SAMSUNG 840 Series MZ-7TD250KW 2.5" 250GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Pros: Great for a boot drive
Fast Speed Read and Write SSD Drive
Excellent customer support by Seagate (Samusng sold HDD division to Seagate)

Cons: none so far

Other Thoughts: build:

i7-3930K CPU
Nvidia Quadro 4000
32 (4x8Gb) GSkill RAM
Thermaltake Water2.0 cooler
250Gb Samsung SSD for OS and apps
Seagate ST3000DM001 2x3Tb for work
Seagate ST2000DL003 2x2Tb for other stuff
OCZ ZX 1000W Modular PSU
HAF X case
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

Pros: Works in my Mac. Airdrop works too!

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: This things is tiny, and therefore allowed me to put it in a slot that couldn't be used by longer cards

Pros: I owned the previous version of this, which worked well, but was limited in its speed capabilities, however this model allows my SSD to work at its full capabilities. I am now getting 495 mb/s read speeds and 230mb/s write speeds, which is almost the max for my SSD. I was only getting 395mb/s read speeds and 215mb/s writes with the older raid caddy.

This also includes a power connector so that Regular HDs get enough power and don't run slow or drop out.

Cons: None!

Other Thoughts: Perfect solution for an older motherboard that doesn't have SATA III.

Pros: Stable, fast and reliable.

We build quite a few computers, since January we have used 14 of these SSD drives and none have failed yet. Very fast and reliable.

Cons: None, they just work.

Other Thoughts: We have tried a few different other name brands that we always had issues with, including Intel, Crucial and OCZ, none compare to the Samsung.

Pros: Excellent SSD for the money. Works as advertised. AS SSD Benchmarks 425+MB/s read, 380MB/s write.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I use these drive extensively in 1U rack-mounted servers as the controlling module for all the other SQL servers for several of my customers. The work as advertised and I have had zero failures or issues. Couldn't be happier.

Pros: Ridiculous speed!!!! Solid software via the web. Good Accessory Package!!! Nice packaging and good looking product (if that really matters)

Cons: Instructions and Software included. Download the latest migration tool and magician software. Not a 1Tb drive

Other Thoughts: Ok this thing is FAST!!!!!! As far as an upgrade from HDD to SSD there is no comparison, especially IF great care was NOT taken into consideration on how your HDD was managed. Programs really do BLINK when you open them. I mean literally blink. PC boots up FAST. I'm so use to the long boot-up from windows via HDD (about a minute) from the time i press the power button it feels like i left the PC in sleep state or hybrid / hibernate. Now its barely above 20 secs from pwr button.

But you have to be careful how your rig is set up For space I have always had my data connected via USB 3.0 external drive. That adds about 10 secs. MOST IMPORTANT. Make sure the USB Legacy is OFF/NOT ENABLED. With it on you boot-up times will be just as long as a HDD. I was never one for benchmark test cause we don't really use benchmarks for everyday productivity so i didn't waste time posting the numbers. But Adobe elements and Audacity loads a file so fast you wonder if the entire file was loaded.

Be sure to take your time and really clean your hard drive if you are not going to do a clean install. AHCI, defrag, purge old, temp and deleted files, etc. Use the Data Migration for cloning and Magician for basic optimization. These links were the most complete I found on the web.

http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide-2/2/
http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds

The only real negative is the size. Space IS A PREMIUM. So whatever data intensive process you use be sure to move that file off. 256GB goes real fast.

Disk, Seq Read (Mb/s), Seq Write (Mb/s), Random Read (iops), Random Write (iops)
Samsung 840; 525, 249, 45825, 38001
Hitachi Internal; 106, 131, 503, 369
Seagate Ext Usb 3.0 (7200 rpm); 123, 120, 163, 530
WD My Book USB Ext; 39, 34, 147, 249

Pros: It's a Samsung, very simple installation. At the time the price per GB for an SSD was good.

Once you find the actual software for the drive, it's one of the better SSD softwares I've used.

Cons: 1. No included software as stated....must find it "on your own" as there are no directions to it within the drive packaging.
2. Not nearly as fast as my Intel Maplecrest SSD.
3. Compared to other SSDs it feel very light and just doesn't give that "feel" of durability. Seems "flimsy" compared to the other SSDs I've installed.

Pros: Fast Speed Read and Write SSD Drive

Cons: Higher price for first time and now price is going down,
Great to have it!

Pros: Fast speeds, low price, decent capacity, free newegg saver shipping delivered within 2 days!!

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: There isn't much of a difference in performance between the 840 and 840 pro models, but the regular 840 is way cheaper and a much better deal! If you don't have SATA III you can't tell the difference anyway!

Pros: Faster than the old 7200 RPM mechanical drives, quiet.

Cons: Get Disk Read Errors frequently on boot up. Not unique to the 250, the 500 does the same thing. Sometimes comes right up, others I have to go through the CTRL-ALT-DEL once or more times to get it to finally boot Win 7 64 bit (SP1). Once it's up it's very fast and quite stable. Not sure what the issue is, there's darn little help available to diagnose the situation.

Other Thoughts: Might not get this drive again. Not impressed with the weak amount of information on this product.

Config:
ASUS M5A99FX R2.0
AMD Vishera 6300, stock speed
32 GB GSKILL dual channel 2133
3x3TB Seagate HDD in RAID 5 (6TB usable)
Sapphire ultimate HD 6670 video
Windows 7 64 SP1
Samsung SyncMaster 172t monitor (12 years old and still solid)