A must to speed up your laggard computer
344638
I loved my first one so much I've since bought three more for other computers. This drive will breathe new life into your computer when you want to speed it up. I am still happy with the performance of my laptop purchased in 2009. Boot up times went from over a minute to about 20 seconds. I've since replaced the drives for two office computers and my mother in law's computer. Easy transfer of data too.
2291066
My computer is new again!  Installed this very quickly and have enjoyed this ever since.  This is a must buy if you want to improve performance and speed.
3346988
This works great.  I would recommend if you do not want to keep a computer running full time.  Buy it.
1278045
I have an old HP Envy M6, and I don't want to spend money buying a new laptop. It's still working fine but lags so much when opening certain programs. Especially, when Amazon Cloud Drive is uploading, I cannot do anything else. I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB already, still it doesn't help much. Greeksquad people advised me to have the PC refreshed and so leave it at Best Buy for a week or so. Not a good option.

I was debating between SSD and the cheaper Hybrid SSHD. My Hard Drive size is 750 GB. I came across this product, but I bought from Best Buy because I needed it asap. This is perfect for the size and the speed. With a price difference between SSD and SSHD less than $100, I decided to go with SSD.

I made the right choice. It was perfect. Replacing it is as easy as breeze. Just remember that you don't need the four screws to attach it to the laptop unlike the old HDD. As soon as it booted, I scanned my fingerprint, amazing! It took me to the main page less than 2 seconds. While Amazon Cloud Drive is uploading my videos in hundreds of GBs, I can use all other software just fine.

This is the biggest difference for me: using Logos Bible Software where I have thousands of books open when I click on the icon. With my old HDD, it could take 5 minutes for the thousands of books to be ready for use. When it was indexing other books, I couldn't do anything else. With the new SSD, loading thousands of books took less than 10 seconds. It makes a huge difference. The extra $100 more than SSHD is worth it.

You can do multitasking without any noticeable lagging. SSD pushes your productivity ahead. It makes a big difference in finishing your project or assignment. It really does.
1752598
Replaced hard drive in MacBook pro.  used the cloning utility and was up and running in 4 hours (had to copy 280 gigs of data) and has been preforming flawlessly.  Great way to speed up your machine
2096412
Easy to install and made our computer run at much faster speeds. Muiti-tasking now with no issues.
768105
After several OSX upgrades on my G4 and never having run this software, even though I wasn't experiencing a disk crash or any problems, I decided to give it a try anyway. (I had purchased this to have on hand as cheap insurance in case of later problems).

After running it, I was surprised at how much faster my computer seemed to run. The fact that it optimizes the directories rather than just patch them probably has something to do with it. At any rate, everything seems quicker now and given that, I believe this product is worth the money. Not only can it fix a corrupt disk, but it can tune your disk so that it operates more efficiently even if you aren't experiencing problems yet.
1776419
Before buying this product my dell dimension 2400 was running extremely slow. Now that I have the product my computer is running a lot faster. It doesn't cost a lot and it is very easy to install. This is what I would recommend to anyone who has the same problem that I had.
4210590
My computer could barely support the speed of vista with the 1GB it came with. I had to go to windows classic display mode to get minor speed improvements and I still lagged. With the upgrade, you can instantly tell that there is an improvement. Very happy with the $25 I paid for it and the performance it gives.
2026006
Love the speed and ease of setup. I recommend this one to all my associates who are looking for more speed in their pc's.
3502331
Took 10 minutes to install and the computer runs faster now. I should have spent more money on the laptop when I bought it
160521
I'm not a tech expert, but I found installation to be simple and the functional improvement on my old machine to exceptional.  In fact, even though my computer was just a little over a year old, the jump in performance from a standard hard drive to a solid state drive was remarkable.  Start up and shut down are much faster and performance in every application has increased.  For the price, I think this is an excellent upgrade.
3299438
I had trusted one of the major company's antivirus software, but it caused me a lot of conflicts between softwares, it took me like 2 minutes to turn off, and even longer to turn on. When I scanned the system for viruses I couldn't do anything else. And when I wanted to watch movies there was a lot of skipping.

Now my computer is performing much better with this antivirus and firewall. Now I can surf the net while scanning my system. I upgraded the software and a whole system scan took only 35 minutes. That was pretty impressive, because usually it took me over an hour, no matter the program, with the difference I could do other things with EZ.

Best thing is I got a 1 year license through microsoft and it hasn't expired, but when the time comes I'm pretty sure I will renew it.

You can also configure it to scan files sent through IM programs. It scans emails, with out slowing down the upload or download.

This is the cheapest program, but it really delivers. My sister in England got it too and is pretty satisfied.
3980014
This is an excellent piece of software, and I recommend it for everyone. This tool is as valuable to me as Lavasoft's Ad-Aware.

