• Reviews around drive (2.35 of 5)

    Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E250B/AM)

    • The software it came with for the migration did not like my old drive, but I was able to use alternative software to make it work
    • Only regret it buying the smaller one, but honestly, for the average gamer, this drive is fine
    • As of right now the Hard Drive is working phenomenally
    • Replaced my hard drive and upgraded to 8GB memory in my Lenovo G550 for less than $150, it's a new computer!
    • Samsung drives have never disappointed me in the past.
    • Cloned a potentiallyfailing laptop hard drive to this SSD which went without a hitch because of software from Samsung
    • Love this drive
    • Upgraded my girlfriend's older MacBookPro from traditional spinning hard drive to this SSD
    • I do not expect a solid state hard drive to fail after eight months
    • Excellent Drive.
    • Have used both to rejuvenate an old laptop, and as a primary drive in a couple of new custom desktop builds.
    • Much faster than my hard drive.
    • Great hard drive, the speed is incredible compared to the old disk style.
    • Perfect boot drive!
    • Nice hard drive
    • This drive is truly 'plug n play' and amazingly fast.
    • " External Hard Drive Enclosure for 7mm and 9.5mm 2.5
    • Best SSD drive for performance and Migration / Management Software available at a reasonable price
    • Wonderful solid state drive
    • consistent excellent drives
    • I bought this hard drive to upgrade my MacBook (mid 2009)
    • I've been running this hard drive has my operating system drive for the last 2 years
    • still running strong.. good price .....fast hard drive
    • The drive has made my computer more responsive and quick
    • Samsung are the best Solid State drives I have used!!!!!
    • Not noticing a speed upgrade over the stock SSD but that could be my system architecture or maybe my original drive was as fast.
    • Great drive for a great price
    • Initially was going to do a clean install, but went ahead and tried the Samsung software to clone my HDD (standard hard drive)
    • But still good drive.
    • We decided to install a steady state drive first and see if the slowness improved before upgrading memory as well
    • Well worth the money and these Samsung drives are the best
    • The replaced hard drive started quickly, where as this drive is much slower.
    • This drive have been VERY reliable
    • I bought this drive in December and it failed, today
    • However, booting from this device was impossible without manually connecting it to where the hard drive was connected
    • BUT THE HARD DRIVE IS GREAT
    • replaced the hard drive on my 2010 Dell E5410 laptop with this SSD
    • I love these drives
    • Love these drives.
    • This drive is fast in numbers
    • Works well but not that much faster than the non solid state drive.
    • Great hard drive makes your computer like new
    • I love this drive, but I was also frustrated that I only had the option to transfer my entire hard drive versus only a portion of it
    • Previous drive issue still there
    • Hard drive crashed on my Mac and used this to replace it
    • I am not a tech geek, but this is doing what i need it to do (store my OS and more reliable than my old regular hard drive).
    • The drives are much faster in every respect to this Samsung 850 EVO drive and they were slightly cheaper as well
    • The old drive was crippling my machine
    • If you don't, you will miss out on everything this drive is truly capable of.
    • and eventually I discovered that it did successfully clone my hard drive
    • Samsung's website says it provides OS X support, but if you look closely you'll see the docs were written in 2012, do not list the current popular drives (like EVO 850), and to update the firmware you have install the drive in your Mac... not possible for the majority of Mac laptops since 2014.Some users report you can upgrade externally, but it requires a Thunderbolt enclosure (>$100).Doesn't matter how 'good' the drive is if it's not truly supported for a major operating system.
    • Lastly for those interested, this was a Hard Drive upgrade to a CyberpowerPC
    • I had to buy a 500GB hard drive of the same type
    • An SSD hard drive makes a cheap laptop run like a more expensive one.
    • These are great drives.
    • I've been using this as my Windows 10 operating system drive with several other hard drives in my pc for the last 9 months
    • fast drive.
    • The drive just works.
    • Way faster then regular disk drive
    • I'm using this hard drive as my main C drive for my Windows installation
    • I formatted it, then cloned my existing hard drive onto the SSD, then installed it in my laptop
    • Five year warranty and slightly faster load and unload speeds make this a worthy no-moving parts hard drive along with a slightly higher capacity (for the price) compared to losing some gigs with other less expensive models
    • Quick, snappy, awesome boot-drive
    • good drive
    • Best SSD drive in this price range.
