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# 540MB/s read speed AES 256-bit encryption Dynamic Thermal Guard Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB 2.5 inch Solid State Drive

**Brand:** samsung
**Price:** COP 29156
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Upgrade to the SSD that powers your productivity and locks down your data in style!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Samsung 850 EVO 500 GB 2.5 inch Solid State Drive by samsung
- **How much does it cost?** COP 29156 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
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## Best For

- samsung enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted samsung brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Endurance That Lasts:** Up to 30% longer lifespan than previous models with a 5-year warranty for worry-free reliability.
- • **Blazing Fast Performance:** TurboWrite tech delivers up to 1.9x faster speeds than previous gen SSDs, maxing at 540MB/s read & 520MB/s write.
- • **Rock-Solid Data Security:** Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption keeps your data locked tight without slowing you down.
- • **Smart Thermal Management:** Dynamic Thermal Guard actively cools your drive to prevent overheating and maintain peak performance.
- • **Seamless Integration & Efficiency:** Samsung’s in-house design with 3D V-NAND tech and RAPID mode boosts speed while cutting power use by 25%.

## Overview

The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-inch SSD leverages cutting-edge 3D V-NAND technology to deliver blazing fast read/write speeds (up to 540/520 MB/s), enhanced endurance with a 5-year warranty, and advanced AES 256-bit hardware encryption. Its Dynamic Thermal Guard ensures optimal operating temperatures, while RAPID mode and in-house component integration maximize performance and energy efficiency, making it the ultimate upgrade for professionals seeking speed, security, and reliability.

## Description

From the manufacturer Samsung 850 EVO 2.5 inch Solid State Drive Upgrade virtually every aspect of your computer’s performance with Samsung’s 850 EVO, designed with state of the art SSD which includes 3D V-NAND technology. In 850 EVO, you will get three dimensional chip design that enables performance, reliability and high energy efficiency so you can work and play faster and longer than before. 3D V-NAND Technology Samsung’s innovative 3D V-NAND flash memory architecture breaks through density, performance, and endurance limitations of today’s conventional planar NAND architecture. Samsung 3D V-NAND stacks 32 cell layers vertically resulting in higher density and better performance utilizing a smaller footprint. Incredible Read/Write Speeds Achieve incredible read/write performance to maximize your everyday computing experience with Samsung’s TurboWrite technology. You can obtain up to 1.9x faster performance than the award-winning Samsung 840 EVO. The 850 EVO delivers excellent sequential read (540MB/s) and write (520MB/s) speeds. Enhanced RAPID mode Samsung’s Magician software enables RAPID Mode for up to 2x faster performance (Compared to same drive w/out RAPID enabled. ) by utilizing unused PC memory (DRAM) as a high-speed cache. The newest version of Samsung Magician supports up to a 4 GB cache on a system with 16 GB of DRAM. Guaranteed Endurance and reliability The 850 EVO doubles the endurance* and reliability** compared to the previous generation 840 EVO and features a excellent 5 year warranty. With enhanced long-term reliability, the 850 EVO assures longterm dependable performance of up to 30% longer than the previous generation 840 EVO. * Measured by Terrabytes Written (TBW) ** Measured with Sustained Performance 12hr Random Write Test Improved Energy Efficiency The 850 EVO delivers significantly longer battery life on your notebook* with a controller designed and optimized for 3D V-NAND that supports Device Sleep for Windows at a highly efficient 2mW. The 850 EVO supports 25% better power efficiency than the 840 EVO during write operations thanks to ultra-efficient 3D V-NAND only consuming half the energy than that of traditional Planar 2D NAND. * Compared to standard hard drive & previous generation SSDs Secure Data Through Advanced AES 256 Encryption The 850 EVO comes fortified with the latest hardware-based full disk encryption engine. The AES 256-bit hardware encryption secures data without any performance degradation and complies with TCG Opal 2.0. Easily integrate into Windows with Microsoft e-drive IEEE1667 to keep your data protected at all times. Dynamic Thermal Guard Protection The 850 EVO’s Dynamic Thermal Guard constantly monitors and maintains ideal temperatures for the drive to operate in optimal conditions to ensure the integrity of your data. The Thermal Guard automatically throttles temperatures down when temperatures rise above optimal critical threshold. This protects your data while maintaining responsiveness to help ensure your computer is always safe from overheating. End-to-end Integration Solution Samsung is the only brand to design and manufacture all its components inhouse allowing complete optimized integration. The result – the rock-solid EVO 850, with enhanced performance, lower power consumption with an up to 1 GB LPDDR2 DRAM cache memory and improved energy-efficiency with the MEX/MGX controller – all from the #1 memory manufacturer in the world.

