Kingston KC600 SSD 256GB SATA3 mSATA - SKC600MS/256G

My laptop was really slow and taking ages to boot up. I was thinking of getting a new one or taking it into the service centre for an upgrade but after a bit of research online and watching some very helpful videos on YouTube I concluded I could do it myself. This one on Amazon was a better price than going direct to Kingston for exactly the same thing with the added advantage of prime delivery. Instructions are clear and easy to follow but the procedure for downloading and activating the cloning software is a bit convoluted. Provided you have confidence enough to take the back cover off your laptop you will be able to do this. Everything worked as advertised and my laptop is now much faster and more responsive.

I've been using an nice, but old, desktop machine for a while whilst "putting up with" its relatively poor performance. The source of the poor performance was the fact that it's internal SSD was only 30GBytes (yes, it's that old), and so the OS and all data were stored on a slow, low power spinning hard disk instead. The solution was simply to pick up a "trailing edge" modern SSD and reinstall everything. What a difference, literally at least a 5 times performance increase effectively making the machine feel like new again. Will this do the same for you? Only you can tell. The SSD is excellent value for money, while being big enough and fast enough to move any performance bottle neck away from "old storage" into a different, but faster, area of the machine. For me this was a super upgrade which will give this machine years more life.

Came quickly, easy to set up and works great. Very happy with my SSD

What an improvement. I was sceptical about purchasing and installing this SSD. However, I went ahead and how pleased I was with my decision. Physically the installation with the Kit was so easy plus the included case allows me to use the replaced HDD as an external drive. However, I was unable to use the recommended software to clone my existing OS to the SSD. For some reason, even unknown to Kingston support, after many hours of trying I couldn't clone the OS, so I then used a free app. from the internet and that went like a breeze (hence my 4 star rating for installation). But that aside I am really pleased with the increased speed this SSD has made to my laptop making it usable for some time to come. If you have a PC with a HHD and is slow I have no hesitation in recommending this reasonably priced SSD to speed up your system.

I had problems copying my W7 O/S. I bought this SSD, an IDE adapter case (to fit into my old Acer Aspire) and an IDE-USB adapter cable. The O/S wouldn't transfer because of a bit rate transfer issue, caused by the IDE-USB cable. Because my laptop is real old i had only one way to make this work: I used Macruim Reflect 8 freeware. 1. Create a Macrium Rescue USB or CD. 2. Run Macrium and create an Image of your O/S or partition you want to copy, and copy onto a 3rd drive. 3. Then swap the SSD for the old IDE or whatever HDD. 4. Boot your PC from the Macrium Rescue USB/CD you created. Connect the 3rd drive. 5. Show Macrium where the Image is on the 3rd drive, then tick the SSD drive you want to copy it to. If you get stuck, this should work for you. Review: 1. I couldn't find a Kingston IDE adapter case!!? They sell the SSDs, they sell SATA SSDs but no IDE adapter cases? I had to buy one from 3rd party! 2. This SSD on it's own, without case, is twice the price of SATA SSD for half the memory capacity. Why? 512gb SATA is £25 atm. 3. Boot times gone from 150secs to 30secs.! And the old HHD only had 1.5gig of space left which isn't a problem anymore. The whole PC is running much faster. 4. The Microsoft windows experience score for my IDE HDD was 4.6. The SSD score is 6.4. I'm very happy with this SSD, i always buy Kingston storage. Would recommend. Can't understand the price difference though..

Have bought three of these as the system drives for three different used PCs, and all have been fine.

This is an excellent SSD. I used it to upgrade an old ACER Aspire E1-571. Greatly improved the performance of this old machine. Take some care as to whether you need the whole kit to clone your old hard drive. Otherwise you might waste some money as I did. Since the drive I was replacing had unrecoverable boot sectors, cloning it was not practical. After backing up the old drive's files, I simply installed a new system on the new drive and copied my old backups onto the new drive. I could have thus saved money by just buying the drive. To boot, I have seen a number of postings of people having trouble with the cloning process. In hindsight, the ability of cloning your old drive onto your new drive appears to be of limited utility as long as you have good backups and know how to restore them.

The SSD has transformed my laptop from a very slow HDD one a speedy one! Really pleased. However, I am writing the review to advise others how to install the cloning software because it's simple (when you know how) but not as as advertised. First, I had to log in and set up an account via the Acronis website (username, email etc.) This is really important because the Kingston product key will not give you access to the Acronis True Image software. Next register the purchase using the Kingston product key on the Acronis website. Only then install the cloning software link provided from Kingston. Importantly, the product key needed for activation is the Acronis code which appears in the products section of your Acronis account once you've registered (it is a longer code). From then on no problems. I am really pleased with the results.