Not a bad deal for a 500GB SATA SSD, but there are a few other options that are $1-2 cheaper from reputable companies.
For those considering this, it’s worth pointing out that there are several 500/512GB M.2 NVME SSDs in the $30-35 range currently. Most people probably won’t need or use the extra speed but the form factor is convenient and that’s two fewer connections that need to be plugged in.
This would be a nice upgrade for an older laptop that has a spot for a 3.5" HD.
Good timing since I recently received a 2018 HP laptop that could use a faster HD.
I also received an additional $5 Prime discount with this drive.
Yep, I have one in my old laptop. This drive and Linux Mint MATE brought it back to life.
Although it never ran well before since it started out with Windows 8.
That’s 166 MB/$ with Prime discount
the first hard drives I ever bought were 2 330MB drives from one of the big box computer stores in the early '90’s. They were $300 each and I felt very baller carrying them out to the parking lot. That was 1.1 MB/$
150x improvement 
I remember seeing 5¼" full height Seagate ST4096 hard drives dipping below $1000 in 1989. 80 megabytes after formatting!
(MFM controller sold separately. Those brave enough would run a RLL controller for 120MB. Those really brave would run a Perstor ARLL controller for about 140MB, depending on how many bad sectors one ends up getting.)
I may not have the years but i experienced the same when WD (i think i may be mixing it up with one of the hard drive makers that went defunct) had introduced their 8 GB HDD that was 7200rpm. I remember losing my guord at the thought lol
Miniscribe? Kalok? Micropolis? Conner? Quantum?
The 1990s was a decade of reckoning for a number of data storage manufacturers as IBM-designed MR heads were a game changer, yielding drives with much higher storage densities. In the early 90s, it took a full-height 5.25" drive to store 700 MB; with MR, by the mid 90s, 1 GB was a half-height 3.5". The big companies were on it; the smaller ones trying to get by on cheaper old tech were left in the past.
I had a Conner hard drive back in the day. Not sure if it’s in an old box still or not.
I might still have a Kalok 40 MB that was a working pull. They were using outdated tech even when they were new and had a tendency to self immolate. After they went bankrupt, another company bought out their technology and started making their own drives too … in a country with even lower costs.
My friend went through 6 JTS replacement drives at Fry’s before they wised up and just comped him something significantly more reliable - a refurbished Maxtor.
Which reputable companies are the cheaper 2.5" comparable SSD drives from? Unfortunately,
I can’t use a NVME drive for my laptop. Thanks!
I think you meant 2.5" SATA HD? That’s the size of this SSD listed in the description. 
Did anyone else not get the $5 discount? 
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Thanks pepper.
I had actually already reached out to Cust Service before finding your reply, AND they already fixed the problem!