GIGABYTE 256GB 2.5-Inch SATA III 6Gbps Internal SSD

The GIGABYTE 256GB internal SSD is a 2.5-inch SATA drive — the standard upgrade path for a laptop or desktop still running a mechanical hard disk, and a straight physical swap into the same bay and the same cable. It connects over SATA III at 6.0Gb/s and uses 3D NAND flash, reaching sequential reads up to 520MB/s and writes up to 500MB/s, which is the practical ceiling of the SATA interface and several times what a spinning disk manages. The drive measures the standard 69.85 x 100 x 7mm, is rated at an MTBF of 2,000,000 hours with shock resistance up to 1500G/0.5ms, and operates from 0-70°C. It carries a three-year manufacturer warranty. The difference shows in the things you do every day: a machine that boots in seconds, applications that open without a pause, and file copies that finish while you are still watching them. With no moving parts inside, it also handles the knocks and vibration of a laptop carried around the city far better than a hard disk does. Fit it as the system drive in an older laptop to buy several more years of useful life, or add it to a desktop as fast working storage beside a larger disk.