I bought this Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive to add to my existing Intel SSDSA2CW 160G3ATA which stores all my programs including Windows, and is running out of space.

Attractive Design; Compact; Quiet

Difficult To Use

I love the Samsung range of drives and needed some extra space. Opted for this one and installed without issue and the Samsung software is very good. Drive performance is good and I'm already considering adding another one in the near future.

Replaced macbook pro mid 2012 HDD with this SSD, read articles about changing the HDD from ifixit and also watched few videos on youtube , it is very simple procedure and one can do that on his own.

This SSD drive is fantastic, it's made my 3 year old Vaio like a rocket compared to before. General startup time, app start, file access is fast. Best thing was to easy app that mirrors over the old drive to the new drive, now install issues at all.

So easy to install! Works great! Very happy!

I bought this for my Macbook Pro (early 2011) as it was really struggling with updating to the new OS systems without sacrificing speed. It was easy to install the new HD and the improvement in speed is really noticeable. Well worth the money for the upgrade.

After purchasing the 250gb Samsung 850 EVO drive for a new Laptop, I decided to upgrade the primary system drive in my aging Mac Pro 3,1 tower. While the main drive slots do not support the full read/write speed of the drive, I purchased a PCI card that allows the drive to reach full speed and act...

I wanted to upgrade the hard disk of my laptop so I decided to get an SSD instead of a normal hard drive. After upgrading to SSD my laptop is much faster and everything loads quickly.

The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is an extremely impressive SSD that provides class-leading technology and speeds to the market. Through our benchmark results, we found the drive to perform consistently well and above all its competitors.

Today we're looking at the M.2 version of Samsung's popular 850 Evo SSD. We've already benchmarked the 2.5-inch 840 Evo and 850 Evo , so we're curious to see how this smaller form factor shapes up. Thanks to Samsung, we've got our hands on a unit to serve in our XSR test rig, so let's take a look!

Pretty fast; Super tiny

Not the fastest; Limited to SATA speeds