KingDian 2.5 Inch SATA3 240GB SSD Internal Solid State Drive for Laptop Desktop PC (S280 240GB)

I had one of these drives for 11 months before it died on me. The description says that there is a three year limited warranty, but there is no information on Amazon.com or the King Dian website on how to actually file a claim. After a few emails to the general information inbox for the company and no response, I'm left holding a dead drive with a supposed warranty, but no way to actually resolve my problem.Hopefully they will get back to me after reading this with a more specific process for RMA, but until that happens I have to stick with a one-star review.

I bought 3 of these low-grade drives back in 2017, and the last one just died!The 128-GB versions were installed into a Dell Desktop and a Gigabyte System,the third one that just died was installed into a Dell Lattitude D620 Laptop.2 Years and a 100% failure rate. No Way would I ever trust these SSD's nor wouldI recommend them to anyone. Seriously - - - - - - - - - - - SSD's have dropped to the pointwhere you can buy a name brand drive like ADATA, Crucial, Kingston, SanDisk etc. for 5 bucksmore and you will get something that is many times more reliable, and will last. You Have Been Warned.

The item was not as advertised, as you can see in my attached image the speeds of the drive. **01/27/2019, the drive has started to fail, randomly freezing up, this has windows 10 pro installed, and Luckily, I only have basic files and programs installed, I think the drives are B to C in regards to quality, they must have got their hands on brand name rejects. Not recommend, unless you just want to use it as a limited time flash drive...*******08/21/2020, The drive has failed, luckily it was only being used for game storage. So buy at your own risk, based on the inconsistent reviews it may be 50/50 on what you get.

I bought this economy SSD so that I would have a spare SSD. My roommate was finding her laptop (used only for travel) a little old and arthritic, even though we had maxed out the memory, so, I used this drive to replace a WD 2.5" 5400 rpm in her computer. Suddenly her laptop is no longer a travel only make do, but, with the SSD it is now the easy near equal of her desktop tower.I used an Acronis USB to SATA adapter I had, and EasyGig IV that I have had for several years. In about 40 minutes the WD had been cloned onto the KingDian and about 15 minutes later a fully functional, much smoother operating laptop was ready to go. The cloning went without a hitch, the OS (Win7, 64 bit) has been operating flawlessly for about a week now. I am encouraged by a smart drive utility that tells me the disk is functioning smoothly, and is estimated to continue so until about 2024 (assuming certain drive parameters.)I am very pleased with this drive, and intend to keep one or two of these around for grins and giggles. I will update should anything averse happen, but assuming nothing further, my December of 2015 review will stand.

Honestly, I bought this on a whim because it was listed on the Buildapc sales subreddit. I was hoping to get the 480gb as it was 20$, but couldn't since it was out of stock within minutes. I ended up getting the 1tb for 80$ since it was also posted on the subreddit. Seeing that this is a Chinese SSD, what the hell right?Aside from the outlandish packaging, it works as intended. I immediately uninstalled my largest games on my Samsung 850 Evo SSD and installed them onto this drive just to see how well it works and so far so good. I mean it's just a drive but I guess we'll see how long it'll last. No complaints though.Well one. When I was installing into my case, I was plugging in the SATA power and the other cable, for some odd reason my other cables pinch thing broke and lodge itself into the drive. I mean it was easy to pull out just unsure if it was the cable that came with my motherboard or if this drive just ate the damn thing.Whatever. So far so good. I'll update this review if anything arises within the next 6 months. But for now, I can't complain. 80$ for a 1TB drive with NAND Flash. Sold! (For now)

Still works great after 7 months. Used it for Windows and Linux installs with NTFS, ext4 and btrfs filesystems. Seems faster than a Mushkin Source II, WD Blue or Green SSD. Initially, I had a problem where it was recognized by the BIOS, but not the Windows installer. I had to use Linux and GParted to create a disk partition before Windows could install. This is a common problem with other brands of SSDs as well. I took away 1 star for that, but it's not unique to the KingDian brand or S280 model. My only other minor complaint is the cheap looking 2.5 inch black/white plastic case. But nobody can see the funky case inside my old Dell 3340 laptop anyway. For a budget $30 240gb SSD it works just fine. I'm currently running Linux Mint. For Windows, I'd probably opt for the 480gb version instead.

