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26.12.2018

I have a 7 year old Dell XPS 8300 Desktop PC with a 1TB HDD which I wanted to breath new life into by installing an SSD to improve boot, file and program load times. I wanted to make the SSD the system/boot disk and relegate the old HDD to secondary large volume storage.I needed a 2.5" to 3.5" mounting frame to allow me to install the new 2.5" SSD in a 3.5" bay inside the PC. There are so many choices of adapter available on Amamzon and I eventually chose this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075FH3KTT/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 You will make your own choice but even though I was only installing a single SSD, this adapter allowed me to add a second in the future if I wanted.I have done a separate review for the adapter, it was a very good choice for me.I was initially a little hesitant beforehand about attempting the install, but it turned out to be much more straightforward than expected. After disconnecting the power from the PC, I screwed the SSD to the base of the adapter then the adapter into the drive bay beneath the existing HDD (all screw holes lined up), then connected the SATA cable (provided with the adapter) to the SSD and motherboard SATA port and then the power cable (there was a spare connected power cable already inside the PC which I used, but there are also two supplied with the adapter) to the SSD. That was it in terms of physical installation.I powered up the PC and then used Samsung's Data Migration software downloaded from their support website (details come with the SSD). Samsung will recommend you clone the SSD by first connecting it externally using a SATA to USB adapter, but although this would be necessary with a Laptop, as long as you have space in the 3.5" bay to install the SSD and the original HDD (true for most desktops) my method will be faster and less fiddly.I made sure that I either deleted or moved to external backup all data (non system) that wouldn't need to be on the new SSD so that my 1TB HDD had a lot less than 500GB (in fact It was less than 100GB as I archived most of my non system data offline). I then ran the Samsung Data Migration tool to clone my HDD to the SSD. The time it takes depends o how much data to clone, but for me it was fast.When the clone finished successfully, I restarted the PC and using F2 key (different for various PC's) immediately at start up let me into the system BIOS. Here you need to reset the boot sequence so that the new SSD is number one for boot. After saving this in the BIOS and exiting, the PC booted up from the new SSD in about 1/10th of the previous time.Once happy everything was stable, I reformatted the old 1TB HDD which is now holding any large volume data that I don't need the high performace of the SSD for.As I said, boot time has reduced significantly and program/file load times are rapid. I'm very happy with my 'new' PC, and hopefully won't need to hit my bank balance for a replacement PC any time soon. Highly recommended upgrade for your PC, and it's also worth checking that you have sufficient RAM as that is just a 10 minute plug and play exercise.
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22.6.2018

I've purchased several of Samsung's previous generation EVO 850 drives over the last couple of years for various PCs and laptops. I've also had great success with all of the drives and never had any problems with any of them.I was looking to purchase a 1 TB Samsung EVO 850 when I noticed that the 860 EVO was now available and was also £40 cheaper so decided to read up a little on the drive before biting the bullet.On paper the 860 EVO has been improved in nearly all areas however the most significant improvement is to the endurance TBW (TeraBytes Written) of the drive's flash memory which has essentially been doubled.In the unlikely event that you would come close to the TBW rating of the 850 EVO in normal daily use then it will take you twice as long with the 860 EVO. The drive also has a newer Samsung MJX controller and additional cache memory which improves the performance of the drive. The 860 also consumes less power than the 850 which should benefit laptop users, if only a slight improvement to battery life.Performance-wise there is very little difference between the 850 and 860, however in my experience so far the 860 is marginally faster, if only by a few MB/s in various benchmarks. The problem is that these drives are already pushing the SATA interface to the limit and no single SATA SSD is really going to perform much better. If you really need much higher performance you need to look at NVMe drives instead as they eliminate the SATA bottleneck, however, older PCs and laptops will not support these types of drive.One thing I noticed with the 860 was that it arrived in a smaller box that the 850 and as a result it doesn't ship with the CD that the 850 comes with. The CD came with the Samsung Magician and Samsung Data Migration software which is really useful if you are planning to clone your drive onto the new SSD and check the health of your Samsung SSDs etc. I would however always recommend downloading the latest version of these programs from Samsung's website if you plan to use them as the ones on the CD are normally a few versions behind. Not to mention that a lot of systems these days don't even have a CD/DVD drive!Is it worth upgrading an 850 EVO with a new 860 EVO of the same capacity? Probably not. But if you are buying an additional drive, replacing a hard disk or upgrading from a smaller capacity SSD then I would definitely recommend buying the 860 over the 850.I'm really impressed with the 1TB 860 EVO from Samsung. They appear to have improved again on what was already a brilliant product in the 850 EVO - I just hope the reliability and durability of the drive lives up to the claims
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5.4.2020

