Reviews

Perfect drive for Intel SRT SSD Caching. Maximum support cache size (64 Gb) and one of the best SSD makes and models on the market (Samsung). Using this drive as a dedicated Cache drive has made my system 170% faster is average disk read/write when attached to a 2TB HD.

I installed the Samsung 830 SSD in a newish Dell XPS 8500 running Win 7 as the C: boot drive. The drive is 7 mm thick so it can also be used in many laptops as well. The kit comes with everything you need for a desktop computer.<br ><br >Boot up is much quicker than with the original OEM Barracuda drive, less than 1 minute vs 1:30 to 2:00 minutes. Applications load much quicker.<br ><br >At the current price this is probably the best 256 GB SSD available. The included Samsung SSD Magician provides usefull untilities, especially the Over Partitioning function, and it comes with Norton Ghost 15. I prefer Seagate-Acronis Disk Wizard, I imaged the original Dell Seagate Win 7 drive. The Disk Wizard copies everything, including the factory recovery partition, from the HD to the SSD in one step. Norton can't copy the recovery partition and you can only copy one disk partition at a time with Norton.<br ><br >TRIM and garbage cleanup work effectively and automatically in the background in Win 7.  more

Easy to install. Boot and shut down speed greatly increased. I can tell that programs open faster too. I've had it instlalled about a month and could not be happier right now. I just hope I can say the same thing 9 months from now. It is pretty expensive, but I guess you get what you pay for. I mostly use my laptop for my job which is why I went with this drive versus one that was cheaper. For just your average everyday use at home laptop/computer, I don't think you really would need a drive this expensive. But if you can afford it, I highy recommend.

So far the drive has been working great. Bios and Windows 7 recognized it right away and Windows install was quick and easy. Very pleased with it super speedy performance.

This is the best hard drive I have ever purchased. My computer is at least 50% faster than before and it was already fast before. This SSD hits the benchmarks and will last years. It will outlive the computer it is installed in and still run fast and quiet and the price is confrontable with a smile. Thank you JR.

I turned my Toshiba Portege R835-P56x into the latest Toshiba ultraportable. I have medium computer repair skills, the installation was pretty easy. Directions should include the critical step of activating the drive, otherwise it isn't recognized.

Used to transfer movies from external hard drive and watch on OPPO Blu Ray player. Keeps use of external hard drives to 6 minutes or less. While watching movies is hours. Storage drives should last years longer.

Finally an SSD that IS firmware upgradable. This must come as a relief to most computer users tired of getting error messages from their computer or laptop's hard drive. I love this drive.

I liked the USB cable - made it easy to transfer over my existing Mac HD to the new one. However, no clear instructions on how to transfer everything over made a lot of searching the internet necessary.

You can read all the Manf Specs and you can read all the professional reviews for yourself but the purpose of my review is to relay my experience of the sammies playing very nicely with the Adaptec RAID 6805E. <br ><br >Getting the Adaptec RAID Card to play with the sammies was not too difficult. <br ><br >I am now consistenly getting 601/549 READ/WRITE. I can get insanely higher numbers if they were on the Intel ports (RAID mode) but I already have a pair of sammy 830 128GB on them.<br ><br >All said, WRITEing large files at over 525 MB/sec (consistenly) is it for me.