The drive costs more, but it's worth the price.

The Samsung software made it very easy to copy all my data and the operating system from my old hard drive onto the Samsung SSD

The drive is pretty fast for file transfers and that's why I chose it as well

In one hour, it cloned my 1TB Windows 10 hard drive to this SSD.

I'm happy with the performance, the SSD does what it should, and my laptop now runs a bit faster than it did with a hard drive in it.

This drive was recommended to me after my current hard drive died

The drive is still very fast, and the price is right.

I bought this to replace the hard drive in this laptop computer

I was in need of some new storage after my old hard drive decided to become borderline kaput, so I thought I'd buy a new internal SSD

Apparently, this HP's USB does not have enough power for the old hard drive.

Most people don't need a hard drive like this

All partitions (4) on the failing drive were

Have to get used to the newer technology, haven't replaced a hard drive for over 20 years.

at work said I should buy this hard drive and that it could make a huge improvement in my laptops performance

so ta da... its never their fault .. easy peazy .. not their problem .. so this drive is goin

This is a good, fast drive at a relatively good price

Had a hard drive for steam games and now it loads 2-4 times faster

Great price point and drive performs well in my laptop

The performance boost over a mechanical hard drive make these worth the extra cost.

New drive is working great.

However, I had issues with the Asmedia based SATA ports recognizing this drive

I did some research before buying this hard drive

The Evo 870 is a great all around hard drive and definitely increased the speed of my computer

I clone and replace hard drives regularly at my job

I wish I had known that disconnecting the old drive automatically resolves boot issues

An absolute MUST HAVE for anyone with an aging laptop still running with a ‘mechanical’ hard drive.

Replace my hard drive to get faster performance.

With the Samsung migration software, it was extremely easy to clone my hard drive

I already trusted this drive prior to the PS4 upgrade as I have 2 in my

This is a great hard drive to use on an older computer to give it a bit more life and make it a lot faster.

There are less expensive drives, but as stated, I ALWAYS use the most reliable drives when storing my daily or critical information / data.

Easyily one of the better branded SSD drives, and little higher speeds

Made my own adaption from the original hard drive mounting case.

👌I used Samsung app for migrating data from old hard drive

We both agreed this hard drive made it alot quicker

Exactly what I ordered, a good solid state drive

I dont have a need for a faster hard drive.

The transfer itself took about 1-2 minutes & after a restart the new drive was ready to use

i liked it used for cloning one hard drive

The Samsung Data Migration Tool and a SATA to USB cable or hard drive enclosure works to duplicate your old drive

Bought a 1TB drive to replace my very old, clunky hard drive

This drive is also working as expected as an upgrade to the hard drive in the HP.

Replaced original HP hard drive in a lap top, start up is super fast, solved my problem

I was looking for more storage for my sampler and this is a solid hard drive

I think it was time to swap out the hard drive when I did

This hard drive worked great

replaced hard drive and increased storage capacity

And since SSD drives have been around, I've replaced dead or slow drives with Samsung models

Just replaced my old iMac hard drive and this thing bright new life to it.

Very reliable drive

My hard drive in my HP laptop was getting very slow

As long as the SATA cables fit the drive, the drive can stay loose in the tower, or be fastened by any method you prefer.

Purchased this to replace a rotating platter hard drive.

I finally got a solid state drive after of years of putting it off, and I wish that I had done it sooner.

I replaced some slower 5400 WD red hard drives with these in an OWC Thunderbay 4 Raid 0 Enclosure.

Removed my hard drive and replaced it with the new SSD.

I replace hard drive for a toshiba laptop year 2015 model

They both cloned from the other mechanical hard drives just fine

I backed up pertinent files, and swapped the original hard drive out for this Samsung SSD.

This drive is supported by Samsung Magician which shows you the health and data written to the drive and is another reason to buy from brands such as Western Digital and Samsung

Upon testing it came up as 6hrs used and the Hard Drive tests all failed

Samsung software advertised as easy to clone the hard drive to the new one.

I love those drives

Replaced my Dell Inspiron 5579 Hard drive with this SSD and it drastically sped the computer up

My PC hard drive was beginning to have issues and the SAMSUNG 870 was a wonderful upgrade.

It took about 30 minutes to clone my hard drive.

then I suggest you save your money and buy yourself a cheaper hard drive

I installed it in my computer and made Windows 10 boot up much faster than the other non SSD hard drive

I've owned many hard drives and I really like this one.

If you shop around ( at various brands) and in time the price will drop as the current price of a 2TB is marginally acceptable and within budget for the pricier Samsung drives

good price - quality drive buy them on sale if you can (they go on sale quite often)

Seems to be a good drive

After cloning the hard drive, installing the SSD was fairly simple, though the adapter case did not work at all with the SSD.

Obviously not the best performing, but it is a good quality drive

Hard drive is failing after only owning it for a few months.