In past times I've not been a great fan of Samsung, either in the guise of phones, tablets, laptops, optical disc drives or AV equipment. These ssd however, and the software you can download to better utilise them is very much better.Unpacking them you realise Samsung have made a reasonable attempt to protect your investment. Yes they are bare bones, just the warranty/installation literature and the disk, but time taken to read them and installation isn't a problem. I was able to download the disk cloning 'Data Migration' software from Samsung, install it on the aging operating disk that gave cause to purchase the two of these discs. Cloning the operating disc was a matter of starting up windows,signing in, shutting down all start up programs and using task manager to close all non-essential services, then closing task manager. Depending on your machine, it is likely you will need to buy a sata to usb adapter, or if you have 'hot swap' drive bays the new ssd can go into one of those.Starting the Samsung 'Data Migration' software, it reads all the disks on the machine to ascertain which disk needs cloning, do not attempt to put the new ssd into the machine to check it, format it or assign it a drive letter before attempting to do the data migration, doing so may stop that from taking place; let Samsung's 'Data Migration' software set the new ssd up from a virgin state. The next step it is just a matter of turning off the machine, physically taking out the old drive and replacing it with the new ssd, and rebooting the machine.The other Samsung software to download and install is Samsung Magician, this tool set will make sure that the drive has the latest firmware, and the best drivers, it also has other features that assist the drive maintain optimal performance.You will need to buy an ssd of equal, or actually better, larger capacity due to the merits of being able to 'over provision' your requirements. 'Over provisioning' offers faster functionality of the ssd and can increase its lifespan too. When purchasing a replacement or upgrade component for computing of any form it is worth deliberately suffering an 'Ouch' factor (higher price) and going for a faster, higher capacity component that will take longer to become obsolete. Such a component can always be upcycled into another machine; you never know what turns life will take, so buy once and buy wisely and these Samsung 860 Evo ssd are most likely fulfil this.
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16.7.2019

PIC 1: Breathtaking performance after changing switching to 2TB SSD. Speeds of 200/100 R/W Mb/s for small files look good too. firmware, driver, and all the optiomizations were updated and set from Sansung Magician software for SSDs.PIC 2: Tested with external cable USB3.0-to-SATA[1] external benchmark with NTFS to see suitability for external backups[1]. Unfortutunately the SAMSUNG MAGICAN[2] des not recognize drive so no firmware updates or optiomizations are possibly to do to an externally attached drive.PIC 3: Tested with external cable USB3.0-to-SATA[1]. After fully optimized using Samsung Magicial (see EDIT).EXTERNAL USE: BIG IMAGE FILESPerformance is poor.A standard HDD 7200rpm drive connected using USB-to-SATA cable easily can sustain about the same ~160 R/W Mb/s perfomance for big disk image files (like partition backups). Price per gigabyte for large backups would not cost effective with this.EXTERNAL USE: SMALL FILESCopying very small files was average over USB 3.0 (~20 Mb/s). There are USB flash drives and SSDs that perform better with throughput over 50 Mb/s. In comparison, standard HDDs over show about 1 Mb/s in crystaldiskmark.The tests were made running Windows 7. Overall a good internal drive.EDIT: I took the arduous route to optimize the drive (took hours): first clone HDD to external SSD using external cable, open laptop and other screws (not easy to tear apart an ultrabook), swap HDD out and SDD in, boot OS, run Samsung Magician and update firmware + make optimizations, shut down OS, reomve SDD and swap original HDD back, put back in scres, reboot OS, attach SSD with external cable ... and run crystaldiskmark. The results after optimizations? None (or neglible difference). Whatever optimizations Samsung does with its software, they must affect live OS environment only and not carry on to externally used SSD. See PIC 3 for comparision; please don't pay attention to possible score drops; cystaldiskmark always fluctuates a little from benchmark to next.[1] Used similar cable to Sabrent USB 3.0 to SSD SATA HDD adapterhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B011M8YACM/[2] Samsung Magician seems to work only for drives connected to internal SATA port running in AHCI mode.
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4.8.2019

