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Samsung - 850 EVO 500GB Internal Serial ATA Solid State Drive for Laptops and PC
Average Customer Rating:
4.8
Rating breakdown 583 reviews
5 Stars
512
4 Stars
42
3 Stars
5
2 Stars
4
1 Star
20
96%of customers recommend this product.
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541 out of
566)
Customer Reviews for Samsung - 850 EVO 500GB Internal Serial ATA Solid State Drive for Laptops and PC
Customer Rating
4
Definitely fast, but a little power hungry for an SSD.
on June 16, 2015
Posted by: Dave051968
from Denver, CO, USA
Expertise:Expert
This was an upgrade from a SanDisk Ultra Plus 256.
The capacity is much better for me. 500GB goes a lot further than the 256GB I had before.
The speed is somewhat faster for large file transfers, and mine actually delivers 505MB/sec read and 465MB/sec write with large files (>20MB). IOPS benchmark about 40% higher than I had before.
Real world I can't tell any speed difference between this drive and my old SanDisk, although occasionally my boot times climb into the 20+ second range (running a 2.2/3.2GHz i7-3632QM on HM76 chipset, 16GB DDR3-1600 999-24, and 1TB secondary HDD, Win7x64). Normally boot time is about 15sec; It was 14.1sec every time with the previous SSD.
Power consumption in my laptop has also gone up considerably. With the previous SSD my battery life was a consistent 9h30m, now it is about 5h. (Both run times with brightness at max, surfing the internet only.) Standby power consumption is supposed to be very low, but when have you known Windows to leave the boot drive alone long enough for that to be effective?
The capacity is much better for me. 500GB goes a lot further than the 256GB I had before.
The speed is somewhat faster for large file transfers, and mine actually delivers 505MB/sec read and 465MB/sec write with large files (>20MB). IOPS benchmark about 40% higher than I had before.
Real world I can't tell any speed difference between this drive and my old SanDisk, although occasionally my boot times climb into the 20+ second range (running a 2.2/3.2GHz i7-3632QM on HM76 chipset, 16GB DDR3-1600 999-24, and 1TB secondary HDD, Win7x64). Normally boot time is about 15sec; It was 14.1sec every time with the previous SSD.
Power consumption in my laptop has also gone up considerably. With the previous SSD my battery life was a consistent 9h30m, now it is about 5h. (Both run times with brightness at max, surfing the internet only.) Standby power consumption is supposed to be very low, but when have you known Windows to leave the boot drive alone long enough for that to be effective?
Overall, though, considering the capacity benefits I would definitely recommend this SSD as a great upgrade item. And if you are upgrading from a hard drive you could expect your battery life to increase significantly.
** Note that the Design rating only got 4 stars due to the significant power increase over my previous SSD. Some increase was expected, but not this much.
Pros: Lightweight, fast, silent
Cons: high power consumption for ssd
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
4
Value
4
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
SSD Installation
on June 16, 2015
Posted by: pcuser1
from Dallas, TX, USA
The installation operations of the Samsung 850 EVO 250 GB SSD occurred very easily and in a very straight forward manner. Being a non hardware pc user I had a great deal of trepidation about the difficulties one might encounter such as hard drive partioning, etc. No problem, as the Samsung provided instructions and migration software performed flawlessly. Now my pc boots up very quickly and the applications open and close much much faster than the old spinning hard drive.
Pros: Inexpensive, Durable, Realistic color, Lightweight
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
My second Samsung SSD
on June 14, 2015
Posted by: bibitibi
from haifa, israel
Expertise:Intermediate
Hi all!
This ssd is Light, good looking, fast, reliable and cold!
In comparison to else ssd that i have, zero coil noise! Nothing!
I use it on SATA II and windows 7 64-bit, Greate performance!
Samsung Magician will let you feel the king of the ring, just enable RAPID MODE and you will feel the boost. Also, try OS OPTIMIZATION, be careful with those options.. For me, "maximum reliability" cause crashes because the reduction in PAGE FILE size. I enlarge it and everything is excellent.
My previous samsung ssd is 128GB evo 840. And i'm waiting to the next.
The amazing thing is better performance
while reduce production costs. ;)
Strongly recommanded
This ssd is Light, good looking, fast, reliable and cold!
In comparison to else ssd that i have, zero coil noise! Nothing!
I use it on SATA II and windows 7 64-bit, Greate performance!
Samsung Magician will let you feel the king of the ring, just enable RAPID MODE and you will feel the boost. Also, try OS OPTIMIZATION, be careful with those options.. For me, "maximum reliability" cause crashes because the reduction in PAGE FILE size. I enlarge it and everything is excellent.
My previous samsung ssd is 128GB evo 840. And i'm waiting to the next.
The amazing thing is better performance
while reduce production costs. ;)
Strongly recommanded
Pros: Inexpensive, Durable, Lightweight
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
4
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Great value for SSD
on June 7, 2015
Posted by: SSDforlife
from Philadelphia, PA
Expertise:Expert
I bought this drive for my performance laptop and it's a dream. The size is great for storing games, movies and music. Boot times were reduced to about ten seconds and loading applications is just about instantaneous. Highly recommend this drive to anyone looking to upgrade to SSD.
Pros: Inexpensive, Durable, Lightweight, great value
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
4
Glad I made the move to a Samsung SSD
on June 2, 2015
Posted by: Birddog669
from San Antonio, TX, USA
Expertise:Intermediate
Overall, great product. Easy to clone my old hard drive using the software that came with the SSD. The only detractor was the drive is now $20.00 cheaper (price dropped a couple of days after I purchased the Samsung SSD (:
Pros: much faster than my old hard drive
Cons: price dropped $20.00 2 days after i bought it
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
4
Performance
4
Design
4
Value
4
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
Excellent performance
on May 25, 2015
Posted by: VloureedU
from Houston, TX
Expertise:Expert
I read many reviews on the 850 series and I was definitely satisfied with all the positive information holding true in my application. I will be adding more of these into my environment as I upgrade.
Pros: Durable
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
This product has great speed and price so good.
on May 24, 2015
Posted by: erogoka
from Vietnam
Expertise:Intermediate
Hope Samsung will have more evolutions in this SSD series.
Best regards!
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US
Customer Rating
5
GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE
on May 23, 2015
Posted by: JBUGLUV
from Killeen, TX, USA
Expertise:Beginner
I BOUGHT TWO OF THESE ONE WENT IN ONE COMPUTER AND THEN THE OTHER IN ANOTHER ONE. BUT THE SECOND INSTALL DIDN'T WORK FOR SOME REASON. I CALLED CUSTOMER SERVICE AND THEY TRIED TO HELP. THEY WERE REALLY NICE AND INFORMATIVE. THANKS. BUT THE ONE I GOT WAS AN ACCIDENTAL DUD. NO BIGGIE. BECAUSE THE RETURN PROCESS HAS BEEN EASY SO FAR. THEY SENT ME MY UPS LABEL AND ILL SEND IT BACK TO GET A NEW ONE.
Pros: Lightweight
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
5
Design
5
Value
5
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US