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

Excellent speed of work. The software included didnt work properly, but I can download the new version from the website of Samsung

Instantly noticed the difference from only using my normal harddrive to using that combined with this. I only install my games onto this and they run super smoothly, load times cut by around 80%. Worth the investment.

Fast read/write speeds. My only issue comes with the software with the SSD which you pretty much have to install. Samsung magician is annoying, and it constantly gives me errors while not detecting my SSD 50% of the time. You shouldnt even need software to utilize an SSD.

These drives are lightning fast compared to the old spinning hard drives. It is fine using the old ones, if you have them, for storage, but these new SSDs run your operating system so much faster now. I have an old Vista laptop, and win7 computer I want to load onto an SSD. They dont generate any heat, and they are silent. I loaded win10 on my 500gb SSD and it had finished by the time I refilled my coffee, and now starts in seconds from cold. I dont know what else to say, but this is the new age. Use it or watch the load circles spin!!

Best upgrade I have ever made. Installed in Macbook Pro (Early 2011) which got sluggish after Yosemite. This brought it back to blisteringly fast responses of the Mac. I boot up to login in less than 20 seconds. Recommend VERY highly.

Ive learned to put this in my wish list with a note on the price. It will fluctuate $40-$50. It has for months. It stays in the same range, but goes up and down. Hard drive is awesome, laptop runs so much faster now.

Update to initial review (which was a 1 star review) - I spent about 8 hours working on cloning my laptops HDD to this drive. This included a call to Samsung. I must say that I was somewhat impressed by Samsung Tech Support. I reached a human being, knowledgeable with the 850 EVO within about 3 minutes. Kudos. The Tech had several things to try, including changing some of the Windows Services I have running. He checked the driver on the SATA controller, told me it was old and directed me to an Intel URL where I could update. While the driver update was running we agreed to end the call and I would try to run the clone again. During the call he also suggested I use a freeware disk clone program I could download from the Internet as well as an uninstaller that I could use to uninstall the broken Samsung migration software. Well .... nothing the Tech had me do improved the Samsung Migration software. Just a bad combination of lap (Dell Inspiron), laptop age (2 years) and the Samsung migration software. I took the Techs advise and downloaded disk clone freeware from the Internet and installed. I had a learning curve and had to perform the clone twice before I could get it work. I wasted a LOT of time with that lesson, but at the end of the day, the clone worked. Turns out you have to do an exhaustive sector by sector copy and not an intelligent copy in order to get a bootable drive. The intelligent clone took about 35 minutes, and did not work. The exhaustive clone took about 65 minutes BUT IT WORKED. Now, initial thoughts about the speed of the SSD over my original HDD .. speed. The SSD is MUCH faster. Boot times my laptop (defined as the time between pressing the power on button to having a usable system) is better by about a factor of 10. Very impressive. So far I have used it about 60 minutes. Well see how it does long term. One star because 0 stars is not possible. Actually, I cant tell about the 850 EVO. Its the migration software. To say it is crap is to give it way too much credit. Simply put, the setup.exe never completes. The setup.exe stays in task manager, consumes no resources and never ends. There are no messages, no prompts. It just sits there. I finally rebooted my PC. I then checked programs in Control Panel, and it says the Migration Tool is installed. I looked for it in Program Files, and sure enough, there it is!. I tried to run it manually, but of course it failed. It couldnt find the SOURCE drive. So, I went back to Control Panel and tried to uninstall it the migration software by selecting it, then clicking uninstall. Seems simple enough. BUT, the install manager started and attempted to install it again! I cant get rid of the crap software! Junk, Junk, Junk! Yeah, I disabled McAfee too. For the record, my laptop is a two year old Dell Inspiron running Windows 8.1.

Fast! Good software application behind this for firmware updates, benchmarking and information. I am impressed with what Samsung has done with their controllers and how stable these drives are. Factor in a great sale price and this is an easy decision.

Fast! Loads of room for games and OS to live together. Use a cheap old fashioned HDD for storing all your music, pics, and videos.

Cloned my WD HD, cut my boot time in half. Works very well, easy install. This is my second one, I clone C drive and save it outside of my computer as a restore. 2-3 months later I clone it again and swap them so If I crash, I just reinstall the other one and Im back in business. Very happy