How you guy compare it with Samsung 840 evo?
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I have the Samsung 840 in another computer. I see no difference,Both are very good.
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the samsung is a little faster ,but is it that much faster? no, and is $20.00 more.i would go for pny,you will not be disappointed with this drive.
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I can assure that the pro version runs faster - they have different chipsets. Take a look at http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1767466/samsung-840-pro-ssd-samsung-840-evo-ssd.html
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I bought the 480GB and the speeds are pretty awesome read about 6GB (SSD) and the 250 (originally built in) over USB 3.0 about 3GB/S Hope this helps
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I bought a Samsung ssd 256GB and cloned the drive with the included software. Works great. Just estimating the boot time before and after by counting in my head, before it took say 40 seconds from when I saw the first bios splash screen, and after putting in the ssd it takes 6 seconds to boot.
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There is not enough difference to justify the price increase. Adding an SSD to this laptop will make a huge difference in speed, and it is not slow as is. This one for example Samsung 840 Series 2.5 inch 120GB SATA III internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7TD120BW
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It is an see model therefor it is as good as newer Toshiba such as the encore2 or Samsung product. It was excellentIn its day but if you are looking for speed etc. the newer models would be better.
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All SSD are backwards compatible. The only difference is in the SATA speeds. There is SATA I, SATA II and SATA III the respective transfer speeds are SATA I 1.5Gb / sec; SATA II 3.0 Gb/sec; and SATA III 6.0 Gb/sec. The Samsung 840 series are SATA III Capable. My mother board connection is a SATA I and I upgraded to this SSD without problems. You should have no issues either. The plus on this too is even though you will likely lose storage space since your computer was installed with a 1TB HD even if your old HD was 7200 or 10,000 RPM's the read/write capability does not compare to the SSD. SSD has no internal mechanical pieces so they run incredibly fast and are most definitely an upgrade. You can expect to see your computer boot in about 5-10 seconds and program load times will be significantly reduced.
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I'm afraid I can not help, other than to say according to Samsung, the 840 Pro is the same size as the 840 EVO (which I installed in my Lenovo SL510 with ease). Note though - the Samsung software will not move/migrate a drive that is the Operating System drive - you will have to use a pub domain app (there are several).
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Of course it is indeed marketing hype, but for most purposes the comparison is valid. In terms of operational performance, the drive does indeed perform as well as most SSDs. The cache is used only to speed access to (generally) most-recently-used sectors, such as the file directory. For large-volume file access, such as boot-up or backup/restore, you won't get anything but regular magnetic disk performance. If you really want SSD performance with large storage capacity, you'll have to spend a lot more money!
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I have not had any problems with this ssd.And I did research on it as well according to my findings it is the fastest drive for the buck.Check Tom's hardware for the publication.
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Hybrid drives are slower. 8GB of Flash, what are you going to do with that. I've tried many Seagates. Dual drive is better but pure SSD why not these days
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Yes it works very well, it works with Samsung migration software Just remember to plug the power supply that comes with it. I transfered about 340 gb of data from my old drive to a Samsung 840 evo 1 tb with no problems It took about 5 hours... Cheers.
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Works great as an SSD "dock" I highly recommend the Crucial M500 drive but should work with Samsung
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Potentially, yes, but maybe not. Depends on a few things including your BIOS. I have an older motherboard (nVidia 750i) and my mobo did NOT recognize this drive. From what I've read, I believe your bios needs to have AHCI capability to recognize this drive. From a SATA standpoint it should be entirely backwards compatible, but do your homework ahead of time just to be sure. Thankfully Amazon is great for returns and I was able to order a Sata II Crucial SSD. Granted, my mobo still didn't recognize the drive, but installing a cheap Sata III add-on card did the trick. Note: The Sata III add-on card still would NOT allow my older motherboard to see the Samsung Evo 840. Potentially, yes, but maybe not. Depends on a few things including your BIOS. I have an older motherboard (nVidia 750i) and my mobo did NOT recognize this drive. From what I've read, I believe your bios needs to have AHCI capability to recognize this drive. From a SATA standpoint it should be entirely backwards compatible, but do your homework ahead of time just to be sure. Thankfully Amazon is great for returns and I was able to order a Sata II Crucial SSD. Granted, my mobo still didn't recognize the drive, but installing a cheap Sata III add-on card did the trick. Note: The Sata III... » Read More Potentially, yes, but maybe not. Depends on a few things including your BIOS. I have an older motherboard (nVidia 750i) and my mobo did NOT recognize this drive. From what I've read, I believe your bios needs to have AHCI capability to recognize this drive. From a SATA standpoint it should be entirely backwards compatible, but do your homework ahead of time just to be sure. Thankfully Amazon is great for returns and I was able to order a Sata II Crucial SSD. Granted, my mobo still didn't recognize the drive, but installing a cheap Sata III add-on card did the trick. Note: The Sata III add-on card still would NOT allow my older motherboard to see the Samsung Evo 840. « Show Less
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Smart Evolution Chipset installed in the 7500 and seems to have a faster clear motion rate. Comparisons are readily available on Samsung's website of all of their models. That's how I just answered your question.
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I got the previous 840 model from Samsung and it is beautiful on my Ubuntu box. :) Now I'm getting this one for an Ubuntu server. Ubuntu is pretty much instant-on with the previous one and this one is faster, so enjoy!
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The performance difference is estimated around a 10% performance difference. The Pro uses older NAND technology and life tests look good on both despite the 5-year warranty on the PRO versus 3-years on the EVO. If you want bragging rights, you want the PRO. The EVO is a step up over the 840, but not as fast as the PRO. In actual use, you will most likely never notice the difference between them. The difference between any of these over an HDD is at least 5x faster, so the extra 10% is comparatively minor. Our 840 boot-ups take less than 25 seconds instead of minutes for HDD systems with Windows7 64-bit for example. The performance difference is estimated around a 10% performance difference. The Pro uses older NAND technology and life tests look good on both despite the 5-year warranty on the PRO versus 3-years on the EVO. If you want bragging rights, you want the PRO. The EVO is a step up over the 840, but not as fast as the PRO. In actual use, you will most likely never notice the difference between them. The difference between any of these over an HDD is at least 5x faster, so the extra 10% is comparatively minor. Our 840 boot-ups take less than 25 seconds instead of minutes for HDD systems with... » Read More The performance difference is estimated around a 10% performance difference. The Pro uses older NAND technology and life tests look good on both despite the 5-year warranty on the PRO versus 3-years on the EVO. If you want bragging rights, you want the PRO. The EVO is a step up over the 840, but not as fast as the PRO. In actual use, you will most likely never notice the difference between them. The difference between any of these over an HDD is at least 5x faster, so the extra 10% is comparatively minor. Our 840 boot-ups take less than 25 seconds instead of minutes for HDD systems with Windows7 64-bit for example. « Show Less