This is my third solid state drive and thought i'd try a Samsung, so far so good.

After trying the Crucial 1 TB SSD i've been sold on them ever since. Insanely fast compared to platter HD's and even hybrids. My quibble with the Crucial is it is SUPPOSED to be 1 tb capacity but only shows 698 GB capacity! 300 gb lost is not a minor thing...it might have been taken over by the reserve partition or something like that but, this irked me enough to want to try another brand. As always, installation has the possibility to be a headache but, the enclosed DVD that came with the drive, did all the work. I don't think the program cares what brand or type you use as source disk, there is no going to their site and entering some code just so you can download and use your own cloning program for your own disk, no codes to enter and nothing to download. Simple install of the cloning program, then you tell it to clone your drive and the program does the rest. It will not shut off your computer automatically as the Crucial drive program does so you have to check the screen for the notice that tells you to shut off your computer now. I cloned using a Crucial solid state drive as source disk, and i timed it at a half hour start to finish. (I'd guess a platter type source drive will take longer but I don't really know). Anyway when it tells you shut off the computer, then restart to boot to your new drive and you are done. No muss, no fuss, easy. And the capacity of this Samsung is well over 900 GB (they say when they make the chips they can't pick exactly how big it will come out, the chips are tested and the ones close to the desired capacity are what go into the drive). Anyway, this solid state drive is well worth it - the speed of these has spoiled me, the same way cable internet spoiled you for modems forevermore after you used it...I don't even want to bother using any platter type drive now since the slower response would drive me mad. When I used a hybrid drive as my main hard drive, boot time was over 2.5 minutes...you know the kind, where you turn on the computer and then go shave or something while it comes on? Now with a solid state drive it's less then 30 seconds, doing a restart takes maybe 40 seconds. Once you go solid state, there's no going back...Read full review

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