Samsung - 850 PRO 512GB Internal SATA III Solid State Drive for Laptops
Model: MZ-7KE512BW
SKU: 2167165
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Customers recognize the 850 PRO 512GB Internal SATA III Solid State Drive's superior performance, resulting in significantly faster boot times and overall system responsiveness. The ease of installation and setup are also frequently praised, along with the drive's reliability and durability. Positive feedback highlights the drive's speed as a major improvement over traditional hard drives. Many appreciate the included warranty.
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This ssd is fast, much faster than my aging intel 530 that I replaced it with. I get consistant speeds. This drive is however not going to be much faster than the EVO counterpart and in real world tests unless you are constantly creating and writing huge files (video editing), save yourself 25%-30% and go with the 850 evo.
Posted by mjensen91
In my opinion, this product had everything that I needed. High quality and working perfectly.
Posted by QuangBach
This is a great SSD. I decided on it because of the 10 year warranty. The things I ran into are one this drive is thinner than the HD in my laptop. It's not much thinner but just enough that it was possible to push it all the way into the HD slot without engaging the connectors. At first I thought it wasn't compatible with my old laptop as the BIOS reported no hard drive. A little searching online found the fix pull the drive back out and adjust it's angle a little bit and make sure you could feel the connectors seat as you pushed the disk back in. The second thing was using the Samsung Magician software I found I had some reliability issues running optimized for speed on my nine year old Dell Latitude D820. Using the setup for maximum reliability the disk has been rock solid. I first cloned my Windows 7 HD to the new disk then did an upgrade to Windows 10. While the Samsung Magician software reported it was the latest version a newer version was available at their web site that fully supports Windows 10. Even with my old laptop that can't fully utilize all the performance features of this SSD it makes booting/shutting down and opening apps very fast. I have an i7 desktop with 12GB of RAM I use for things I need processor performance like photo editing but for general web browsing and simple word processing/spreadsheet work it's nice to keep the old laptop running sitting in an easy chair in the living room. If I end up replacing the laptop any time in the near future I can put my old HD back into the laptop and use this SSD to swap out a less expensive drive option in the new laptop.
Posted by FCTom