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

great so far.

just as good as the 125 GB i bought.

Delivery is faster than I expected. Good price and excellent SDD. I am so satisfied.

No explanation needed, read the reviews. Very fast SSD top line for this price.

What a difference this drive makes on what had been a pokey 4 yr old laptop. I had been thinking of buying a new laptop to replace my Acer model 5750 with 2nd gen i3 and 4GB of ram and Windows 7. But forget that, this new drive is like a fountain of youth for under $115 all in. This EVO drive comes with transfer software on CD. Buy the StarTech cable to make the data transfer from the old hard disk. 95 GB in under an hour. Very smooth installation, doing something I have never done before. UPDATE: Unable to upgrade laptop with SSD to Windows 10, error about upgrade being unable to modify a partition. Reinstalled hard disk, upgraded to Windows 10 just fine. Then tried to Migrate to the SSD, Samsung Migration program would not recognize the SSD. Now the SSD is unusable. Waiting for Samsung to issue an update to Migration software so I can try again.

Excellent SSD for the money. If you dont need more than 250 GB then this is the perfect cost-per-GB SSD you can find. After installing the new SSD in conjunction with maxing my system out at 12GB RAM, my boot time is less than 5 seconds. Everything pulls up so fast now, even files from my OneDrive.

I never had a chance to test these as they were the wrong ones I needed. By default I give 5 stars.

Excellent replacement for laptops. Third one Ive installed so far. The Samsung data transfer software is acceptable, although not perfect. Dramatic increase in boot-up speed and drive data access.

WOW! At first I was a bit concerned as my notebook already has an i5 processor and the Windows performance score less the integrated graphics card was 6.9 (out of max 7.9).. 4.2 if you include the graphics which the score is based on since it takes the lowest score. However boot up time, time it took to connect to my network, opening IE or Google, opening certain apps was quite annoying as it reminded me of the old days where I would walk away while waiting for an app to open. No more! Im running Windows Pro 7, but boot up time approaches that of Windows 8 which is fast. Maybe its even the same as the notebook boots up in about 15 seconds or less from off. Connection to the network is there as soon as Windows has booted. Before Id have to wait what seemed like minutes before the connection was made. Opening IE to my home page takes seconds where before it could take minutes if I tried right after boot up. I had purchased a new notebook with the i7 processor, but with a standard HD spinning at 5400 RPM. I returned it and am perhaps only missing the touchscreen. I say perhaps because my notebook is so fast now that Im glad that I returned the touchscreen computer. Some other notes: When I first received this, I thought the box was empty. The SSD is so light, its incredible! Installation was a breeze and cloning was also so easy with the included software and an Anker external enclosure. My notebook is a SATA 1 and when I run Magician, it tells me that I wont realize full performance since the drive is SATA 3. So even though SATA 3 is backwards compatible, just remember that you cant obtain full performance from the drive. I cant but wonder what it would be like if I had a SATA 3 interface. Still Im very happy with the increased performance. I plan to test the battery life as that should also be improved with the SSD. Finally notebook seems to be running cooler. I havent done all the checks yet as I just finished installing this and am so excited about what Ive experienced so far. By the way, score for the HDD was 5.9. Its 7.2 for the SSD. More experiences: Word and Excel documents open instantly. Before you could watch the messages as the program opened. Even PDF files open instantly. Before even after Adobe Pro opened the document it wasnt immediately available. Now no hesitation and the file is also available immediately!

I really love these drives. They are fast, reliable, and are currently one of the best bangs for the buck. Until NVMe drives start to come down more in cost, Im not sure there is much more to say other than stick to the 250GB+ models of these :) I have ordered about a hundred of these drives so far and have only had one failure after use in a lab. This purchase was for my parents computer to give them a couple more years of life from it. It always amazes me the difference between five year old hard drives and a modern SSD. Its almost like getting a new computer :)