Samsung 860 PRO SSD 4TB Review: A Game-Changer for Speed and Reliability

Very quick and easy upgrade for pretty much any laptop (or desktop for that matter). Assuming you have at least the minimum amount of memory installed, this is the place to spend your upgrade dollars. This solid state "hard drive" is super easy to install (although I am an IT guy) and it really wakes Windows up. Boot time, or time for Windows to be usable, was significantly reduced. Overall speed is also improved quite a bit. Now...I have software and a "cradle" on a desktop computer that allowed me to make an image of my existing laptop hard drive, and then I just laid that image down on the new SSD and viola, boot and go. No need to backup and restore data, no need to reinstall Windows, just go. You might have to resize the partition to get all the space on the new SSD, but it's super easy in Windows. You can most likely find a local computer store that will take care of that image process for not very much money. For any model laptop you have, you can always just Google "hard drive replacement" or "hard drive install" and you'll get some step-by-step instructions (very easy to do in any laptop I've ever worked on). Do not let an SSD fill up, your system will just crash with no error. It will reboot, but as the system creates working files, it will crash again. Nothing wrong with the drive, just needs some room. I've had SSD's in my work laptop for more than a year with no failures. I think durability is now good, to very good on most SSD drives. This quality drive, at this price...no brainer.

My Macbook Pro was taking 10 minutes to boot up and thereafter would take at least 5 minutes to open apps, such as iTunes, Word, Excel, Spotify, etc. Typing outgoing emails in Outlook would begin the lagging cursor after more than 10 emails were in a chain. I was about to drop nearly $2,000 on a new Macbook Pro, when someone suggested that I upgrade my hard-drive to a SSD drive. I received it in two days (ordered on a Friday night and came on Sunday afternoon). I used Apple's Disk Utility App to erase/format the new Samsung SSD and SuperDuper! app (I had to download it) to clone my old hard-drive using Sabrent 2.5"SATA Hard Drive/SSD to USB 3.0 Adapter (EC-SSHD). After about 5.5 hours of letting SuperDuper clone the new SSD, it was ready to install. Took the screws out the bottom of the laptop, removed the old hard-drive carefully, and used a pair of vice scripts needle nose pliars to remove the side posts off the old hard-drive. Be very careful doing this (supposed to use a very tiny star head, but unless its steel, it's not going to stand up to these screws - this was the hardest part). Put the mounting posts in and hooked up the Samsung SSD (dont tear the thin tape cable), and screwed the 4 screws to secure the hard-drive. Next, replace the bottom of the laptop and turned on. MY MACBOOK BOOTED UP IN LESS THAN 15 SECONDS. APPS TAKE LESS THAN 3 seconds to open now. INCREDIBLE. And I saved nearly a couple thousand dollars for now by not buying a brand new macbook. Very pleased. I just hope that it's a reliable piece of hardware, but it has a 5-year warranty. Definitely recommend!

Firstly, my particular order was from Amazon Warehouse, and once again scored a deal. While my item said "used" condition and the box was damaged, the SSD had not been used at all and was a brand new fresh unit per CrystalDisk. 0 hours on, 0 bytes written, etc. I decided to upgrade my SSD from a rather dated Samsung 830 series. After a successful cloning I installed the drive into the case and powered the PC on. The old SSD took 20 seconds or so to get Windows up and running. But the new model took around 5 seconds at most to get the OS up and running. While I haven't done any benchmarks or other real tests, I can say for certain that this new SSD is blazing fast compared to my older model. I also enjoy the fact its an MLC SSD, which hopefully means it will last quite some time. (My old SSD was from 2013 and CrystalDisk estimated it was at 96% health) Overall if you're upgrading from something 5 years or older, you should see a definite improvement.

