Upgrading from a hard drive to an Solid-State Drive (SSD) is one of the best ways to boost performance in an aging notebook or desktop PC. At one point in time upgrading to an SSD was a costly venture, but prices have drastically fallen in recent years and can now be done affordably. SATA III SSDs were once the darling of storage industry, but with the advent of PCIe NVMe drives they aren’t being talked about much. PCIe NVMe drives are getting all the headlines these days as they offer the best performance and cable free installation, but SATA III drives are far from being done. SATA drives are great for mainstream users and are often much cheaper as they are becoming a commodity. Moving to an SSD will make your PC more responsive and the faster speeds will improve your productivity.

Today we’ll be looking at the HP SSD S600 2.5″ SATA III drive series. HP has been really making a name for themselves in the SSD market over the past year and the HP S600 was recently launched to cover the entry-level SATA SSD market. The HP SSD S600 is available in just two capacities – 120GB for $35.99 shipped and 240GB for $59.99 shipped. These are rather small capacities in this day and age, but they are super affordable at $0.30 per GB on the 120GB drive and $0.25 per GB on the 240GB drive.