Was a little dubious before purchasing, as there is usually too much hype surrounding these types of disks.HOWEVER, cast away any doubt you may have !!Adding one of these units is like upgrading from a nissan micra to a ferrari !!I was about ready to throw my PC in the bin, as the original platter based HDD were getting slower and slower with the frquent windows 10 update ( no issues with Windows 7 ... ) .Given that my machine has an 8 core AMD Black edtion CPU with 32GB ram, this was clearly annoying.It got to the point where it take several minutes to bring up the login screen. Once logged in, the disk drives were going flat out and unresponsive for at least 10 minutes (go and make a cup tea literally and another one to follow) . Apps were then slow to respond. Being a developer, many of the development tools were taking several minutes just to OPEN....Thought I would replace the Windows drive with one of these SSD from Samsung, as a last ditched desperate measure.UNBELIEVABLY IMPRESSIVE !!The machine now responds faster than I can.Whole thing boots up in under 2 minutes ( BIOS is the slow aspect now, as that takes over a minute) .Once logged in, the machine responds instantly , certainly faster than I can.The apps now open up instantly. The developer apps that used to take several minutes, now open in under 3 seconds and are responsive immefiately. Wooo Hoo .NOTE - You only need to replace the windows Boot drive for the performance gain. All my apps still run on a separate platter based HDD. Just proves that it was the OS that was causing the bottle neck ( that is windows 10 for you )As a measure of metrics, copying a very large file ( 7.5GB ) from a hard disk drive to the SSD achieved sustained transfer speeds over 200MB/s , with a total transfer time just under 50 seconds.However, on repeated copies of the same file, the transfer speeds demonstrated significant improvement, which would suggest a level of read buffer/caching implementation. The second copy of the same file took 20 seconds.I am definitely buying a few more of these.
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29.1.2019

I purchased this for a late 2010 MacBook Pro model, that became too slow. After upgrading the RAM in an attempt at quickening up the dying Mac, I researched into the possibility of upgrading the Mac's HDD to an SSD. After purchasing a SATA cable, also from Amazon, and a basic Torx screwdriver set to remove the HDD from its mount, I found it very easy to do. Having never upgraded the hardware in a Mac before, it was a little fiddly, but I managed well enough. I first downloaded a piece of software from the internet called SuperDuper (free), plugged in the new SSD via the SATA usb cable, and copied the current slow HDD to the SSD. After a couple of hours, I turned off the Mac,turned it over and took out the screws. Disconnected the battery from the motherboard (easy enough, use a plastic 'stick thing' to prise this off), unscrewed the mount holding the HDD down & carefully disconnected the ribbon cable. After this, I removed the 4 'pins' from the corners of the HDD and screwed them into the new SSD. Re-attached the ribbon cable, screwed everything back down, reconnected the battery.. and.... a very long delayed wait for the Mac to load up. I eventually found out after some more Youtube-ing that the Mac knows it isn't the proper hard drive so it tries frantically to find the original hard drive before timing out and settling to use the new SSD- every single time I rebooted. I found that by going into my System Settings, Start-up Disk, and actively clicking the new SSD and clicking 'restart', caused it to always remember to load up the SSD straight away. Now the Mac is like-new and although it will never be the same as a new Mac today, it is certainly useable. I can't get it on the new Mac OS, but Im happy with what the SSD update for sure.
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28.2.2020

I upgraded my 8 year old HP laptop HD to this SSD.Now clearly I expected it to be faster but wow!!! Ot far exceeded my expectations. I timed Windows 10 load time as 21 seconds. And this includes me typing the password on the login screen right through to a useable desktop with all background apps loaded. Prior to this my laptop took several minutes to reach login and the several minutes to load the desktop.This is on an old laptop with a slower SATA 2 bus. This SSD is SATA 3 and will go even faster in a computer with a SATA 3 Bus. A Sata bus is the way data moves from the ssd to the computer. If you think of data (memory) as cars and the bus as a motorway, a SATA 2 bus has 2 lanes for traffic while a SATA 3 has 3 lanes.More lanes on the road means more traffic (data) can travel at the same time.To transfer from an hard drive to an ssd you'll need a sata to usb cable. I used a program called partition wizard, free version to clone the hard drive on to the ssd. I recommend going searching on youtube with something like 'how to upgrade laptop from hard drive to ssd' I found a video by Britec09 to be the most helpful.All in all the process took me around 30 mins to transfer 250Gb from HD to DSD.Then I just took the hard drive out and put this ssd in. Some laptops have a hard drive case. If yours has a case after removing the harddrive from the laptop you'll find 2 screws on each side to remove the case. The case MUST then be used on your new ssd or it won't fit in the laptop. After installing the SSD the laptop should boot up (fast) with no errors or any further configuration needed.
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11.12.2018

