Timetec 256GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III Review: A Budget-Friendly Performance Boost

The Timetec 512GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III has been a 'godsend' for my aging desktop computer - reviving it to almost new responsiveness! A very easy upgrade and replacing the existing HDD is 'easy peazy' - unhook the cables from the existing drive & attach them to the new Timetec SSD... and you're DONE!! There is some preliminary work if you want to replace your main OS HDD, which was my case. I cloned the HDD to the SSD (less than an hour), swapped the the two drives & I was back to 'work' in about another fifteen minutes! The Timetec 512GB SSD SATA III has performed very well - highly recommend this affordable upgrade to bring your PC into the 21st Century!

I'm blown away at how great Timetec is. This is the third SSD I've bought. Two for HDD replacements on two desktops and one last year for a laptop. These are my go to for storage. Great value and performance. Highly recommended.

Got an experience with this brand for a first time. They are promise, that the total bytes writen should reach 400 TBW, before the warranty exceed for the model 512 Gb. That is much higher, than usual ratio 1:500 (if your drive has 512Gb, it usually has 256TBW). So, sounds good. And if you'll check the price, you'll find it the best (lowest) across the Amazon. I've paid 28$ for 512Gb, and i guess Timetec is the best in that for this moment An introduction about testing. Part 1. I have no idea, what's going on with those men, who thinking, that there are difference between SSDs (bootable/no bootable). Some of them believe, that there are SSDs, that aren't support boot OS option. The only one comment i have about that. I believe (facts says), the amount of brains on the planet - is the static value. The dumbases are multiply themselves, and we have to ignore it. In the case, that the population of the human is growing = means (potentially), that each new born person getting lower intelligence one by one. Go to the school, kids! Might be there, somebody will teach you about the technology and methods of the boot section creating, where and how it stored on ANY disk drive. I guess, on this moment, they've closed my review, and prefer to look at a "new clown" at the popular video hosting service at "shots" or "reels" section. if the drive isn't damaged physically, or it hasn't manufacturing defect: There could not be any problem with boot process - remember it, forever. Part 2. For you to know (gonna remind it to you), that the SSD drives has a high-speed cache-memory (usually takes 4Gb+ [usually depends on the total space amount of the drive]). That is the reason, if you're testing the drive with Crystal Disk Mark's default settings, you're actually testing nothing (you are testing a velocity of those cache memory), nothing else. Because the program is working with 1Gb filesize by default. In the same time, if you'll start to copy a large archive, or a video, with weight 50-100Gb, you can be surprised to see a speed of 10-20Mbytes/s, like you're working with an old USB2.0 flash drive. Total. This drive is fine, let's see for how long it will lasts as a system of my laptop. Basically, I've tested it on a bit old desktop (Ryzen 5-2600) that has PCI-E v3.0 only. If your PC have PCI-E v4.0, you might get even a higher score. Of cause if you'll connect the SSD directly to MB by S-ATA cable. The testing results i've got are awesome, in my opinion. I've compared them with middle grade USB flashdrive, and with a 5-year old Kingston brand SSD [256Gb, model A400]. I stopped testing at value of 64Gb file size, because it's really big size, that we can copy on daily tasks. A future testing of 128Gb will really could take a long of time and not necessary IMO. I found Timetec 512Gb SSD has much better characteristics at all, and It worth so. Hope, it will lasts for a long. Be smarter, than those "youtube grown specialists", whose testing SSDs with 1Gb filesize. Thank you, Timetec, for an ability to buy a high-class technologies for a fair price. I wish to everyone of you all the best.

I have a Mac mini that I use as a media server from 2011. As with all older ones, it runs unbelievably slow, even without upgrading it to the latest operating system. I think it’s still on Mavericks. I read somewhere that the main thing limiting it is the hard drive. And then if you switched it to SSD, you would run much better. So I’ve decided to give it a try, and got this, and cloned the old hard drive to it. Once I swapped it out, it was like night and day. It’s literally like a brand new computer. Responds so fast. Would recommend, but I haven’t had it long-term. So I do not know what the longevity is of it.

I buy a lot of SSDs because I have a computer repair business. I am always open to find a new supplier especially when cost are low because I can help pass on the savings to my customers. So far, the SSDs are doing good. I have already purchased a 10 pack and a few loose ones and only 1 has returned. That's just the way it is with any product, they all have failures here and there, even Samsung and Western Digital. I got my first failure and I'm trying to do a return. There is no straight forward way to do a return. I tried googling it, and I get a ton of dead links and 404s. I finally just had to message the company and wait to see how they make me proceed. I would purchase with caution. So far I'm at a 1% failure rate, but if it is this much trouble to replace, I rather spend a bit more on Samsung or WD. Good product, decent speeds, definitely a good budget SSD. I wouldn't get this for gaming, but everyday computing is good. As with any SSD, make sure you have redundancy, you usually don't get a warning before it quits. I removed 1 star for the difficulty of warranty replacement.

I have a 8 year old laptop. I was looking for a way to add more speed to it. This SSD caught my eye. It had great read/ write speeds and a very low price. After installing the Timetec SSD i checked it's speed. It cut my boot time by 11 seconds. This has to be one great deal on Amazon and it looks to be AMERICAN made.

If your looking for a fast and reliable ssd, look no further than this one, works amazing for windows 7, 10 and 11.