    • Literally the only thing making the startups slow now is my secondary drive, a hard drive, that has a few programs installed on it that load on startup
    • I have change my old HDD drive with the solid-state drive, but I didn't see any difference in performance at all
    • If you're going to replace your hard drive .... always make it SAMSUNG SSD...period!
    • I copied the entire hard drive from my old computer with very little help
    • Intel drives ARE better, but for the price, Samsung drives are just as good and must more economical..... as well as just as reliable
    • I replaced the original hard drive in my wife's MacBook Pro 13" late 2011 with this drive and it has been working flawlessly
    • The old drive would make little noises in the night that bugged her.
    • Ran into 1 issue: i bought an enclosure case to put in the old hard drive and use it to transfer my files, but at first the Samsung software was not recognizing the ssd in the case
    • I currently have a couple Crucial 256 GB solid state drives in two separate PC's
    • replaced my old hard drive in a snap
    • Using the OEM 500gb hard drive
    • GREAT drive.
    • I have it as my main hard drive but also have a 1TB WB black hard drive for storage
    • And the drive having linux support, serves every computer user and computer customer, since when linux gets better, other systems must get better to compete, otherwise if it just does everything better, you install linux right?
    • Great hard drive
    • I replaced 2 IDE hard drives with two of these
    • Took the computer to the Genius Bar at Apple and after a bunch of tests they told me the hard drive had failed
    • I refuse to purchase any other SSDs because these EVO drives have shown time and time ago to outperform other SSDs
    • This is a number of times faster than a hard drive.
    • I always used a mechanical old fashioned hard drive, but because of this, I get insane boot times and reinstalling windows wasn't too hard, (only took like 2 hours for
    • This solid state drive made a great improvement of my laptop, in that disk-intensive operations, such as boot up, did improve substantially.
    • It found the SSD, and successfully cloned a copy of my existing hard drive
    • From what I understand the 4k numbers almost more important as they are a test of going out and getting small random bits of data from the hard drive and those are not even comparable with the old drive
    • Great solid state drive!
    • I had issues with the product on my MacBook Pro 13" late 2011 (non-retina), I bought this hard drive as an effort to give my old Mac a new life, first of all I changed de RAM memory for Crucial 2 x 8.0GB 1333MHz DDR3 SO-DIMM PC10600 204 Pin memory modules, so far so good, but not the improved performance I was expecting, then I turned my view to a SSD, after reading several reviews I decided to go with this
    • Replaced the two 1TB hard drives I had in two computers
    • Cannot believe the increase in speed over the original (not solid state) hard drive in my computer
    • Samsung seems to be the leader in solid state hard drives
    • Swapped out a horribly slow 5200rpm hard drive for this SSD and my laptop is flying now.
    • Needless to say, I will not be buying a Samsung hard drive again.
    • Great replacement for my old hard drive
    • The drive itself is solid
    • Excellent SSD drive
    • This drive is fast!
    • Had no problem instaling it, just like any other Hard Drive
    • I read some comments that some buyers were having some issues installing the hard drive to their MacBook’s
    • Hard drives should not be the standard anymore, it should be solid state drives inside of computers
    • Awesome, reliable drive.
    • I had my hard drive copied over and installed in less than an hour
    • Hard drive was making a clicking noise inconsistently
    • I love Samsung SSD drives and quality
    • Awesome drive, runs great.
    • Just look at userbenchmark, this is their top drive.
    • Bought this to replace a defective sandisk hard drive
    • I was just ready to spend at least $600 on a new computer when my grandson saved me with an upgrade on my current computer that tripled the speed and greatly increased operations with this new hard drive
    • Additionally, I moved my old hard drive into the DVD slot using the OWC Data Doubler.
    • I highly recommend this drive.
    • I've replaced all of my hard drives with these and couldn't be happier
    • Used the StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA III Hard Drive Adapter and upgrade to SSD was painless!
    • I'm shocked how much the hard drive was the bottle neck in running
    • This hard drive was only used a few hours a day for the last year
    • Used free Macreum (spelling) to clone the existing hard drive.
    • Great hard drive!!!..I highly recommend them!
    • My Mac is way better than it used to be because of the solid state drive
    • Amazing hard drive
    • These hard drives also pair well with a USB enclosure as they are not effected by the shock of moving them around.
