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

This drive is easy to install if you have even a little knowledge of how Windows works. Download Samsung Magician and Data Migration you will need them both; they are simple programs that will help you tweak your Samsung drives. This SSD in Rapid routinely reads and writes at 5000 Mbps, and sometimes higher, up to 9000 on Userbenchmark.

Bought it to replace the hard drive in my HP Pavilion laptop that failed after only 2-3 years. So far, so good. Boot time greatly improved, so much that I actually turn my computer off now when Im not using it. Easy to install after watching a YouTube video, however I do have a little bit of IT background.

Outstanding!!!

I upgraded my laptop from an HDD to SSD. This was my first time trying this and it was a success. After you receive your drive you will need to visit the Samsung website to download Samsung Data Migration Setup and the Samsung Magician Installer. After that it became a breeze. Only had to wait a few hours for the data transfer to happen (expected) and then it installed without any problems.

I used this to upgrade an older Windows 7 laptop.

Still going strong a year later. Had no problems with this SSD.

I have an older i5 desktop which was really slow, and this drive easily sped up the boot times and speed of image processing by an order of magnitude. What took normally 2-5 minutes to get completely ready from a cold start now takes 20-30 seconds. Very nice! Dont know about overall durability (its been a little over a month) but no problems so far. Make sure you get a holder if youre putting it in a desktop, but otherwise its a quick replacement with cloning software.

Samsung has a great reputation as a premium SSD. Capacity keeps going up while the price remains, or slightly drops. It is now practical buying these in 0.5 to 1 terabyte sizes. I started augmenting my HD storage on my several PC-s and laptops for the OS drive, now I am just swapping out all the hard drives, these become so inexpensive.

Bought this to replace a mechanical HD in a 4 year old build.

This is a great SSD for storage or main boot drive.