Samsung SSD 860 EVO 2TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E2T0B/AM)

You just can't beat a solid state hard drive. Fast, quiet, and reliable. I buy these to put in a traditional PC as well as an external storage drive. Never had any issues with them.

samsung good. ssd good

Very nice hard drive

Good hard drive. works well with the other ones I have.

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I feel like I have a new laptop.I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 431 with a Core i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GH processor and 8GB of RAM, running Windows 7 Professional, which were pretty good specs when I bought it five years ago. It has been a decent, reliable performer, but continuous software bloat has resulted in increasingly slow performance. I run maintenance utilities regularly and have a minimum of the normal “junk” that slows a PC down, but you can only make an old horse run so fast.Or so I thought.I downloaded a copy of HDTune to evaluate the hard drive, and was chagrined to learn how slow it was compared to state-of-the-art drives even though it was performing at its rated ability. It was time to try one of these new-fangled SSD’s, especially considering how inexpensive they’ve become.Whoa! My start-up time has decreased from an average of 3:20 to a mere 0:45, a decrease of 75 percent! Everything is much snappier and responsive, and programs load RIGHT NOW. What a change!The Windows Experience Index went from 5.9 (the lowest rating being the Primary Hard Disk score) to 6.5 (driven by the graphics, which is not a priority in a business laptop). The Primary Hard Drive score is now 7.9, which is the highest it can go.I didn’t realize when I ordered this that I would also need a USB adapter for a SATA drive to make the transfer, so that was a second Amazon order before I could start. I then downloaded the free transfer software from Samsung and it took about 45 minutes to transfer 360 GB of data from my HDD to the Samsung SSD. Swapping the drives was a piece of cake, although that would depend on what laptop you have. For my ThinkPad, it was a matter of removing three screws to remove the bottom cover, then four screws to remove the bracket holding the old hard drive, and then four more screws to take the HDD out of the bracket to make room for the SSD. Reassembly and the insertion of the eleven little screws took just a few minutes.I restarted my ThinkPad and it was as though nothing had changed…except it was FAST! When I ran MS Word 2010 it noticed a change in hardware and wanted to re-register with Microsoft automatically, so I let it do that, but that was the end of the install process.I cannot recommend this upgrade more highly to anyone who has a worthwhile laptop with the weakest link being the speed of the HDD.---------------------Update 7/27/19: It has now been almost four months since I upgraded my ThinkPad with this product and my opinion has only gotten better. The replacement of the mechanical spinning HD with this SSD has increased my effective battery life tremendously. The SSD uses less energy, of course, but even more significant is that my PC's new ability to awake from sleep mode almost immediately allows me to set a much shorter time delay between inactivity and forced sleep mode. I'm also much less reluctant to deliberately put the ThinkPad into sleep mode because now it will start up again so quickly when I need it. If I'm sitting in a one hour meeting, my PC can easily go to sleep several times during that interval (and I don't mean only that the screen goes dark), and I get it to crank back up and log me in in just a few seconds with just a couple of slaps at the space bar. Awesome!!When plugged in, I used to leave my PC running all the time during the day even when it was unattended, because the startup time was so interminable and I didn't want to go through it more than once daily. Now I've gotten into the habit of putting it into sleep mode whenever I plan to be away from it for a while, just to save energy. If I plan to be gone for several hours, I'll even do a full shut down because, again, it's so easy to get it up and running again when I return.I also need to add that I upgraded to Windows 10 (which is still free, even though Microsoft keeps it a secret), which helps startup time even more. My old ThinkPad really zips along better than when it was new. Thanks, Samsung!

With almost 30,000 reviews as I write this it would seem there’s not much to add. I have to admit I didn’t read every one of them before I made my decision but it still took me six months to decide to finally do it. I’m happy I did. I won’t throw a lot of specs into this because they are worthless when other people you don’t know talk about how their system performs. There is only one way to know how this drive will perform in your system and that is to buy it and try it and return it if you don’t like it. That’s the most important thing I can say about this.Besides that there are a couple of things that are more universal that you should know.1. Unless you specifically choose the option to purchase an installation kit the only thing you get is the drive in a vacuum formed plastic tray. It’s not even wrapped in any antistatic material. I was surprised that there wasn’t even a bag of tiny screws.2. There is no driver or software included but you can download them. The software only works with a specific list of Samsung drives. It includes some valuable tools but otherwise it is pretty basic and easy enough to understand that you don’t have to be a computer expert to figure it out.3. This is a SATA drive. While it ranks high on performance compared to other similar drives it is absolutely puny in my HP Z2 G4 workstaton compared to the Samsung NVMe boot drive that came preinstalled. This is according to their own Magic software.4. For me the task of putting it in to my computer took all of five minutes from popping the top off to plugging it back in. The software comes with a few performance enhancements which I usually ignore but in this case I just opted to let them go for it. I have experienced no negatives by doing so. I do a lot of intensive graphic, photo and video work on my workstation and this drive is one of the best performing I’ve owned.5. The relatively well written instruction manual shows important connectors that are NOT included, although they indicate that they are necessary to use the product. You have to find (good luck) and buy those connectors yourself.6. While not a factor in rating this item there is something very typical with those who sell here. You can look at a product for months and the price doesn't budge a penny but the day after you actually place your order they suddenly drop the price permanently. Most stores would offer price protection but no, not this seller.Again, my best advice is to just do it and see if you like it. It works fine in my system so I would recommend it if it's what you're looking for.

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