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

Fantastic drive, blazingly fast and nice to see the price decreasing. The pro drive is slightly faster and more durable but this is still 100x better than a SATA drive. Do yourself a favor and replace your SATA drive with one of these before buying a new computer or laptop.

Best upgrade in a long time. Windows boots up super fast and the performance is great compared to my old Sata 2 HDD.

Im loving my new Samsung SSD. I replaced the original drive on my Mac Mini with the 850 EVO and set the original drive as backup. Used the ifixit double mount kit, everything works nice. Boots in less than half the time as original, loads and runs most programs just as fast. Very pleased! ============ EDIT ============ Just came back to edit this review and change my rating to 5 Stars up from 4. After two months of use the 850 EVO has exceeded my expectations. Obviously I cant speak to durability after only a couple months, but thats the only thing I can think of that could change my review to anything below 5 Stars. This product is about as close to perfect as you can get. If youre thinking about it, get one. You will not be disappointed.

Product was very easy to install, also the difference in boot time to opening, closing and opening other applications is very noticeable. I am very happy with this purchase.

I did a lot of research at the time, and I definitely chose a good drive.

5 stars because it did exactly as advertised. My mid-2012 Macbook Pro runs faster than a newer model.

Night and day difference in performance with a 2011 MacBook Pro that was becoming so sluggish I wanted to throw it against the wall to wake it up. . .LOL. Install was a breeze, and amazing how fast everything is

The actual drive is fine, but the Samsung Cloning software - which is actually written by Clonix - is a useless piece of garbage. I have Windows 7 64-bit Professional booting of a two year old Samsung SSD. It repeatedly failed to clone my existing 250GB Samsung drive to the new 500GB drive, and each failure was accompanied by meaningless cryptic messages. I deleted old files, chkdskd repeatedly, TRIMd, reduced the used space on the source drive to 65%, disabled virus scanners, tried safe mode, downloaded and patched the software to the latest version, and still the cloning software refused to do anything remotely useful. So yes, an okay drive, but budget the cost of some decent cloning software into your purchase, or take a crap shoot and download one of the freeware ones and hope you dont get malware in the download.

At the time of purchase the price was very competitive for a Samsung SSD. It works perfectly well in a PC with Z270X Gigabyte Motherboard and W10 64Bits operating system.

Youd hope for the price the transfer speeds would be a bit faster but its still an SSD and as far as this one goes, its exactly what youd expect. It works just fine.