Customer Ratings & Reviews

Purchased this SSD to install in my 2019 Mac Pro as an extra internal drive. It's fast and reliable. I've never had any issues with it. Install was a breeze and reliability has been excellent.

Believe or not I bought this as a replacement t to my 2TB HDD I used as a backup drive. Now my backups and restores are much faster. I backup my VMs from my 512GB SSD to the backup 2TB then compress them. Things are 3-4x faster. I Ultimately backup the zip file to NAS.

Major improvement on load times. With as large as games have gotten, a sub terabyte SSD started making less sense. I still keep platter drives for media storage, but it's a worthwhile investment to grab an SSD for an operating drive.

I got this ssd drive for my Leveno Yoga A490 all in one. I have purchased these drives in the past for other computers and they have never failed me. They will spring new life into older computers or just make a new computer better.

Needed to replace a failed SSD in my drobo, but the ones in there were 850s. I dropped in this one, and it worked like a charm. Will likely eventually replace them all with 860s, as the ones in the drobo now cant be too far off of from failing.

Online order was ready within 1 hr. Drove to parking lot for curbside delivery and was delivered promptly, despite thundershower at the time. Home within 20 mins from leaving. VERY efficient and COVID-19 savvy.

Yes it's a 2Tb drive. Yes the price is right. But as far as performance goes. It's so so. If you can afford the EVO drives or better go that way. It does have a large buffer so transferring smaller files you won't see the speed penalty. But when the file size gets in the GB range you see a fall off in speed once the buffer fills. For my purposes I needed capacity and weight savings over a rotating drive. I hate the wait but couldn't justify price for once in a while backups.

Samsung dominates when it comes to SSDs. So the name alone should prove the performance of having one of these. Use it for gaming, and load times a significantly quicker than on your standard 7200rpm 3.5 HDD.

Fast, totally silent! Solid state hard drive is great for everything operating faster and more efficiently! Anyone who can follow instructions can swap out even your main drive as I did.

I purchased the 860 QVO 2tb SSD to upgrade my PS4 pro. The load times are super fast and I don't have to worry about how many games I have downloaded onto my system.

Small 2 Tb drive and fast processing at a great price! Easy to install too! Don't forget the installation bracket and connection ( not included) will run you about another 20 dollars

OMG. Installed this in my old desktop PC. What a remarkable difference from the old hard drive. Computer powers up and down in seconds.

Pro -Big performance boost over platter hard drives -Very cheap in terms of storage capacity / price for SSD -Inexpensive but still has DRAM cache Con -SATA interface, not PCIe / NVMe -Slower than other SSDs, especially when moving large amounts of data TL/DR Though $250 doesn't seem low budget, it's actually a very low price for 2TB of flash storage. The QVO 860 might be "slow" compared to other solid-state drives, but it's still much, MUCH faster than any mechanical drive, especially a 2.5" platter. You won't notice the slowness unless you're constantly moving 50+ GB of data around. For those that don't need as much capacity, the 1TB drive at ~$120 will probably be the better buy, but for those that need a lot of storage on their laptops, the 2TB is not a bad value. ---- For everyone else that wants to dive into the details of the QVO 860, it uses quad-level cell flash ( QLC ) which stores four bits of data for every cell. And yes there is single-level, multi-level ( 2 ), and triple-level cells too. However the more bits per cell, the slower its write speed and the fewer writes it can do in its lifetime. However again, denser cells can store more data with fewer dies, so drives can be manufactured cheaper. If you make a large capacity QLC drive, that means more total cells to spread the data writing duties ( called wear leveling ), which alleviates its shorter lifespan. Samsung gives this a 3-year warranty, which is admittedly less than the 5-years for their EVO and PRO products. However, the drive is rated for 720TB of total data written, or 0.3 drive-writes per day ( DWPD ). Meaning you could re-write 600 GB of data every single day for three years and still not wear it out. As long as you don't reinstall your OS and re-rip your entire music collection to WAV every single day, you'll be fine. As for the "slow" speed, that comes in two ways. First, this is a SATA drive, and SATA just isn't as efficient as NVMe over the PCIe bus. Second, as said, QLC can't store info as fast as SLC. To make up for this, Samsung adds a small amount of SLC flash to the drive to be used as a write cache ( the 2TB drive has about 75GB, the 1TB model only has about 40GB ). The QVO uses this cache, with its much faster write and much higher endurance, as the first place to store data. It then moves data to the QLC on its own in a background task. Most of the time it works great. However, if the cache fills up, any data left in the write queue has to be written directly to QLC, which is much slower. It's about 160 MB/s for the 2TB model, which is still faster than a typical laptop hard drive, but the 1TB version is half that, which most spindle drives can match or beat. As the drive fills up, some of the SLC gets used for permanent storage, but it will still keep 6GB minimum as a write cache. While this seems bad, most users will never notice this. Despite the negative comments by others, you only see this behavior when you overrun the write cache. That requires sustained writing of more than 50GB from a source that's faster than the caching feature. It's easier to do on a nearly full drive with 6GB cache, but still not something most people will run into. If you're a video professional or someone who regularly deals with massive files or folders of data, then you'll want to look elsewhere. For the laptop user limited to a single bay, compared to a spindle or hybrid drive, the QVO 860 is quieter, uses less power, and offers much better performance without sacrificing storage capacity. For a desktop, you can get a smaller performance SSD as a system drive and a large capacity spindle for storage for the same price as the 2TB QVO. But if you want to keep it simple, or don't know how to setup a system on tiered storage, a QVO is a fine choice for a daily office machine.

Was a great addition to my laptop as a second drive to store videos created for online learning without dealing with the online lag. Or tie up prime time bandwidth at home.

Bought one for my desktop and another for my laptop, after a lot of research on speed vs size vs price this one came out on top and I made a great choice. Highly recommended.

Nothing better than a samsung SSD. Cant complain, it works great. Have used samsung storage products in every PC ive owned. Price is high but well worth it.

Works great - just what we needed to back up our system and make some upgrades! Now we can use it as a second hard drive and have so much more space to work with

I"m a fan of the Samsung brand with many devices so this was an easy decision. Not a lot of features to worry about. It just needs to be reliable and this drive does not disappoint.

I was surprised to see how much the 2TB SSD drives had come down. Upgraded a newer laptop for a heavy file user. No compatibility problems. Great performance.

What can I say? Samsung is a global leader in Solid State Drives. The 860 QVO is a solid, reliable purchase. No-hassle packaging, easy to mount to a PC case.