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Samsung - 840 EVO 250GB Internal Serial ATA III Solid State Drive for Laptops
Average Customer Rating:
4.8
Rating breakdown 291 reviews
5 Stars
257
4 Stars
22
3 Stars
3
2 Stars
0
1 Star
9
96%of customers recommend this product.
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269 out of
280)
Customer Reviews for Samsung - 840 EVO 250GB Internal Serial ATA III Solid State Drive for Laptops
Customer Rating
5
Wow!
on June 26, 2016
Posted by: 1ProudPapaFLNC
from North Carolina
Expertise:Expert
Purchased the 850 EVO 500Gb to install as my new Boot Drive in an old (2009) build. Now, this old build remains pretty darn fast and capable: i7-920 O/C'd to 3.87 GHz, 6Gb DDR3 1600 RAM, 2x WD Black 1TB drives, WIN 7 64-bit.
But after cloning the old HDD boot drive and installing the 850 EVO - WOW! My old machine now boots in like 4 seconds (really) and everything is fast, fast, fast. Breathed new life into a still great (but perhaps a little 'power hungry' compared to Intel's latest cpu's) old machine.
And on top of all of this, the included software - Samsung Magician - is slick, tight and impressive.
Bottom-line: new build or old, you will experience a vast improvement by installing one of these Samsung bad-boys. :)
But after cloning the old HDD boot drive and installing the 850 EVO - WOW! My old machine now boots in like 4 seconds (really) and everything is fast, fast, fast. Breathed new life into a still great (but perhaps a little 'power hungry' compared to Intel's latest cpu's) old machine.
And on top of all of this, the included software - Samsung Magician - is slick, tight and impressive.
Bottom-line: new build or old, you will experience a vast improvement by installing one of these Samsung bad-boys. :)
Pros: impressive design, impressive funtionality
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
Brings new life to old PC
on June 27, 2016
Posted by: Ericw351
from Upland, CA, USA
Expertise:Intermediate
I put this in my six year old first generation i5 desktop PC. Even though it's on a SATA II interface, this drive makes everything quicker and more responsive. I demoted the old WD Black to backup images and data backup.
Pros: Durable, 5 year warranty, hi peformance
Cons: more expensive
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 Product
on June 27, 2016
Posted by: smsngpro
Overall good product, a little over priced. I am happy with its performance
Pros: Durable, Lightweight
Cons: expensive
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
Excellent SSD drive
on June 27, 2016
Posted by: SJella
from Virginia, USA
Expertise:Expert
After installing this SSD my windows 10 OS is booting in less than 10seconds. Applications are opening real fast.
I've a application which used to take more than 15mins to open and after installing this SSD it is taking less than 1minute. Very very good. I recommend it.
I've a application which used to take more than 15mins to open and after installing this SSD it is taking less than 1minute. Very very good. I recommend it.
Thanks,
Pros: Lightweight, super performance
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
In Raid 0 it smokes a M.2
on July 10, 2016
Posted by: LiveFromVegas
from Las Vegas
Expertise:Beginner
Wow this is the new king of the hill on hard drives. I wanted an upgrade from a mechanical; and went with 2 of these. I set them up in Raid 0 and my reads and writes are off the charts!! Was worried about raid 0 loss of data so I went with one of the best names in current SSD's Samsung so I sleep well at night...... So fast I can't get to my mouse before the reads and writes are done, just ridiculously FAST. When the SATA express tech comes out, and they are pared with these in raid 0 we wont know what hit us..... Now the humans are the bottleneck @-@
Pros: Durable, Lightweight, fasssst
Cons: would like support for sata express
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
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB is awesome
on July 16, 2016
Posted by: gunnyduck
from Sacramento, CA USA
Expertise:Intermediate
Purchased a different brand for my first SSD and returned it to the store the next day - purchased the Samsung SSD for just a little bit more money, but it was definitely worth it!
It has been 3 and 1/2 months since i first installed it, and 2 months since installing one on wife's computer - we don't have sata 3 so the speed isn't as great as it could be, but...the speed is awesome! The sequential r/w is about 1/3 again as fast as a new ST2000 hd, but the random r/w is off the charts faster...
Boot time has gone from about 5 minutes to about 2 minutes...can't wait to get my sata 3 motherboard...
Pros: Durable, Inexpensive, lightning fast even on sata2
Cons: can't think of a thing
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
Excellent SSD
on July 19, 2016
Posted by: Sensei99
from Hayward, CA, USA
Expertise:Intermediate
I have used 2 Samsung EVO SSD one 500GB for work and the second 250GB for Home both of them are working great without any issue.
However i have one note:
As you may know Samsung SSD are more expensive than others so I didn't try and compare it to other SSD to check if we are getting any extra benefits from the extra price we are paying .. however every review videos on Youtube does put EVO and Pro on the top of their list!
Thanks
However i have one note:
As you may know Samsung SSD are more expensive than others so I didn't try and compare it to other SSD to check if we are getting any extra benefits from the extra price we are paying .. however every review videos on Youtube does put EVO and Pro on the top of their list!
Thanks
Pros: Durable, Lightweight
Cons: expensive
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
Finally A Hard that satisfy
on July 22, 2016
Posted by: ScorpionHunter
from Iraq
Expertise:Intermediate
over the years of owing desktops and laptops i was frustrated from always slow and not reliable hard drives that lost me a lot of my memories twice not one time because of sudden failure of hard drive combined with slow performance of conventional drives that limit my PC performance, thanks to this Samsung ssd evo 850 i can regain trust in hard drives again its reliable and fast and with magician program you can follow up the hard drive health so you can anticipate if a problem were to occur.
believe me Im not that easy to satisfy but this hard drive really is awesome
believe me Im not that easy to satisfy but this hard drive really is awesome
Pros: Durable, Lightweight, fast, silent, small size
Cons: little expensive
I would recommend this to a friend!
Features
5
Performance
4
Design
5
Value
2
Written by a customer while visiting Samsung US