Review: You'll never go back to a hard drive and you'll only ever buy Samsung again! - I've been using SSDs for years now and once you've used one you can never go back to having a hard drive as your boot drive. I paid £160 for my first SSD which was a 128GB Crucial M4 in October 2011 and since then I've used lots of other SSDs in personal and client builds from SanDisk, OCZ and Samsung mainly. I bought the M4 because at the time it was one of the fastest drives available and crucially it had one of the most stable SATA controllers, which was important at the time because a lot of drives had fairly unstable controllers and often caused a lot of problems such as blue screens of death and system crashes. A few years later and after having used SanDisk and OCZ SSDs, the Samsung SSDs had become extremely popular especially when the 840 was launched in 2013 or 2014. I bought my first Samsung SSD in July 2014 to replace the SSHD that I bought for my ThinkPad which was an 840 EVO 250GB and since then I have only bought and recommended Samsung SSDs. After that I bought an 850 Pro 256GB for a build I did in November 2014, then an 850 EVO 250GB in March 2015 to replace the 128GB OCZ Vertex 4 in my desktop and recently this 850 EVO 500GB to replace that 840 I had in there previously. I used to be very active on an online forum and I've recommended these 850 drives to hundreds of people and I've never had anybody come back and say the drive failed or that they were disappointed with it. The 850 is a truly stellar drive - well-priced, fast and easy to setup. The chances are that you'll buy one Samsung SSD and then only buy them without looking at the other brands. The speed is great. This is probably the fastest SATA SSD on the market, when used on a SATA 6GBps connection you're pretty much guaranteed to get at least 500 MB/s read and write speeds with this drive. These drives were and still are exceptionally popular with members on the forum I used to post on and most people on there were able to get between 500 and 550 MB/s read and writes with these. For comparison's sake, the Crucial M4 I bought in 2011 achieved around 400 MB/s read and write and the OCZ Vertex 4 I purchased in February 2013 when it was the fastest drive available could achieve around 450 MB/s read and write, so for those upgrading from an older SSD this is a little bit faster. Most desktop boards manufactured since 2012 will have SATA 6GBps and most laptops made since 2012 or 13 will also have SATA 6GBps, but even on the older SATA 3GBps connection you're likely to achieve around 250-300 MB/s read and writes which is reasonable. Those upgrading from hard drives will notice a huge difference. A 5400 RPM disk usually found in laptops typically reads and writes between 90 and 110 MB/s and a good 7200 RPM disk typically reads and writes between 120 and 150 MB/s. An SSD like this is the best single upgrade you can do to increase general performance of your system and it's fantastic that these days it can be done quite cheaply - certainly a lot cheaper than it was in 2011 when I first bought an SSD. If you plan to stripe two of these in a RAID-0 configuration you're likely to get around 1GB/s read and write with these drives. Several users on the forum had these in RAID-0 and got these kind of speeds. I've presently got the 250GB 840 EVO and 250GB 850 EVO in a RAID-0 stripe set in my desktop and I get something like 1GB/s read and 990 MB/s write. The 840 and 850 are so similar that you can quite happily stripe them and the two drives typically get 500 MB/s read and write speeds in single drive configurations so you won't be losing performance by doing so. The speed is of course phenomenal but for day-to-day use I can't really see the difference between one and two of these drives, but for things like writing Adobe Media Cache and copying files there is a benefit to using RAID-0 on these drives. Of course, the benefits of this SSD are the same as using any other SSD. Compared to a hard drive everything is instantaneous, everything loads faster and the speed of your OS in general just improves dramatically. You'll never go back! You actually won't be able to, the speed of an HDD will drive you mad if you go back to having an OS installed on your HDD. In a laptop it can improve the battery life too, but I didn't really notice this when I replaced the SSHD in my ThinkPad with the 840. Speaking of SSHDs, if you're thinking about an SSHD instead of a large SSD like this because it's cheaper then think again. I had a 1TB SSHD, of which only 8GB was solid state storage for operating system cache, which meant that the OS would cache files to the 8GB solid state storage so it would boot and shut down