I bought this for a OS drive for my Acer V5 laptop. My V5 had a 500gb hard disk drive and I purchased the MyDigitalSSD mSATA to be my primary drive utilizing the open mini PCIe slot and use the existing hard drive as a storage drive.
I can't believe how it increased my boot time and just made the laptop so much faster. I'm not a power user; just a regular internet surfing, photo, video and Office suite type of user. I use my laptop as a main in-home roaming laptop and it is used dozens of times a day. For install, it comes packaged in some bubble wrap and a plain box. NO mounting screws - for some a big deal. For me I have a dozen screws from various laptop projects and still had to rob and scrounge to find one that worked. So for the 25 cents to include one or two screws I think the company is just being too miserly for a home user.
The drive won't be recognized by windows until initialize the drive - use GPT. Then I used EaseUS ToDo to clone the HDD to the mSATA checking optimize for SSD. Worked perfect. Deleted the partitions on the HDD, reformatted and now I'm using the HDD as a second drive for file storage. Zero glitches which is exactly what I want to experience.
Boot time is really fast. Wake from sleep is amazing. Normal use is snappy in windows 8 - if there is such a thing, compared to the lag time of the HDD. So I am really pleased. I works well, seems well built, is an excellent price.
I highly recommend this for a value user like myself. I do not have long term experience with it, so I'll update over long term use.
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It was working fine until last month
I purchased this about a year ago for use with my NUC Intel D54250WYKH. It was working fine until last month, My NUC couldn't recognize the SSD drive. I figured, it may have been just my NUC so I updated my BIOS and still can't recognize the SSD. I like troubleshooting things before concluding its is a defective hardware so I brought it to work since I have 3 more NUCs at work and installed my SSD drive to the other NUCs, - none of the NUCs recognized the SSD. I installed the SSD from the other NUC on my own NUC and it was able to recognize the drive w/ no issues.FYI, I still didn't give up on this SSD and hoped that getting an SSD card reader, I can at least get all my files from this device. I purchased SSD card reader, plugged in this SSD and SADLY, the USB reader did NOT recognize the SSD. I am sad to say that I may have had a defective SSD drove or its disappointing that I've only had it for about a year and it died on me :(I don't like giving bad reviews as I'm techie and do love fixing and troubleshooting things but this has been a disappointment for me.I will be purchasing either a Samsung or Crucial brand and if I were you, I'd rather spend the extra dollars and get something that would last long.Goodluck and I hope this has been helpful :)Update 11/21/2017My 2nd NUC has been giving me bootup issues, I had reformatted the drive and after a few times of use, it gives me "no boot device error". Seems like the NUC is having issues recognizing my MyDigitalSSD 128GB mSATA SSD drive. I have reseated the card & still the same issues. Figured since I have my other NUC, it's worth a try to switch the SSD w/ the problematic NUC. When I installed the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB mSATA — this is the one I bought as replacement when my first mydigitalSSD drive went bad. there are NO bootup issues. I installed the MyDigital SSD 128GB SSD onto the working NUC & same issue as the other NUC getting no boot device error. So based on my troubleshooting, I was able to isolate that the problem was NOT my NUC but the MyDigitalSSD. Quite disappointing since this is the 2ND MyDigitalSSD that gave me problems. I bought 2 of these SSDs - for 2 NUCs. I replaced the MyDigitalSSD with Samsung now this 2nd one went bad too. To conclude, I woud NOT recommend on getting the MyDigitalSSD brand as your SSD drive. Sure, it is cheaper than Samsung BUT you will only end up spending more if u stick w/ this brand. To MyDigitalSSD, hopefully at this time, the quality of your product has improved. I'm just lucky enough that there aren't any important files on this drive as I only use it as my HTPC. I couldn't care less about brand names but this time, I was wrong to go on a cheaper route for SSD drives. So everyone, be SURE to read reviews and be willing to spend a lil bit more on hard drives esp if u don't have backups of your files. I’ve had the Samsung for almost 2 yrs now and still running with no problems. If I can give this brand a negative 👎🏿 star I would. I have two of this brand and both didn’t last long , perhaps this brand may have compatibility or driver issues with the intel NUC, perhaps it worked for others but if I were u, based on my experience, trust me — don’t take the risk!
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I purchased this about a year ago for use with my NUC Intel D54250WYKH. It was working fine until last month, My NUC couldn't recognize the SSD drive. I figured, it may have been just my NUC so I updated my BIOS and still can't recognize the SSD. I like troubleshooting things before concluding its is a defective hardware so I brought it to work since I have 3 more NUCs at work and installed my SSD drive to the other NUCs, - none of the NUCs recognized the SSD. I installed the SSD from the other NUC on my own NUC and it was able to recognize the drive w/ no issues.