    • Very satisfied with this hard drive.
    • These are the fastest hard drives i've ever
    • This drive is amazing!
    • I use AOMEI to clone the SSD to my backup hard drives.
    • This is the first SSD I have owned and used, it makes any SATA hard drive computer run, startup, and shutdown SO FAST
    • I am a seasoned IT professional and would highly recommend Samsung SSD drives to anyone looking to spruce up their machine
    • Good drive, puts out.
    • Installing this SSD was very easy, it is so much lighter than your run of the mill hard drive
    • It was super easy to replace the original hard drive.
    • & it's been a great drive.
    • Remember from the mechanical days, their drives were very fast, but did not last long
    • Definitely one of the best SSD drives in the market.
    • This drive is super fast!!
    • These are the fastest hard drives i've ever
    • These hard drives also pair well with a USB enclosure as they are not effected by the shock of moving them around.
    • Amazing hard drive
    • Great hard drive!!!..I highly recommend them!
    • I had a different brand SSD prior to these and while it was pretty fast as well, the drive died and I lost everything that was on it which is why I have a raid this time around.
    • Incidentally, you will also need an external enclosure for the old hard drive, and the one I used and bought on Amazon is the Inateck USB 3.0 HDD - no problems.
    • Great drive, super fast when booting up
    • Great drive that made my laptop feel new.
    • I replaced the mechanical hard drive in my daughter's computer with this, and now it boots Win7 within about 12 seconds, and loads her game (Sims 3) a lot faster.
    • Either the drive took out CMOS (requiring reset) as it failed, or vice-versa.
    • Been using this solid state drive for about 2 months now, Its almost full now and still running fast
    • Love these drives
    • This hard drive burned out on me in less than 3 three months.
    • Would highly recommend this drive.
    • The migration software provided with the drive makes cloning and replacing an existing hard drive a piece of cake - you only need to purchase a USB-to-SATA
    • Samsung makes great SSD drives, others don't compare in my experience.
    • it’s probably the best $8 you’ll ever spend on a computer componentSata Cable - Lumsing USB 3.0 to SSD / 2.5-Inch SATA cable Hard Drive Adapter [Optimized For SSD
    • The drive is fast like you'd expect SSD to be
    • I also read from another reviewer who recommended an additional disk transfer software (Apricorn SATA Wire Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade) which I also bought for just $20 which was key
    • I have not compared them to other brand solid state drives
    • Once I put this hard drive into the old laptop, Windows 10 startup was around 10 seconds or less and before it could take 3 minutes or more
    • Hard drives should not be the standard anymore, it should be solid state drives inside of computers
    • Here's the web place that goes through how to do the HDD to SSD upgrade painlessly:How to Migrate Your Windows Installation to a Solid-State Drive by Matt KleinGoogle
    • Just recently, my computer was using up 99% of the RAM, so it started paging to the solid state drive, and it took me a while to notice that this was happening
    • I understand this is a great drive.
    • Both solid and FAST drives
    • Software allowed me to copy from spindle hard drive to this SSD with no fuss.
    • Read/Write Speed on this was quite nice, when it was working, though nothing particularly relatively impressive as it relates to most solid-state drives
    • Great drive and very fast
    • Is a definite upgrade from a standard hard drive that was 5+ years old.
    • Samsung seems to be the leader in solid state hard drives
    • Cannot believe the increase in speed over the original (not solid state) hard drive in my computer
    • Samsung as a manufacturer has a pretty good QA process, and they manufacture every part of this drive, which ensures compatibility and no need for constant firmware updates to keep the drive stable
    • For ultra fast loading ssds are way superior to hard drives
    • Don't upgrade to a new computer, upgrade your hard drive and save yourself over a thousand dollars.
    • The drive itself is great
    • Before, with an almost full 1TB hard drive, this took about 10 minutes, then another 5 or so for my big programs to start up.
    • And the included software automatically transfers from existing hard drive without even having to open up the PC (transfers via USB).
    • It's still a great drive
    • Very happy with this hard drive.
    • The hard drive cloning software was very simple, and my laptop boots and runs so fast now, it feels like a new computer.
    • Flawless installation, night and day difference over a mechanical hard drive
    • Incredible how fast this solid state drive is.
    • I put my old spinner hard drive in a second spot in the tower and had to change a bunch of permissions in Windows 10, but now I'm able to store things on that old one, while installing programs on this new SSD.
