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5.8.2015

1. The latest review of the Samsung SSD 850 Pro drive prompted me to change my drives from Seagate Barracuda HDs. The main concern is always to be able to transfer exactly what's on the old drive to the new one, and the Samsung Data Migration V.2.7 software does that with some limitations eg the software will run only if the operating system is installed on the Source Disk. It will not function on disks that lack an operating system installation. Hence the need to use a cloning dock (StarTech SATDOCK2REU3) which overcomes this problem (see my review of the SATDOCK2REU3) when transferring data from a HD that does not contain the OS ie. non `C' drive. The cloning dock is the safest way to transfer data from one drive to another.Contrary to the Samsung Data Migration software, the SATDOCKs duplicate the drives on a sector-by-sector basis, regardless of the partition layout or whether an operating system is installed. This creates a true bit-for-bit duplicate of the original drive. . However, if planning to use the StarTech SatDock2REU3, ensure the 850Pro is not first used with the Data Migration software as once the drive is programmed to receive data only from drives containing the OS it is unlikely to respond to a StarDock source that does not have the OS on it.2. There are other limitations with the Samsung software:(a) If the amount of data stored on the Source Disk exceeds the capacity of the Target Disk, cloningwill not proceed. The Source Disk (e.g. "C:" drive) must consist of at least 20% free space. If morethan 80% of the Source Disk is filled with data, the cloning process cannot proceed normally.Secondary partitions require at least 5 GB of free space.(b) On systems with two(2) drives or more (e.g. "C:", "D:", and "E:" drives) with the operating systeminstalled on the "C:" drive, only the first two drives will be cloned. The "System" partition that iscreated during Windows installation is automatically replicated.(c) OEM recovery partitions, generated at the factory by computer manufacturers, cannot be replicated.However, if the PC is manufactured by Samsung and SRS (Samsung Recovery Solution) 5 or 6 isinstalled, the recovery partition is cloned automatically. (Not supported in versions prior to SRS 5)(d) A difference of a few GB of data capacity between the Source and Target Disks is normal aftercloning. The software does not copy the files Windows automatically generates to manage virtualmemory (page filesand hibernation files).(e) This software cannot clone encrypted disks. In order to clone an encrypted disk, you must firstremove the password from the disk.(f) If the mainboard chipset drivers are not up to date when cloning, this software may not functionproperly.(g) If there are multiple operating systems installed on the PC (e.g. Windows 7 is installed on the Cdrive and Windows 8 is installed on the D drive), the cloned disk may not function properly.(h) If the Source Disk is damaged (e.g. the disk has bad sectors), the cloned disk may not functionproperly.(i) When attempting to clone a disk using this software, it is recommended that you close all otherprograms and free up sufficient memory before cloning.(j) If you have instant PC recovery software installed on your system, this software may not functionproperly.(k) If a Source Disk is converted into a dynamic disk, the software may not function properly.3. Otherwise the Samsung SSD 850 Pro is an excellent upgrade and warrants 5-stars.
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23.12.2015

