A solid/comfortable choice and why...

This SSD (Solid State Drive) is an amazing piece of hardware and I recommend it in the fullest. If you are building a new PC this is a must have in the modern world as the benefits of SSD vs. HDD (Hard Disk Drive) are exponential by comparison. To put it in a nutshell, HDD's were obsoleted by the technology of an SSD and the difference is in how they store and access data. *end of nutshell* A HDD contains a circular plate (the Hard Disk) that serves as the medium for your data to be stored. The data is read by a little header (much like a CD player) and it is read one file at a time until all files has been found or whatever program you are tying to run (no multitasking). The hard disk has many different locations to store the data in and the locations have finite space available to them. So if you fill the capacity of one area with a program it will have to store the rest of the program in a different area of the disk. This can become convoluted with time. The hard disk has to spin in order for the header to read the data. When your data is spread so thin that the header has to hit multiple locations in your hard disk to compile the data for one program you can begin to notice the issue with HDD's. When these things happen a lot you begin to have noticeable hits to your system performance. And this is why disk defragmenting is an essential part of PC maintenance when using an HDD. Defragmenting your disk would literally find files that belonged together and try and order them as closely and neatly as possible and this would help system performance. With SSD's these things are no longer the standard fare. The exact workings of an SSD I have yet to fully research but I can tell you the fundamental differences. A SSD has no moving parts. It has no disks to spin. Unlike a HDD it can pull data from all locations of the SSD at the same time (yes multitasking) to gather the files for your program. An SSD DOES NOT CARE how close your files are to each other or how neat the data is dispersed. This also means disk defragmenting is a thing of the past for a SSD (and could potentially mess up your SSD so DO NOT defragment these). Because of this the data transfer to and from a SSD is blazingly fast and will actually bottleneck (overload with information) older SATA interfaces. Do not worry though as the HDD you might be replacing with an SSD never came close to bottlenecking the SATA and you WILL get noticeable perform gains. Your computer will literally do everything faster with an SSD and is easily the best upgrade for an aging and slow PC and a literal must have for any new build. SSD's are in a laptop form factor as well so one literally fits all PC's, desktops and laptops. (There is a possibility of a PC case not supporting SSD mounting if it is sufficiently old). Price differences in SSD's come from the capacity of the drive and the ability of the data storage cells to write and re-write data before failing. The Samsung 850 EVO is of higher quality in this regard and that is the reason for the price premium when compared to the drives of competing manufacturers with similar or greater storage capacity. I happily recommend this product at its standard price and insist upon it when it goes on sale.Read full review

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