    • Comes with the software to clone your current hard drive to this new one
    • I finally accepted the fact after talking with Microsoft support that it was a hard drive failure.
    • now I feel free to shake my computer without damaging the hard drive.
    • After some digging around and I found a old external hard drive adapter
    • Best SSD drive from what i could perceive as of mid 2017
    • I loved this drive when I first got it
    • So far no errors, and the drive is remarkably fast
    • After much troubleshooting, checking for viruses, and a hard drive health check I decided to buckle down and buy this ssd for a replacement rather than spending more time on troubleshooting
    • No problems with this speedy drive
    • Great hard drive
    • As a Hard Drive it's on another planet compared to HDD drives
    • so I just run the core windows 10 alongside the 2 of my current games on it and everything else on regular hard drives.
    • Great drive so far
    • If you're on a conventional hard drive, upgrading to an SSD is a no brainer
    • good upgrade from other ssds and specially a hard drive.
    • This was one of the fastest SATAIII drives around at time of purchase
    • Definitely one of the best SSD drives on the current market !
    • But after I replaced with this this Solid State Drive, time to reach login in 5 seconds!And after logging in, everything is SUPERRESPONSIVE.I am giving 1 star less since I did not get clear instructions on how to migrate my Windows 10 into the new drive
    • I have one in my desktop and one in my laptop where I replaced the 2.5" hard drive.
    • As My Os Boot Drive And Use The Hard Drive For Storage
    • Great and fast high speed hard drive!
    • Great drive
    • Five year warranty and slightly faster load and unload speeds make this a worthy no-moving parts hard drive along with a slightly higher capacity (for the price) compared to losing some gigs with other less expensive models
    • This is a fantastic drive
    • SSD drives make SUCH AN IMPROVEMENT in speed over regular disk hard drives!!!
    • Software made it easy to mirror copy old hard drive
    • My 2011 Macbook Pro was crapping out, replaced the hard drive with this lil bad boy and now it's running great!
    • Love the Samsung SSD it definitely loads my new laptop much faster then the hard drive that was in it
    • I have used this hard drive for over a year now
    • Much, much faster than a spindle style HDD.I have had occasional locking with my computer but it seems to be my video cards but a hard drive issue could also be the issue
    • Great drive brought life back into my 6 yr old computer
    • Hard drive crashed on my Mac and used this to replace it
    • I honestly couldn't tell if this was the fault of the computer or an incorrectly cloned hard drive, but at last I have everything on this SDD and my computer is now MUCH faster.
    • Why do computer manufacturers continue to put old 5400 rpm hard drives in
    • I bought this hard drive and upgraded to 16 GB DDR3 ram
    • Samsung's website says it provides OS X support, but if you look closely you'll see the docs were written in 2012, do not list the current popular drives (like EVO 850), and to update the firmware you have install the drive in your Mac... not possible for the majority of Mac laptops since 2014.Some users report you can upgrade externally, but it requires a Thunderbolt enclosure (>$100).Doesn't matter how 'good' the drive is if it's not truly supported for a major operating system.
    • And when I open task manager right after booting to the desktop, it'll show this solid state drive jump between 15-40% utilization while my hard drive is at 100% the first few minutes of the computer being on
    • Now if this happened with a hard drive as your primary drive, the game would be frozen, maybe update once a second
    • My computer boots within 3 seconds vs the 28 seconds of boot time I had with my last hard drive
    • So now I have both a new hard drive and cable
    • Good drive
    • First time using an Solid State Drive and I am surprised how fast it loads Windows 10 upon startup
    • Fast drive
    • so bet it's a good drive
    • and I can definitely say that this drive is faster
    • I love this drive, but I was also frustrated that I only had the option to transfer my entire hard drive versus only a portion of it
    • Great hard drive makes your computer like new
    • 0/10 does not contain sticker, not worth it... just kidding just kiddingLightning fast drive, Windows 10 boots before monitor can (with RAPID enabled)!
    • This is an amazing product if your looking to change a hard drive you found your choice !
    • Most laptops come with really pathetic hard drives and this is just the ticket to get you moving a lot faster
    • Installation was easy, but I was unable to use the included software to transfer everything from my hard drive.