Windows 10 Desktop. i5 5th Gen Intel, 16gb RAM. PC Self build MSI motherboard.My C: drive was a Western Digital Raptor, quite fast for a hard disk but very very noisy and continually needed defragging.I decided on the EVO as the performance difference to the PRO was not that important for me, I needed to work with a quiet machine.Performance was 1m:30s to boot to desktop before installation, 30 seconds with the SSD installed. I do have some cache on other hard disks a few seconds could be saved without this I guess.Please note that the SSD comes with no screws, no SSD holder and no USB cloning cable. I had a Crucial SSD cable and the tiny screws came with my PC case. These little screws a difficult to source,I would hope they come with an SSD holder if you need to order one, so be aware!INSTALLATION:- Don't use the CD which comes in the SSD box, it is most likely out of date and may not support Windows 10, my CD was V4.5 and V4.9 is the most recent. You could end up in all sorts of trouble using the CD.- Sign-in to your computer with Administrator rights.- If you have migrated to Windows 10 you may consider removing Windows.old on the C: drive- Tidy up the old disk by removing unwanted programs and temp files, as a precaution I also prevented the C: drive being optimised at this time.- Download Samsung Data Migration Software from the Samsung website, being careful not to download from a download site.This software clones your hard disk to the SSD.- Download Samsung Magician Software for PC; or MAC of course,Magician software should reside on your computer it is used to optimise the computer and checks/downloads the firmware version.- Insert the SSD into the USB cable device.- Run the Samsung Data Migration Software to clone the hard disk by following the instructions.- Switch off your computer and remove the power cable.- You can next remove the old hard disk and install the SSD, don't touch the contacts!- Turn on your computer, install and run the Magician software and optimise to your requirements and check for firmware updates.Then run a performance check, mine is Read 535 / Write 508 Mbit/sIf you have a laptop with no encryption program such as BitLocker then encrypt the SSD.- Sign back into your computer with Standard rights, Administrator privilege is a high security risk.- Enjoy the new speed and quietness.Tip! There are programs which TRIM SSD cards, according to Samsung TRIM is automatically built into Windows 8 and above so don't do this.Hyper-V. if you are running Hyper-V then it may not start, ignore any messages about BIOS and do this:- open the Windows Command prompt as Adminitrator- enter this commandbcdedit /set {current} hypervisorlaunchtype auto- reboot and it works.
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15.2.2015

Excellent so far, and has revived my ageing Dell Studio 1735. I know it's probably overkill since my laptop only supports SATA I, but hopefully the EVO 850 will avoid the possible reliability issues of the 840. I do find the system freezes for a short while when the desktop first opens, but that happened with an old OCZ SSD that I tried, so I think it's really an issue with my machine/OS/configuration that can't keep up with the massively faster drive! [update: a clean reinstall of Vista, and now Windows 7, has solved the freezing problem]I was a bit puzzled to see that the drive label claims it needs 5V at 1.4A, since a typical modern 2.5" HDD would only be 500mA or less (and so can be powered from a standard USB2 port).But the paper specifications for the EVO 850 suggest that's just the peak consumption when writing, and only needs 10mA or so when idle. In any case, it seemed to work happily on an old USB2 500mA port.A few minor gripes, really about the software and bundle rather than the drive itself - I knew this wasn't an upgrade package and so didn't include the USB/SATA adaptor cable, but even so it's frustrating that none of my own adaptors or caddies would allow the Samsung Magician software to manage the EVO externally, even though it could "see" it as a drive. It did look as if I could clone just the system partition onto the SSD, but I couldn't see any way to clone the entire drive including the recovery and diagnostics partitions, which is what I wanted to do.I resolved this by installing the blank EVO internally in place of my old system HDD, then booting the free "AOMEI backupper" software from a USB flash stick. This let me clone the whole HDD from an external USB caddy, even conveniently resizing the partitions to fit the slightly smaller SSD and optimising their alignment. Rebooting (now from the EVO) then let me run the Magcian software - which I'd already installed on the sysdisk before cloning it - to check and tweak the SSD performance, set the over-provisioning etc. and TRIM the drive (since I'm on Vista). I suppose I could have made use of the second internal drive bay in my laptop to achieve the same, but this would have meant even more swapping of drives, and of course many laptops only have a single internal bay.If only Samsung had made the supplied software CD bootable, or at least provided an option in the Magician Software to create a bootable CD/USB, the EVO could be installed directly then cloned from the old system disk using any USB/SATA external caddy or cable, rather than having to use Samsung's own upgrade kit or third party cloning software as I did. But then I suppose they wouldn't have an excuse to sell upgrade kits!
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18.9.2014

