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Technical information
Brand Samsung
Digital storage capacity 1000 GB
Compatible devices Desktop
Item dimensions L x W x H7 x 0.7 x 10 centimetres
Form factor 2.5 inches
Item weight 62 Grams
Read speed 550 Megabytes Per Second
Connectivity technology USB
About this item
Sequential Read/Write speeds up to 550/520 MB/s respectively; performance varies based on system hardware configuration
Compatible with any version of Windows and all PCs with Sata 2.5 "interface
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Available Capacity: up to 4 TB
Designed for mainstream PCs and laptops for personal, gaming and business use
Costumers Product Reviews
Pros
The product itself is fine, as expected.
Installing this as a 2nd drive (already have Samsung 1TB as C:\) was less predictable.
Plug it in with expected cables, reboot, go to Disk Management (Win Key + X) and select drive, format etc.
Download Samsung Magician software (from Samsung) and run - it should recognise drive...........if not, uninstall, reboot.
Turn off ALL antivirus\firewall\security monitoring apps, then reinstall it - software needs to check with (Samsung) base to verify disk is kosher. Reboot.
If the SSD is still not recognised, go to Intel's website, as directed by the message given in Magician, and download the suitable Intel SATA AHCI Controller drivers - (spoiler) - this is a real nerd's website, so plenty of heavy duty reading to get correct drivers. Download these to your PC, unzip and remember where you have put them........now Win Key + X again, go to Device Manager, 'IDE, ATA\SATA controllers, expend this to see what is listed; right-click to Update Driver, Browse My Computer to where your shiny new Intel Drivers have been unzipped and install them. Reboot yet again.
Run Samsung Magician, it should now 'see' your disk, so you can play with the options, i.e. Rapid Mode can be enabled (but only on 1 SSD per PC) and Trim enabled, also Performance Benchmark. Magician may also suggest Firmware update for the SSD, if necessary.
It took me hours to get the Magician software to recognise the SSD and I cobbled together my tips from those gleaned from several websites, forums on the 'net, so hope it can help someone else.
For my setup, a decent purchase to keep all my Steam games separate as they take up so much room on main drive.
Cons
Do not purchase for AMD FX series motherboards. Nowhere does it say anything about compatibility, but it transpires that there is no firmware for it to be compatible with AMD FX series motherboards. Upon installation into my PC, it started to suffer from weird crashes and blue screens as I installed the OS on the SSD. The Magician software stated there were incompatibly issues though. After much searching around on forums, it turns out that many people have had these issues with Samsung SSDs and one person was told by Samsung technical support that they should buy intel for it to work. But I could find no information about compatibility for it on Samsung's website or elsewhere. All this information came from forums with other people who had issues.
No doubt this is great for other motherboards, but just highlighting this here for those still using the FX series. Returning since it will be a few months until I upgrade to Ryzen
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