The hard drive on my original PS4 was aging poorly

I definitely recommend Samsung SSD drives.

The drive is very fast, but one reason I go with Samsung is ease of installation.

This hard drive saved my 09

I had already clonedmy old hard drive onto my ssd,

Edit: after finding software that actually WORKS this ssd is usable as my primary drive

I cloned the failing drive to the Samsung 1TB 870 EVO SSD and had a better than new laptop when the new SSD was installed.

I was going from a large hard drive to a smaller SSD and 2

I've had dozens of portable computers over the last 3 decades, and have run many brands of hard drives/SSD's

SSD easily to install, clone old hard drive, with software of Samsung, available on their website.

A great ssd drive and an easy install software

A fresh install of Windows 10 went very fast, much faster than a standard hard drive

I've owned many hard drives and I really like this one.

Great solid state drive for the price.

Installed 3 of these in 3 different computers to replace the hard drive

My only advice to would-be buyers: you'll need to order an adapter to connect the drive to your USB port in order to clone your old hard drive

I've had several problems with the hard drive.

Excellent replacement for a main hard drive.

I just moved them to a different enclosure and the drives are still throwing errors.

I am very satisfied with this excellent drive witch it speed up my 10 years old computer

My ACER desktop was unusable for media playback do to very noisy hard drive

Should have went with a better hard drive at a more reasonable price instead of this brand named one.

Fast delivery was a big bonus since my previous hard drive was

Very fast responsive drive.

However, make sure you have cloning software if you are replacing your current hard drive to make the transition smoothly.

Love the drive.

Now I have two malfunctioning drives and I’m out over $1000 in just hard drives

I replaced the standard hard drive in my girlfriends Macbook pro 2012 and the performance boost along with 16 GB of ram was astonishing

And with the original hard drive, it was somewhat slow even after waiting 15 minutes for the boot to complete

I bought this one to replace the old hard drive of XP’S dell desktop

Used as an extra hard drive on my HP Omen

Very solid drives and works great with my URSA mini to shoot 422 or HQ prores, or even 4.6k CDNG

Used this to upgrade the hard drive in my PS4 Pro

Although the old drive was working well, I was impressed by how fast a laptop that I was working on booted from a SSD, so I decided to buy one for myself

Initially thought was a little expensive, this drive is great

I disconnected the hard drive and plugged the SSD into the hard drive's Sata position

Very nice performance improvement when replacing a hard drive with this SSD

Just replaced my old iMac hard drive and this thing bright new life to it.

I recommend this drive since everything I do now on my P.C. works much faster

The only proviso I would offer is to back up the SSD hard drive frequently, as it can potentially fail unexpectedly

Replaced regular hard drive on my laptop because the price is low enough for me to do it.

This hard drive worked great

I was looking for more storage for my sampler and this is a solid hard drive

The SSD is working flawlessly and is 10 times quicker than the old hard-drive

This drive is also working as expected as an upgrade to the hard drive in the HP.

This solid state drive was very easy to install

i liked it used for cloning one hard drive

I dont have a need for a faster hard drive.

The #1 selling cable of this type on Amazon is described in part as "USB 3.0 to 2.5” SATA III Hard Drive Adapter - External Converter for SSD/HDD Data Transfer."Because the SSD has no moving or spinning parts, it generates no clicking, whirring, or whining sounds, which is nice

Never had any issues with this device, or any in cloning for it, on a true hard drive cloner, or using the Samsung software where I could take a 2TB hard drive and fit it onto only a 500 GB drive with ease

Booting up takes about 3 sec whereas either the old hard drive it took at least 30 seconds

Replaced a failed hard drive (HDD).So much FASTER now!Well worth the price!

This is a great hard drive to use on an older computer to give it a bit more life and make it a lot faster.

There are less expensive drives, but as stated, I ALWAYS use the most reliable drives when storing my daily or critical information / data.

I don't regret buying this hard drive, not to mention that the price was great.

I had a lot of failures with Seagate hard drives, both mechanical and solid state

The MacBook had a failing 7 year old hard drive in it and this thing brought it back to

If you are cloning your old hard drive, run check disk to find/fix any errors

Highly recommend to anyone experiencing slow speeds due to a hard drive

Yet another "amazon special" hard drive case with no volume inside.

Xbox is far more responsive with this drive compared to the old slow mechanical drive

Don't buy a cheap drive.

I purchased this drive for increased computer back-up usage, and so far so good

My issue with this solid-state drive, is that I have ordered it twice

This drive was recommended to me after my current hard drive died

Cloning the old hard drive to this new SSD drive, using Samsung's cloning software, was super easy and worked perfectly.

Very hard to go wrong in purchasing this drive

I used this hard drive to swap with the one I had in my laptop

I love these evo drives

Great ssd drive easy install much better performance on pc

With the old hard drive, it took 13 minutes to get to the same place

The hard drive would not accept the OS on my Mac

The drive was fine and worked perfectly

The drive was fine and worked perfectly

I was getting warnings that the factory installed Hard Drive was failing.

