was able to clone my old 95GB PATA drive to this SSD, and installed it into the laptop; the drive fit perfectly, being the same form factor as the old 2.5" mechanical PATA drive (I just had to be careful to set the master/slave/cable select jumper the same way it was set on the old drive). After this change, my laptop is fast again; gone are my excessive waits browing the web, taking the machine out of hybernation, and even while starting it up. Although the PATA interface only runs at 100MB/s max (much slower than today's SATA disks), with this near-zero latency SSD the performance has improved significantly and is now more than acceptable for my type of use. In fact, the Windows Experience Index (for the hard drive specifically) changed to 5.9 from 4.2 after installing this drive in my notebook which is excellent. As you may expect it is very quiet as well (no noise at all). I can't comment yet on durability but everything else so far has been a great experience. I am expecting this drive will extend my notebook's life for another two years or so, which makes it well worth the money spent on it.

I replaced a 100 GB HDD in my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop with this Transcend 128 GB SSD and I have to say that it has been the best improvement that I could have made to this aging 9300 laptop. Not only do I have more disk capacity, but also the WEI subscore for the disk data transfer rate increased from 4.4 with the HDD to a significantly increased 5.9 with the Transcend SSD. This upgrade alone has made my laptop performance so much better. The SSD was easy to install and it fit perfectly in the drive caddy. I performed a fresh, clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium onto the SSD and Windows is running absolutely great on it. The SSD has breathed new life into my Inspiron 9300, making it a lot more pleasant to use with its increased performance. Note that the SSD packaging clearly shows a "Compatible with Windows 7" logo on it so you can be assured that it works with Windows 7 PCs. I would highly recommend this SSD to anyone that wants to replace a traditional IDE/ATA HDD in their laptop. It's been a real blessing having this SSD ever since I installed it. It's by far an excellent performer, and it runs whisper quiet. Definitely worth a five start rating.

I need to keep an old Windows XP lap alive to run some old software and this did the trick.

Nice replacement for a mechanical drive. Shows marginally faster operation (for O/S work --- as a data disk, it is markedly faster).This unit does NOT include cloning software. If you don't have it, expect to purchase something like Acronis True Image or Mini-Tool Partition Wizard or SSD Scope (maybe even EASIS Drive Cloning or Clonezilla) (((the Mini_Tool Partition Wizard is the best, in my opinion. If Sector and Cylinder Alignment isn't necessary, Clonezilla and gParted are excellent -- akin to what Norton Ghost used to be)))

Old Dell laptop, Latitude D600, it's ten times faster now. I used a quality Vantec SATA / IDE to USB adapter, EaseUS Todo back up cloning freeware to move my entire old hard drive contents and OS before I switched out the hard drives.. Boot time is at least 80% faster, my data intensive charting software which used to take well over an hour to update now takes just 5 to 7 minutes.I'm not a super saavy tech guy, it went better that I could imagine, had jumper out as I initialized the SSD, moved my stuff, put jumper in as master for installation.I like that it was a perfect fit and match, comes with mounting screws too, tolerances are tight, I pulled off the old hard drive pin adapter and used it on the new SSD, that's simple enough but could be confusing if you didn't know that.Best upgrade for an older laptop in my opinion, I did upgrade the RAM memory and processor prior but this Transcend SSD makes this old Dell blazingly fast.

Bought this originally for my Jeep radio. Did an image of the original HDD on it, it fits, it reads, it works, bit faster. A good replacement.To note, the OE HDD has no jumper when plugged in. The internals of the radio handles that.

I had high hopes for this drive, and took a chance. I installed it in an ASUS W-5F laptop. No joy; the computer doesn't see it at all. The bios can't see it, so I can't do anything with it. I reset the bios to default, and everything else I could think of, with no success.It's a solid portable that we bought in early 2006. [...]Don't bother. I bought it a year ago for the Asus W5-F. Worked great for about 9 months. Then, it starting "hanging" on file downloads. Now, it hangs about 5 minutes after booting into windows. It was great while it lasted, but the expense I paid to retain a nostalgic piece of gear could have been spent towards a an i3 setup...I will be returning the drive in the next few days. I wish there was a PATA to SATA solution for laptops.

I installed this drive on a Dell C640 that I put together for Windows 98SE gaming, and it works phenomenally.You get a little performance boost, better battery life, and the piece of mind that it won't shake itself to death.I plan on buing more for other IDE based computers in the future.