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

Very easy to install on my early 2011 MacBook Pro which is running the latest version of OSX El Capitan. The cloning process required me to download and install a free copy of CarbonCopy for the Mac as the bundled software on CD didnt have anything Macrelated on it. This was my only criticism really. There are lots of tutorials and YouTube videos out there to guide you through the process. Cloning my existing drive (which had 284GB of data) took about 4 hours. The physical installation took me less than 30 minutes. I went slow and steady to make sure I didnt mess up. Really it was dead easy. You will need tools and a SATA cable adapter which you will have to buy separately if you dont already have access. I bought and used the following: 1. TEKTON 2830 Precision Bit and Driver Kit 2. IO Crest USB 3.0 to SATA II Cable Adapter Performance improvement was immediate and dramatic. My Mac rebooted very quickly and battery life has gone from about 4 to 5 hours to well over 6.5 hours on a full charge. I highly recommend this upgrade. Enabling TRIM is recommended. This is easy with El Capitan (although a bit geeky dont be afraid). Feels like I have a new computer with kick-ass performance.

I installed this on my Inspiron 14 5000 because it had a super slow hard drive already pre-installed. My boot up time went from about 80 seconds to about 3 seconds with this new hard drive. It was easy to install the software included that cloned the old hard drive to this one. The old hard drive had a 5400 rpm. The cloning process itself took a couple of hours. I was cloning the 5400 rpm hard drive that was straight out of the box without Microsoft Office Suite installed on it. After installing the Samsung 850 EVO, I installed Microsoft Office Student and made a few customizations to my computer. Boot up time went up to about 5 seconds but I still find that to be incredible. Ive been playing with this hard drive for a couple of weeks now and havent had any problems yet.

I used this drive to replace the mechanical one in my Toshiba 17 laptop. I now get POST to fully booted into Windows 10 in about 17 seconds. Program load times are also quite amazing

One word..FAST !!!! Not to much to say .. 10 second boot up on a widows 10 Monster machine. I custom built my own machine about a year and half ago. One SSD as listed in teh primary with a 1tb raid setup in machine and a 6 gig external back up box. Water cooled with 32 gb or ram memory. You can no go wrong with this.. only issue i want a bigger one.. but price was a little over the top.

So far so good. I had to download the updated software to clone my Windows 10 over. Computer is running smoothly and updating other devices as needed. Quick boots. No issues but will keep you posted!

Installed in my Macbook Pro 2011 to increase the speed and this hard drive is amazing fast so far compared to the old HDD. Adobe products open up almost instantly! Start up takes less than 30 seconds now, compared to a couple minutes before. A+++++

my old MacBook is boosting again! ive got a 15 macbook pro 2011, fast enough cpu, updated memory, the only bottleneck was hard drive, this SSD released that obstruction. its also so much lighter, plus i removed optical drive, computer is lighter as well

I bought this SSD to use as a replacement OS boot drive on my personal desktop after my 16 year old Seagate HDD finally gave out on me. Works great and comes with some nice Samsung SSD management software if you care to install it.

Inexpensive speed upgrade for any computer as it will certainly provide an immediate boost in speed that more than justifies the cost. I noticed this speed increase while on the internet as well. Startup was faster, programs faster, and the internet was faster. One caveat though: Windows 8.1 device manager could see the drive, but my computer could not see it or recognize it unless I used the data migration tool in the software first. That translates into me not being able to use the drive until I cloned another drive and then my computer could recognize and use the drive for any purpose after that.

The software wouldnt work with my setup, was using two hard drives in Raid configuration , but was hoping it might . no luck this time,but the drive is working great and one day delivery , ordered in morning and was here later afternoon. Robert .