I purchased this drive in December 2015 and installed it in a lightly used desktop computer. It worked well and was very fast compared to the drive it replaced. December 2018 and the drive went completely non-responsive and Windows and Linux drive diagnostic software cannot bring it back.

The 850 EVO has been tested for over 3 years of use with our desktops & laptops & we have yet to have one fail. (We have had other SSD brands fail, but not the 850 EVO) Great performance and reliability

... is for those people who, like me, want to clone an HDD but are not sure how to go about it. It is not for the technologically minded amongst you who want to know the results of this or that benchmark test: I have no idea whether this drive is as fast as it is advertised or anything like that.

I have built and support a few dozens of computers using Samsung SSD (840/850 EVO/PRO) and I've never had a single issue or complaint - not once! They're now my first choice for a SSD, over Crucial, Corsair, OCZ, Kingston, or the others I haven't really used, so I gladly pay an extra ~20 bucks for...

You will see much improved boot times, and applications will open considerably faster. they also improve battery life on laptops as these do not have motors or mechanical They are pretty much the best upgrade you can do to a PC or Mac.

Out of the box, into the machine. Minimal fuss and it just works. It also delivers exactly what it says it will. Everyone should get an SSD, when you do you could do a lot worse than one of these.

installed this on 2 different computer and it increased boot and load time of games from your standard hard drive. Windows 10 boots within 15 seconds from a complete power off state. Total load time with 20 background apps is about 30 seconds.

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Installation was easy. Performance was greatly improved, most seen at startup and shutdown. Just order Item 9098819 to clone the old hard drive to the new hard drive. This item is a Universal SSD Cloning Kit for Win XP thru Win 10. It is suitable for anyone who can follow the on-screen directions.

My laptop had a 120GB mSATA, which was an upgrade and working fine. However, when I saw the price for this 250GB mSATA with a "5 YEAR" warranty, it just made logical sense to upgrade my laptop with this new SAMSUNG mSATA. My mSATA port is a SATA 3.0 port and this SAMSUNG mSATA is a speed demon.