I currently own the Samsung 830 256GB SSD, and after coming to the upper limits of its storage, it was time to expand (only had 4GB remaining!). First choice was the 850 Pro, with its higher IOPS range, reflected by Samsung's 10 year warranty guarantee.Physically, the 850 Pro is not as good looking as the 830, which had a brushed aluminium finish. The chrome trim remains however, so at least it will look unified once installed into the system.I was disappointed with the package given the price; the 850 Pro comes with no SATA cable, or SATA to USB cable, unlike the 830 - only the Samsung Magician CD (which would probably be more up-to-date on the Samsung website), and installation instructions.It would be nice to see at least one SATA cable packaged with Samsung SSDs, for newcomers etc - and just to save the expense of buying an extra cable.Coming onto installation, it was very simple; but my installation of Windows is strategically split into two - one partition for Windows, and another for Programs, which is a habit from my XP days, but also makes modifications to storage very easy. Using this method, it ensures that I do not modify or damage anything to do with Windows.Subsequently, I cloned the Programs (E:) partition to the 850 Pro, using Macrium Reflect, and then expanded the partition to the full storage capacity using AOEMI Partition Assistant. The drive letters were then re-ordered for Windows, with the 850 Pro taking up the Programs (E:) position from the 830.A reboot was all that was needed, Windows did not flinch at all, and I re-consolidated the extra space on the 830 to the Windows partition. So now I have one SSD for Windows, and another for Programs.The performance of the drive is very good; using Samsung Magician to run a performance test, the read speed clocked in at 564MB/s, while the write speed clocked in at 518MB/s. Obviously this a brand new drive, but even with constant use, the 850 Pro should hold up really well, given my past experience with the 830, which still reads/writes at 540/378 respectively, even after 2.5 years, where I have written 8TB in total.The CAD programs I depend on can get quite hefty in size (with multiple plugins, add-ons etc), and I have no doubt that the 850 Pro is up to the challenge, especially with RAPID Mode (present also on the 840 series) which is dependent on RAM size and speed - but bear in mind that it is more akin to a tuned version of Windows SuperFetch.Samsung are beginning to come into a league of their own with storage solutions, and with its performance, reliability, and relatively decent price ranges, it is not a surprise.I have no hesitation in recommending this speedy drive.
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25.4.2016

I already had an SSD in my desktop, a Crucial M4 60GB, five years old and still with 94% of it's life remaining but I had basically run out of space with it - I had just 4GB left so decided to upgrade.I didn't use the software that comes with it (glad as well as I have read since that it is worse than useless).I use Acronis True Image and made an image before installing it. Took my old one out, put this new Samsung one in and booted from a CD to run True Image. I knew there was a bit of an improvement because the image restored to the new drive in something close to four minutes - the restore onto the old Crucial took around 7 minutes (and sometimes longer). After the restore - into the BIOS,reassign the new drive boot options and start the PC. It would have been a wonderful start as well apart from the fact that when I went into disk management to extend the partition (from 60GB to fill the new disk) I saw another small EFI partition.....went mad for a bit and then did the whole thing again - but this time booting with Ubuntu first to get rid of ALL the partitions before the Acronis restore. That EFI p[artition had to have been on there from manufacture. Since then it has been a dream to work on.My computer though does not start up any faster at all, and I was hoping it would considering the age and model of the five-year-old Crucial. In the real world that my computer works in I have noticed no improvements in speed in fact. But it was the extra space I needed and I have certainly got what I wanted in that regard.However, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon and do a benchmark test with the same software to see how it compares. I never did any tests with the old drive - it was slowing due to space limitations and it is a five-year-old drive to boot.Well Samsung advertise their sequential read and write speeds as read (540 MB/s) and write (520 MB/s).After installing this drive I used CrystalDiskMark to have a test and the images show the result.A 1GB test gave a pretty good one that is very close to the 'as advertised' speeds to be honest at read (529 MB/s) and write (519 MB/s).A 4Gb test gave another good result with read (534 MB/s) with the write numbers down to (338 MB/s).In the end I've plenty of free space now to put additional software on should I want and no longer have to worry about the wear levelling count which is a much better representation of the actual state of the drive. Less space on the drive to spread the wear over was the worry on my old one, when it comes to SSD's larger is better!I took one star off for that stupid EFI partition which marred a flawless restore experience.
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4.8.2015

