Very Fast Drive, Works Great With Linux NUC
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I put this in a NUC5i5RYH and installed Arch in June 2015. Drive is incredibly fast and so far has been performing flawlessly. I run manual trim 3-4 times a month (sudo fstrim / -v) and have not noticed any decrease in performance since install.
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I bought this on my wife's prime account so I won't show up as a verified purchaser. I got the 500GB version to replace the C: drive in my 2011-vintage Sager Notebook. These are high-end notebooks and I use it for some graphics and video editing work. The two older drivers in the laptop are both 7200 rpm SATA drives. (I cloned the drive with the paid version of Acronis True Image software which I have to say has definitely been worth the price. There are probably free versions of cloning software somewhere but Acronis also has very good backup functionality.)

Initial result: Incredibly fast. I used to think the only upgrade worth doing in an old computer was a RAM upgrade. Forget that! Get an SSD for your boot drive. In spite of the fact that my Sager has a fast Intel i7 processor and ostensibly fast hard drives, it was taking 5+ minutes to boot. That time seems to have been cut to under 1 minute. Much better. My apps also launch much faster. Everything is very snappy.

Another datapoint. I used Black Magic Design's Disk Speed Test Utility to test performance. My old 7200 rpm drive registers 90MB/sec for both reads and writes. This new SSD registers 450+MB/sec for both reads and writes. I am definitely going to replace my second drive eventually, hopefully with the 1TB version. I don't think my Sager notebook has the fastest SATA interface (which is 6Gbits/sec as of this writing). I think it might only have the 1.5Gbits/sec interface. I can't locate the documentation to determine that (my Sager model is NP8710). In any case, it appears by this test to be 5X faster. All for $200!

One thing to note: You have to format the drive and assign a drive letter when you get it. I have a $20 USB external case that I plug the drive into to do this. Just google how to format and assign a drive letter to a drive and you'll get the right instructions for the appropriate control panel in Windows.
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Ok, big capacity.

But, you might not be patient enough to use it...

The speed of the drive is unsatisfactory, 6-7 Mb/seconds writing mode and 20-22 Mb/second read mode.

Meaning if you have enough data to routinely fill and empty the thing you might need to be patient enough to watch grass grow. Other drives are up to 5x faster on usb 3.0

If all you're doing is archiving stuff, and won't be frequently rewriting it, well, maybe ok.

Also, a plus, not some proprietary design, so it works with the Linux operating system, can be formatted in general to whatever disk format you want.
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I installed this in my small, low-power linux (OpenWRT) server used to store network files.  It's been working so well.  I can read from and write on it at high speed so fast that my computer with hard disk drive or the WiFi speed becomes the bottleneck!

I've been using this well over the last year, and throughout that time, it's been working so reliably.
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I am using this SSD with Linux as my root partition.  It took several attempts to get this device stable enough to run 24x7, which I need in my linux box.

The firmware was the latest version, so I didn't have to upgrade that.

The first version of Linux I installed, the drive caused several kernel panics and system lockups.

The second version of Linux I installed was a bit better, but still having issues with the device.  I tried different SATA ports, data cables, BIOS settings, etc.  The drive would only use SATA 1 speeds, and thruput was not near what it should be.

Combing thru the OCZ forums, I found a compatibility issue with this SSD and my motherboard chipset (NVidia).  They have a live linux tool that will fix the speed issue, so I ran that.  The drive now used SATA 2 speeds, but periodicially the drive would "reset" the SATA interface.  Still not stable enough.

After posting my issue on the forum, someone suggested I "tweak the voltage on my chipset".  I've built computers for 15 years, and never had to do this in order to make a hd work.  But my BIOS had a setting for OverVoltage on the Chipset by 0.5mv, so I set it.  The SSD has been rock solid since.

Whatever OS you use, make sure you follow SSD optimization guides (ie, no temp space on SSD, no Swapfiles on SSD, enable TRIM, etc).

After three days of setting up and tweaking, this thing is blazing fast.  Just make sure you are skilled enough and patient enough to go thru the potential headaches of all that tweaking.
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Received one of these as schwag from Tizen Developer's Conference, but I had been considering buying one for a long time to replace my Synology DS110j.

Synology makes outstanding server web admin software which both noob and expert can both appreciate - with the catch that it comes bundled with relatively low-level hardware - the hardware is typically ARM as well, so package availability can vary. I've also had issues with Synology transfer speed over SMB to my iMac (Fine with windows and linux), fan noise, and responsiveness of the interface - especially when running a lot of services...and then there is the issue that someone hacked them to mine cryptocurrency...

The NUC, by contrast, solves all of these problems (after I installed 2GB RAM and a spare 120GB SSD)...

- Its fanless, and completely silent

- I installed Ubuntu x86 14.04 LTS Server and Desktop with zero issues whatsoever - and all of the packages I use. It's x86, so its fully compatible. It supposedly fully supports Windows 8 as well.

