YUCUN 2.5 inch SATA III Internal Solid State Drive 1TB SSD

I got the 240GB SATA-III version. This is a 7mm 2.5" standard SATA drive which easily replaced a spinning hard disk drive in a laptop I refurbished. It arrived in a small cardbord box with a plastic inner; as expected there was no cable nor 7->9mm spacer. The BIOS recognised it first time, it formatted, took a Windows 10 install and lots of data just fine. Per gigabyte this is amazing value. Its performance is mid-range which is good for the price. Its performance is roughly on par with a Sandisk SSD Plus, but it is not as fast as a Samsung Evo nor Crucial MX which cost twice the price. Unless you are an expert in storage performance, you will probably never notice, and it feels extremely fast - booting Windows 10 from cold to login screen in under 7 seconds for me. Highly recommended for everyday users, office workers and mid-range gamers who want a bit more space than a basic 120GB model for hardly any more money whilst still retaining good speed. The sequential speeds are actually very good for gaming and media work, it's just the random IO that is merely "above average". Highly recommended.

Half a terabyte is about the minimum I find useful for a C Drive. This product matches my size requirement, and was a good price. I cloned my existing boot disk, then swapped this over, upgrading to the latest version of Windows 10 to be on the safe side. The whole process took a couple of hours - all but about five minutes of this spent by me doing something else.Everything works much faster. And that's about all I can say. Then again, that's about all I really wanted. A few weeks ago, the system that I put together in 2009 failed - a burned-out motherboard. So I spent a few pounds on E-Bay for an Intel DQ67OW, plus i3 CPU. This is old stuff, but much newer than the second-hand stuff I put together a decade ago. The new system was faster than the old, and ran Windows 10 without any of the annoying problems I was having with the old system. I then noticed that the boot disk dated from 2007, and decided that an SSD would make all the difference for speed, and might be less inclined to burn out.And it does make all the difference. For Office 2016, lots of web browsing, and a bit of audio and video cooking, I don't need more than I have, and probably wouldn't notice much difference.Of course, if the disk burns out in the near future, I will come back with a whiny revision to this review. Until then, I will say that the product seems to be excellent value for money. I hope it is. I rather believe it is.

I guess time will tell with this, but at the moment it works perfectly fine.Cheapest new 120gb SSD I could find. Wanted it for a dual booted 2nd Windows OS.Due to the cloud storage and my games being on steam and Uplay my OS drives aren’t that critical anymore as I can have a new one installed and set up in less than an hour. So I’m happy to take the “risk” on an unknown brand.Tested in crystal mark and it goes head to head with my Sandisk Plus 240gb which is a mainstream SSD. See the image. The Yucun benchmark is on the left and the Sandisk on the right.For those who haven’t installed an SSD before, the installation is straight forward. For a desktop, just take out the old drive (2 cables - 1 data, 1 power) whether SSD or HDD and just pop the new one in using the same cables.If you are adding this in as an additional drive you may need to buy a new SATA data cable. Which should only cost a couple of pounds. The two cables will only fit one way round. Also check you have a spare power connector (flat black connector). If you only have a spare white/black moles (with 4 circular holes), you can get a small adapter to convert to SATA power.For a laptop, you usually unscrew a small back cover and then lift up a small “caddy” and take the existing drive out of that and replace, and drop back in. It not very usual for a laptop to enable a 2nd drive to be installed.You can migrate your old OS to the new dive with various free software such as Minitool Partition Wizard Free.120gb is the minimum I would recommend as an only Hard drive. Enough for the OS and basic data. If you are a gamer or have a lot of media content, I’d go higher. With current prices I would start at 500gb as a single dive, but this is still limiting for gaming with many AAA games now exceeding 30-40gb and some over 100gb.