About three years ago I invested in a 120Gb Samsung 830 SSD for my newly built Windows 7 PC. With a Windows 10 upgrade imminent, and having struggled with space on my OS drive for the last while, I thought it was time to upgrade. I managed to pick up the 850 Pro during the Amazon Prime day sale and paid about the same as I would have for a non-Pro version.Really the first question you should be asking yourself is do you need the Pro version, or is the EVO sufficient? Actual performance between the two will be largely indistinguishable for the average user, but the Pro is expected to last through twice as many write cycles. More write cycles means that either the drive will simply last longer,or it may be more suitable in a server environment. Again, the average user will probably upgrade the drive before it comes close to failure due to "wear".I've used a variety of SSDs with various different computers. For my own home use I stick with Samsung because of the general quality of the drives (although you can't become brand complacent, as the problems with the 840s highlights) and Samsung's brilliant Magician software. None of the other manufacturers have software that comes close. Magician will only monitor Samsung drives.Samsung also offer cloning software so you can copy the contents of your existing drive (platter or SSD) and make a perfectly functional copy onto a Samsung SSD with enough space to take it. I can't tell you how easy this is. Run the software, unplug your old drive, plug in the new drive and it'll just work. UNLESS, like me, it turns out there's another drive in your system that is marked active. I was scratching my head over this for far too long. Somehow a data drive, which I probably pulled from an old system, had an active partition and was high-jacking the boot sequence. I pulled it, booted up the new clone drive, let the system settle, shutdown, plugged the rogue drive back in and started it up again and it's been working perfectly ever since.The last PC I built was quite recently, an i7 DDR4 system that didn't really impress me much so I moved it on to someone in work. I was going to build myself a new gaming PC using a more conservative i7/DDR3 motherboard but it turns out all my old i5 PC needed was a fresh SSD and a new GPU. It feels like a whole new system.Top marks Samsung, five out of five.
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7.6.2015

This was my second Samsung 850 pro. The first installed with no problems, this one, however, kept freezing and the Samsung suggestion of pulling the power connecter from the drive, waiting a few seconds then reconnecting did not work. Both disks were working under AHCI in the BIOS - which is the recommended setting. I changed this in the BIOS to IDE and problem solved, so far!Research on the interweb shows that freezing is a common problem with ssd hard drives (not just Samsung ssd) and there are many suggestions for correction usually involving editing the registry (google "ssd freeze" and you will find them) - I have not tried these because they did not make sense. The problem, I think,is to do with the firmware and the way it interacts with AHCI, and the change from AHCI to IDE in the BIOS appears to have done the trick. In theory, you sacrifice a bit of speed - I have not noticed any difference, so you don't lose much.Also note that you will get a new power plan in "Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options" , mine is called "Samsung High Performance" which is set to switch the display off after 15 minutes of no activity and replaced my own power plan - took me some time to figure out why my screen kept switching off when I went for a coffee. I got into the habit of checking the power plan immediately after booting up and that did not work!! Then I noticed the Samsung High Performance plan which does not appear straight away after boot up, changed the setting and now OK.You also get 2 pieces of software1 - Data Migration - for transferring the data on a HDD to a Samsung (only) SSDIf you are transferring from a smaller HDD to a larger SSD - no problem, just go for it.If you are transferring from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD - you can choose not to transfer music, video and photos, if the data to transfer is too big then you will have to delete "stuff" off the HDD - deleting system restore files will get rid of a big chunk and then its onto deleting applications etc. which does not get rid of as much as you think.2 - Samsung Magician - this monitors your Samsung SSD and other drives and also enables you to make a few changes to settingsUPDATERe-installed SATA 3 drivers with latest version and everything is fine. Award 5 stars.
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24.1.2015

