RECADATA mSATA III MLC High Level Enterprise Class Internal Solid State Drive SSD (512G)

I bought the 256GB version to replace an ATA-5 40GB laptop drive in my ancient Compaq Presario 1500. After eighteen years, the ATA-5 drive had developed bad sectors but I couldn't find a replacement anywhere (obsolete technology). The best I could do was visit the forums where I found that mSATA drives now existed and there were frames available which would let them cram into a laptop IDE interface. All my other computers use SSD's for boot drives with SATA's for data storage so this was definitely the way to go. The 256GB only formatted to 131GB - my best guess is that the obsolete laptop bios was the limiting factor. Still, it worked and it boots to a login screen in 30 seconds. That is compared to the bad sector HDD that took SIX MINUTES to get there, and then consistently crashed at random intervals. I would give it five stars if I could have gotten all 256GB but I'm glad for what I got.

Update Aug 9, 2019:After some cajoling via the Amazon message system the seller decided to send me a new drive. I received the new drive today. The RMA process via China is ridiculous. I had to wait several weeks so they could get more from China. They did not understand (even though I repeated it several times) that I could not return/exchange via Amazon as the return window passed. However, I have received a replacement. I do not consider the listing as "High Level Enterprise Class" to be accurate. We'll see how the replacement goes. Three stars for lack of longevity.Original Review July 18, 2019:I purposefully bought a drive much larger than my need to prevent burnout of the data area...... Then my Pi cannot read the SSD. it can write and create partition tables, but returns "e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda". No superblocks work even after reformat....The seller says there is a US warehouse to handle returns.. Not according to website; must send back to China. No thanks liars. Not wasting money sending your crap back through customs so you don't get it anyway.Buyer Beware, description says 3 year warranty, website says 2 year (and ship to China). Recommend STAY AWAY.

Haven't had it all that long, but appears to be an excellent product. I installed it as second drive in my Lenovo x220 and now have a very flexible machine. I am using it mainly to run automotive diagnostic interface software that requires win 7 and find it boots very fast and performs superbly. I would purchase another product without hesitation from this vendor.

The Recadata mSATA III MLC performs very well since 22 days of continuous operation:Pros - Price reasonable - Email from company shows product backing and customer supportCons - Examined reliability only for 22 days of continuous operation

This thing is pretty great. I dropped the 128GB version in to the WWAN slot of a Lenovo x131e to use with the preinstalled 320GB spinning hard disk. It's a dual boot configuration with Ubuntu Mate 16.04 and Windows 8.1 Pro. Both OSes boot from power off to a login screen in less than 10 seconds and response time opening programs is excellent. I'm very satisfied with this device which brought new life to an older laptop.

Used with "Ableconn IIDE-MSAT mSATA SSD to 2.5-Inch IDE Adapter" to replace older IDE laptop hard drive. Solid State drive for IDE interface - works great. Laptop boots in seconds.

bought one of these to replace a hard drive in a friend's laptop and it failed catastrophically about a month later. Do yourself a favor and buy something else

Bought for some Motion J3500 tablets, which use a different interface but we also purchased some adapters to make these work. Much, much faster than the 5400 RPM HDDs that were in those tablets. Haven't had any issues with them so far and they are in the field every day.

I was looking for a replacement SSD for an in-car system, as the existing 840 Pro was suffering data corruption issues in low temperatures (-20C). I figured for the low price, I would take a risk on the I6M, as its spec sheet indicates an operating temperature from -40C to +85C. Over the past two weeks the system has not had any issues, so it does appear to operate reliably at low temperatures.The SSD is based on a DRAM-less SM2246XT, so it is not going to win any speed records, but reliability should be better than other low-cost SSDs as it uses MLC instead of TLC Flash.For standard home-use laptop drive replacements, I'd look to much faster alternatives.For industrial applications, initial impressions indicate that this will work reliably over an extended temperature range, for much *much* less than other industrial/automotive SSDs (such as the Micron M500IT)

It is literally least expensive 250GB SSD on Amazon. For under $70 you get 250GB SSD with read and write speed at about 250 MB/s which is okay these days. But the what makes this SSD OK as appose to Good is the fact that it uses DRam-less controller. Which means, in theory, it would have a shorter life span and questionable long term performance.That said, It install nicely, cloning took zero efforts and Windows 10 boots really quickly. This is on my daily laptop.So if you have an older laptop with a mechanical drive & your laptop supports mSata, go for it. It is an inexpensive way to get a few more years out of your laptop.

Surprisingly good product, I bought it to give a second life to my old laptop that had an innocuped msata slot. Because of the price, I was not excepting it to perform as well as the biggest brand out there. I did not do any kind of speed test at the moment, but it feels as responsive as an SSD. At least for booting and navigating. The build quality is, let's say it, mediocre. I would not except it to be super durable and reliable, but this one is perfect for boosting the performance of an old machine.

I had an empty mSATA slot on my laptop. Plugged this unit in and dskmgmt in Windows picked it up without a hitch. Laptop got a speed bump as well as more storage. I haven't bothered with benchmarking it, as it's not meant to be a high performance computer.

Works like a charm. The computer this was going into only had a 125G which is a bit small. Used a small mSATA to SATA converter to clone the small drive to this one. Save the fuss of reinstalling windows 10.