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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great for Travel
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
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Light, compact, and easy to use. I highly recommend it, especially for travel. I travel between two locations, each with a desktop. This drive makes it easy to bring my files, pictures, etc., with me without having to put everything in the cloud and depend on faulty internet service.
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If you need a SATA SSD, you can not go wrong with Samsung. Of all the brands that I have installed over the years, the performance and reliability is best on Samsungs.
Samsung even offers a free download migration program that will clone your current computer to a samsung SSD. Very easy to do and the boost in performance is unreal.
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I don't know about longevity, but, here's what I observed after swapping in the 1TB version of this SSD to replace a 500GB WD mechanical drive on a Lenovo ThinkPad W530. The WD only had 228GB on it.
The SSD read/write performance increased by 50%; start up increased by 3000%. What took 5 minutes to fully complete when using the mechanical drive now takes 20 seconds (from Win10/64 boot to all apps loaded).
This performance gain ended my debate as to whether or not I should replace the W530 ThinkPad with a newer model. No need to now. For only $100, the 870 EVO 1TB SSD has proven to be among one of the better upgrades I've made to any PC in recent memory.
If you have a laptop that is using a spinning HD, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend that you swap it out for one of these. It's truly a performance upgrade that is immediately noticeable. Every app will snap and run faster than what you are used to. I didn't know what to expect but now that I've done it, I have to say that I am quite impressed.
BTW, the Samsung migration software I used to copy the entire contents and OS from the spinning drive to the SSD worked without a hitch and in less than 15 minutes. Just be certain to run CHKDSK, disable your antivirus, and place your wireless on "Airplane mode" before the migration.
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This Samsung Solid State Drive is well priced and is great value for the money. It made a world of difference to my computer after installation by the Geek squad. It is fast and reliable
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This is my second one. Not because the first one failed (it's still going strong), but because another laptop needed an upgrade for a failing hard drive. Easy to install, very fast, and a great buy for the money.
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Easy order and pickup process.
Installation software was straight forwarded and worked great.
The 3 year old laptop has a new and much faster lease on life.
The speed improvement is amazing.
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I was wondering for a while why my Xbox One S wouldn’t turn on—it turned out the old SSD was corrupted. I needed a replacement, and this Samsung 1TB SSD did the trick perfectly. My stepdad helped install it since I’m not very tech-savvy yet, but once it was in, everything worked great.
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I love the Samsung SSD drives. This drive will serve as a clone system backup. If my main boot NVME drive, also Samsung, should get attacked by some virus or fails (extremely unlikely), then all I have to do is install this clone drive, change the boot order in bios and get right back into the game. I just have to insure that my boot drive is cloned to this regularly.
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I use it for my virtual machines for coding and cybersecurity practice. It works perfectly and has a lot of space if I needed to move things from another drive. Just make sure you name the drive and partition it if you need to.