SAMSUNG 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E500B/AM)

Im a designer and in my area of work I manipulate vector, pixel, 3d and some video art. I used this SSD (Samsung 850 EVO 500GB) daily, 35-60 hours of work per week, continuously for three years as an external working drive for most of my active projects. The drive has been fast enough that I have not noticed that Im working on an external. This is even when building complex vector layouts with dozens of layers and typographic elements, or photoshop files around 300-500mb and up. Because of the performance of the drive, I have to give it a decent rating. However, it has just switched into read-only mode exactly three years from date of purchase, so the drive can no longer be written to which basically means its useless. (Im not worried about file loss as Im always double or triple redundant with local and cloud backups.) For comparison, I have a couple OWC SSD that I bought back when SSD were an emerging tech. Near the end of 2011 I bought OWCs newly released 3G pro and 3G mercury SSD. The pro was $1200 for 250GB, the mercury was around $500 for 500GB. I used these drives in a 17 MBP for four years before the expensive one died, under the same workload. Im actually still using the cheaper one 6+ years later. So, for a helpful comparison: a mid-grade SSD that I bought over six years ago is still lasting longer than this Samsung 850 EVO under similar workload. Not sure how that works out, but I have to reiterate: the Samsung 850 was much faster than the Mercury 3G, and so I still prefer it. Considering the cost vs the use I got out of it, I think it was a fair deal.

Totally impressed with the cloning software. Took about two hours to transfer from my 256GB drive to the 500GB drive and when I installed the drive and rebooted, it was ROCK and ROLL!!! *** OK, I have been using this for a couple of days now and the performance increase is very noticeable. Could be that I was running out of space on my other drive, but WOW! *** Highly recommend!

I love it. good SSD for Price and just blows any HDD out the water. I recommend it to anyone who wants an upgrade for a reasonable cost.

Easy and fast installation in my AsusPro laptop. Boot up and load up speeds are so much faster now. Has made a huge difference in the speed of this computer.

If you are reviewing this item stop reading now and go and buy it. I have too much to say about this hard drive so I would even bother. All Im gonna say is my computer now boots in 3 seconds coming from like 7 mins for a full boot. Amazingly fast.......LOVE IT!!!!!

Have put this in 4 laptops and they have been running without issue. Definitely worth if for the speed difference compared to the HDD. Had to update the Samsung Data Migration app in order for the SSD to stay connected during migration, otherwise no issues. One large data HDD had issues cloning to SSD which I believe to be related to the USB cable. Used a non powered adapter and it worked fine.

Extremely fast and reliable for a pc main disk, I stored Windows and Linux for fast boot on both. Its a good space for making every install you need.

My original 125GB SSD was so full that I couldnt update Windows 10... I knew it was time for an upgrade. I am happy that prices have come down so much from when I built my computer 2 years ago... SSDs are about half the cost per GB as they were 2 years ago. The largest piece of work on making the change was tracking down and documenting all of my software license keys. Once I had everything backed up, keys documented and a Windows 10 disc made, the change of the hardware was easy. I reused the old mounting bracket even though I bought a new one just in case the old one became bent or I lost a screw. I plugged in and mounted the new SSD, turned on the machine, popped in the windows 10 disk I had made and laid down a fresh installation of the OS. Windows then did the big update that had failed with no room available. All is running smooth. I still have a bunch of programs to reinstall.... the biggest hassle with those was getting Outlook to set up ost files on my hard drive instead of the SSD... that took some research and registry editing. Overall, with a few days of use, the Samsung SSD seems great.

1. Downloaded the manual for my laptop. 2. Took out the old (secondary) hard drive. 3. Installed this new Samsung one 4. Rebooted 5. Samsungs tool saw it but Windows didnt 6. Opened Windows Computer Management 7. Selected new drive and right clicked to enable it and create a simple volume 8. OS discovered the new drive in Windows Explorer etc Samsungs own speedtest (via Magician) reports a >500MB sequential read/write and >57K read ad >24K read IOPS (whatever they are). This is approx double the performance of my old SSD (from 2011). Lovely Jubbly.

Received on time and in good order. I was able to put into cabinet of computer without any problems and immediately starting using unit. It is part of an upgrade to have my C: drive as a solid state start up and so far it has been performing quite well. Very happy with unit.