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

If you dont have much experience, installing on windows 10 might be painful. The documentation does not help and and the data migration software failed on windows 10. Here are a few cloning tips for Windows 10 users: 1. use another cloning software, I used a free one called Macrium Reflect 2. connect the hard drive via usb 3. right click on my computer and select manage, then disk management, then right click on the drive and select simple volume 4. run macrium reflect for all partitions (adjust partitions and make sure it set to SSD) 5. install drive This video on you tube was helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWM79HCzdDA At the time of the review the second software called Samsung magician was not windows 10 compatible

I bought this SSD in April 2016. It died a couple days ago. Since then its been an absolute nightmare trying to get Samsung to honor the 5 year warranty. Ive spent so many hours and dealt with so much headache Ive been seriously considering giving up and buying a new drive (from a different brand) instead. I called Samsung multiple times but kept getting redirected and pawned off on other departments. I tried communicating to them through their online chat and had the issue. They finally gave me the number to their warranty company which said they had no record of the sale. They told me to call Amazon. Amazon told me to call Samsung. Finally, I got in touch with someone at Samsung only for the call to conveniently drop once I was speaking to the right person. I called back and dealt with the cycle again. Finally got ahold of the same person. Called dropped immediately yet again (despite having no issues throughout the entire rest of the process). In total, this happened four times. While dealing with this, I tried contacting Samsung through their online chat. They told me to call the SSD department directly and gave me a phone number. The phone number was to a scam health equipment manufacturer who tried to sell me medical supplies. When I told the person, they sent me to speak to their manager. I was finally sent the warranty fulfillment form to fill out and was told that they would put in a request for one day shipping since I depend on my laptop for work. I heard back today (about 40 hours from the form submission) about the status of the shipping label. They said that the one day label was still waiting to be approved but they could send me a two day label today instead. I told them to send me whatever will make this process quicker (because waiting three days for a one day shipping label to be sent instead of just getting a two day shipping label right away is an absolute joke). Its been 7 hours; I still havent heard back; I believe theyre also already closed for the night. In summation, avoid at all costs. As for anyone who is having issues with lost data, buy a SATA to USB cable. Take your hard drive out of your computer. You can find a guide online, but its pretty straight forward. Plug your hard drive into the cable and into another computer. The drive should pop up in the connected devices and you can manually pull everything off it from there or you can create a disk image of that drive directly that you can use to port all of your stuff over to a new hard drive.

My brother bought this for his laptop. He says, This SSD runs about 3 times faster than my old hard drive did! His startup time is about 5 seconds, compared to 15 that it was before. It was a noticeable difference!

What a mistake. I have a late 2012 Mac Mini with internal 1TB drive, 16GB RAM and running OS 10.9.5. I fell for the hype of a faster system and boy do I regret it now. I purchased the iFixit kit (5 stars) and was able to install the drive in about two hours. I then formatted it and restored (from a startup partition that I had previously created) from my 1TB drive to the SSD. When I restarted, I waited. And waited. And waited for the spinning ball to stop. Finally after about 4 full minutes, the Mac was up and running. Sure, the applications boot quicker, but thats about it. Now I have a system thats fractionally faster after a startup time that is about 20 times slower. The Samsung drives are apparently not too friendly with Apple products, so beware. Lots of other similar horror stories in the forums of suckers like me looking desperately for answers to the slow boot speeds. People with different versions of OS X, different hardware, different software. Three days later and I have re-formatted the SSD, re-restored the OS, unplugged, replugged, changed system settings and apparently Im screwed at startup. Samsungs website provides firmware updates to the 840 series and prior, but not the 850. Maybe its too new. But even what they do provide is an ISO file that must be run in Windows mode. No Apple support, no apple firmware. The CD that comes with the 850 has software that requires Windoze. I want this thing out of my mini but Im not even sure that would fix it at this point, since starting from the conventional drive is much slower than before the install.

I recently bought a refurbished HP Laptop that was supposed to come with a 1 TB HDD and a 128 GB M.2 drive. When I received it, I realized that it only had an HDD and did not come with the M.2 drive promised in the description. The people I bought it from offered to have me send it back, but upon doing more research, I realized that it was a rare thing to find this particular computer with the i7-7700HQ processor that mine had. But it was PAINFULLY SLOW!!! When I opened the laptop, I discovered that the connector to go from the motherboard to the M.2 drive was not included... and I could not find such a connector anywhere I tried to look. What to do? I then noticed that the computer actually had room for a second drive and a nearby SATA connector. Although I saw horror stories about this, I took the plunge. Upon connecting the SSD to the computer, I turned the computer on only to discover that the drive was not visible in the file explorer. So I went to system settings, administrative tools, computer management, selected storage then disc management. There, the new drive was visible. When I clicked on it, it gave me the option of MBR vs GPT. After some research, I selected GPT since I have Windows 10, and voila, I had a new SSD available! I then used AOMEI Backupper to clone the original drive to the SSD using the option to optimize for SSD. This worked great. I then restarted the computer, went into the bios, found where the boot priority was, moved the Samsung disc to first priority, then finished booting... MUCH faster! I finally had a computer worthy of the processor. Very happy!

Love em Easy to install, small and light, and most of all fast. Made load times on Black Ops 4 10-15 seconds faster. Textures load much faster too.

Perfect in every way. Have had it for 2 years and its never failed me. Super fast and STABLE.

I really dislike Samsung as a company for so many reasons, some personal, some professional. That being out of the way, their SSDs are truly the best on the market right now (I feel). Ive tried SanDisk, Crucial, OCz, Kingston, etc. I just cant find a better drive for the price, yet. Noticeable benchmark increase from my 840. Amazing drive.

/Users/john/Desktop/Screen Shot 2015-09-08 at 02.52.00.png /Users/john/Desktop/Screen Shot 2015-09-08 at 13.49.08.jpg I bought the 850 Evo and it helped my macbook pro tremendously. After installing it, and also a 16 gb ram, and then cleaning out all my unneeded files, It is 6x as Fast!

Bought to replace a failing conventional hard drive in a relatives laptop. This was easy to replace with the installed software that copies your partitions over. Only problem I have is the recovery partition is not accessible through normal startup menu and will need to be confirgure to do that. Laptop is clear much faster and boots within 12-13 seconds. All functions are pretty much faster and provide a better experience while using. No need to purchase a new laptop, just install a faster SSD hard drive and you will extend the life of your older laptop.