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"SSD Hardware - Smoking fast Documentation - GARBAGE Support - Very Poor Recovery Probability - Low Out Of Box Experience - { Depends on user - 8>) } Technical Complexity - In The Most Basic situation, minimal, if you Use your systems, You better know what you're doing."
"In conclusion, If you are someone that needs a bigger hard drive or your hard drive died and you are contemplating if you should replace it or the whole computer or even if you are thinking of building your own computer, I can tell you with confidence that if you replace your mechanical hard drive with this Solid State Drive, you will be glad you spent a few extra dollars and your PC will be useful for a much longer period of time you expected."
"Then removed the HDD and installed the SSD into the mounting bracket, connected the SSD to the SATA data cable and power cable (I used the same port as the C drive HDD was connected to), powered the PC up and it booted hassle free, with no issues."
"The hard disk drive I had prior to this installation worked fine but I knew that everything could be much faster with the Samsung 860 Evo."
"The later I prefer because it is actually seamless with 3rd party cables that may hinder the older version from seeing the newly purchased drive from being a valid Samsung drive."
"After doing a some research, I eventually figured it out on my own, and from the command prompt in the recovery advanced troubleshooting section, using diskpart, I was able to change the partition to MBR, and then successfully completed the Windows 10 installation, with no further problems."
"TRANSFER CABLE I did not realize a USB to SATA transfer cable was needed until after I got the hard drive."
Samsung 860 EVO 500GB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E500B/AM) (Click to Compare Deals)
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"Again, if you have the most basic HD config, and don't care about losing all recovery ability, this may seem fine... I grit my teeth, explain that I need access to the former D and E data partitions, and am distressed about losing my recovery options, and am not willing to wipe out my functioning Boot partition on the source drive (should anything malfunction)... SSD Hardware - Smoking fast Documentation - GARBAGE Support - Very Poor Recovery Probability - Low Out Of Box Experience - { Depends on user - 8>) } Technical Complexity - In The Most Basic situation, minimal, if you Use your systems, You better know what you're doing."
"* This is the third Samsung SSD drive that I am purchasing for my home office desktop computer and while I typically replace my desktops and laptops at the 4 to 5 year mark, this desktop is now 9 years old runnig Windows 10 Enterprise and a major reason I have not replaced it yet are these SSDs... Note that a newer computer would get better results than these but I believe that it is noteworthy to see how close the 840 Pro and the 860 are in performance and also how slow is the conventional hard drive in comparison to the SSDs... In conclusion, If you are someone that needs a bigger hard drive or your hard drive died and you are contemplating if you should replace it or the whole computer or even if you are thinking of building your own computer, I can tell you with confidence that if you replace your mechanical hard drive with this Solid State Drive, you will be glad you spent a few extra dollars and your PC will be useful for a much longer period of time you expected."
"The SSD comes with an Installation Guide, which I didn't need other than to follow a web site link provided in order to install the Samsung Data Migration Software and Samsung Magician Software... Then removed the HDD and installed the SSD into the mounting bracket, connected the SSD to the SATA data cable and power cable (I used the same port as the C drive HDD was connected to), powered the PC up and it booted hassle free, with no issues... The Magician software not only carves out a bit of the drive for overhead, but it also has a cool performance test you can run on all installed drives."
"The hard disk drive I had prior to this installation worked fine but I knew that everything could be much faster with the Samsung 860 Evo... With Oracle's Virtual Box, creating a new virtual machine (50 GB disk space) and installing Windows on it was a 10 minute process with an SSD versus the 25 minutes it took using an HDD... It costs about $10 and is worth NOT having to reinstall Windows, programs you use, and all of your personal files/data."
"The later I prefer because it is actually seamless with 3rd party cables that may hinder the older version from seeing the newly purchased drive from being a valid Samsung drive... All I have are laptops and pulling them out for testing isn't much fun since they don't have access plates (it's like taking monitor bezels off)... Perhaps this Samsung will drift into something else that needs that comfy feeling, but even the eldest of the eldest SSD hasn't thrown one flag up yet."
"The physical installation, including opening the laptop, removing the old hard drive, installing the new SSD, and closing it up, took me about 30 minutes total, with no problems at all for that part of the upgrade... After doing a some research, I eventually figured it out on my own, and from the command prompt in the recovery advanced troubleshooting section, using diskpart, I was able to change the partition to MBR, and then successfully completed the Windows 10 installation, with no further problems. In the end, I was disappointed in Samsung and Microsoft for not providing a little more help and insight into the issue, especially since it's not unusual to replace a failed hard drive with an SSD drive, even if the PC is a little dated."
"I think this where they need to improve, the software should have checked for these errors before you spend 5... TRANSFER CABLE I did not realize a USB to SATA transfer cable was needed until after I got the hard drive... It used to take several minutes to load multiple tabs, now it is instant, so I am very happy with the performance on what I use daily."
Less Quick
"For example, in my Windows 10 world, there are recovery partitions on the drive, that are required if you ever want / need to restore back to factory state, in case of a major fail... Again, if you have the most basic HD config, and don't care about losing all recovery ability, this may seem fine... I grit my teeth, explain that I need access to the former D and E data partitions, and am distressed about losing my recovery options, and am not willing to wipe out my functioning Boot partition on the source drive (should anything malfunction)... There are, and I am aware of, the significant effort to move my 2TB of data to another drive, from the original, then boot from the SSD... Anyhow, with the current software, documentation, and (DIS)service structure in place, that is a very real probability for many new users... SSD Hardware - Smoking fast Documentation - GARBAGE Support - Very Poor Recovery Probability - Low Out Of Box Experience - { Depends on user - 8>) } Technical Complexity - In The Most Basic situation, minimal, if you Use your systems, You better know what you're doing... The hardware is likely great, If you don't know what you're doing, you had better seek skilled help, and make sure you understand your end state."
