acer RE100 2.5 Inch SATA III SSD 256 GB Internal Solid State Hard Drive with SLC Cache, Read Speeds Up to 560MB/s - BL.9BWWA.107

I have been repairing computers for close to fifteen years, and nothing makes more of a performance difference than replacing an old, worn out spinning hard drive with a nice, modern SSD. For years, SSD upgrades have been an easy moneymaker for me - and it's easy. With that being said, the window of opportunity for upgrading machines with SATA drives is getting closer to the end every day. Machines that are over 5 years old may have came with hard drives, but an overwhelming majority of them also have an NVMe slot, which is a much faster and more modern storage technology that is in almost all cases preferred to SATA. For this reason, the importance of having a SATA based solid state drive that meets a few criteria is paramount. What I look for in a SATA SSD: 1. What brand is the drive? Can I offer this to my customers and get name recognition from what's on the box? The answer here is YES, most people know Acer as a computer brand. Reading other reviews, it looks as if Acer or at least the seller is receptive to resolving issues, so this is pretty much covered. 2. Does the drive look, feel, and perform well enough to be considered a quality product? Again, YES, the drive comes packaged in a professional looking box. The SSD itself is housed in a metal enclosure, and a set of mounting screws is included. Performance numbers in other reviews tell me what I already know - it's going to smoke a hard drive, and get reasonably close to the maximum speeds allowed by SATA connectivity. 3. Do I have enough headroom with this product to make a reasonable amount of markup without completely hosing the customer? YES, it does. The 240GB model, which will work for the overwhelming majority of people out there looking to get a few more years out of a ten year old computer, is just under $18 at the time of writing. Hardcore performance numbers when compared to flagship SATA drives from Samsung and Crucial don't matter to me, because the thin performance gains they provide are not going to be realized in the computer that this drive is going in. People who are interested in "freshening up" an older computer are ALWAYS value oriented. Overall, this drive is a "strong recommend" from me for those that can use it, and I'll report back if there are any issues over time.

plug in play Revived an outdated HP laptop Upgraded the memory which is another review I left What a difference Well worth the money And I'm glad I did it before the upswing in memory prices And hard drives

Initially rated this drive of 2 stars. I contacted Acer storage support, returned the drive and was sent a replacement. The new drive works great. I have moved Gigabytes of files to it and it is quick. The drive temperature stays in the 30C range. So thanks to Acer support for getting this taken care of doing it quickly. For some reason this drive runs hotter than the other drives in the system. I have a Crucial SSD that runs at 31 - 35C. Have two Western Digital Me.2's and they are all fast and run cool. This drive runs in the 50+C temperature range. In addition it stops writing and is slow when it does write. I have returned this drive and am waiting on the replacement now. I have used Acer products in the past without a problem, but this has been a headache from the beginning.

Popped this into an older laptop and you can really feel the difference in loading times and app launches. Just like any drive it is important to have backups. I will be purchasing some larger ones for my other devices.

Update 10-6-22: I received the SSD replacement today ending my saga. It seems to be working fine. If I can survive a year with the remaining hard drives without them too dying then I will bump my review way up. Support is not bad, just make sure you keep in touch and don't expect it to be solved without your input. Update 10-5-22: I received a call from support today, and a confirmation email, that the replacement drive has been shipped. Update 10-4-22: About a month later and I have yet to hear anything back, I reached out to support again and they were able to locate my return request but did not seem to know what to do with it, seemed to imply that the address I shipped it to was my address even though it was theirs. Nice people on support, however does not help when the service itself is below average. Will update with more as it goes along. Update 9-11-22: About a week later and I have yet to hear anything back about a replacement. The live chat went through and the item was shipped out a day or so later. Will update as more progress is made on the replacement as especially with electronics the warranty is as important as the product. Update 8-30-22: I am currently in contact with Acer support in an attempt to get the replacement via their warranty. I will update this further on the process. I can give a drive or two failing a pass, especially if the replacements are fine, if the warranty is good. So far contacting via Email is an impossible task so best recommended to do live chat when they are open. OG Review: I purchased two of these in February 2022. One was the 240 GB model and the other one was the 480 GB model. Both of them worked well out of the box. They are fast, as expected, and were basically the space that was advertised. I was very pleased for a while. The 480 GB was used exclusively for music sample packs. The only time any data was written to the drive was when I initially got it and put the samples onto the drive. For the next 6 months it was exclusively being read and not written to. The 240 GB one was used for video games. Sometime in early August, about 6ish months later, the 480 GB drive died. When it died, it was almost unnoticeable until I no longer could access the drive. It seemed to die piece by piece with more and more files being unrecognized before finally Windows couldn't access the drive. While the 240 GB one is still going strong, I can not say I recommend to get an Acer branded SSD. Regardless if I have a 50% success rate, having a drive die is critical, especially if I used it for anything other then some music samples. Avoid this. There are plenty of others around this price point which are more reliable.

I put it in my PS4 Pro, and it has definitely sped things up. Also seems to be lowering the temperature as the super fan hasn't come on since the change.

Purchased this to upgrade a slow laptop. Definitely made a huge improvement over the old "spiny" disk. Install was simple and it continues to perform as expected. Would recommend.

I hope that the 2.5 sata format size drive type doesn't go away for a while. It's so simple-- if you have SATA it'll probably work. Yes of course this drive is fast enough. Sure nvme storage is faster much of the time but who really cares at this point? I didn't truly even need this drive I just wanted something I could run programs from other than the primary c drive. So far this drive has given me no issues.

安いのでどうかなと？思ってましたが今のところ問題なく動作しています。 速度もそこそこです。あとは耐久性が如何にといったところでしょうか。

I'm satisfied with it's performance. The package is brand new and sealed. Installed this SSD in my old Acer Aspire 4739z laptop. The Read/Write Speeds are less than the mentioned ones because it depends upon the type of SATA port in your laptop/PC and processor capability. Now the Laptop boots within 20 sec. Definitely recommended.

Best item from best seller - it just as described

特別に転送速度が速いわけではありませんが、値段も安価のため取り回しがしやすいです。 Crucial製のものを一年使っていましたが、書き込み時停止するなどを起こしてしまい、代理店側で返金対応となりました。 こちらは2年使っていますが問題ありません。

ちゃんと認識して、普通に使えました。