    • BUT THE HARD DRIVE IS GREAT
    • A hard drive imo is the biggest bottleneck in computers nowadays.
    • Very fast drive and a great upgrade over any HDD
    • Amazing SSD Drive, my computer runs like an IPad know, everything opens instantly.
    • I can't wait for Solid State drives to increase in memory capacity
    • I had never encountered this issue, but a Google search describing the problem returned results indicating that it was a symptom of a failing or failed drive
    • I don't recommend this drive for storage of files as ssd drives have a limited number of times that it can be rewritten
    • Instructions are very easy to understand to transfer from old hard drive to this one.
    • Drive went bad after 10 months use and had to perform an RMA
    • It speeded up my Toshiba quite a bit faster than the way it ran with a regular hard drive
    • The Samsung Magician Software said that my existing drive was "Not Compatible", so I used the Samsung Data Migration Software instead (to clone the old drive to the SSD)
    • One way to speed up your Laptop and not risk losing your data due to a burned up drive
    • This was a great drive, but needed a bigger one so ended up using this as a laptop drive and its working great up to this day.
    • replaced the drive in my laptop and this worked like a charm.
    • still running strong.. good price .....fast hard drive
    • Make sure your computer can take this hard drive
    • nice drive
    • USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure from a coworker before there was enough power to make the drive work.
    • If you are attempting to replace an old hard drive, then the easiest way to do so is to clone the contents of the original drive onto your new one, and then swap them out physically
    • Fast drive
    • My old files were extracted from my dead hard drive and are back on this one
    • This drive has been so solid for my new PC build
    • This was a difference maker considering laptop came without hard drive.
    • My laptop's old hard drive stopped wor
    • Haven't experienced any trouble so far.*TipIt brings on its package a CD with the instalation Guide and stuff to set the new Hard Drive, a step of such instalation is making copy/mirror of your actual HD in the SSD so that as soon as you install it starts working from scratch with the same setup you had
    • Nice hard drive
    • Quick cloning of the hard drive
    • Samsung makes a great, little drive that works great
    • Great hard drive, the speed is incredible compared to the old disk style.
    • For the price of a new hard drive I basically have a brand new laptop, worth every cent
    • I haven't had a bad drive yet
    • One of my main concern compared to a hard drive was what would happen to the speed of the ssd after it has been used and almost filled up to the max
    • I do not expect a solid state hard drive to fail after eight months
    • Great SATA 3 drive.
    • As of right now the Hard Drive is working phenomenally
    • Anyway, i decided to go ahead and give her a clean slate by upgrading to 2 250 GB 850 EVO and also for addition storage an additional hard drive enclosure to store the rest of my memory that's accessible with USB
    • I decided to move to a Solid State drive and reload Windows 7 and my applications.
    • Do not hesitate to buy the hard drive, i bought it in a Thanksgiving offer and put it in my 3 years old desktop and now is faster than brand new
    • My first SSD hard drive
    • Awesome drive
    • This is a really good external hard drive
    • So much better than spinner drives
    • Using hard drives for gaming
    • Going from a 7200 RPM hard drive to the 250 GB Samsung EVO, my desktop is now a speed machine, booting up in only 11 seconds instead of a little over a minute and a half
    • Awesome little drive
    • I bought this hard drive as a replacement for the stock hard drive in my laptop
    • Installed in Lenovo T420, really sped it up compared to the previous conventional hard drive.
    • I have a 2010 hp computer and decided to get this drive to improve its performance
    • A great replacement hard drive.
    • Replaced the internal hard drive on my daughter's laptop.
    • Works amazing as my main drive on my desktop
    • Ahhh, it's nice uprgrading from a 1tb hard drive to this
    • The Samsung 500GB loads much quicker than the original hard drive in my 5 year old MacBook Pro running Sierra.
    • Remember to download all drivers before you remove your old hard drive.
    • I am very pleased with the performance of this product and based on all the recommendations of my computer savvy friends I expect a significantly longer life than the typical hard drive.
    • I don't know if thats true or I just got a defective drive, but since I used my Mac to work it made me lose precious time and money, I bought a Kingston SSD 240 Gb 2 months
    • I/O requests, but this solid state drive runs circles around a hard drive and saved me from buying a new laptop.
    • these drives are great. solid and reliable and fast
    • Killing it in my MBP Mid 2010 - replaced the hard drive, ram and battery.. Got at least an extra 2+ years out of her <3
    • Ended up buying an OWC SSD hard drive.
