Would a Kingston 240gb SSD work with an HP 15-g035wm laptop?

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Yes an SSD drive will work.
For the most part any computer that came with windows 7 or 8 will work.
HP has the drive as AHCI by default so you are good there.


Now I would highly recommend against that V300 drive. They are on sale because they have had difficulties clearing inventory since last year due to Kingston's shady bait-and-switch. After they got good reviews and benchmarks on the drive, a few months latter (right before holiday season) they swapped the nram chips with a much inferior nsync chips that in real world get 1/3 of read/write performance. Since in one specific benchmark that uses compression they were able to get the same speed numbers they still label it as the same max speed.

For budget I would go with this...
Yes an SSD drive will work.
For the most part any computer that came with windows 7 or 8 will work.
HP has the drive as AHCI by default so you are good there.


Now I would highly recommend against that V300 drive. They are on sale because they have had difficulties clearing inventory since last year due to Kingston's shady bait-and-switch. After they got good reviews and benchmarks on the drive, a few months latter (right before holiday season) they swapped the nram chips with a much inferior nsync chips that in real world get 1/3 of read/write performance. Since in one specific benchmark that uses compression they were able to get the same speed numbers they still label it as the same max speed.

For budget I would go with this: http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-MX100-2-5-Inch-Internal-CT256MX100SSD1/dp/B00KFAGCWK/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1425659722&sr=1-1&keywords=crucial+mx100
Otherwise this drive (which comes with disk cloning software): http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E250B-AM/dp/B00OAJ412U/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1425659744&sr=1-1&keywords=samsung+850+evo
 
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