I purchased this 860 EVO SATA III drive to replace a working, 1 TB HDD in my one year old laptop. The speed difference is ASTOUNDING! I knew it would be faster. I didn't think it would be as FAST as it is.I used the same SATA III interface in the laptop that the HDD used and installation was a "breeze". Now my laptop boots and runs MARVELOUSLY faster. I have been running and using this new, replacement SSD for three weeks now and it is performing perfectly.After installing this 860 EVO SATA III SSD, I used BOTH of the "Samsung" software programs. The first one for "Migration" of my "Windows 10 Home" and personal data to this new SSD. I then downloaded and used the "Magician" program for update and optimization of this new SSD.Those "Samsung" programs worked perfectly. The "Migration" program was not only EASY, it was very FAST. The "Magician" software is also great. It immediately downloaded from the "Samsung" website and then VERY EASILY updated the firmware in my new SSD. The "Magician" program is an EASY to use maintenance program to monitor the drive. It also has a "performance booster" feature that did make my new 860 EVO SSD run even faster.I am so pleased, I immediately ordered a "Samsung 970 EVO" SSD for my desktop PC. That will be an NVMe/M.2 interface so that will be even faster. I shopped "long and hard". These "Samsung" products get the best reviews and at a great value in cost.I am very pleased. I would highly recommend these SSDs. [This review was collected as part of a promotion.]
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24.7.2018

As a replacement boot drive, on my Samsung RF711 i7 laptop with Windows 7, the SSD is amazing. The boot up time is measured in seconds rather than minutes. I opted for this SSD in preference the cheaper Crucial as a reviewer suggested the cloning was simpler, but this did not prove to be the case.I connected the SSD in a spare drive and Windows automatically loaded two drivers. Unexpectedly, clicking on Computer did not reveal the new drive.I downloaded Samsung Magician as prescribed and although it recognised the drive and it validity it did not provide any links for cloning.I searched the Samsung website and found their data migration application, Clonix Co. Ltd, which I downloaded and ran.At 24% transfer it crashed and froze the laptop. I did an image back up recovery and downloaded just the data migration application again. This time the transfer successfully completed and after replacing my boot up HDD with the SDD all was well.Lessons learned: 1. Do an image backup just before cloning - just in case. 2. Use the data migration application first. You can always download Samsung Magician later when your system is up and running. 3. Allow the computer 20 minutes to finish loading background tasks as I think these may cause the cloning software to crash. 4. Backing up your system cannot be done with Seagate's Disc Wizard; it does not recognise the SSD. Windows back up works, but you cannot see or open any of the backed up files as you can with the Seagate Disc Wizard's file.
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16.7.2018

didn't fail in the first 48 hours so I guess it's a good 'un. The non samsung drive I bought first didn't last 5mins. My other evo 850 has performed reliably for a couple of years though I think thet are meant to last 5 years I bought this to serve as the boot drive and the old one for storage whatever tweaks it has, nice to have but no real practical difference far as my usage goes, but being well priced it's not a big decision to switch to a fresh drive and avoid having to reinstall win 10 I don't know from experience how long they really last but the blurb I've read suggests 5 years also a while ago I was reading that ssd's failed in the early days because they lacked some sort of powersurge regulator or something and ony intel drives had whatever it was but the evo's been ok for a couple of years in my cheap'n'cheerful home built mixnmatch systems. I don't have expensive psu's or surge protecters and it's been reliable so far. It came recommended from a techie at overclockers that I asked about ssd's and he simply said he didn't have any statistics on rma's to give me but he'd had no problems with samsungs then, and for a smart price all good, I think they got it right.oh yeah had to update samsung magician before it recognized it to enable rapid mode not a big deal couldn't care less about bundled software there's plenty of 3rd party data migration apps around, I haven't looked under the hood at every precise technical stat but it works well for me as a home user.
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22.7.2018

What a wonderful piece of kit!I bought the 1TB SSD plus a Sabrent USB 3.0 to SSD/2.5-Inch SATA Hard Drive Adapter cable (sold separately) for the data/system transfer. This was to replace an existing bootable 111GB Corsair Force 3 SSD. I was reusing the existing data and power connectors, so the absence of these cables in the box was not a problem for me.I downloaded Samsung's brilliant Data Migration Tool and it was simplicity itself to clone the existing operating system, programs and data from the old C: drive. Make sure that you run the tool after a re-boot, and don't start any other programs, as data files that are in use will not be copied. The software ignores temporary files such as pagefile.sys as well - which is as it should be.After running the Data Migration Tool I was invited to plug-in the new SSD and press 'start'. Then it was just a matter of pressing 'OK' twice, and the 100GB of system and files were copied in about 30 minutes!After that I physically replaced the existing SSD in the PC's tower case with the new Samsung, and restarted the system. I then got into Advanced Boot Options (by pressing F8 on system start-up) to change the boot drive order - making the new Samsung the #1 drive.And that was all there was to it. The system boots perfectly from the new drive - and I didn't even need to re-enter the Windows key. Thanks for making this so easy Samsung!
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30.5.2020