    • I used this SSD with the Apricorn EZ-Upgrade SATA Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade Kit to replace the regular HD in my 2009 laptop
    • If you aren't getting speeds similar to what the product tells you or other users speeds check if your motherboard has 2 different hard drive controllers (looking at your asrock)
    • Bought this hard drive eight months ago and installed it on an Apple Macbook
    • As for the actual hard drive itself it works fine but it was a major pain in the ass and cost me time.
    • Great little drive
    • Purchased this to fix an old laptop with a failed hard drive
    • This is a Solid State Drive which does not use a pin and wheel to write information
    • I had a different brand SSD prior to these and while it was pretty fast as well, the drive died and I lost everything that was on it which is why I have a raid this time around.
    • rpm hard drive for this one.
    • Great drive, have bought many in the past... this one is going on 5 months with no issues.
    • I bought this hard drive a little over a year ago for a computer I planned on building.
    • For the money, these drives are great
    • This thing is awesome but it doesn't ship with a hard drive tray, something that you'll need if you computer case doesn't have a dedicated spot for SSD's
    • Easy to install in my laptop, A great improvement over my old 5400 RPM hard drive. FAST!!
    • Don't get me wrong, this drive is still fast, it just didn't compare to some others in the market
    • I had more trouble physically screwing out the old drive than I did cloning the data to the new one
    • I would not recommend this drive to any
    • You'll also need a cable that'll connect the hard drive to a USB.Works great, blazing fast, looks good.
    • Best thing about my computer is this hard drive
    • Got a HP Invent 146gb drive in a Samsung 850 EVO drive box contacted Customer Support about the possible fraud and was pleased with the way it was handled have a new (hopefully) correct drive on the way was very little trouble to get corrected customer support was quick to make it right
    • Solid state hard drives are the way to go with any modern PC
    • If you are on the fence about buying a new laptop computer because yours has slowed considerably I highly recommend buying this hard drive along with maxing out, or at least upgrading your RAM
    • However the hard drive that it came with was good just needed the faster speed for day trading purposes spec wise
    • Great Drive, my 6 years old Dell computer is flying faster than it ever did.
    • Purchased this to replace the hard drive in my 2010 MacBook Pro 17" a few months ago.
    • Just love theese ssd drives they boot up my desktop to win7 & win10 in 6-7 seconds :):
    • Great drive runs super smooth with 0 issues so far.
    • Great drive runs super smooth with 0 issues so far.
    • excellent drives for the money
    • Great product and comes with software to clone your current hard drive
    • Upgraded an E6520's stock 7200RPM drive with 4GB to Corsair Vengeance 16GB and this SSD...and it's a completely new beast.
    • My drive failed on my PC and it was suggested that I get a Samsung solid state drive as a replacement.
    • Samsung's most cost-effective and fastest drive
    • I replaced the old drive with the SSD and it worked
    • I could not justify the price of buying a larger capacity solid-state drive, so this works great for my programs and my data is stored on a secondary drive.
    • Always has been my go-to SSD for HDD replacements or OS hard drives
    • Ordered the replacement drive immediately, and didn't use the laptop while waiting.-When it arrived, i moved all utterly important data off onto a WD My Passport drive (photos, videos, etc), then deleted them off the failing drive
    • Ordered this as a replacement hard drive for an Acer Aspire F15 that I custom ordered last year
    • Upgraded my hard drive in my 2010 MacBook Pro
    • The only negative is the size, its often very expensive to get a big solid state drive
    • This drive was not as fast as some less expensive drives I've owned/tested
    • the SSD.1) First boot the system into BIOS and make sure the system boot choices include a USB drive and the computers hard drive
    • Used this drive to replace the mechanical drive in my MacBook Pro and it greatly improved performance on the laptop, highly recommend the upgrade!
    • This drive, along with an extra 4GB of RAM, made my 2011 Macbook Pro outperform my brand new iMac
    • Put this baby in my 2009 Acer Aspire laptop as my original drive finally died and WOW...
    • However I keep a backup big cheap drive to move my old games etc too
    • This hard drive was a life saver for my
    • This hard drive was a life saver for my
    • Put this baby in my 2009 Acer Aspire laptop as my original drive finally died and WOW...