The drive slowed down quite a bit so I changed it out for this 1tb

This hard drive took a computer that was slower than a turtle & brought it back to 2021 speeds

Highly recommend this hard drive for the price and performance value.

These are also useful in a USB enclosure to make a decent portable drive.

Decades of trying a variety of brands for hard drives, SSD drives, SD cards and, micro SD cards ALWAYS brings me back to Samsung for reliability and long life.

Boots up in a fraction of the time that it used to with the conventional hard drive

Very easy to install and replace my old hard drive in laptop

This drive is super fast and boots up my OS quickly.

There is a case that can be bought separately to fit your old hard drive.

SSD hard drives will improve your Windows or Apple devices by 5 to 10 times regarding boot up speed and access to programs

Fast, inexpensive and drastically improves performance of laptops over hard drives.

The display used to get very warm where the old hard drive sits behind it

Replaced my PC hard drive with this incredible device.

I have my old hard drives still in the

Bought this for extra game storage and the drive was perfect for a few months, then suddenly slowed way down and is spamming Event Viewer with "block retried" errors

I do photography and they are fast and inexpensive storage and do the job for whatever my needs for fast, small, and light drives which allow me to keep multiple copies of my images offloaded from my camera memory cards onto them just to be sure I keep my data safe until I get it home.

These appear to be exceptional drives and a little pricey, but worth it for the 3 year warranty.

Used it to replace a hard drive in my laptop, system performance is fantastic compared to the mechanical drive.

Replaced failed disc drive on my windows 10

The drive failed in less than 3 months.

Works as a replacement for a boot drive (the spinning type) and makes the pc more responsive, faster boot time etc.

I did my research and alot of tech guys said Samsung had the best software for upgrading to a faster Solid State Hard drive

What a difference this made going from my mid 2012 MacBook Pro with 500gb hard drive

I had a dead hard drive on a HP

Great drive and super fast

These drives have been the best that I've used.

While they are not the most flashy m.2 drives they are in stand alone cases which means I dont need them in a conventional slot making them highly sought after for my needs

I then swapped out the failing drive for the Samsung which booted without incident

Replaced the hard drive in the laptop with this SSD.

Excellent drives from Samsung

I absolutely love these hard drives

Upgraded the hard drive in my Asus notebook which was experiencing slow performance

I love this drive, no issues with sata3 or even old sata2 connections

Upgraded the hard drive in my Asus notebook which was experiencing slow performance

I absolutely love these hard drives

I love this drive, no issues with sata3 or even old sata2 connections

Somehow the hard drive in my PS4 Pro got fried

Windows kept reverting the boot drive back to my old hard drive

I replaced the hard drive in my laptop, bootup/login time went from 3 minutes to < 15 seconds.

Bought this to replace the slow mechanical drive in my xbox one x

The drive is fast and benchmarks well

Good drive

amazing drive, fibally my computer work faster then before, everthing upload fast then before , i had hdd before , the migration tool great , make evrthing easierrecomended drive for laptop

I dont shoot CDNG much because of the size, but if This drive can write stable CDNG, it can write anything you need fast enough 🤣

I did my research and alot of tech guys said Samsung had the best software for upgrading to a faster Solid State Hard drive

I knew part of that was likely dust build-up inside the vents, but it was happening primarily during frequent hard drive reads – such as playing music stored on the drive, but not while just using a browser

I would recommend this to anyone looking for a cheap boot drive but if possible get a nvme ssd (check if your motherboard supports it

I purchased a second hard drive, it malfunctioned, but my 30 day warranty had expired

Bought this for extra game storage and the drive was perfect for a few months, then suddenly slowed way down and is spamming Event Viewer with "block retried" errors

I have been using this as a fast drive for multiple consecutive VM's at the same time

Western Digital used to send a new drive for exchange, and for a premium SSD at this cost I expected much better service, and a much better drive.

The only problem I had was keeping my old hard drive hooked up and letting the bios determine the boot drive

I am working through the laptop where I changed the hard-drive out for an SSD

If you don't mind shutting down, and booting up, it's a blazing fast drive though

I replaced an older failing hard drive and the software made it very easy to duplicate the old drive and get up and running in just a few minutes

It was easy to move the data off the old slow hard drive onto it

As always one of the best hard drives, super fast speeds

So far it has been a great dependable drive

Excellent drive.

love this drive

Remember to install Samsung Magician application after installing the drive [easy Samsung drive manager]

Highly recommend this hard drive for the price and performance value.

If you want to stop using a hard drive and you don't have a M.2 slot built into your motherboard a 2.5'' SATA

I had to change out my original hard-drive when some water came in contact with it

Whether I waited too long or not is a relevant; the relevant in this review, is that two drives from the same company were bad

V good!