- 2.5"
- 250GB
- SATA III
Terrific upgrade
08/04/2014
This review is from: SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250LW 2.5" TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) With Notebook Bundle Kit
Pros:
UN-FREAKING BELIEVABLE!! I put this drive into a 5 year old H-P DV-6 with an AMD Turion dual core. I was hoping for some speed improvement over the mechanical HDD, but not what I got. My start-up time went from 90 seconds to 35 seconds! The whole laptop feels way faster than when it was brand new. I can hardly believe it is the same computer.
The Samsung Data Migration software worked flawlessly, except for the master boot record. ( quick fix using Win 7 repair disc) It took about an hour to clone the H-P's HDD using the USB cord (66GB's of data transferred) . After that, installation was easy.
Cons:
Are you kidding me???- NONE AT ALL!
Overall Review:
The most amazing part of this upgrade is the fact that the SSD is running on a first generation SATA port ( 3G/b) - after all, my H-P is 5 years old. Sure enough, the Samsung Magician software shows read and write speeds about half of what the drive is capable of ( same drive in my desktop run about 515-520 MB/s on a SATA 6G/b port) Regardless of what the numbers say, the 5-yr. old H-P feels peppier than it has ever been and is a joy to use once again. Kind of like saying," It has been reborn again". I do not know of any upgrade that can give this much increase in speed as simply changing to an SSD. After this, I cannot ever go back to a mechanical HD ( at least as a boot drive)
Got to give Samsung credit for this one ( the 840 EVO series)- they REALLY got it right!
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- John G.
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