INLAND Professional 3 Pack 240GB SSD 3D NAND SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5" 7mm Internal Solid State Drive (3x240GB)

I've deployed around 20 of their 256GB SSDs across multiple servers and have had almost no issues. Fifteen of the drives came from three separate 5-packs, while the rest were individual purchases from a while back — all of which have remained solid and reliable.Recently, I had one drive from the batch of 15 fail, but honestly, that speaks well of their durability given the usage and volume. Drives will fail its the cycle of life, if you plan for it these drives will treat you very well.While they’re not the fastest SSDs available, they’re more than sufficient for tasks like RAID arrays for VM storage, or database/S3 clusters that don’t experience heavy traffic. In those cases, the performance difference is negligible, making these drives a great choice for the price.

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Now before you go impulsively hit the buy button, there are some caveats. My clients are mostly older, very light computer users. That being said, I mostly sell these and Samsung EVOs and the failure rate of these Inland drives is only slightly higher than that of the EVO. I've installed literally hundreds of these drives and have only had 2-3 come back within the 5 years I've been using them. The write endurance of these drives is higher than most manufacturers and they use the more reliable TLC memory. They're an EXCELLENT value for the money if you're not a heavy computer user.That being said, if you're into video editing, I wouldn't recommend using one of these as a scratch disk / temporary drive. Don't use it in other write intensive applications either. That's not what these drives are designed for. If you're going to be moving files around on a regular basis then know that the performance of these drives is lackluster compared to something like the Samsung EVO. These drives are a HUGE upgrade coming from a hard drive, but they're not meant for people who actually use their computer. There are two types of computer users; those who consume (i.e. watch movies, use social media, browse the internet, etc.) and those who produce (i.e. photo/video editing, music production, CAD design, developer, gaming, storing/organizing large amounts of data, etc.).This is a CONSUMER drive. So long as you use it for its intended purpose, you'll be happy with this drive. If you do more than consume on your computer though, you should really look for something else. I highly recommend the Samsung EVO series for power users and the Samsung PRO series for people who actually create things on their computer. To compare, these Inland drives have a write endurance of 170TBW for the 240GB version. The Samsung EVO 250GB version has a write endurance of 150TBW, but it has DRAM and is significantly faster for power users. The Samsung PRO 250GB version has a write endurance of 600TBW. More expensive computer parts cost more for a reason. You're getting a better quality part that will last longer and perform better. If you're a basic user who just uses their computer to consume, you won't notice a difference between any of these three drives, but if you're a power user and/or creator, then go with the EVO or the PRO. The extra $20 isn't going to break you.

I purchased two of these in the 120GB capacity. I use them (in a mirrored configuration for redundancy) for the boot drive in a TrueNAS Scale build. This is overkill in capacity for this purpose but for $15 each, why not? Besides I would be getting SMART features so the system could test and monitor the drives for reliability. Not so sure...Here is the only suspect thing I've seen so far: The temperature reported through the SMART interface is always 33 degrees C, Min, Mean, Max all 33 and it has never changed since I installed these two months ago. I have six other disk drives in this system including two SSD's made by Crucial and they all report varying temperatures which I would expect. For a TrueNAS scale system, the boot drives are not very critical. Some have built systems using a flash drive as the boot drive.Bottom line is I wouldn't hesitate to use two of these drives for redundancy in a TrueNAS Scale build for the boot drives because they are fast and inexpensive. But maybe use name brands for critical data pools.

Been using the 1TB one in an enclosure for almost a year now with an Xbox One for storing/playing games on. It has worked flawlessly. Might get another one eventually.

Works great with fast speeds, much faster than my older spinning disk.