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

Nice SSD for a TB.

I put it in one of my old laptops with 2 partitions and dual boots., one for Windows 10 and the other one for Zorin core. They all work well.

My original drive was failing, bought this as a replacement. Price was reasonable, installed easily into the laptop and so far I am happy with its performance.

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.

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 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.

Dude, $20 for a 240GB SSD...it doesn't have to blow me away with its speed, it's an SSD, it's fast enough. Great for folk who just need a little something to make their older machines a little zippier, and don't need 40TB for their stupid FLAC collection of Phish albums...