SAMSUNG 850 EVO 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E250B/AM)

I dont run benchmarks or anything, just your average gamer. disk works well. I couldnt believe how light this thing is compared to a standard hard drive.

Seems good so far.

Buy it on a great offer, best thing thats ever happend to my laptop.

High Quality, especially like the HD cloning software, which makes it easy to swap out an old mechanical spinning drive for this new SSD. Good value and I highly recommend. I have purchased three of them and the next time Ill purchase a 500 GB SSD. I recommend Samsung to all my customers and colleagues.

Works well, fast and no issues

works perfectly with my 2009 Macbook Pro laptop

I changed to this SSD from a regular HDD because after about 4.5 years the Windows 7 boot time for my desktop had gotten as long as 10 minutes to be completely finished. A clean install of Windows 7 on this drive boots in about 15 seconds from the time I push the power button to a working desktop. Shut down takes about 6 seconds. Most programs open almost instantly. I did hours of research online about SSD technology, manufacturers and the best rated drives. The Samsung 850 EVO is consistently rated at the top, with the premium price paid for the bleeding edge absolute best not worth the minor increase in performance that most users would not notice. I am using this for the C drive of my computer with a one terabyte WD Blue HDD for storage as the D drive. The operating system and programs are on this drive and I moved the Libraries to the D drive so all documents, photos, etc. go to the storage drive by default. This is very simple to do in Windows 7 and appears seamless to the user. You still go to the same places to save and retrieve files; they appear to be stored exactly as if you had one drive with everything on it. In my case this leaves well over 120 GB free on the SSD after Windows and all programs are installed. My motherboard is from 2011 and uses the H67 chipset. This drive was recognized the same as any HDD would be with no further steps required in the Bios or Windows. Depending on the age and brand of your particular hardware you may need to change certain Bios settings to get the drive to work at its best. Windows settings may also need changed if you are cloning a working operating system from a HDD. The drive runs fairly cool and is silent. I did not have an adapter to secure it to the drive bay of my case, so I used two zip ties to fasten it to the chassis so it doesnt flop around, which could theoretically work loose the SATA and power connections. My son got one of these drives for his new laptop. After initializing Windows 8.1 on the laptop, we cloned the HDD to this SSD drive using Macrium Reflect and a USB 3 drive enclosure. We then removed the HDD and installed this SSD, which took about five minutes. After installing this drive his laptop boots to a working desktop in about 7 seconds and shuts down in about 4 seconds. Programs open instantly. Loading all the updates and installing the rest of the programs went about twice as fast as the last time we did the same thing using a regular HDD on an almost identical laptop. There is a minor decrease in weight and apparent increase in battery life over the manufacturer spec. The result is a mid level laptop made as fast as a top end machine for about $400 less. 250 GB is enough storage for most laptops, but if more is needed you could use a flush fit USB 3 flash drive or an SDHC card in the internal card reader that is part of most laptops. SDHC cards are available up to 128 GB right now. Along those lines, my son is buying a $20 USB 3 drive enclosure and making a one terabyte external storage drive out of the perfectly serviceable (if relatively slow) HDD that had been installed in the laptop.

Blazing fast. Love these drives.

Fast and reliable. I work for a cloud storage company and we run 840 Pro, 850 Pro and 850 EVO in the caching servers (Costs a whole lot less than fusion IO and competitors) and we havent had any die yet (And Im talking ~200TB read/writes before SMART screams at us). The intels are pretty reliable but we lose 5-10% of those before SMART EOLs the drive and every single OCZ SSD weve had died within a year. So when it came time to buy a simple SSD for my laptop, guess what I chose?

Added my 4th Samsung ssd to my computer, they work great. Had problems with Samsung data migration. Used Macrium Free software and all is well.