SAMSUNG Data Center Series SV843 2.5" 960GB SATA III V1 MLC VNAND Enterprise Solid State Drive

Pros: fast. very good price. Drive was said to be refurbished but it only had 7 power cycles on it when I checked the SMART data. Total bytes written was 23Gb. Cannot much newer!

Cons: none.

Overall Review: Price went up $20 before I could order another. Went and bought second drive. It had three power cycles and 0 LBA written. Also, Magician version 1 (linux version) works with ubuntu 14.04

Pros: - "Refurb" price - Capacity - SSD - Samsung - Newegg is the vendor - Premier Shipping - Crystal Disk Info says these are new SSDs, no runtime - Longevity - MLC

Cons: - Roll the dice and see what you get...? - Write speed is around 420 instead of the 850 EVO 520...?

Overall Review: Use 2x these for my home server (media, files, etc.) Windows 2012 R2 OS drives (have Intel RT3WB080 RAID card w/spinners for mov/tv). Was running out of space with 2x 850 EVO 250GB mirror, handling sensitive data. Swapped these in one at a time and the mirror rebuilt within 10 minutes each time. Crystal Disk Info shows they're brand new. Great performers and excellent capacity for a consumer price conscious application. I'd buy these for my gamerig too if I needed more storage. Even if they had 20000-30000 hours on them and performed as they do, I'd be happy.

Pros: -Large capacity -Samsung drive -Enterprise grade -Good read/write speeds.

Cons: -Refurbished? not a huge con for me. Won't get this type of drive new at this price... -Nothing else.

Overall Review: Ordered two drives and very satisfied with both. Both drives read as 0 hours operated and 2-3 power on's. Drive has an incredible lifespan and will last me many years. Replaced my Samsung 850 Pro with this.

Pros: -Large drive that is fairly fast for reads.

Cons: -Part of the refurbishment process wiped all SMART attributes. The drive had ZERO written to all fields. This made it extremely difficult to deduce the current health of the drive (which starts at 100%). To figure out, you literally have to write as much as you need to the drive (through use or testing) and watch the counter drop to 99% and extrapolate to figure out previous written data.

Overall Review: -Previous usage should be made known for any product. If you purchased new, you know what its previous usage was - none essentially, if you purchased open box - you expect minimal usage, if you buy a used car - you check the odometer. That the fact these refurb drives have no indication of previous usage makes purchasing these drives a huge gamble, especially since the warranty is short (90 days) and the price is high.

Pros: Great price.

Cons: incompatible with my hardware Nothing on the product page informed me that this was possibly incompatible with certain hardware The PRO and EVO series are the only fully compatible Samsung models according to Samsung support

Pros: Fast, low use, inexpensive

Cons: Magician software does not recognize it, so it might not be possible to set overprovisioning to improve performance and endurance.