Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0B/AM)

I recently switched from a 5400 RPM HDD to this Samsung Evo 860 SSD, and I just felt, that I caught up to the standard of todays technology;

I moved my system drive to the SSD and booted the first time. It came up so fast I was convinced there was something wrong. But when I started using it - Everything was totally functional.

Did a great job replacing the old hard drive in my laptop, which was so slow at startup that I was ready to throw it out. No it works brilliantly.

Third one of these installed, this time a Dell Precision Tower 3620. I know now, that this unit is not designed for this application, but more for laptop upgrades, but it works just fine for me. The SSD sits in further on the rack adapter than the original 3.5 disk drive but there was just enough slack on the double hd connector that came with the computer to make it work. It may not work for other desktops without buying a separate hd connector to go to the main board. Im not a computer repair guy, Im sure thats obvious, but wanted to go on record for everyone considering using this solid state drive like I did.

Ive had the Samsung EVO 860 1TB SSD 2.5 inch SATA III drive installed and running for ~2 months. Since it replaced a 1TB hard drive on a 6 year old laptop with a BIOS motherboard that only supports SATA I and Windows 10 (version 1803 rs4; Spring 2018 Creators Update). I cant speak much for performance, other than it does perform at the maximum speed allowed by the SATA I controller. I can say that the SSD is very reliable so far, with no downtime or performance issues to date. The physical installation, including opening the laptop, removing the old hard drive, installing the new SSD, and closing it up, took me about 30 minutes total, with no problems at all for that part of the upgrade.

It works great, it was what my laptop needed to run efficiently.

Worked for 2010 iMac. Don’t use time machine, use Super Duper to create a bootable drive with this drive. It will be bootable, however time machine won’t make this drive bootable. I still downloaded a DMG image of OS on usb to get it to boot.

Easy to install. Installed my second drive for gaming, I replaced the old mechanical 2nd drive. I bought it on the Holiday season with cheap price. Like it a lot

You need this. My 2013 HPE i7 3770 desktop boots in less than 20 seconds. SSD is the only way to go. I will buy a second when the price drops more.

If you can afford it, then get it! This has been a great SSD for storage of games, pics, text files, and so forth. With the use of SATA 3, this SSD seems to meet factory specs very well. Ive listed the Crystal benchmark test after 3 months of use and 12% disk space used.