Start with a clean install of the OS

The install was easy enough as the only time-consuming part of the process was the data transfer which I performed with a USB to SATA cable from Fry’s (electronics retailer in SoCal; Amazon’s cable took forever to arrive) along with the free version of the Super Duper software, after wiping the new drive with MacOS’s Disk Utility

It usually takes forever for my computer to come back up but after the transfer and clean install even after hibernation my comp gets back to going almost instantly

Did a fresh install of OS and haven't cluttered it up to the extent my

I must say, a huge welcomed surprise was that I preformed an clean install of my os a few months ago however reached a point where my updates wouldnt work

Easy install and setup

easy install and data transfer

The performance is just incredible after a clean install of the OS in this drive

Upgrade was performed without a fresh install of macOS, simply a clone, offering a true equivalent comparison!Highly recommended to upgrade ram using Crucial's 16GB kit for mac as well

Easy install, load the OS and go

I installed this SSD and did a clean install of OS X El Capitan with no problems

Put this in my asus x755ja laptop with an upgrade to the ram and a fresh install of windows 7, I love it

Although a "clean install" of the OS is usually the best option, note that the Magician Cloning software that comes with this drive works well

Clean install along with the 16GB RAM was a piece of cake.

After installing Magician software and optimizing the SSD, I recommend uninstalling it since I

Install was super easy

This SSD and Samsung's transfer software make for an easy install.

The install was super fast

Wanted to upgrade my Dell Precision M4600 to Windows 10, so I figured it would also be a good time to get a new SSD and perform a clean install instead of an upgrade.

Quick & easy install.

Easy install on my old macbook pro and now even MS Office loads pretty much instantly

Easy install!

Easy install and format.

Clean install on my 5 year old A890GXM AMI bios AM2 mobo (3.3Ghz AMD Phenom II 6x) & Windows 7 HP x64 recognized it just fine

Had to do a clean install of WINDOW 10, because I originally installed windows 10 while my BIOS was set for SATA (HP for RAID) mode

painless install

Easy install, easy transfer of data and OS, and it's been 100% reliable

Easy install and best reviews on SSD drives

Great product easy install

Fairly easy install

Easy install, easy cloning hard drive

Install was very easy.

Easy install, works as advertised.

Excellent drive and very easy install

Trouble free clean install on Windows

Just plugged the SATA cable in and did a clean install of Windows 7 from a USB

I did a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and reloaded my software

It originally came with Windows 8 installed (which I liked)

Just make sure you have a windows or other OS key as its a clean install.

Easy Install instructions, Can't say enough good things about this drive

Trouble free clean install on Windows

Since this was a fresh install of the OS, I didn't use the cloning software.

The frame rate is 1/4 the speed of a desktop, and overclocking will make short work of killing your CPU, drive(s), GPU(s) and motherboard

I was able to enable by Googling around for the correct machine code (don’t need extra software), and Office took a few calls and online chat sessions to figure out, but that’s not Samsung’s fault.

That happened during the install of the 2nd SSD that worked, and not sure what it was about my HP Envy 17t-n100, but the drive port on the right side of the board, nearer the USB hard drive, opposite side of bluray player, etc.... it would drop out constantly

It works as it's intended, very reliable and very fast speeds.

As fast and smooth as you would imagine

Been almost six weeks and not only is it still running as fast as at the beginning, this upgrade as solved some errors with buggy software issues I used to have.