I've been using SATA3 SSDs for years. Those include the Plextor M6 Pro / Plextor M6S / Samsung 850 Pro / Samsung 860 Pro and Transcend SSD 360S. Among them, Plextor M6 Pro and M6S were the first ones for me and they have been impressive, although I had to replace my first M6 Pro due to initial recognition failure. After replacement the Plextor SSDs seemed to work flawlessly. Recently I'm using Samsung 850 Pro and 860 Pro at my workplace and on my laptop. They have been working flawlessly without any kind of event until now. Recently I purchased Transcend 360S and installed it onto my old laptop with SATA2 interface. Initially it seemed to work nice but after less than a week of use, my old laptop occasionally freezes up and I had to wait for more than tens of seconds to work with it again. And it was my first experience in which I regretted my purchase of SSD. I think Samsung SSDs are one of those having the greatest compatibility to various systems and quality and durability. As I do not want to get disappointed as time goes on, I may go further with those Samsung SATA3 SSDs. Compatibility? Its just Okay for Samsung. A lot of reviewers protested they are compatible with various systems they have / Reliability? There are a great number of people that say they purchase only Samsung SATA SSDs. / Speed? While speed is always next to reliability for me, my test result was best with Samsung SSDs, followed by Plextor MLC SSDs. / Price? Recently the prices for Samsung SSDs are decreasing suddenly and significantly. And I think the price itself may mean nothing unless the SSDs are compatible, reliable and fast enough. I'm thinking of purchasing a number of Samsung 860 Pro SSDs to store my music and movie files and as frequent backing drive. I think it is also good for Samsung to let the customers know whether they are buying an MLC NAND SSD or a TLC one, while there are a number of brands who does not give important information about their product to the customers. What else to say??

Hat uns im Dauereinsatz noch nie im Stich gelassen. Wir kaufen nur diese, auch wenn sich der Preis horrabel entwickelt hat. Absolut empfehlenswert. Immer wieder gern. Vielen Dank.

Escribo esta reseña con el fin de ayudar a los demás: Tenia mis dudas de comprar un SSD ya que mi mac es muy viejita (Mid 2010, modelo A1278, 13", HDD de 250 GB), pero me animé a hacerlo después de mucho investigar y pude hacerlo yo solito sin necesidad de pagar por un servicio técnico, fue muy rápido y fácil, algo así como plug & play, adicional al SSD 860 Pro de Samsung, le puse 2 memorias de 4GB cada una de la marca Corsair SODIMM DDR3 y hasta ahora todo va excelente, la mac AHORA prende muy rápido (menos de 1 minuto cuando antes tardaba 5 o más), ahora todo lo procesa muy rápido, ya puedo tener abiertas apps y varias páginas de internet (entre ellas Canva), itunes y spotify, pages, excel, AI y sin que se trabe el sistema, en verdad estoy muy contento ya que mi equipo parece nuevo, comparé la velocidad de procesamiento y encendido contra una Macbook Air 2017 y una MBP 2020 y está casi a la par de estas, cuando antes estaba muy frustrado porque era muy lenta, en fin, para desarmarla solo utilicé un desarmador marca DAFUNY que viene el destornillador pentalobe y 5 juegos de tornillos completos de la parte trasera (si necesité uno de ellos por que mi batería se infló y rompió el trackpad), mi MBP era de 250 GB con el HDD y ya con el disco SSD ahora es de 512 GB, así que en verdad es una muy buena elección, tenia mis dudas con el disco ya que en la info del sistema mi mac dice que es disco SATA pero no dice si es 1, 2 o 3 y sin problema le quedó el 3 (SATA III), la velocidad máxima de escritura es de 3GB, antes con el HDD tenia 1.5 y si quisiera usar este SSD en otro ordenador la máxima es de 6GB, no sé qué más escribir ya que me gustarÍa ayudar más con esta reseña, en fin si tienen dudas me pueden contactar y les cuento más de mi experiencia. Por parte de Amazon todo excelente como siempre, empaques, fecha de entrega todo genial, muy pero muy contento con mi "nueva" mac.

Wery good and high quality product, read/write speed as was described, high & stable