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Technical information
Brand Samsung
Digital storage capacity 500 GB
Compatible devices PC/notebook
Item dimensions L x W x H8 x 2 x 2 centimetres
Form Factor M.2
Colour Black
Item weight7 Grams
Read speed 550 Megabytes Per Second
Connectivity technology USB, Serial ATA
About this item
Sequential Read/Write speeds up to 550/520 MB/s respectively; performance varies based on system hardware configuration
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s, compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s and SATA 1.5 Gb/s interfaces
Form Factor: M.3, Reliability (MTBF): 1.5 Million Hours Reliability (MTBF), Operating temperature: 0-70°C
Available Capacity: up to 2 TB
Designed for mainstream PCs and laptops for personal, gaming and business use
Costumers Product Reviews
Pros
Bought as a replacement for the 128 GB SSD in my HP Omen, which though less than18 months old was slowing considerably. The larger capacity was needed because of the considerable number of high capacity programmes stored on the primary C drive where processing was taking place was not always sufficient.
Initially I could not clone the new SSD using Samsung's recommended Magician software, I was unaware that Magician only works internally when the computer has a spare SSD bay on the motherboard. After raising a query, I was directed to Samsung themselves, who informed me that I needed their Data Migration software which enables cloning to a USB3.0 adapter. Eureka, brilliant, cloned the entire C drive with Windows 10 and all my programmes, leaving me plenty of spare capacity for all processing conversion I needed.
The speed of the Samsung SSD was more than 2X that of the original Sandisk using a Benchmark test programme. This begs the question regarding the longevity of SSD's which we are told should be good for ten years average use before significantly slowing. Maybe I use my HP Omen more than is reasonable?
My only complaint is that the included information that came with the SSD did not include even brief advice regarding the cloning software, in fact when connected to the USB3.0 adapter the Samsung Magician software identifies the SSD as a non Samsung device, this wasted many hours of looking for a solution until I contacted Samsung.
All's well that ends well, I was considering buying another laptop, but now that won't be necessary for a while. I am so very pleased with the result and at such an affordable price.
Cons
This product has been a waste of my professional time and the device shipped to me has been a total disaster. After initialisation of the SSD out of the box within Windows 10, numerous attempts have been made to set it up as a Win 10 boot device for another PC with onboard M.2. I've encountered the 'known issue' booting from USB flash media and trying to fresh install the SSD 860 with '"clean" Windows 10 - numerous times. I have even had to incur the additional expense of an external enclosure to diagnose what is happening. I can get the device to boot the new PC if it is "cloned" from a EVO850 using the Samsung utilities, then you cannot action a Win 10 reset on the 860 to get to "clean" state! This device works in the external enclosure as a slave disk - that's about all it is good for. About to contact Amazon to declare "not fit for purpose" during warranty (Nov 2018). Don't take my word for it though - search for the problems others are having with 860EVO via the usual ISP sources.
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