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

I got this 500gb SSD to replace a 1TB Toshiba hd that as it turns out is very slow. Older laptop rather painful to use. Using the 860 all sorts of operations are much faster, even ones reading data off a different drive. Setup required some form of external SATA cable or dock with a USB3 connection to your laptop. Once powered up and discovered, you need to go into DiskManager and create the volume as MBR or GPT (older laptop probably MBR) and in my case with NTFS. I did NOT use the Samsung clone software because it wouldnt clone all the partitions of my HP laptops system drive. Instead I used EASUS ToDoBackup free clone option. I did have to fix the boot record from a command prompt (look up bootrec.exe. Overal performance of the drive is about 10 times that of the Toshiba as per HDTune 2.55. I also setup a page file on my data drive, but with 16gb of ram hopefully Im not using any page file (not really a good thing to use on a SSD).

My iMac is now reborn. It is super fast. Make sure to back up the current data with Time Machine. Once the 860EVO has been installed and the iMac rebooted, hit command+R and go to disk utility in order to format the 860EVO to Mac compatible format, e.g. Mac OS Extended (Journaled). When its done, go back and shoot for Restore from time machine backup and follow the steps on the screen.

Bought 3 of these... all working great, no complaints.. install was as simple as plugging it in.. all bioss recognized it.. no problem

I upgraded my early 2012 MacPro from hard driver to Samsung 860 SSD. My laptop is running faster than ever! Amazing product

good price for amount of storage

Plug and play for most, if you’ve updated windows 10 to 1903 then you’ll have to download the migrate software from Samsung to clone your original drive. Went from 2 minute start up to five seconds... runs without a hiccup. 5 stars!

This is great for a 1t size BUT be aware it does not come with the USB cord for it

As soon as this SSD and a fresh copy of OS installed my old Mac just got faster, will buy again

Recently my HDD started taking 5 to 10 minutes (or longer) to boot Windows so I knew it was finally time to make the upgrade. This SSD had good reviews online and it met my minimum capacity requirement of 1 TB. While a clean install is usually preferred, I utilized Samsungs cloning software to clone the contents of my HDD to the SSD. The process didnt take long, and I have run into no issues so far. No more long boot times and programs and games now open quickly!

This was easy to mirror with the available software download from Samsung. I bought two. This one to replace my primary laptop and a 256GB for a lesser used one. The software made it easy to move from a 1TB HDD to the smaller SSD. Start up on both computers is lightning fast compared to the HDD and Ive had no performance issues at all. My computers are used for business applications and web-surfing / streaming, so I cant speak the gaming aspect. I would buy the Samsung SSD again.