Put into my wife's 2010 MacBook Pro and if feels like a new machine. Very easy to install yourself. I first put this drive into my own 2010 MacBook Pro and saw great results. You learn how much your computer is IO bound. I also noticed a small batte...

Excellent price on SSD. Overstock's website is easy and intuitive to use. Shipping was expedient.

Outstanding combination of features, innovation, performance, and price.

Slimline design; RAPID Mode for jaw-dropping performance boost; free Data Migration utility; user-friendly Magician software; Outstanding value

Won't help the Jaguars win the Superbowl

Last week Samsung announced the new 840 Evo SSD series to replace the existing 840 series. The write speeds should be significantly higher, but the affordable price remains the same. We tested the entire series consisting of 120 GB, 250 GB, 500 GB, 750 GB and 1 TB models.

There is no doubt that when Samsung look to take over a market they can get things really right and there is no better example than how well their Galaxy range of smartphones is doing in an ever more crowded mobile market.

And here we were, staring multiple SandForce drives in the face, thinking solid-state innovation had ground to a halt. How wrong we were. Boffins at some of the biggest names in the industry have proven that there's plenty of room for improvement, with Intel introducing a new level of consistency...

I'm continually amazed by Samsung's rise to power in the SSD space. If you compare their market dominating products today to what we were reviewing from Samsung just a few years ago you'd assume they came from a different company.

TRIM Performance: While SSDs offer many benefits, there are some downsides to using flash memory. One of the biggest issues people run into is performance degradation. Over time, an SSD will run out of fresh blocks and will have to write over data the file system has marked as deleted.

Available in 120GB; 250GB; 500GB; 750GB and 1TB capacities; Features RAPID mode and TurboWrite technology; Excellent sequential read and write speeds; Very good random read and write performance; Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data; Good looking; ultra-slim design; SATA...

Samsung's 3-bit MLC NAND is not as durable as 2-bit MLC NAND

The Samsung 840 EVO (500GB) ($259) internal solid-state drive (SSD), the follow-up to the company's Samsung 840 Series 250GB($378.89 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window), retains the TLC flash memory that debuted in its predecessor, but adds functionality to boost performance. The result is one of the best SSDs we've ever seen, with a dynamite price/performance ratio. Appropriately, the "EVO" suffix stands for "evolution"—this is the second drive to use triple-level-cell (TLC) NAND and it includes a write-performance-boosting feature that addresses one of the principle complaints regarding the flash memory type. Samsung is one of a handful of companies using TLC NAND; most drives today use multi-level-cell (MLC) flash memory. The difference between the two is the number of bits that are stored in each memory cell. Traditional MLC stores two bits; TLC flash, as the name implies, stores three. The shift to TLC NAND has been slow, despite the additional storage it offers. TLC NAND is ...

Whether you're a regular user or even an enthusiast, the Samsung 840 EVO (500GB) has the best price/performance ratio of any internal solid-state drive (SSD) you can buy today.

Costs just over 50 cents per GB; Performs like a standard multi-layer-cell (MLC) drive

Its triple-level-cell (TLC) NAND isn't suitable for all workloads or scenarios