This hard drive is blazingly fast making your PC very responsive. This is the latest version of the Samsung 840 Pro drive and all reviews for that drive will be applicable to this drive. All reviews raving about the speed of this SSD are correct and accurate - the Magician software supplied is very impressive and easy to use. This drive was used to replace a 128GB Toshiba SSD whose read/write specifications were similar to this drive. However, this drive has cut the Windows 8.1 boot up speed by half compared with the Toshiba SSD drive as other factors associated with this drive come in to play - my Intel i5 PC now boots up in under 5 seconds (after the BIOS screen).Your boot ups will speed up after the first few boot ups as the drive stores commonly accessed Windows files for 'instant' access. The V-Nand chips live up to the hype. The build quality is very robust, the casing is made from solid aluminium to dissipate heat (it does not get very hot while in use anyway) and is machined to achieve a very attractive and high quality finish. You will not be disappointed with this drive, it is the premier drive currently on the market and nothing else comes close to this in terms of speed and build quality. I really cannot think of anything negative to say about this item. If I had to pick something negative to say it would be that the Samsung box in which the item is packed is a little flimsy, but it arrived in perfect condition and was very well packed. That is about the only negative thing that I can write about, but hey! you are not buying the box (you will discard it anyway) you are buying the item inside the box! Amazon delivery was prompt as always. Not easily impressed, but very impressed with this item which far exceeded my expectations. It is well worth paying the small premium for this premium item. As the saying goes, 'one gets what one pays for'. I am not in the habit of writing reviews, but felt it had to be done for this item. Well done Samsung! - and No I do not work for them!
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3.5.2015

Used this to "refresh" my fathers dell xps8300 which had a fairly mediocre seagate 1.5tb drive. I'd already resized the C drive to 150GB when setting it up since splitting data from OS is ingrained. Installation was a breeze once I realised that the sata port I'd connected it to was only 3Gbps, turns out only sata0+1 are 6Gbps and sata3+4 are 3Gbps, of course the Dell documentation was abysmal. A quick switch with the ODD and is was ready to go.The migration software was incredibly straighforward, I did not have to worry about clearing data as the OS partiton was 'only' 70GB. The actual time to migrate the data was 15 minutes (barely time for the coffee I made).A quick reboot with a trip into the bios to switch the boot drive and the ssd booted into windows and had switched places with the previous C drive which was now labelled H, the other partitions had retained their prior letters. I opened disk management and removed the drive letter from from H and the Dell Recovery partition which had been given the letter I.After some tweaks to the ssd configuration for overprovisioning and maximum life and it was ready for use. Seagate speeds were 44 MB/s read 64 MB/s write, the ssd are 527 MB/s read 462 MB/s write which is 8 times faster. Boot time has reduced from 120secs to 35 but more importantly Sleep is much faster. Resuming from sleep is 7 seconds and entering Sleep is 3 seconds, in fact the first time I put it to sleep I thought it had crashed it was so fast!The only non-standard config I made was that the Samsung Magician software disables system restore to reduce ssd writes, but as I still had the seagate hdd installed I re-enabled it on the ssd but set it to 1GB on the ssd, one of the other partitions has a modified restore size of 70GB so that is used instead. With some surprise it still had the previous restore points from before I installed the ssd.Overall this is an amazing ssd and I am very happy with it.
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11.5.2015