- Transfer speeds are as fast as my desktops' over GbE.

- Command-line performance is exceptional - surprisingly so

- Just 9w at idle

- Easy 2-screw access to RAM, MINI-PCIE, 2.5" drive bay

- Surprisingly good EFI BIOS

Of course, Ubuntu doesn't have the super easy web admin interface for setting up stuff like SMB, or high-level photo/music sharing and users, etc - and yeah, that should scare off anyone who isn't familiar with a standard Linux distro who just wants a NAS.

But if you want an extremely flexible, silent computer, that can run in both server and desktop configs with no issues, stay on 24/7 while drawing the power of an LED light bulb, and take up virtually no space on your desktop, look no further.

It's actually surprising that Intel makes this computer because it usually doesn't look to compete with manufacturers - I think they are trying to make a market here, and doing a great job!
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I am using this for archival storage.  I have configured it for use under Windows, but I use it for Linux more often. I configured a 5 drive 3TB LVM2 logical volume, resulting in a 15TB filesystem.  The I/O performance under USB 3.0 is quite good.  The construction quality is exceptionally good.

I highly recommend this product
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Was looking for a quiet drive for internal backups in my new system. Installation was a breeze in my new Windows 10 Core i7 6700K system. Did some initial backups with Acronis and performance was superfast. Ran the HD_Speed program to view performance and obtained about 200MB/Sec READs. Burst Reads reaching almost 400MB/Sec.  Amazon disallowed my screen captures of the benchmarks.
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This drive is quick as can be, but it does not like to be found by motherboards as a bootable device. It shows up as a hard drive instead. I formatted with the program Rufus as a workaround, but this could be a pain for some users.
If you are just buying this to transfer files and hold your documents, it is a great drive at a great price. Super quick!
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I will let my Performance Benchmark speak for itself.  Cloning was easy-peasy, lemon-squeazy.  Swap the drives and launched Samsung Magician.  Ran through the OS Optimization (EASY).  Set Over-Provisioning (one click / EASY).  Enabled Rapid Mode (one click / EASY).

Sequential Read = 5201MB/s
Sequential Write = 4007 MB/s
Random Read 137502 IOPS
Random Write 97326 IOPS
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Works exactly as it should. Fast read and write speeds, installed linux on it no problems. Just be sure that the m. 2 slot on your motherboard doesn't overwrite a SATA port, I didn't realize my motherboard did this, so I had to move another hard drive from one SATA port to another. Not the fault of the hard drive though, just the motherboard. Everything still worked once I moved it though.
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This is quite possibly the best solid state drive I've ever used.  This includes in the enterprise arena.  This device is fast, I mean really fast, and the cell durability has been excellent.  (I'd still use a RAMDISK for your /tmp or %PROFILEDIR%\TEMP directory though, no use tempting fate.)  Samsung's "Magician" software is also very good if you're using Windows 7 or later.  It's smart about how it applies the TRIM command, and keeps things optimal.

The device is also very shock resistant, and will operate well, even at higher temperatures.  I have several of these, and even under "duress" the device performed extremely well.  (Meaning in a data center that had failed air conditioning.)  I have not seen a failure in one of these units yet, and purchased them as soon as they were available (and have used them until now).  This is a subjectively lower rate of failure than Intel, or any other vendor.

I use these with VMWare ESXi 5.5 (and vCenter), and they are capable of excellent real-world throughput in terms of IOPS and raw transfer speed.  It's possible to concurrently boot over 15 VMs from ONE of these drives without noticeable slowdown.  These are very impressive devices all around.
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Works as advertised.  I haven't ran the test of specs, but it's very fast compared to any hard drive.  Boots Win 7 in 15 seconds.  Using it in a NUC mini PC.
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The price and performance of this thing are truly amazing.  I use it to hold an encrypted bootable linux operating system.

This thing flys too.  It's read and write times are crazy fast.

What stands out most, though, is the price.
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This NUC is a perfect Linux desktop workstation at work.  Plenty of power and speed for daily tasks.  It's great!

Runs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS very fast.  Stable and runs 2 1080p monitors without a problem.
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Overall a great drive! Read any of the above reviews to get performance metrics.

I bought this drive to port a Linux box from. On initial install of the SSD the BIOS couldn't recognize the drive. I quickly found it's because the software that comes with it doesn't run on Linux. Luckily, I had a Windows OS for the target system. I installed the software (SSD drivers) on the Windows bootable drive and then swapped the drives. This allowed the BIOS to recognize the drive for me. After this initial 4 hour headache, I was able to perform a standard format and then install from a Linux boot disk.
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Screaming fast Wireless AC! I installed this in an Intel NUC and was amazed that transfer rates rival my 1.0gbps wired ethernet connections. No hassle install and lightning fast speed. I haven't used the Bluetooth radio and can't comment there, but suspect it is similarly well-implemented.