Mine has been running 24/7 for 9 months, consuming next to no electricity and responding instantly for demands for the tracks I want to play. There is no detectable 'wake-up' delay.I use a 'JRiver Media Centre' digital music player and I wanted an absolutely silent dedicated music server to run in the lounge. This Samsung SSD fits the bill perfectly and should work with any vaguely similar music player etc, etc.I can hear no detrimental digital effects of the SSD compared with a HDD. I can kid myself that it sounds better - but I doubt it.I do have a couple of NASs that the music player can access, and the sound is not obviously better when using the Samsung SSD,but it has proved to be 100% reliable with no drop out whatsoever in 9 months and no wifi problems to contend with. It all plays perfectly without wifi and without any network cables.Via the music player and wifi, I can easily access the SSD from a PC to add new files or folders when I need to.This seems to me to be a 'perfect' arrangement for music and I am very happy to have made the change to SSD.ALSOI put a slightly different Samsung SSD in a Lenovo lap-top a few years ago. That was also a great success, speeding up just about everything, especially boot-time, and completely removing the barely detectable vibration and noise of the HDD.
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1.1.2019

Used to replace the disk drive in a 2012 Acer Aspire V5 - 571. Chose the Samsung as have used before in other laptops using the free Samsung Data Migration software and the 860 evo is meant to be among the best available. Replacing an old drive with an SSD really does make a difference , in this case along with a memory upgrade it has invigorated a poorly performing laptop and given it a new lease of life, it is useable once more so can't recommend highly enough. The immediate difference is a 12 second boot time instead of forever and pulling photos up to view is much faster as is loading programs.On past experience I expect it to make Windows updates a lot faster too.The Samsung Data Migration software is easy to use but as it didn't make an exact clone (it ignores some of the original OEM partitions) I used another free tool, due to errors on the old disk Macrium had some issues but AOMEI worked fine.The Acer is probably one of the worst laptops to change the drive on as it has to be disassembled to fit but plenty of videos available but be aware that manufacturers can move the odd screw so they might not be totally accurate. I purchased a kit of phone tools to help prise things apart rather than risk damage using screwdrivers. You'll also need a USB3 to SATA cable to clone the drive before fitting.
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17.12.2019

This is the market-leading consumer SSD and my SSD of choice. Excellent performance and excellent price. The free Samsung Magician software is worth a look because it can turn on "Rapid Mode" which installs a read/write cache in Windows and this improves the Evo's (and Pro's) performance markedly.Don't overlook the free Samsung Data Migration software allows one to clone an existing HDD or SSD to the Evo so one can very easily upgrade an existing installation without having to reinstall Windows. I am not aware of other SSD manufacturers offering a similar utility so this alone gives Samsung a major advantage. The Data Migration software works also with the Pro range as target but not other manufacturer SSDs as targets,although the source can be any HDD or SSD.Although the Evo is positioned as a consumer SSD and has lower endurance that the Pro or the Enterprise grade SSDs from Samsung, the Evo is perfectly adequate for both Domestic and Business desktops and laptops and comes with a 5 year limited warranty (or 75 to 300 terabytes written TBW, Higher capacity SSDs have higher TBW rating).It's worth noting that larger capacity SSDs have greater endurance, and with prices being low are across the range, it's worth overspecifying capacity and investing in a larger SSD than you need if budget allows.
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1.10.2019

QVO drives are being marketed as being optimized for cost and performance and fall into the lower end of Samsung's SSD line-up behind the PRO and the EVO range. I purchased this drive to upgrade a 2015 1TB Western Digital HDD in a laptop based more on the projected life expectancy of the SSD, cost for a 2TB drive (allowing for over-provisioning) and surprisingly for it having the same controller as that used on the popular EVO range. My usage pattern is typical domestic / moderate office. The TL;DR take-away from this is my boot time went from over a minute with the HDD to 7s with the QVO...My benchmark speeds actually exceed those published by Samsung.Granted this is on a new drive with approx 1:1 over provisioning but regardless there is a huge difference between HDD and SSD even with the lower end QVO drives. For example, the sequential Q32T1 Read throughput on my HDD was approx 105MB/s whereas my new QVO consistently returns approx 561MB/s. The same test for writing was 87MB/s for the HDD, 530MB/s on the QVO. Elsewhere for small 4K Q8T8 transfers my HDD was returning 0.423MB/s read and the QVO 364MB/s. As this capacity drive is rather new I am sure the price will drop at some point, but even at this price point this drive provides some considerable bang for the buck.
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