Samsung - 850 EVO 1TB Internal SATA III Solid State Drive

I have a stack of laptops and I typically replace 2-3 of them every 2-3 years. I was at the point of buying two new laptops to replace my aging Lenovos. After upgrading RAM from 8bm to 16mb, the Lenovos just couldn't keep up. I was about to drop $2-3k on a couple of new machines, and I was sickened by the thought. I decided to swap out my aging hdd with an ssd. Wow. Just...wow! Ladies and gents, you simply HAVE to do this. I'm somewhat computer savvy, but I always get a little nervous when I crack open the case. On a side note, my Lenovos don't have dedicated removable hard drive panels, so I have to remove the entire bottom shell along with the dvd drive and the keyboard...such a pain! Regardless, I used the Apricorn Upgrade Suite, also sold at BB, and followed the simple directions to copy my hdd to the ssd. After easily removing the old hard drive and snapping in the hdd I'm happy to report that my laptop fired up in record speed and it seems to have helped with my nagging 100% disk problem that brought the old hdd to a halt. Admittedly, I've only had it up and running for an hour, but I've restarted a few times just for fun and I'm amazed at the speed difference. It's not even close. I bought at Best Buy, because they always treat me right. They happily matched BH Photo's sale price on the exact 1TB ssd and this saved me $30 without any hassle. I buy a lot of stuff from BB...I mean a lot, and this is literally the first review that I've ever written. I always depend upon user reviews, so I felt compelled to finally contribute to the community. Don't hesitate to make this upgrade. It may be the very thing that saves your old laptop and gives it a few more years of useful operation. My next move is to buy a few more ssd's so that I can breathe new life in my old paperweight machines that I've been cursing for the past few years. Good luck!

This is my first rating of anything I've ever purchased. I just wanted to let everyone know what a difference this drive has made to the operation of my laptop. The laptop is about 5 years old. It was really starting to slow down booting up, using Microsoft Office software, etc. I tried cleaning up the drive, took lots of files and programs off the computer but to no avail. I started looking into buying a new computer, but decided to try this drive based on its reviews. It was extremely easy to install and the migration of everything from the old drive to this drive was seamless. Booting up from the off position now takes less than 30 seconds (I have Windows 10 installed.). It's almost instantaneous from the sleep mode. All the programs work like a dream now, and I've been able to put some back on that I took off. I'm not interested at all at buying a new computer now. I highly recommend that you look into buying this drive if you've been experiencing a slow computer, you won't be sorry.

I installed this in my mid-2010 iMac 21.5" doubling the storage capacity in the computer (I was running out) and dramatically improving the speed! This is a real world usage bump in speed (opening applications, copying files, booting up, switching users, photo editing, etc.) where disk IO is the bottleneck. This won't speed up the processor and video card, for instance, so games won't run much faster for instance (levels may load faster though) as those are more dependent on processing power. The 2010 iMac 21.5 only has SATA II so I knew the speed would top out at 300MB/s while the drive itself is capable of almost double that. That is still 10 times faster than the drive I had before (a 7200 RPM hard drive that was getting a little over 30MB/s). I am definitely getting 300MB/s read/write speed so this is working awesome so far! The difference is pretty stunning as this is the biggest upgrade I think you can do on a fairly old computer (already had 8GB of RAM and you can't upgrade the processor due to the proprietary motherboard of the iMac). Honestly, my 5 (!) year old laptop is much faster (I mean noticeably) in real world usage now than a brand new maxed out Dell laptop I use at work with a conventional hard disk drive. SSD is worth every penny in my opinion!

