Customers are satisfied with the Geek Squad Certified Refurbished 870 EVO 1TB SATA Solid State Drive's performance, price, and condition. Many praise its speed and large storage capacity, describing it as easy to install and use. The refurbished condition is frequently noted as being excellent, essentially like new. Positive feedback consistently highlights the drive's value for the money.
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Took a chance on an 870 EVO 1TB refurb as a recent $5 rewards certificate was due to expire. Ordered on 9/13, shipped from Bowling Green, Ohio on 9/16 via FedEx, arrived in SE MN on 9/18. Ending up matching in price a new 870 EVO 1TB I got from BB back in February 2023 (but ~$10 more than the one I got from BB in June of 2023). Both also using $5 rewards certificates. Shipping box was 11x9x3 inches with no packing so drive box slid/bounced around. (But not an issue with an SSD.) Owner was impatient with the drive box and ripped it open instead of "slicing" the black 1TB sticker/tape at the top left corner. The owner's manual was never opened. Drive was wiped, needed to create a GPT partition and simple volume in Disk Management. TBW 98GB, Power On Count 5, Power On Hours 0. In a bit of "reckless speculation" it appears an OS install was attempted. (Based on the aforementioned two new 870 EVO 1TBs I installed as Windows 10 Pro boot drives. They had a similar TBW and Power On count when the install was done.) Evidently the OS install failed and the owner bailed without extensive troubleshooting. His/her loss, my gain. Woo-hoo!!! I lucked out with an essentially new 870 EVO 1TB instead of one that was burned up with mining, etc. Being paranoid, ran the diagnostics in Magician. The Diagnostic Full Scan completed successfully but took much longer than the previous two 1TBs. But I had the EVO in an Orico 6619S3-BK dock, the USB3 interface evidently slowed things down. Confirmed when I saw the Performance Benchmark was not supported. I moved the SSD to a system with an available SATA 3 port. Then I ran the Performance Benchmark and the Extended SMART Self-test which completed successfully. In conclusion, I feel a tiny bit less bad about not jumping on more SSDs when the prices crashed. I, like most everyone else, assumed the prices would always decline. [Phooey]
Posted by TachMN
Amazing service, fast shipping, and quality product. The price is drastically less than anywhere else on the internet.
Posted by MatthewK
I am really happy with the purchase. I am using this drive for a ps3 upgrade. Pros: Samsung 1TB of storage (dram buffer) 49.99 usd Came with the box and manual Cons: refurbished (but 49.99 usd though) Other than that I cannot complain. I will be buying many more of these later on in 2024 when the mega sales come. Thank you best buy for affordable product at the moment.
Posted by Rockiwan