This hard drive to replace a SSD of 250 GB which is more reliable, with only 2 years of operation. Having reinstall my OS win7 with all my own files and parameters to grace a great software backup and recovery from planned cd, it is the powerful software Paragon hardisk manager for all bones including linux system. But to be sure I restore partition the SSD, I created 2 250GB partition to hold the backup strurure my win7 At the restart of the PC, works perfectly with software and personal files. This drive is SATA 3, which confers an almost equal li write speed reading an HD SSD. I recommend this HD very low prices for this kind of disk