I am an IT Director and i have been using these now to convert the slow mechanical HDD's to SSD's in all the laptops/desktops that get deployed in my office. We use profile redirection and cloud storage in my company so we don't need a great deal of local storage on each computer but we need SPEED. These drives have been holding up quite nicely and are orders of magnitude faster than the old spinning hard drives of the past. Great deal and I will be buying more. I will update this review after a year of testing.

So far so good I will come back and update this review if any of them fail. I purchased 7 of the 120GB drives for work. Every 48 hours we power them down and put them in another unit and run testing software to test the computer. So pretty much they take a pounding and live a rough life so if and when one of them fails I will update this review.

Avevo un "vecchio" portatile che, a causa del suo hard disk aveva delle prestazioni praticamente imbarazzanti. Questo SSD ha permesso di renderlo nuovamente scattante, rapido e veloce. La differenza di reattività tra un Hard disk e un SSD non ha paragoni. In particolare questo è molto economico e allo stesso tempo molto rapido. L'unico limite, dato dalla necessità di spendere il meno possibile, è la capacità. Ha solamente 110 gb effettivi e quindi non è possibile istallare un numero enorme di programmi e archiviare moltissimi file pesanti. Consiglio infatti di tenere sempre almeno un 20% dello spazio libero. Tuttavia l'hard disk che ora non è più utilizzato si può utilizzare come hard disk esterno per l'archiviazione dei file.Sono veramente contento di questo SSD, nonostante il prezzo molto contenuto si è rivelato una manna dal cielo per far rinascere un vecchio portatile, che nonostante avesse un hardware di tutto rispetto, aveva un tradizionale Hard disk che ne distruggeva le prestazioni. Consiglio a chiunque utilizzi un computer con un Hard disk tradizionale di passare a un SSD, provate e non ve ne pentirete. Se volete inoltre spendere pochi soldi vi consiglio questo.

l'ssd arriva non formattato:1- bisogna andare nel gestore delle partizioni di windows2- bisogna scegliere tra le opzioni GPT o MBR (per chi non se ne intende più di tanto potrebbe risultare una scelta a random)3- bisogna creare il nuovo volume e formattarlosarebbe stato più semplice che arrivasse pre-formattato no?comunque le prestazioni sono buone, quasi alla pari di un kingston A400 tanto per fare un esempio poichè avendone testato uno ne conosco le velocità.vedremo la sua durabilità nel tempo, poichè non è possibile valutarlo seriamente solo dopo poche ore dall'uso, quindi mi riservo di aggiornare in futuro la recensione.

Ottima qualità costruttiva, che è sinonimo di grande affidabilità, senza bisogno di spendere tanto-EDIT-Dopo pochi mesi l'unità C è diventata di "sola lettura", tipico problema che si ritrova nelle chiavette USB difettate, mentre la partizione nascosta con il bootloader di Windows è diventata inaccessibile...davvero inaccettabile, anche perché questo è già il secondo disco che mi dà problemi...mai più KingDian, in questo settore, meglio andare su produttori con esperienza consolidata...

Premetto che l'ho installato su un portatile Dell con 10 anni di vita che purtroppo si ferma a connessioni Sata2, quindi non ho potuto sfruttare completamente la velocità del SSD. Comunque con una versione leggera di sistema operativo (win10 Lite) il notebook si avvia in pochissimi secondi ed è molto più reattivo nell'utilizzo delle applicazioni.Non ha dato nessun problema ne durante l'installazione ne durante l'utilizzo quotidiano.Per il prezzo che ho pagato il PC è rinato!!Ho dovuto aggiornare il BIOS.

Inizialmente ero scettico per il basso costo ma appena installato mi ha fatto ricredere. Ho installato lubuntu su questo SSD in un notebook del 2005 in poco più di 5 minuti orologio alla mano. Avvio in meno di 30 secondi e notebook molto molto più reattivo di prima. Per la durata nel tempo non so rispondere ma al momento posso consigliare questo prodotto