WARNING! The instructions are incomplete! (I have previously, as a retired Techie, fitted an SSD to my Desktop PC without problem; in admitting that, maybe I should have known better - but for the layman, BE WARNED!)Edit 2 days later: The Samsung disk and instructions are USELESS. In the end I bought for $20 (=£13) Paragon's Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 Software, (http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/migrate-OS-to-SSD/index.html) which I can recommend. But even with this program, suggest you shrink your H/D to less than the new SSD capacity. It may still not boot when you fit the SSD and you'll need your WIN install disk to carry out a Boot repair - quick and easy.(It's NOT a FULL REPAIR install!!)Using the Samsung Disk, and Having followed the the simple diagrammatic sheet, OS migration was easy. Luckily I had a spare 2.5" Caddy.But when I fitted the SSD to the laptop, it wouldn't boot. Various techie tests showed the SSD as recognised and AOK. Even the Windows Repair disk thought it was OK. BUT no boot.Having negotiated a far-Eastern call-centre, speaking a different version of my native language in double-time (I did ask her repeatedly to slow down), they eventually gave me the direct Support line for the product; this may help some others: 00800 80 10 8011 (Based in Netherlands). Helpful guy immediately knew the problem and the solution. BETTER INSTRUCTIONS SAMSUNG, PLEASE!In short, you have to shrink the Volume of your OS to about 100GB for this 128GB SSD to find the Boot Sector.If this is gibberish to you, don't even try - pay a techie to do it. Or go to the top of this review and buy the Paragon Program.BTW, it comes naked; you need a Caddy + USB leads to use the Samsung disk to migrate the OS.Now the SSD's running - and it's a great improvement on the 'standard' 5,400 rpm disk fitted to most laptops.
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9.1.2015

Will keep this short and sweet because enough tech has been written about this drive it don't need me lol. I have been using a Samsung 830 256GB for a few years now and lets just say that all my PC owning friends who STILL use the old H/Drives have called me some not very nice names after watching my computer boot from the SSD lol. But just lately my 830 has been throwing out some errors, still working well but I thought it time to move it to backup duties and bought this 850 PRO 256GB to replace it. I picked the 850 PRO because though it costs more it has the latest tech and should be fast enough to upset my friends lol.Had problems with doing a clean install so just used a True image backup as I did not really want to spend ages messing about (am getting too old for that now haha). MAN oh MAN I thought that the 830 was fast??, this thing just FLEW. My computer has 8GB 2400Mhz ram,i7 3770K and about 10TBs of storage and now it has a boot disk to match the rest, windows just flies. I know that it costs more than a standard SSD but really it is worth it. My best mate used to call my computer the BEAST lol, wonder what he will call it now? ( I KNOW what he will call ME lol) bob Update I use Windows 8.1 fully updated but but no way can I get Samsung Magician to work, soon as I try and run it it just locks the computer right up. I loaded a image of Windows 7 to the drive and with that everything was ok, but as soon as I went back to 8.1 lockup time.I wanted to enable Fast Mode but seems I can't, did so when on windows 7 but am back on 8.1 now so I presume that that setting has been lost from the drive now. Still I am using a itel Z77 chipset and the 850 PRO is pretty well maxing out the 6G sata. Life for a computer geek is good. ps I am nearly 62 so not all geeks are spotty faced kids,,, some are spotty faced old gits lol.
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19.4.2016

Super fast boot-up times even when attached to my SATA2 motherboard. I'm using this drive purely for the operating system (Windows 10) and my core programs. I have separate drives for Games and Media. This drive has excellent specifications in terms of read/write speeds and lifespan, more than justifying it's slight additional cost compared to it's competitors.As you may already know, SSDs have a limited number of read/write operations before their memory performance starts to become unreliable. Manufacturers give guarantees around how many operations can be performed before errors may occur, and this drive is backed by a substantial Samsung guarantee.I calculated the volume of data read from and written to a hard drive under my typical usage and found that I wouldn't reach the limits of this drive within the next 20 years. I'm sure that in 20 years time technology will have moved on significantly and this drive will be obsolete.The drive comes bundled with software to allow you to clone existing drives to your new SSD and also to monitor the performance and lifespan of your drive. I found the software to be a useful aid to configuring system settings so that I get the most performance from the drive, while maintaining a healthy lifespan. Originally I used the software to clone an existing Windows 7 install, but found that as AHCI drives had not been installed in the original installation I was not able to benefit from AHCI on the new SSD as a drive cannot be switched to AHCI mode after Windows 7 has been installed. An upgrade to Windows 10 has resolved this as AHCI drivers are available after OS installation in Windows 10.
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26.3.2016

