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After trying the Crucial 1 TB SSD i've been sold on them ever since. Insanely fast compared to platter HD's and even hybrids. My quibble with the Crucial is it is SUPPOSED to be 1 tb capacity but only shows 698 GB capacity! 300 gb lost is not a minor thing...it might have been taken over by the reserve partition or something like that but, this irked me enough to want to try another brand. As always, installation has the possibility to be a headache but, the enclosed DVD that came with the drive, did all the work. I don't think the program cares what brand or type you use as source disk, there is no going to their site and entering some code just so you can download and use your own cloning program for your own disk, no codes to enter and nothing to download. Simple install of the cloning program, then you tell it to clone your drive and the program does the rest. It will not shut off your computer automatically as the Crucial drive program does so you have to check the screen for the notice that tells you to shut off your computer now. I cloned using a Crucial solid state drive as source disk, and i timed it at a half hour start to finish. (I'd guess a platter type source drive will take longer but I don't really know). Anyway when it tells you shut off the computer, then restart to boot to your new drive and you are done. No muss, no fuss, easy. And the capacity of this Samsung is well over 900 GB (they say when they make the chips they can't pick exactly how big it will come out, the chips are tested and the ones close to the desired capacity are what go into the drive). Anyway, this solid state drive is well worth it - the speed of these has spoiled me, the same way cable internet spoiled you for modems forevermore after you used it...I don't even want to bother using any platter type drive now since the slower response would drive me mad. When I used a hybrid drive as my main hard drive, boot time was over 2.5 minutes...you know the kind, where you turn on the computer and then go shave or something while it comes on? Now with a solid state drive it's less then 30 seconds, doing a restart takes maybe 40 seconds. Once you go solid state, there's no going back...Read full review
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This solid state drive was an upgrade from a 5400 RPM hard drive. The change in speed was dramatic and immediate. Hard drive intensive tasks like full system scans that used to take 15 minutes now take under five minutes. File searches are almost instantaneous. Even though my HP Envy was equipped with a Core i7 and 16 GB of RAM, I found virtual machines to run slowly, but that has all changed now. Some may miss the hard drive clicking noise, but I will not. I was able to disable the fall sensor software on the computer, as it is no longer needed. A laptop fall will no longer threaten all my data. There has also been a minor boost to battery power as there is no longer a hard drive that needs to be kept spinning, but the change is far from dramatic. I paid around $100 under the market price and received just a hard drive with no instruction manuals or cables, which was perfect for a laptop installation. I highly recommend this product if you can find a good price.Read full review
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I prefer Linux Mint 17 for its speed and features. Some of my programs require the Windows operating system. I have Windows 10 as a secondary operating system with the dual-boot feature. No problems at all. It improves the speed of Windows 10 boot, and operation. Linux Mint naturally boots faster, but the 850 Evo improves the performance even more. if you are using Virtual Box, there are improvements in speed when running Windows 10 versus running Virtual Box on a standard hard drive. All the SSD's will improve your performance significantly. I don't recommend getting too hung up on the technical specs. You won't notice any difference between brands. What I like about the Samsung Evo 850 is that it has a five year warranty. By the time it is out of warranty, it will be obsolete.
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Installed in my Macbook Pro 17" 2011 to replace a 1TB hard drive. Extremely lightning fast! 1TB has lots of space. Opens apps very quickly, good bye to the beach ball. I run VMware with Windows 10 OS on it and had problems running my software before because it was so slow. Now it is very very fast, just like a new computer. Best upgrade ever. Used Carbon Copy Cloner (30 day free trial) and a usb to SATA adapter to clone my hard drive, then installed it. Worked flawlessly. Bought a hard drive enclosure tool free case for my old drive and now have a 1TB external drive.
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I started using these drives a few years ago in my notebooks, and really liked the quality and speed of these drives, especially the Samsung EVO units. I think these are probably the best on the market. This drive was for my new 17" HP notebook and it works great. Very fast and reliable. It is about 8 to 10 times faster than the drive that came with the computer (a 1TB 7200RPM spin drive). Haven't had any failures on the Samsung drives, so they are my favorite.
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