I'm a computer professional and as soon as most people find out, their first response is, "Oh my god you need to look at my computer it's SO SLOW. You need to look at it." My typical regiment is:

1) Download, Install, and Run Lavasoft's Ad-Aware

2) Scan for viruses using McAfee's free online scan (Always up-to-date, despite what may be installed)

3) Run through the registry's run and startup folder to stop unnecessary programs from starting on load

4) Download, Install, Schedule, and Run Diskeeper.

People are amazed at how much faster thier computer runs. In fact, after a fresh install I also run Diskeeper just to squeeze every drop of performance out of the PC as possible.

Two important things to note:

 - Why is defragmenting important?

 - Why not use the built-in defragmenter?

Answers:

 Let's say you're writing a document in MS Word. You save the document and close it. Then you begin to write another word document. When you save the second document to disk, windows will likely put the new file immediately after the old file. Well, what happens when you add new stuff to the first file if the second file took up the space the first file had left immediately after it? Well it saves the new changes in the space AFTER the second file, hence creating a fragmented file.

  A fragmented file is a file the is not contiguous, and has segments in different physical locations on the hard disk. Picture a fragmented file as a file with other files inside of it, breaking it apart.

If you research hard disk statistics, you'll see 2 common factors in rating hard disk performance: Seek time and transfer speed. Transfer speed is the MAXIMUM speed in which your hard disk can transfer the information over a wire from the disk itself to the computer, after the data is located. Seek time is the average amount of time it takes for the hard drive to locate the file on the disk, when it's not already reading it.

  Picture a record player. You place the needle on the song you want to play. As long as you leave the needle in place, the music will play. If you want to change the song, however, you need to life the needle and place it at the location of the new song. When you replace the needle, the music continues. Hard drives are very similar.

  If the hard drive is reading a file, it is transferring that file over the wire as quickly as it can read it. If that file is fragmented, however, it needs to "Seek" the location where the file continues. A lot of people will know this as a "Clicking" sound the hard drive makes.

If the computer is trying to read multiple files at once (as most computers do, ESPECIALLY when booting up), and those files are fragmented, the drive is doing a LOT of seeking and less actual data transfer. This is often referred to as "Thrashing" by IT guys, or "Grinding" by others. You'll notice this if your hard drive is doing a lot of work, but your computer is acting very sluggish, making what would be a fast computer very slow. This is because your hard drive is spending more time looking for the data (Seeking) then actually reading the data (transferring), and sending it to your computer.

The hard drive is usually the performance bottleneck for most personal computers. Diskeeper greatly increases your performance by allowing your hard drive to read the files as quickly as possible, making the slowest part of your computer much faster.

Lastly, the built-in defragmenter is slow and "Clunky." It takes a great deal of time to defragment, and doesn't optimize the drive as well to prevent further defragmentation. Moreover, you have to trigger the deframenting manually, and then you can't use your computer for hours. No one ever really does that...

BOTTOM LINE:

Want your computer to run like new every day?

Install Ad-Aware

Install an Anti-Virus

Install Diskeeper

Run your computer like a PRO.
4952365
I have an old Dell Optiplex GX620 that is about 10 years old and should be retired, it is or should I say was slow by comparison, so first I made the mistake of upgrading ram well that did almost nothing and I lived with it being slow for a couple more years you see I just play a couple basic games, rip music from CD and get MP3's form the net, and well use the internet just basic computing needs. I also am budget minded and just don't feel like spending 500 bucks on a new unit, so I gave this 120gb SSD a whirl for 40 bucks I figured why not, and let me tell you after installing it (I used dual lock inside the case), making some setting changes (after cloning the drive), and making sure partitions were aligned this old girl has her dancing shoes on again. It boots in about 1 minute (tops) (probably less) and is 100% ready to run applications open faster and the computer just works about like a new one does. My company Lenovo that's only 9 months old isn't much faster. So far I have not had any issues with this drive, and would recommend it for anyone wanting to speed up an old machine instead of getting a new one. I have other PNY products and they seem well made. Its not as hard of an upgrade as you think and the software it comes with is easy to use:)! If your desktop or lap top is old and well slow this will help.
4532189
It took a few hours until I saw any real improvement in the speed and function of my computer. The biggest improvement came a few days after install. This program works it's magic every few minutes the way I set it up. It doesn't seem to tax the processor on this old Dell 2320. I think its very easy to use so far and I have only had good results. I like it.
3927810
Ordered these due to lagging processor speeds and memory not providing the added boost I needed.  This was the best upgrade that I could have done to my Mac Pro 2.6  2006 model.  It is really a major speed boost for the money.