New drive plus added memory increased speed dramatically
579944
The new drive plus added memory has significantly increased my computer speed. I was contemplating buying a new computer before but don't need one now.
1067868
Best upgrade I have ever done to a computer.  The increase in data transfer rate is very high.  It increased the speed of my computer nearly four times!
4007931
Showed up on time and is currently in use as my main drive. Massively faster than my previous hard drive, plus now I don't have to listen to the annoying noise from those huge 7200 RPM platters anymore.
4721642
I am very happy with this drive.  It is much faster than the original drive that came with my laptop
346956
Swapped out the hard drive that came in my early 2011 MacBook Pro. Noticed a huge boost in performance immediately- the increase you get with a SSD can't be overstated. Worked so well I did the same thing for my wife, now we basically have brand new laptops again.
3165939
Bought this as an upgrade for my wife's laptop in order to add a little more life to it, and when combined with a RAM upgrade, it did just that! If you've never dealt with a computer that used an SSD before and/or are considering one for the first time, stop what you're doing an buy this now. The increase in boot times and general performance was significant, and my wife now loves her laptop again!
3929103
Breathed new life into my laptop! I believe the original hard drive was starting to fail. The addition of this drive and additional memory made the laptop perform better than it every has.

These Samsung SSD drives have software that allows you to create a RAM drive if you have enough memory, which is why I added the addition memory as well. If you are running a 32 bit OS, there is no reason to have more than 4GB of memory, as the system can't utilize it. But with a 64 bit OS, max it out! You'll be glad you did and you'll get the biggest boost possible.
4156739
I wanted to breathe new life into my Pentium D PC so I put this drive in and loaded it with Windows 8. I now have a speedy "new" PC.
1570830
As so many have already said, these things are beyond great!  I used a disk bench-marking tool (CrystalDiskMark) to measure performance before and after the upgrade.  The original HDD in my 2 year old  HP DV6 Quad Edition laptop was indicating around 105-120 mbps for sequential reads and writes.  The SSD drive has increased that by almost 5x!  All of the other random read/write tests are up by even higher factors.  I mainly do video editing on my laptop and with the HDD 1080p 60 fps videos were choking a bit.  I can now edit 4k!
3033220
Amazing upgrade, it's like having a new laptop!
My 500GB hdd was getting full, and I needed more space.  So I thought I might as well gain some speed in the process.

Getting the old HDD ready:
- I made sure I had all the latest updates installed on the old HDD, then I backed up as usual (I use Time Capsule).
- I then booted my laptop in recovery mode (press Command-R after the boot beep) to verify the HDD with Disk Utility.  I performed the necessary fixes (also the permission fixes).  The drive was now squeaky clean for cloning.

Preparing the new SSD:
- I connected the SSD to an external disk enclosure (I got the Orico 6518US3).
- I used Disk Utility which comes with OS X to format the SSD.  This is quite fast, even over USB 2.0.
- I got the Mac OS firmware upgrade for the EVO drive on Samsung's website.  It comes in the form of an iso that you can burn to CD or USB drive (you can burn easily with Disk Utility, too).  It's a FreeDOS bootable disk.  The software simply said that it could not detect a drive that needed that update, but just to be sure I verified that my SSD was up to date using Samsung's Magician software on a Windows machine (and yes, the drive was up to date already).  According to Samsung's doc, it's not necessary to over provision the newer extra large SSDs, as it will naturally use the free space to perform it's magic.  The only reason I used Magician was to ensure that the SSD was up to date.

Cloning my HDD to the SSD:
- For cloning the internal HDD to the external SSD, I booted in recovery mode (Command-R) to minimize unrelated disk activity.  I restored the SDD from the HDD using Disk Utility.  This took quite a while (7 hours) over my USB 2.0 connection.  There are faster methods, but I just decided to do it overnight.
- A note about cloning software: Disk Utility works like a charm for a one-time complete clone.  There are other popular commercial options out there, like Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper, which offer you the ability to keep a bootable clone up-to-date easily.

Testing the Clone:
- You can test the clone directly from the external enclosure.  No need to open the Mac yet.  Just press the Option key after the boot beep and choose the SSD as boot disk.  You will feel the speed, even over USB 2.0!

Installing the SSD:
- I followed a guide on iFixit.
- While open, I took the opportunity to clean up inside my Mac.  High pressure air will help clean the fans.

Rebooting with the new SSD:
- In my case, Spotlight decided to reindex the files on the cloned drive.  It took some time so you have to be patient.  This was using quite a bit of CPU, too.  Click on the magnifying glass in the top right to check if it's indexing.
- Another thing you will need to do is to go to System Preferences -> Startup Disk and select the new drive.  That will shave off 30 seconds during a cold boot (OS X looks for the old drive and gives up after that time).

That's it.  Really amazing. Everything loads and saves super fast.  I may now even consider to shutdown my laptop instead of just closing the lid, to have more available power when I need it.  ;)

Hopefully this will be useful for other OS X users.
2300296
Increased the storage in my Lenovo Laptop, did a fresh install of Windows 10 to get a start fresh.
3459385
Fast, easy install.  Saw a performance increase immediately.  Computer used to crash - I'm not sure if the increase in capacity solved the problem or if the old RAM was faulty (it passed RAM tests).
4136362
Between doubling my memory and adding this SSD drive my old outdated laptop has been reborn.  I thought I would need to replace it.  Now the speed has pretty much doubled.  Boot time is just a few seconds compared to minutes before.

I recommend to anyone having the need for better speed and performance out of your computer.
3368704
Memory dropped right in and took off. Excellent upgrade.
974332
After installing the 500 GB version on another laptop with modest increase in speed, I read that the 750 GB version was faster. I'm very happy that I ordered this drive--it has increased the speed of my Acer laptop significantly.
4690974
I used this drive to upgrade an old (8 years old) laptop.  Also increased RAM from 8 to 16 gb. Now it runs even better than I had hoped.  Running Windows 10 and also Ubuntu through Virtual Box.
3275583
Installed this in a new ASUS i7 laptop.  Was expecting to just increase the memory from 6 to 8 gig.  What I got was a lot more.  It changed the memory speed and with that the video speed.  While the memory speed increase seemed small, the video performance (which obviously uses this memory) jumped in the windows experience rating from 4.9 to 6.7.  The machine is noticably faster working with raw images.