I've never had a 1TB ssd, although I've had 256gb and 512gb drives all of different makers, but I figured if I was going up to 1T I'd go Samsung.
I cloned my 512gb Mushkin to the Samsung drive w/o a problem using Acronos True Image 2019 instead of the Samsung Magician software that you can download.
Put the Samsung in as the boot drive to see if it would boot and the PC booted right up...I booted the drive several times to see if there were any problems but there were none.
I then erased the 512gb drive and will use it as my second drive putting Linux 19.1 Mint on it giving me a dual boot system.
I'm very, very pleased.
Since this SSD includes absolutely no installation instructions, outside of the most unhelpful diagram ever, if you just want an extra drive to run certain stuff more quickly one, rather than migrating data. Thankfully, I am a software engineer... which meant I had no idea what to do. So I contacted support. It's 3 am, I didn't expect much. Restarted a couple times. Tried rewiring the sata cables (which it didn't come with, by the way...kinda inconvenient). Nothing.
So, finally, about to give up I right clicked on "This PC" in File Explorer, hoping to find something of note. I found Manage. Navigated to Disk Management, and waited for a moment. Finally, it was shown that the new SSD was not formatted. Like literally at all. So I just did that, and now it shows up in file explorer. yay.
After a few tests, it says that it's downloading and moving files at around 1 MB/s, where the other components are now bottlenecking it. So...all in all...looks good for a hard drive.
EDIT: However, running programs on this SSD seems to be severely harming my CPU performance. I can't seem to fathom why. Sometimes it even tops out my CPU to 100% playing League of Legends, which is just the oddest thing, as it never went beyond 20% before migrating it over to SSD. Perhaps the drive has a high miss rate, and is forcing the CPU to continuously query the drive?
My internal drive on my xbox one x failed. I thought id upgrade it to an ssd! I bought this, set it up and wow major difference! Boot times for games that took around a minute to load, loads up in about 12-20 seconds! Longevity is unknown, ive had many cheaper SSDs that i bought over the years for pcs that are still working great to this day! And i trust Samsung more than i do with those no name brand ones i have. If your xbox internal Seagate fails definitely upgrade to an SSD! Download speeds are peaked since there is not a bottleneck with the write, and load times will be 3x as quick, open world games draw is instant. Well worth my investment!
I Brought this SSD for my PS4 PRO and my load times are faster and the home screen is very zippy now I did my research as I do with anything I spend over fifty dollars on and it has a lot of positive reviews and please ignore any reviews that are PC related about this SSD because your PS4 or PS4 PRO are not going to push this drive like a PC would but on the other hand I've heard it's really good for anyone with a simple starter PC so to each it's own but all in all it's a great drive for a excellent price with a trusted name like Samsung to back it.
Ok, So when I got the drive I bumped into a problem which first I didn't have the cable to clone, so I had to order one here. the second bump was when I was ready to transfer I realized that the old drive was larger in gigabytes than this one, but no problem I downloaded a free clone software who gave me the option to clone a larger drive to a small drive. The downside of the process was that it took approximately 6 hours for the process to complete, but boy, if I was happy, My laptop now it takes literally 5 seconds from pressing the power button to full desktop, It is an amazing blast speed.
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This was a great improvement to our computers. I bought one for the desktop and one for my laptop. They have made our older (3 years) computers function like the best of the best. We love the drives and they are easy to install with the program provided to clone the drive in your computer to the new drive. What a perfect system!
This is the second one of these 1TB SSD drives that I've bought and installed within a week. The Dell XPS 8910 install worked so well that I had to do one in my wifes Inspiron 23 all in one. Another perfect upgrade with no issues, and I upped the ram from 6GB to 16GB at the same time, making her machine run like new. Once again, the physical installation was the hardest part. Thanks Samsung!
The price has dipped as low as $107, and for a terabyte of SSD with a brand name behind it, it's hard to find fault.
I will say that getting the SSD to the point I could initialize it was an unusually weird experience. One reason was that it took Samsung Magician software (you download it separately) to begin this process, and the SSD must be attached as an INTERNAL drive, not dangling from a USB cable like I usually initialize SSD's with. There were other missteps on my part with this oddball, but they may not apply to you. Be sure to assign a drive letter when you initialize (Windows gives you this as an option) or it won't show up again when you attach it via USB cable, which is how I use mine.
I would also suggest you use the Samsung Magician software to "overprovision" the drive which is easy to do with the software's wizard. Since this thing uses cheap memory that will wear out sooner than most SSDs, adding some "over-provisioned" space will lessen the amount of storage you have, but greatly speed up and lengthen the life of this little weekend special.
It saves large files VERY SLOWLY, though smaller files don't feel that different than more expensive TLC or MLC drives.The product arrived quickly, especially considering I'm at a Pacific region DPO address.
Glad to see prices on larger capacity SSD's coming down. Replaced my secondary mechanical hard drive with one of these and loading games feels just as fast as my boot drive.
high quality, easy to migrate and install, using Samsung software.
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