Product ReviewsSamsung 860 EVO 500GB,Internal,2.5 inch (MZ76E500BAM) Solid State Drive

Runs like a new SSD!

Looks, installs, and runs like a brand new one. I installed this one in my Girlfriends PC. It was just what she needed. Got rid of that old mechanical drive. What a big difference it makes. It used to take up to 2 minutes before, to boot up. Now it takes about 10 to 15 seconds. She's gonna be so happy.....she'll have puppies. lol. Samsung makes the best SSD's for the money.Read full review...

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Great value for the price.

Great value for the price.Using it to replace an off brand 500 GB solid state drive that is going bad. The Samsung is faster and a better drive than my old one.

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I have tried tested and used three different brands of SSD and I find Samsung to be the best.

I have installed 5 Samsung 500GB SSDs in PCs, three EVO 850 and two EVO 860 all worked well with no problems and using the software from Samsung it is very easy to clone the drive. I had problems with the other two manufacturers products.Read full review...

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Huge performance increase from this SSD.

First off, two things. 1-My desktop computer was an ideal candidate for this upgrade, and, 2-Any SSD is going to provide less storage capacity and cost more than a mechanical hard drive. Prices for hard drives have fallen so far that I was able to buy a 2 terabyte hard drive for just $43 eight months ago here on eBay. The EVO 860 is 500 gigabytes and cost $150. However, I am what is known as a power user, and the mechanical hard drive was unable to perform the many tasks I assign to it simultaneously at an acceptable speed. Installing the EVO 860 cut boot times from 2 minutes to 30 seconds. More importantly, the computer was ready to run programs just 15 seconds after the desktop appeared. The mechanical hard drive required 15 minutes to get ready. Also, the mechanical hard would slow down each time I opened an application, to the point where if I had 5 apps running at the same time, it would bog down to the point of being immobilized. The EVO 860 can run many apps at one with no noticeable slowdown. The EVO 860 is also built using the very latest in chip technology, and promises an extremely long service life, at least 10 times that of a mechanical hard drive. The difference in speed is amazing, but be patient, it took about 6 reboots before the computer reached its maximum speed. I hope this helps.Read full review...

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My first experience getting an SSD

Bought this for my dad, to upgrade from his 250 kingston ssd (which was also great), for more space. Used the samsung migration software, worked like a charm. I also bought this for myself weeks before, and experimented using both the samsung software and the AOMEI Partition Assistant, for more tools. Both programs worked great, both SSDs are working great, everything is smooth, Windows boots up within seconds.Read full review...

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One of the best

It is a Samsung SSD, worth the extra money just for the peace of mind. Never had 1 fail on me yet, but those HP pro 512gb SSD have failed as soon as day 1. Stay away from HP branded SSD unless you do not care about loosing your time, money and data.Read full review...

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Samsung 860 EVO SSD GREAT

The drive is very fast. Using Samsungs Migration software it cloned in about an hour. Installed very easily in my Toshiba L75D laptop. This the second SSD I have purchasd in the past 6 months. The first was not a Samsung and I had to carry it to a computer tech to get it cloned. Using Samsungs Migration software it was a snapI recievred it in the mail about 1:30 today an it is cloned an running in my laptop at about 6:30 pm. Great drive & great migration software.Read full review...

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Awesome

Brought an old Thinkpad T520 back to life with one of these and an older Samsung mSATA card; laptop runs noticeable faster than before. I have a 250GB EVO in my desktop (with a 2TB HDD slaved to it) and it runs like a dream. Samsung is my brand.Read full review...

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Excellent SSD

I replaced the hard drive in my wife's laptop that was failing with this SSD. With a USB to SATA cable adapter, it was super easy to clone the hard drive to the SSD using the Samsung data transfer software (a free download from the Samsung website). However, on our slow computer, it took over 10 hours to transfer all the data so I ran the software over night.

After the transfer, it took just a few minutes to replace the hard drive with the SSD and reboot the computer. It worked perfectly and it's significantly faster than the hard drive in reading and writing data.

If you need to speed up a computer, the most recommended upgrade in the past used to be to add more RAM. Now I think that replacing a hard drive with a SSD makes more sense!Read full review...

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Samsung EVO SSD is the best

The SSD is so fast compared to the spinning hard disk it replaced. I trust the Samsung brand and the EVO model of SSD with my data. I will pass up a less expensive product to purchase a Samsung EVO SSD every time.Read full review...

New life for my laptop

Like many people I’ve set up my laptop with a fast system SSD and a big hard drive for storage. But the 250GB Western Digital Blue drive I had was both a system bottleneck and getting cramped. I replaced it with this 500GB unit and my laptop woke up! Everything is quicker now from startup to shutdown. You just don’t realize how fast a computer is till you remove all the delays.
Loving the purchase.Read full review...

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