"* This is the third Samsung SSD drive that I am purchasing for my home office desktop computer and while I typically replace my desktops and laptops at the 4 to 5 year mark, this desktop is now 9 years old runnig Windows 10 Enterprise and a major reason I have not replaced it yet are these SSDs... This way, if something goes wrong, I can just plug in my previous SSD and be back in business until I figure out what I need to do to make things work with the upgrade... 83TB (this is only data written to the drive, not read) while the drive reports that the "Power-on Hours" are 29092 which would be about 3... In the attached pictures, you can see comparison data of the 2 drives showing that they are very close in performance including performance results for a conventional SATA 2T HDD. Note that a newer computer would get better results than these but I believe that it is noteworthy to see how close the 840 Pro and the 860 are in performance and also how slow is the conventional hard drive in comparison to the SSDs... In conclusion, If you are someone that needs a bigger hard drive or your hard drive died and you are contemplating if you should replace it or the whole computer or even if you are thinking of building your own computer, I can tell you with confidence that if you replace your mechanical hard drive with this Solid State Drive, you will be glad you spent a few extra dollars and your PC will be useful for a much longer period of time you expected... As you can see from the test results, if you have a computer with a mechanical hard drive and replace it with an SSD, you will most likely see double the speed overall."
"* I have a nearly 9 year old CyberPower desktop with an Asus P6T Motherboard and wanted to eliminate a potential point of failure to eek out a little more longevity... I also got the Corsair Dual SSD Mounting Bracket that was an order option for another 6 bucks... The SSD comes with an Installation Guide, which I didn't need other than to follow a web site link provided in order to install the Samsung Data Migration Software and Samsung Magician Software. Since I was installing the SSD to replace my C System drive, I needed to clone that drive onto the SSD... Then removed the HDD and installed the SSD into the mounting bracket, connected the SSD to the SATA data cable and power cable (I used the same port as the C drive HDD was connected to), powered the PC up and it booted hassle free, with no issues... This will only be an issue if you do not use the same exact SATA data connection that was attached to your former C system drive... The Magician software not only carves out a bit of the drive for overhead, but it also has a cool performance test you can run on all installed drives."
"* This is the first solid state drive I have purchased and it's the best upgrade I've made to my 2015 Dell Inspiron 14 laptop. The hard disk drive I had prior to this installation worked fine but I knew that everything could be much faster with the Samsung 860 Evo. After cloning my previous hard drive (this took about 4 hours for 320GB at 20-30 MB/s) the installation took about 20-25 minutes... With Oracle's Virtual Box, creating a new virtual machine (50 GB disk space) and installing Windows on it was a 10 minute process with an SSD versus the 25 minutes it took using an HDD. Basically, buying and installing an SSD onto your laptop or PC is the most efficient way to increase system performance and speed... 0 to SATA adapter cable to clone my hard drive from the old HDD to the Samsung Evo 860 SSD. It costs about $10 and is worth NOT having to reinstall Windows, programs you use, and all of your personal files/data."
"2 in my computers if possible, but if that's not available right now I like these 860 Evo's... 0 for DL, then once installed it sees there's an update to 3... The later I prefer because it is actually seamless with 3rd party cables that may hinder the older version from seeing the newly purchased drive from being a valid Samsung drive. I'd just like to see the latest software on their website and not have to DL twice... I'd love to test this out for you in an actually powerful desktop but those have all gone M... All I have are laptops and pulling them out for testing isn't much fun since they don't have access plates (it's like taking monitor bezels off)... Perhaps this Samsung will drift into something else that needs that comfy feeling, but even the eldest of the eldest SSD hasn't thrown one flag up yet."
"Since it replaced a 1TB hard drive on a 6 year old laptop with a BIOS motherboard that only supports SATA I and Windows 10 (version 1803 rs4; Spring 2018 Creators Update)... The physical installation, including opening the laptop, removing the old hard drive, installing the new SSD, and closing it up, took me about 30 minutes total, with no problems at all for that part of the upgrade. The only problem I had was not due to the drive itself, or it's physical installation, but rather the technical support I received from Samsung and Microsoft... After doing a some research, I eventually figured it out on my own, and from the command prompt in the recovery advanced troubleshooting section, using diskpart, I was able to change the partition to MBR, and then successfully completed the Windows 10 installation, with no further problems. In the end, I was disappointed in Samsung and Microsoft for not providing a little more help and insight into the issue, especially since it's not unusual to replace a failed hard drive with an SSD drive, even if the PC is a little dated. It would've also been nice if the Windows 10 installation gave a little more information as to what the problem is and where to find the solution to fix it... However, there are a number of articles and YouTube videos that can help you out."
"* PACKAGING I was surprised at how little packaging there was it came in a plastic envelope and the hard drive comes in a small box inside a plastic tray. I am not sure if the hard drive can be damage by dropping, with virtually no protection but seems to be working okay... It then went through a process that is supposed to make corrections, after that I ran it again and estimated I be up to 11pm waiting for it to finish... I think this where they need to improve, the software should have checked for these errors before you spend 5... TRANSFER CABLE I did not realize a USB to SATA transfer cable was needed until after I got the hard drive... I also use chrome daily and have about 15 screens open at once, it loads in 1-2 seconds as well. It used to take several minutes to load multiple tabs, now it is instant, so I am very happy with the performance on what I use daily."