For those of you who are contemplating to upgrade your old HDD to an SSD - DO IT! It's the single greatest thing you can do to make your computer super pleasant to use!Bought this to use in my top spec Alienware 18 laptop as the primary drive and I have not been disappointed!It delivers the specified speeds with no trickery (unlike the non-pro line with a small amount of high-speed write memory paired with slower actual storage to boost write speeds), it hasn't caused me any problems yet (been using it for well over half a year now daily) and overall I can't fault it.Some additional notes:1) The SSD is VERY light. It is thinner than a 2.5" HDD and when you pick it up it seems like an empty cigarette tin.That's because the tin is actually mostly empty with a few chips inside (see the mSATA variants - that's basically what it is!). Feels cheap as a result, but it's the insides that count!2) Samsung Magician software - don't bother. There's some optimization stuff there you can use, you can turn on a 'RAPID' mode which uses your RAM to boost read/writes (fake boost, really), etc - mostly pointless and they just confuse the benchmarks without having any real benefit. Don't bother.3) Some people complain that updating the firmware of this SSD has caused the SSD to malfunction, etc. My two cents to this are: Why would you update a firmware to a hard drive anyway?! Can't say it's right or wrong, but I didn't bother with any updates as it sounds utterly pointless.Overall I definitely recommend grabbing one of these if you have the money to burn :) Otherwise there are much cheaper offerings from other brands.
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13.6.2016

Exactly as described, suitable packaging and arrived next day with amazon primecouple of tips, if your moving from a HHD 2 SSDDVD supplied you will need to download "Samsung magician" first, then restart your computerthen from the DVD supplied you will need to download "Data migration tool"Before you try this my advice would be to transfer off all your films, music & photos onto a portable drive (USBs usually come with Gigabytes these days and they're very cheapthis will help because1/ speed up the transfer2/ ensure if anything were to go wrong your precious stuff is covered3/ it will ensure your current data memory use doesn't exceed the data memory capacity of the drive (I was transferringfrom a 1TB HHD to a 512GB SSD and I was over thankfully I had some high GB usb pen drives available so no emergency trip to the shops for me)The data migration tool you can go forwards and backwards until the transfer starts so you can see how much info you might need to transfer off or you can select files to lose, which it handily shows you in separate tabs MEDIA, PROGRAMMES, MUSICOnce migration start and IT DOES WARN YOU don't turn off, and you will lose excess files selected it DOES NOT leave them on the old driveOld drive becomes your secondary after migration and I've kept mine, I wanted the SSD for online gaming and programmes that require speed to access info and so far nothing wrong atgreat product, easy to use and you can see why Samsung is a market leader in the SSD areaAs per other review you need cables for this product
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7.6.2016

Installed on a win 7 machine, fended off Microsoft's attempt to Hi-Jack my machine.After installing all of the software on the disk and connecting the USB3 to SATA connector, powered up.Ran the software.Either the adaptor was faulty or the software/Operating system did not see the adaptor but the Samsung software did not see the SSD.I then rested the SSD, on some cardboard, on an installed Hard drive and connected it to spare sata cables in the case..After switch on, Samsung Magician and Migration software saw it and the Migration proceeded faultlessly.After swapping the SSD for the original C: drive's connections the job was done.Am using the reliability optimization with Rapid mode (16M installed)and over provisioning, probably not necessary with a 30% used 1TB drive.Am happy with the optimizations but it reverts to custom settings when an attempt is made to move the pagefile wholly to another drive. As moving the pagefile cuts SSD writes, it is probably beneficial to the life of the drive, but the reliability optimization probably assumes only one HD.I am not going to bother moving the pagefile and tranfering the reliability options to the user config file but it could be done if one wanted to get the best out of the drive viz reliability.Happy with the drive though might have gone for the std 1Tb drive after reading up on drive life only after buying the Pro version. Sometimes get the buying and reaseach in the wrong order.
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