KINGSTON DIGITAL SUV500MS/240G 240GB SSDNOW UV500 mSATA SSD 3.5 Internal Solid State Drive

This was quite easy to setup as far as the SSD is concerned. I cleaned up my Desktop and emptied my Recycle Bin so as not to bring all that to the SSD when cloning. The software I used was the free version of AOMEI Backupper Standard. It's straightforward. I have found this the best software to clone SSDs. First, install mSATA SSD into the empty mSATA slot (#11 on my motherboard) and do yourself a favor. Buy a set of Motherboard Screws like Mcsher 300pcs Laptop Notebook Screws Kit Set. These were $9.99. You can never expect screws to come with these things, so be proactive. Once installed, the system will recognize it after you boot it and at some point Windows will show “You must initialize a disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it” i.e. make it an MBR or GPT disk. Mine is an older legacy Booting System, so I made it an MBR. I’m not going to use more than 2TB disks. It's quick (there are brief articles explaining this). Then run AOMEI. Select the disks and it does the rest. I cloned my HDD to the SSD. AOMEI did everything and made it bootable and entered into the boot options in SETUP (F2). You can boot the SDD the first time by hitting F12 during the boot process and it will display a menu of options. You can choose the SSD and make sure it’s all working. Then the next time you boot you can choose the permanent boot order you want in the BIOS SETUP and give the SSD the first option. The whole process took only 15-20 minutes.

I purchased this as an upgrade mSATA SSD for my 2013 Samsung NP900X3C Laptop stock SSD (128 GB) which has started to run significantly slow after consuming more than 80% its capacity.This SSD has decreased the response time for application to loading (was very laggy and irresponsive) and system to start (wasn't that bad).I decided to go with this instead of the Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB mSATA Internal SSD (MZ-M6E500BW) mainly because of the value for money as the Samsung SSD cost at the time of purchase ($90) which is more than double what this costs.The laptop now feels as responsive as 2018 Intel i5 laptop despite it's low base clock speed of 1.7 GHz, mainly due to this upgrade.In addition, I wouldn't use this 240 GB SSD for storing any content permanently (media), as I tend to use it for keeping the latest version of Windows, Office, iTunes (1-2 iPhone Backups 64/128 GB), Google Chrome, NP++ in addition to the Windows store apps which I really started to feel are usable like (Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, SpeedTest, OneNote).I am really happy with this upgrade to my laptop and feel like a new life has been given to it.

I used this to upgrade my dell e6440 in the mini card spot and it worked great! Install was a breeze. My power up/app opening times are easily 5x faster than before. The computer has no lag!I tried to use the cloning software from the Kingston website but I wasnt able to get it to work. Once I finally got it to work with a different cloning software, it's amazing.The process was simple for me.1) physically install the SSD, 2) go to disk manager and initialize the SSD, 3) create new volume on the SSD, 4) using a cloning software, clone the origional HD onto the SSD, 5) boot into BIOS and change the boot order so that SSD is primary boot.

I've used this Kingston mSATA SSD as my primary Win10 drive on my Dell Latitude e7240 regular SSD slot for the past 8 months and have been pleased with the performance. I cloned the original Win 7 SSD drive to the Kingston mSATA SSD, then last month did the Win 7 to Win 10 upgrade successfully.I also installed the Kingston SSD Manager software and periodically run it. I've already received 1 firmware update since my purchase.As a side note: in addition to the primary mSATA SSD slot, the Dell Latitude e7240 has a mSATA WWAN slot and am currently using a no name SSD on in with CloudReady OS ( a Chromium based OS) installed. So my laptop has a physically dual boot OS controlled by BIOS. I plan to upgrade that SSD in the future to a Kingston mSATA SSD because Kingston is an established brand and I've had a good experience using their products.

This is my 2nd purchase of this mSATA SSD. I like to rebuild Dell Latitude laptops, and this SSD easily installs in the WWAN port. Disconnect the charger, remove the battery, and unscrew and remove the case. Slide in into the WWAN slot and use an M2x3 screw to secure it. I have done this on Dell Latitude E6540, E6440 and E7240 models.The BIOS recognizes this drive without a problem. This Kingston mSATA drive has faster write speeds than the other mSATA competition brands, so that makes for a good Windows boot drive. Then the regular SSD slot can hold a 2TB HDD or SSD for extra storage.

I used the tool to determine if this would fit my Dell Latitude E7240 and the tool said "Duh, I don't know". I took a chance after determining the physical size was correct. It fit perfectly, loaded Windows 10 and runs great. It probably took less than 5 minutes to do the actual install and Win 10 took less than 20 minutes to do the initial install. I rescued my dead little computer for the cost of this drive and a battery, both from Amazon.

Working great in a ECS A78F2-TI Thin ITX motherboard used as an 1080p HTPC, with Windows 10.mSATA is now a legacy interface, with M.2 succeeding it for SATA and NVME, because of that these drives are quite a bit more expensive for what the offer. This is the second mSATA I have, the previous one is also a Kingston of the same series, but 120GB, been working for around 5 years now.

Brought new life to an aged platform, works well. I haven't benchmarked it but boot time went from minutes to seconds. A comparable 2.5" SSD would be a better fit for most people (price per gig), but I have a Pico case with only 2 hard drive slots I intended to use both for HDD storage. At the time of purchase, I could have grabbed a 2.5" with double capacity for about the same price.