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George S.

George S.

Joined on 11/18/02

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Good product

SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC256D/AM 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Desktop Upgrade Kit
SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC256D/AM 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Desktop Upgrade Kit

Pros: Good hardware and packaging. Includes everything necessary for adding a drive, including the power cable. Easy install, recognized immediately by Windows 7 without even running WEI. Speed is comparable to 120G OCZ Vertex 3.

Cons: Software. The Magician software does nothing that is not available within WIndows or for free and the over-provisioning software messed up the native Windows 7 partitioning utility. Setting/checking things like Superfetch and indexing is trivial and doesn't require separate software. Ditto for getting system specs and benchmarks. Norton Ghost is a Symantec product so I didn't install it. I had purchased Paragon Migrate OS to SSD ($20) and used that to move to OS over. Much easier than Ghost migration. Data migration was accomplished with a trivial copy.

Overall Review: I took an egg off because of the hassle with the included software messing up Windows partitioning utility. I'm using it for a backup boot drive and data storage.

Very Nice

Rosewill RX-358 V2 BLK - Black, 3.5" SATA to USB & eSATA External Enclosure with Internal 80 mm Fan
Rosewill RX-358 V2 BLK - Black, 3.5" SATA to USB & eSATA External Enclosure with Internal 80 mm Fan

Pros: Sturdy. Metal case. well packed from New Egg, as usual. Went together without a hitch, and is running at SATA 2 speeds. Cable is long enough to avoid cluttering up the desktop right around the computer. With the fan it runs cooler than internal HD.

Cons: None.

11/25/2011