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

I finally was willing to spend the extra few dollars to get a Samsung SSD when I read through some reviews on the Kingston V300 and found out that mine may have been defective. I immediately ran a few benchmark tests on it (which admittedly, I should have done sooner), and I found that the write speeds were only about half (220-230 mbps) the advertised benchmarks. I realize that typically the benchmarks posted are not 100% realistic, but to only be getting half of the advertised speed was frustrating to me. I went ahead and bought the 250 GB EVO drive to compare, knowing that Samsung has a history of creating top-notch drives. I went with the Evo 850 because it was currently about the best performance to cost drive on the market. I sure am glad I did! The drive weighs probably right around an ounce. When I first got this, I was wondering if I was sent an empty 2.5 bracket - Its about 1/2 the weight of the Kingston equivalent drive. I plugged it in, initialized it as MBR so that windows would recognize it, then did a quick format NTFS partition for some testing. I saw an immediate difference versus the V300. Ill post an image of my results, but you will see that the Samsung 850 EVO provides very realistic benchmarks on the product page. Im able to get very close to 500 MBPS read/write, whilst the operating system is running off the drive. Needless to say, I Cloned the Samsung and sent back the Kingston. Id much rather pay an additional ~10$ to get double the performance and a company that actually stands behind their products. Another nice feature of the Samsung 250 vs the Kingston 240 is a literal translation of an increased 10 GB. You will see in my screenshot as well that the EVO shows up in Windows 8.1 as 233GB, after format, while the Kingston V300 shows up as 223GB. Not much more to say about this drive. Works AS ADVERTISED, and beats the daylights out of my previous SSD. I will be buying a second one for a RAID 0 setup. Hit yes to helpful if this review was helpful or if youd like some RAID testing!

Incredibly fast drive. Transformed my iMac into a beast. Great price, and my actual recommendation for high quality when price is mostly irrelevant.

Installed Windows 10 on this baby, my Desktop boots up in seconds. Has to be seen to be believed. Amazing tech. Absolutely recommend to anyone who uses a desktop PC.

I bought this SSD to breath new life into my old DELL desktop. I have a 6 year-old DELL XPS gaming PC with a decent Nvidia video card (considered top of the line back then) and quad CPUs with 16 GB RAM and 1TB HDD. Its a bit old but I paid for it over $1500 back then so I did not want to waste my investment, I gave it to my son for doing homework and playing video games. Before this SSD, it took nearly 2 minutes to log in, load McAfee and his Steam games. After the installation of SSD, it now takes about 15 seconds to load. And his games are running faster. My son is really happy! The SSD comes with Samsung Magician software on a CD. I also bought from Amazon the SATA cable and the 2.5 to 3.5 inch Sorbent mounting kit. It took me about 5 minutes to install the SSD in the mounting kit, push it into one of the empty bay, swap the SATA0 cable from old HDD to SSD, then locate sata 2 on the mother board to connect the new SATA cable to the old HDD (SATA 1 is for my Blue ray Disk-drive), so SSD becomes C: drive, old HDD becomes E: drive. Instead of cloning the HDD with years of junk in the system registry, I decided to reinstall the OS on the SSD for a clean start. Luckily for my son, he only needs MS Office and his steam application. So I just reinstalled the apps, copied his steam folder from the old HDD to new SSD. Nothing is lost. Then I run the Samsung Magician software to tell OS to optimize the performance for SSD. Thats pretty much it. The PC has been running clean and faster for two weeks with no issues. I spent less than100 bucks to get a newer faster PC instead of spending a lot more money to buy a new PC.

I am using for my program drive and the cloud and 1T drive for storage data. So far so good!

This is my second 850 EVO and It probably wont be the last. They install easily and just work.

If you want more speed, quicker start up, and reliability, then this is the way to go. The drive comes with a CD and software that allows you to clone your old drive (HHD) with this new drive (SSD) via a connection like the StarTech USB 3.0 to 2.5 SATA III Hard Drive interface cable also sold at Amazon. Plus if you lose any information, like accidently deleting a file or pictures, theyre still on your old drive and you can use the interface cable to retrieve them in the future. Great price for this drive. Id recommend this to everyone.

Installed windows 8.1 on it as my maid OS drive, and it preforms excellent. System boots in under 10 seconds. it has been running non stop for a couple of months now and i do not see any sign of slowing down.

SSD is the way to go, makes computers gazillion times faster and a very prudent way of doing it.

Samsung quality. Nice ssd. Love my samsung products