SAMSUNG 860 EVO MZ-76E500E 500 GB Solid State Drive - SATA (SATA/600) - 2.5 Drive - Internal - 550 MB/s Maximum Read Transfer Rate - 520 MB/s Maximum Write Transfer Rate - 256-bit Encryption Standard

The box it came it was marked not for retail sale. If any issues arise with the product, and Samsung will not hold it to the same warranty that would come with a consumer drive, I expect Amazon to fulfill the warranty - as I purchased a consumer drive, but have received a manufacturers version. The drive itself checks out as a genuine Samsung 860 EVO within Samsungs software, so I have no reason to believe it is a counterfeit. The drive itself gets a 5 star rating all around for quality and price. Samsungs SATA SSDs are the standard for the industry. That said, if youre selling not-for-retail-sale manufacturers drives, the price should be marked down, not up. I was unhappy paying a $10 markup thinking I was getting a consumer drive with a consumer warranty. I am very unhappy paying a $10 markup on something that should have been marked down $10 from the going rate. Once more for clarity - If Samsung will not uphold the 5 year limited warranty that comes with the 860 EVO for-sale-to-consumer drive, I expect Amazon to uphold that warranty.

Samsung is a good brand when it comes to SSDs. My laptop is 5 years old with a 5400rpm HDD. Successfully cloned with everything and what a difference in run times. If you are planning to clone your old hard drive to a Samsung SSD you will need to buy a SATA transfer cable which isnt expensive. You will also need to use the Samsung Data Migration software to clone the drive. Just do a Google search to find it. Its easy to use and its free to download from Samsung. Theres also a user guide for the software on the same webpage.

Reliable, reliable, reliable. Exactly what I needed. Using it in an X-Drive slot on my workstation for hot plugging project folders and off-site backup.

I used it for a week and its very fast and stable. Thanks to the seller ... sell a lot

I have been buying the EVO series since they vame out and havent had a single problem. They are fast and run cool. All around its a great SSD.

When it comes to computer mods, Im a Samsung brand whore. All of my computers the past 3 years have been upgraded to Samsung SSDs. I used a Evo 860 500gb slave in an older laptop with an mSATA Evo 850 as the primary boot drive along with 16GB memory. I also had an Evo 860 250GB as a boot drive in an older Dell tower with a 2TB HGST drive as a slave and 32GB memory. And yet another Dell with an Evo 860 250 with 8GB memory. No failures. No issues. Great speed and performance. Im now building a new tower and will be using either one of my old EVO 860s or a newer 960 M.2 drive. Samsung is all I will ever use when it comes to boot drives, plain and simple.

Worked after formatting

My wifes is no longer complaining about her laptop be so slow after I changed out the HHD for an SSD.

Great upgrade over the original SATA drive. It was super-easy to install, and makes the computer run so much better. Recommend!

Excellent