Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0B/AM)

I’ve had this item for about a week now and it’s worked perfectly but the installation was annoying because it does not come with a sata 3 cable so if you buy it make sure you have a extra cable or buy one with it.

Purchased to replace a standard 500gb laptop hard drive in the Lenovo Yoga 2 I received from my Father. After replacing the battery in the system I noticed the drive Yoga 2 had was attached to the standard SATA cable, opening the option to easily upgrade the slow hdd to a ssd. Looking into the compatibility drives I saw a few “nays” and “yeas” concerning the Samsung 860 EVO 500gb in this particular convertible laptop. Took the chance and ordered. Cloning the drive was simple enough with an external enclosure I had on hand using Samsung’s software. System literally takes 5 seconds to boot fully into Windows 10. If the drive was not going to work in this system I was considering it to replace the boot ssd in my desktop, but happily it went smoothly. Only issue was the Samsung Magician software not detecting the drive as genuine - which was easy to fix by hunting for the latest Samsung Magician software under their support. For some reason Samsung’s product page for this drive links an older Magician software that doesn’t properly detect the drive.

As with any new SSD, the drive was not allocated and not recognized by the host computer. Here is a simple way to allocate your new SSD in 5 minutes.

I do a lot of high-end photo editing in Photoshop and other programs. Many files can get into the several GB range of size and it was just clogging up my old i7 with a 7,200 RPM HDD. System would slow down or hang while HDD sorted itself out, which just got worse and worse as it filled up more over the years.

Worked like a champ ! Super fast boot up and response time !

Hands down great and easy to install

Replaced a standard laptop HDD with this SSD. Great speed improvement at boot and when loading programs. Less video jutter in games.

My laptop hard drive finally quit out on me a few weeks ago. I’m a college student and I really can’t afford a new laptop. I decided to swap out my old hard drive for this ssd.

Bought this to replace the 1 TB disc drive in my 2010 MBP. Cloned the drive (I obviously didnt have the old drive full) and swapped into the laptop. The results are astonishing! This has given my ancient MBP a new lease of life! Almost feels like a new computer - boots up much faster and large apps like Word come up in less than a quarter of the time! Browser and other apps have seen similar benefits.

All our home machines (6) have Samsung SSD C: drives and another has D also. Never had a failure (knock on wood) and Samsung magician software speeds them up even further...and does firmware updates. Recommended.