SAMSUNG 860 QVO 1TB Solid State Drive (MZ-76Q1T0B/AM) V-NAND, SATA 6Gb/s, Quality and Value Optimized SSD

I used this drive to speed up my laptop and it did the trick. No complaints.

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Used this on my Apple iMac 21.5 to replace the hard drive. Once formatted and cloned my previous HD, it started up super fast with no problems.

First off Im not a gamer Im a producer and I had a isse with my drive keeping with my work the RPMs were too slow. The only issue is that I dont have enough space for my work so Im forced to use an external 7200 RPM hard. At some point please make an affordable 8tb solid state drive so I can be worry free.

This thing save 2 dying laptops. 6 year old dell laptop showed blue screen of death. Was able to remove and access hd to clone to ssd. Made such a difference, booted right up and super fast. The second was a toshiba laptop, 5 years old sluggish and getting slower by the day. Replaced super easy and turned it into a new laptop. Plenty of storage and speed for everyday use. I do not use for gaming just normal word processing, internet, photo editing etc. From the time i bought the first one to the time i bought the second one the price jumped so i assume they are in high demand. There are tons of vids online to walk through installation if needed. Very easy to install. Will need a sata data cable to access files outside of the laptop . Highly recommend if your laptop needs a boost. Will extend the life for sure.

Good quality product for my backups.

Works Great

My primary SSD in my system is Samsungs 860 EVO 500GB drive. I use this 860 QVO 2TB and a Crucial BX500 960GB as my secondary SSDs to store my PC game files downloaded from Steam and other content delivery services. So heres my experience with the drive after six months of use: 1. Its fast for my needs: Gaming being the major factor. Never really had a hiccup (as long as I trim/optimize the drive every two or three days). Moving Steam games between this and my BX500 is quick. Just be advised that NAND Flash is capable of much faster speeds than advertised. The limit is the SATA III connection (capped at 6Gbps). (Placing this drive into an external enclosure yields similar results.) 2. Id highly recommend (as with any SSD) to enable over-provisioning (10% is ideal). What this does is basically take that percentage of the drive and disable user access to it. This increases performance and extends the lifespan of the SSD. 3. The 2TB version is rated at 720TBW. Unless the user is doing large file transfers on a daily basis, this drive can last for years. At the time of this review, there is a newer version of Samsungs QVO SSDs: the 870 series, which the 2TB is also rated the same amount. And both have the same 3-year warranty or rated TBW. 4. I bought this at Amazon for $230 (+tax) at the time, which is a good value considering its a QVO drive. So QVOs are QLC (or quad-level cell) drives, which means they store 4 bits of data per cell (compared to the TLC EVO drives which store 3-bits of data per cell). Having more bits means higher capacities and reduced costs. The newer 870 QVOs can have up to 8TB of storage (this 860 QVO maxed out at 4TB). The talk that QLC drives have shorter life expectancy compared to SLC, MLC, or TLC drives shouldnt worry anyone. Sure they have fewer program/erase cycles, but as long as the user enables over-provisioning and not doing too many heavy workloads the drive should last for years. The whole point of QLC (and future SSD tech) is to maximize capacity and reduced costs per GB. Overall, this is a good drive and there will always be newer tech around the corner. For my six months of use, its so far been reliable and no issues. Things may be different after I post this review, but I will update this review if something does happen.

Ive gotten a few of these over the last few years. No problems whatsoever with them. Youll see a lot of smaller capacity SSDs, but I like the 1 or 2 Tb size. Were gamers so that memory gets chewed up faster than most would expect. So we have the most used games on the SSD and move everything else to a large (10 Tb or higher) 7200 rpm HDD (a lot of online games will fun just fine on a 7200 rpm). Most people wont need that for a few years though. What youll see as you shop is alot of builds use a very small SSD coupled with a slow HDD to get the price down. The thinking is to just to load the programs you need to get a fast boot time on the little SSD and do everything you really want to do from that HDD. So.... the value of that setup doesnt work for me. Theres no real gain. The hybrids are kind of the same thing. They learn what programs you use the most and try to keep them on its SSD portion and through the rest onto the HDD area. Again, not for me. If youre thinking of a M.2, I dont blame you. For me, it would be a price thing (including the motherboard). I doubt the M.2 will give you any observable increase in performance. This SSD is fast.

Works great