Name: Samsung 840 Series 500GB 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive, 530MB/s Read and 330MB/s Write Speed
Brand: Samsung
SKU: SSG7TD500BW
Price: 339.99 USD
Availability: Discontinued
Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)

Samsung 840 Series 500GB 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive, 530MB/s Read and 330MB/s Write Speed

Samsung 840 Series 500GB 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive

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Top Rated Gear: Samsung 840 Series 500GB 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive, 530MB/s Read and 330MB/s Write Speed Interface: Serial ATA (SATA)

I have a 4 year old Toshiba 305 laptop with Vista which I had already upgraded to a 7200 RPM Seagate drive. My attempt to upgrade to Windows 7 ruined an entire weekend, ultimately failed, and I am told, resulted in disciplinary action on the Microsoft tech helper who could not make the upgrade work. I had a lot of programs on the drive for which I did not have the installation disks, so I did not want to do a clean install for 7.  The main problem with Vista was the very slow start up time. It took 2 minutes 45 seconds to reach the log-on screen, even with the 7200 RPM drive. I shopped for a year before buying the Samsung. Searching on-line, the Samsung seemed to be the ONLY SSD that did not have frequent reports of blue screens and returns to the manufacturer. Also, my IT guy told me Samsung was the best, so when the price was right, I jumped. Well, I was very disappointed with the installation instructions. Basically, there were none. I looked at the Intel Web site for instructions installing their SSD, followed those instructions, and everything worked fine. I still had to do a lot experimenting inside the "Magic" program for wear leveling and optimization. When all was done, my time to log on was dropped only to 2 minutes, which is not much of an improvement. The big surprise is that applications just "pop" open almost instantly. Much faster than my Windows 7 quad core machine. Well, it has been less than a week, so reliability testing is yet to come. My main hope for faster start up was disappointing, but the way it opens applications is just astonishing-something I did not expect, but it does make this 4 year old Vista machine quite zippy.

Samsung Solid State Drive.

moving up from an OCZ 120GB that got bricked by power outtage...this Samsung is awesome by far.

awesome fast

I am extremely happy with the performance of the driver I purchased from Adorama.  The price was outstanding as is the  hard driver.  I received the hard driver very quickly after ordering so I am very happy!!!

I am very happy!!!

Great drives at a great price

Didn't come with mounting bracket or transfer cable as shown in installation guide. Installation manual on CD was useless - you need to have cloned & installed an SSD before.

Fast, low cost SSD

Installed it in my MBP as its main drive. Photoshop and lightroom now starts up nearly instantaneously.

Speedy upgrade for my mac mini

So far this has been a great drive.  I cannot speak to it's reliability at this point, but everything I have read would indicate that it should last.  The only difficulty iI had was updating the firmware on a MacBook.  It would be nice if Samsung made it a little easier for us Mac users.

Samsung 840 Series 500GB 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive, 530MB/s Read and 330MB/s Write Speed

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