    • This drive has a serious problem--it works just enough to fool you for a time.
    • Had a Lenovo Laptop where the hard drive was constantly running at 95% - 100% utilization
    • Nice fast drive.
    • This drive was not as fast as some less expensive drives I've owned/tested
    • The Samsung 850 EVO might be what you need!It is hands down one of the best SSD drives on the market, get one.
    • Upgraded my hard drive in my 2010 MacBook Pro
    • Amazing drives
    • It has been about 2 months since I have replaced my hard drive with the old one and I must say I am really impressed with the performance of this SSD hard drive.cons
    • Solved a poorly engineer placement of a mechanical hard drive.
    • Love the drive
    • Bought the 250gb model to replace the Hard Drive in my 7 year old Samsung Series 7 laptop
    • Their cloning software works great, makes cloning existing hard drive a breeze and their software also speeds up drive performance
    • My laptop feels 10x faster. comes with a cd for cloning your current hard drive to the ssd.
    • It occurred to me afterwards this might be some sort of thermal reflector to protect their garbage drive
    • Cloning was carried out by installing this Hard Drive in a Inateck USB 3.0 HDD SATA External Hard Drive Disk Enclosure Case for 9.5mm 7mm 2.5 Inch SATA HDD and SSD(FE2004), purchased for $9.99 and went perfectly
    • I verified that the cable and computers were not at fault with another spare hard drive that I had on hand
    • Much faster than hard drive it replaced.
    • When I first ordered this drive, the drive I received was defective
    • Good drive!
    • However the hard drive that it came with was good just needed the faster speed for day trading purposes spec wise
    • Solid state hard drives are the way to go with any modern PC
    • Got a HP Invent 146gb drive in a Samsung 850 EVO drive box contacted Customer Support about the possible fraud and was pleased with the way it was handled have a new (hopefully) correct drive on the way was very little trouble to get corrected customer support was quick to make it right
    • USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure External SATA HDD and SSD Case - Optimized for 9.5mm 7mm 2.5" SSD, Tool Free (FE2002)
    • Very fast drive
    • Great drive that gave new life to a 2008 iMac.
    • Even if you don't get this drive, which I think is pretty damn good as far as solid state drives go, get a solid state drive
    • By changing the hard drive in my laptop, I have sped up my machine x3.
    • Easy to install in my laptop, A great improvement over my old 5400 RPM hard drive. FAST!!
    • These hard drives work great and don't require much setup.
    • This SSD replaced a regular hard drive.
    • Samsung makes excellent drives
    • Just make sure you get one big enough for what you currently have on your old hard drive.
    • so far love this drive
    • Now I have a pretty darn big SSD hard drive in my beloved PS3 which will hopefully extend the life of the console.
    • Making the change from a mechanical hard drive to this has been a whole new world
    • Really great upgrade if you're still using an old spinning hard drive
    • Great drive
    • I had to go to town to find something that would work and finally had to purchase a little hard drive enclosure to USB to make it work.
    • returned for credit because it wouldn't work in my computer (couldn't download from my hard drive).
    • noneThere have been some reviews of people having trouble with their SSD after some period, but I have seen no faultiness in my hard drive.
    • I installed the drive and did a clean install of Win7 on this drive and the machine works better than it ever worked before.
    • I absolutely LOVE solid-state drives
    • Best drive on the market for the price.
    • One drive died and lost everything, but Samsung sent a new one right away.
    • Unbelievable how much faster my pc runs and starts up without a hard drive
    • The drive itself works fine and is fast.
    • But to those out there who might not be comfortable replacing a traditional hard drive with an SSD I would suggest watching some YT vids
    • Best hard ssd drive you can buy
    • A great replacement hard drive.
    • This is a very good drive.
    • Great drive.
    • Remember, unlike regular hard drives, you do not need to defrag these, in fact your discouraged since the write technology is not the same.
    • If you have only used hard drives in your PC, I HIGHLY recommend going with an SSD, specifically this one
    • Greatly improves speed without the noise of a hard drive.
    • love this drive, replaced the oem original drive that was eight years old , difference in speed , is great
    • This is a really good external hard drive
    • Very fast R/W speeds, even Windows boots quickly
    • unit has great r/w specs
    • Fast and smooth I love the response time.
    • 290mb per sec read, but with rapid I get 1.3GB per sec write