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

so far, working great, the only down side is that it didnt come with the cable for copying files to it like my other samsung drive did when I got my first SSD drive, but thats not much of a downside, great drives, my old one was still goin strong after a few years, I just needed more space.

Worked perfectly out of the box. Delivered as advertised. Not super-fast, but better than a spindle-drive.

Put this in a top of the lineHP Envy, at least HP says it was. Works much better and faster than I was expecting. Between this as Linux Mint, that HP is running much faster. Only down side, I did not have enough money to buy a larger unit.

Samsung offers one of the best SSDs at a reasonable price, making these one of the best bangs for your upgrade buck. What sets Samsung SSD drives apart is their terrific optimization suite known as Magician. Install this software package after you get the drive in and running. Make sure you run the included benchmark before starting the optimization so you have something by which to compare. Youll be amazed at how much faster your drive can be with a quick five minutes of work.

This was easy!! So easy, I will try it again soon on a laptop I have. Awesome!!

As a HDD goes it works just fine. The included software did nothing. I had to buy a USB to ssd adapter so I could use the software but the ware would not see the drive. Computer sees drive just fine but I could not ghost the drive so I just got to waste $13.00 on the adapter. Thanks Samsung

Very good SSD. works perfectly even after several years. very fast loading of OS and games.

installed this into a Dell Latitude E5500 (going on six years old) to help limp it along for another year. noticed a significant performance improvement when booting up. Applications seem to run better and havent seen any issues with read/write failures so I would definitely buy another one of these drives.

. - A fresh OS install is MUCH BETTER for a sleek compact Registry, efficiency, lack of junk, overall computer performance, etc, so if you have the patience & time to re-install all your programs & settings then take this route. Do a deep format first. - If Cloning, remember that the Samsung Migration Software will clone ONLY THE FIRST TWO Drive Partitions. - If Cloning, first clean all the junk out of your old HDD - a) uninstall all programs you dont need or use, b) use a 3rd party junk Cleaner, c) Registry Cleaner, d) Shredder to recover disk space AND remove traces of all deleted files, and e) run Disk Defragmenter a couple times. PC Tools - Registry Mechanic includes all of the above in one nice package. - If your source HD has around 250 Gb to clone, the Samsung Migration Software could take between 2 to 3 hours to complete with a simple (e)SATA to USB adapter/cable. Its faster if you have one with additional AC/DC power. If youre buying a new one a (e)SATA to (e)SATA interface/adapter/cable is the best. - After swapping in your new SSD, after powering up, first enter BIOS and ensure that AHCI is enabled. - After booting up, start the DOS Window and type fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0 to enable TRIM. - After Windows starts, check to see if Disk Defragmenter is Scheduled to run by default - Turn this Off - i.e. the scheduled to run part, HOWEVER Disk Defragmenter Services SHOULD REMAIN ENABLED & AUTOMATIC in Windows. - Install the Samsung Magician Software and then: A) start Performance Optimization - remember to re-visit this every couple weeks, B) select the desired OS Optimization settings, C) set an Over Provisioning level (10% is recommended but any reasonable level will suffice), and D) enable RAPID Mode. - Youll see PreFetch/SuperFetch in the Magician Software but sometimes it will not override Windows settings so you might like to run RegEdit and set both EnablePrefetcher = 0, and EnableSuperfetch = 0. Theyre in this Key - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerMemory ManagementPrefetchParameters. - In Device Manager, start the SSD window, click on the Policies tab, and make sure Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing... is NOT selected. Let me know if you need any help or have any questions! GOOD LUCK!!! .

My old HP Laptop has the speed now of a new computer before it gets bogged down by software and apps even though Ive added more software and apps to the laptop since the drive has so much more storage space. This is a big improvement in system loading and I dont get the hard drive indicator as being the the reason for the bottleneck in system speed. Instead I get the CPU indicator as being the bottleneck more times then the hard drive. This is a winner and since the laptop supports 2 350GB drives Im seriously considering buying another to replaceit also.