FYI, I still didn't give up on this SSD and hoped that getting an SSD card reader, I can at least get all my files from this device. I purchased SSD card reader, plugged in this SSD and SADLY, the USB reader did NOT recognize the SSD. I am sad to say that I may have had a defective SSD drove or its disappointing that I've only had it for about a year and it died on me :(
I don't like giving bad reviews as I'm techie and do love fixing and troubleshooting things but this has been a disappointment for me.
I will be purchasing either a Samsung or Crucial brand and if I were you, I'd rather spend the extra dollars and get something that would last long.
Goodluck and I hope this has been helpful :)
Update 11/21/2017
My 2nd NUC has been giving me bootup issues, I had reformatted the drive and after a few times of use, it gives me "no boot device error". Seems like the NUC is having issues recognizing my MyDigitalSSD 128GB mSATA SSD drive. I have reseated the card & still the same issues. Figured since I have my other NUC, it's worth a try to switch the SSD w/ the problematic NUC. When I installed the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB mSATA — this is the one I bought as replacement when my first mydigitalSSD drive went bad. there are NO bootup issues. I installed the MyDigital SSD 128GB SSD onto the working NUC & same issue as the other NUC getting no boot device error. So based on my troubleshooting, I was able to isolate that the problem was NOT my NUC but the MyDigitalSSD. Quite disappointing since this is the 2ND MyDigitalSSD that gave me problems. I bought 2 of these SSDs - for 2 NUCs. I replaced the MyDigitalSSD with Samsung now this 2nd one went bad too. To conclude, I woud NOT recommend on getting the MyDigitalSSD brand as your SSD drive. Sure, it is cheaper than Samsung BUT you will only end up spending more if u stick w/ this brand. To MyDigitalSSD, hopefully at this time, the quality of your product has improved. I'm just lucky enough that there aren't any important files on this drive as I only use it as my HTPC. I couldn't care less about brand names but this time, I was wrong to go on a cheaper route for SSD drives. So everyone, be SURE to read reviews and be willing to spend a lil bit more on hard drives esp if u don't have backups of your files. I’ve had the Samsung for almost 2 yrs now and still running with no problems. If I can give this brand a negative 👎🏿 star I would. I have two of this brand and both didn’t last long , perhaps this brand may have compatibility or driver issues with the intel NUC, perhaps it worked for others but if I were u, based on my experience, trust me — don’t take the risk!
FYI, I still didn't give up on this SSD and hoped that getting an SSD card reader, I can at least get all my files from this device. I purchased SSD card reader, plugged in this SSD and SADLY, the USB reader did NOT recognize the SSD. I am sad to say that I may have had a defective SSD drove or its disappointing that I've only had it for about a year and it died on me :(
I don't like giving bad reviews as I'm techie and do love fixing and troubleshooting things but this has been a disappointment for me.
I will be purchasing either a Samsung or Crucial brand and if I were you, I'd rather spend the extra dollars and get something that would last long.
Goodluck and I hope this has been helpful :)
Update 11/21/2017
My 2nd NUC has been giving me bootup issues, I had reformatted the drive and after a few times of use, it gives me "no boot device error". Seems like the NUC is having issues recognizing my MyDigitalSSD 128GB mSATA SSD drive. I have reseated the card & still the same issues. Figured since I have my other NUC, it's worth a try to switch the SSD w/ the problematic NUC. When I installed the Samsung 850 EVO 250GB mSATA — this is the one I bought as replacement when my first mydigitalSSD drive went bad. there are NO bootup issues. I installed the MyDigital SSD 128GB SSD onto the working NUC & same issue as the other NUC getting no boot device error. So based on my troubleshooting, I was able to isolate that the problem was NOT my NUC but the MyDigitalSSD. Quite disappointing since this is the 2ND MyDigitalSSD that gave me problems. I bought 2 of these SSDs - for 2 NUCs. I replaced the MyDigitalSSD with Samsung now this 2nd one went bad too. To conclude, I woud NOT recommend on getting the MyDigitalSSD brand as your SSD drive. Sure, it is cheaper than Samsung BUT you will only end up spending more if u stick w/ this brand. To MyDigitalSSD, hopefully at this time, the quality of your product has improved. I'm just lucky enough that there aren't any important files on this drive as I only use it as my HTPC. I couldn't care less about brand names but this time, I was wrong to go on a cheaper route for SSD drives. So everyone, be SURE to read reviews and be willing to spend a lil bit more on hard drives esp if u don't have backups of your files. I’ve had the Samsung for almost 2 yrs now and still running with no problems. If I can give this brand a negative 👎🏿 star I would. I have two of this brand and both didn’t last long , perhaps this brand may have compatibility or driver issues with the intel NUC, perhaps it worked for others but if I were u, based on my experience, trust me — don’t take the risk!
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