Samsung 2.5-Inch 500 GB 850 EVO Solid State Drive - Black/Grey

Easy to install, cloning software included works as intended.

Usado como disco de arranque externo en un iMac 27", y en conjunción con la caja Inateck, alcanza una velocidad en la carga tanto del sistema operativo como de los programas que difícilmente podía imaginar. Un conjunto ganador, sin duda.

Excelente produto. Foi um ótimo upgrade para meu notebook. Vendedor atencioso e cumpriu rigorosamente os prazos estabelecidos.

Made the world of difference to my aging laptop boot times especially have been cut to a sixth of previous. Highly recommend this especially at the price i paid.

Excellent product TL;DR , get this if to wanna speed up your computer 10/10. The price to GB ratio is high even now but its totally worth it. I've been using Lenovo Y50-70 since I bought it on Dec/2014 and has never been fully formatted (upgraded to Windows 10 from 8.1). By July/2016 my laptop was slow as hell, 5 min to boot up, 10 min to restart,5+min to fully shut down, programs would constantly freeze, games would take 5-8 min to load. Bought this and did a fresh install of Windows 10. I did a restart to test the speeds, in ~15 seconds i was on the desktop ready for work. Its insanely fast !. Booting up takes ~10 secs (Watch my video) ! I am an animator , so i use heavy programs like Maya, Photoshop, Premiere , After Effects etc . Maya used to take 2-4 min to load, now it does in 10 secs. I game a lot too, Battlefield 3 used to take minutes to load a map in online match and now it doesn't even show "Loading level" anymore most of the time. Any system that costs more than Rs.60k deserves an SSD. Tips: Using an SSD is noting like using an HDD , you need you manually optimize Windows to make sure the SSD doesn't wear out with too many unnecessary writes. There are a lot of guides online that helps you to disable features like hibernate, search indexing , superfetch/prefetch, Reduce or disable virtual ram etc. Most of these features are designed to speed up the PC because of the slow nature of HDDs but they are completely obsolete when using an SSD and may even reduce the life and efficiency of SSDs. SUPER TIP: NEVER DEFRAGMENT AN SSD , THIS IS ONLY FOR HDDs.

My best yet computer Investment I have been a fan of Solid State Drives since they first became available some years ago, installing a 32 GB SanDisk as a program drive in a Lenovo R61 (the SSD is long gone but the Lenovo refuses to die and I am on a mission to see how long it will continue to run). My favorite Laptop is a Lenovo X220 that originally came with a Samsung 128 GB SSD and my intention was primarily to increase storage capacity. From day one the Lenovo has been exceptionally fast with iron-clad stability and reliability. I considered one of the Crucial SSDs as I used several through the years to replace the original SanDisk in the R61, but given the unfailing speed and reliability of the Samsung I thought I would give the new 850 EVO a try. The start of the journey was troublesome, and it has been a long time since I have encountered such frustration in the installation of a new drive. I couldn’t get it to work. I tried Samsung’s migration program numerous times and then resorted to an old stand-by, True Image. I tried almost every trick I have learned over the last 20 years. The migrations would report out as successful, but the drive would not boot. I finally called Samsung Technical Support expecting a 2-week delay but was surprised when I spoke to a very friendly and knowledgeable person after a wait of only several minutes. What he suggested was something I intrinsically knew, but was in territory I wasn’t especially anxious to enter. The problem was with this installation of Windows 8.1, not with the drive. To start with, I am a fan of Windows 8.1. When Microsoft offered version 8 at a ridiculously low introductory price I tried it on an old Laptop – figuring I would get my money’s worth of entertainment from the investment. The old laptop didn’t meet the minimum requirements for Windows 7 and after getting bored looking up migration information I proceeded with an installation on blind faith. It worked, and it worked well. I was astonished. I then proceeded to convert 5 of my 6 PCs to Windows 8 (the R61 still runs XP as it drives an old set of midi-hardware, and it took way too long to figure out all the hierarchies). As a free upgrade, Windows 8.1 was yet another successful step for Microsoft. I have also come to prefer downloads vs. a collection of installation discs that end cluttering up the house. But then I made my first realization – I could not use my Windows 8 product IDs to get the updated 8.1 files that I needed. But once I figured out a work around, the repair to my corrupted files only took a few seconds and I got the new drive to boot. To say I am impressed with the new drive is an understatement. My computer was fast before – capable of thoroughly embarrassing my heavily armored Mac Pro that runs Avid’s ProTools and Media Composer. I love to push computers - see how far ahead of them I can get before they crash. Numbers and test results are fun to read but when the time comes I make my decision and hope that what I select provides real-world performance for my investment dollar. The Samsung exceeds my expectations. I paid almost $500 for my first 40 MB full-height hard drive. When you turned on the computer it sounded like the engines starting on a 777: a low pitched whine that grew in intensity – also providing additional warmth on cold winter nights. Move ahead 20 years and you can buy a 500 GB drive that doesn’t weigh much more than a pack of cigarettes (no I don’t smoke) and is a third the size. And I could drop it without cracking the tile floor. So in conclusion, I would say the Samsung 850 EVO is probably one of the best computer investments I have ever made. And how many people would say that a new SSD can genuinely be ‘fun’? For me, it certainly is. Now I will see how hard I can push it.