I have been in IT over 25 years and have never really taken the plunge into solid state until just recently. I talked to a few of my IT friends and asked which ones they had the best luck with and this was the particular one they recommend. A few had the pro one, but if you're not running a Raid and doing any extensive operations there really isn't any performance gain. This version is easy to install, the software works excellent that comes with it and converted my drive without issues. It even did the hidden recovery partitions You will need either the SATA to USB cable so that you can get the Hard drive migration going as it does not come with it. OR you can buy an external inclosure (Which i would recommend) as this lets you use the other hard drive as an external hard drive if desired. Installation is fast, Simple, and fool proof. Best purchase i made this year for sure. PLUS the performance boost is phenomenal. If you are running a ROG Asus Laptop G751 or newer the boot up time from power off to "in windows" is literally 4-7 seconds. (Depending on what you have running)

I was pleasantly surprised with the ease of installation. A Samsung utility cloned my current laptop drive over to this new SSD while I was at work. When I came home that morning it was just a matter of swapping out the drives. The HP Envy laptop had a flexible mount that I had to remove from the old drive and attach to the new drive. I had a little bit of work cramming this mount back into the laptop with the new SSD but the case went back together with no bulges and the drive appeared to be secure in it's place. Turning on the laptop I noticed how much more quickly it booted up. It is now an exciting feeling each time I boot knowing how much quicker I will be and running. Program updates also seem to be so much faster than before. Now, any old platter drive just feels ancient to me to have to deal with. This is the way to go. Price? I have to relate to you that back in the '80's I paid $400 for a 20gb Seagate drive, my first hard drive purchase. So, the $350 plus tax I recently paid (and now I'm finding this same drive for lots cheaper) is worth every penny. Why wait, just do it!

I purchased this SSD to replace an existing Samsung 840 SSD 250GB. The 840 I had was great but I was running out of space on it... The Samsung Data Migration software made the process of moving everything from the old 840 to the new 850 pretty darn easy. This software comes with the SSD but just as a warning, it only works when migrating data from one Samsung drive to another Samsung drive. The only issue I have with this product is that the instructions call for you to use a SATA to USB cable in the migration process. This is something I did not have nor did I see a need for it. I was able to do the data migration by simply plugging the new 850SSD into the mother board via a SATA cable (also not included). I was then able to complete the data migration. Again, not sure if this is recommended but it seemed to work out just fine for me. Other than that little hiccup, I have no complaints. Great little drive.

This is my second SSD from SAMSUNG. I had first the 500GB version for my video files on my desktop (the OS was already on a SSD, but the data needs to be on a separate SSD to speed up reading), and now the "Samsung - 850 EVO 1TB Internal Sata III Solid State Drive - Black" version for my Laptops main hard-drive, OS. If money is no problem, take the "pro" version of this hard-drive. Otherwise the "850 EVO" last long enough until you have to upgrade your whole computer (every 5 years!!!). (5 computer years is like 72 human years!) There are 4 important ways to speed-up your computer: 1. Upgrade the ram to the maximum (I did) 2. Upgrade the Video card (I did Nvidia 1080) 3. Upgrade to SSD (now I did for my Laptop) 4. Separate the OS system from the data storage (Have 2 SSD's, one for data, and one for the OS). BUT to make it clear, the biggest impact is the SSD upgrade for the OS. OS = Operating System (like Windows 10, or ... ) Hope that helps you ...

I purchased my new Ultrabook, planning to upgrade to a SSD as soon as prices came down, and this Samsung was affordable. Using a USB 3 enclosure, I cloned my conventional drive using Acronis TrueImage (overnight), then swapped the drives, and Windows booted in about 7 seconds. After over a month of use it still cold boots faster than it used to wake from sleep. All software and "apps" startup and operate many times faster. I didn't do any benchmarking, but it is a staggering improvement. Also, the battery life of the notebook (Lenovo Edge 2, 6th gen. Core i7 processor) more than doubled... over 7.5 hours of continuous use on a full charge. A tremendous fringe benefit. I still worry about long term reliability, so I try to keep regular incremental backups, but have had absolutely zero problems after heavy professional scientific research computing 14+ hours per day. I'm considering buying another for my other home computer.