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

This is my first SSD that I installed in my latest gaming computer build. It came well packaged and included some software which is fairly useful. It is lightning fast and very quiet. Installation was a snap. It is the only hard drive I have needed so far and I have the operating system on it along with the my games. I highly recommend this drive. You just can’t go wrong.

WOW. The software that come with this drive shocked me. It transferred all my data in perfect condition in less than 30 minutes. I had 355gigs to transfer. Unbelievable!!! The drive was simple to install if you can follow a simple cartoon drawing. Windows 10 loads in 15 seconds. No more waiting 10 minutes for the computer to get up to speed. 15 seconds!

LOVE IT! Ever since I switched to this from a regular HDD my computer has been speedy! It does wonders for my games and applications. Even installations and scans go much faster. It was completely worth the price! I didnt need enormous amount of space and this gave me adequate amount of space to do what I needed. Worst comes to worse Ill buy another one for a second drive.

Right out of the box , the Samsung 850 will not allow you to swap drives and restore directly from a Time Machine backup. You will need to create a bootable 8gb usb installer ( see [...] ) boot from it, install OSX ( e.g. El Capitan ) and then restore your backup. This gives you a fresh copy of OSX and everything prior to your upgrade is restored except having to deal with the Microsoft office license key reinstall ( yea, it a Windows thing). Find your windows product license keys ahead of time. After swapping for original 500 gb spinning disk for this ssd, its a dramatic difference. Same speed to launch apps as my MBP with Apples SSD. Only other item to setup is the TRIM command that is not enabled for these 3rd party ssds. The command is now part of El Capitan and is easy to enable. ( see for risks and explanation [...] ) Overall seems to be a good drive. 4 stars since does not install as advertised without extra time and steps I had to perform. 5 year warranty I think it is for the drive

Would have been nicer if it came with a mounting bracket or cables

I bought this Samsung SSD because the price / performance / capacity ratio was so good. I replaced a failed Seagate (surprise!) drive with this little unit and, of course the difference is night and day in performance. If you dont have an SSD in your machine, stop doing what youre doing and buy one to replace your current HD. Even on relatively new machines, this is easily the most impressive update you can make once youve got your RAM up to snuff.

Included migration software works well for Windows. It does NOT migrate multiple partitions. I have my HD dual booted with Linux and the included tool only works for the boot drive under windows. I went ahead and just did the Windows partition and will reinstall Linux separately. NOTE: First drive I received did not work. I spent 2 days and bought a newer USB adapter before calling Samsung support who suggested replacement. I requested replacement from Amazon and it was delivered the next day before I woke up!, and worked flawlessly. Old 500 GB mechanical drive : 3.9 oz. This drive 1.7 oz.

Made a really fast computer into a speed demon. before my down loads would have to pause to let the hard drive catch up and the boot time was so slow that in the morning I would have to go brush my teeth and get dressed for work before it came up. Now I can turn it on, take a sip of coffee and bam it is up and running.

I have an Asus G750 laptop - a beast of a machine. The hard drive subsystem is quite slow, however. Its 5400 RPM, and is designed to save power. This slows the entire machine down when editing photos or video. Boot up from power off would take around 25 seconds to get to a log in prompt. After logging in, the machine would take another 30 - 45 seconds to load everything and become stable. I do have quite a few software packages loading. After installing this SSD, my boot up from cold not takes roughly 6 seconds. Stability is reached at about 5 seconds after logging in. Recovery after sleep or hibernation is nearly immediate. Its an amazing difference, and really boosts my productivity. It was always painful to wait for the laptop to be ready, especially when clients were waiting for something. Now I dont need to worry - I open the lid and *bam* - its up and running.

My 4 year old laptop get an upgrade with a 500GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO. See now the boot-up speed has increased dramatically. Applications startup supper fast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB2dR2aQJZo I will defiantly recommend this product to anyone.