quickly. but programs were ran from what was essentially a 5400 RPM HDD and the OS ran as if it were on a 5400 RPM HDD, so the benefits of the SSHD were minimal and it died on me after only a few months, luckily by which point I had replaced it with an SSD. When I bought my 128GB Crucial M4 a 500GB drive like this was way out of most people's reach - it would probably have cost close to £1,000. Even a 256GB SSD was out of most people's price brackets, but now with a 500GB drive costing around £140 and a 250GB drive costing about half that, there's no reason to buy an SSHD really especially if you own a desktop computer and can have a large hard drive to store data on. Even if this is your only drive, 500GB is probably big enough for you. Who really has more than 500GB of data? So, you'll never go back to having a hard drive as your boot drive and you'll also only buy Samsung SSDs after you've bought one.
Review: A great drive that will boost your PC performance. Additional info below... - Being the kind of person that spends a ridiculous amount of time researching tech before parting with my money, I am very happy with this drive. When you purchase a SSD, you need to keep a few things in mind. If you need to store around 200gb, then a 250gb drive will not do and you will need 500gb. Always aim to have double the space required. These are not like traditional hard drives. The fuller the drive, the more of a performance hit you get. Don't get me wrong, even with the performance hit, it will still make your old HDD feel like a waste of space, but if you are shelling out the money, then why not get the benefits. Once the drive is installed and configured correctly (using the Samsung Magician tool), you will end up with a usable partition of around 420gb. This is down to a couple of things. The first is your OS. Windows will kindly snatch around 33gb for things like FAT tables, hidden partitions and the obligatory space conversion (you know, the one where a gigabyte is not actually a gigabyte - this is the same on all drives, HDD and SSD). Samsung will then recommend a 10% buffer to help maximise life and performance. This is obviously optional and the percentage can be configured. At this point you may be thinking "what a rip off". It's just the way it is unfortunately. The thing you have to remember is that you may still be able to use your old HDD to store files. The benefits of SSD are mostly felt when booting and loading applications (unless you are loading large files - say 50gb+, in which case storing these on there would be good as well), so using your SSD to contain your OS and frequently used applications is where you will really see the difference. All your files (photos, music, etc..) can sit on your old drive. If you are installing into a PC then keeping both drives should be easy. If you are installing into a laptop, then some laptops will allow 2 drives and the ones that don't, you could see if there is a optical drive bay replacement. This is basically an adapter that you can use to hold a 2.5" drive where the CD/DVD drive goes (lets face it, those CD/DVD drives are being used less and less). Alternatively, you could buy an external drive bay and stick your old drive in that (this is available for both PC and Laptop). Things to note: If you are installing into a PC, you will probably need a 2.5" to 3.5" mounting bracket (unless your chassis has an area for mounting 2.5" drives). If you are planning to keep your old drive, then you will need to purchase an additional SATA3 cable for your new SSD. This drive only comes with the drive and software. You do not get screws, USB adapter (used to migrate data in accordance with the instructions) or fancy stickers. The instructions state to use the USB adapter if you are using the partition migration software (supplied), but this is not the only way to do this (unless you are looking to migrate your partition on a laptop). I would always recommend installing your OS as a clean install in situations like this. To do this, install the SSD into your PC ensuring that you have connected it to the SATA-1 port and moved your old drive to the SATA-2 port (the number is just the port number and does not dictate the SATA version so don't just go and plug it into the SATA-3 port because the drive is SATA3). Leave your old drive in place but unplug the power cable (the larger of the two). Check to make sure your bios is set to the correct drive mode. Install your OS from either a bootable USB key or CD depending on what your have (if you are using Windows 10, then you can create a bootable USB key using the Microsoft Windows 10 Media Creation Tool downloadable from Microsoft). Once your OS is installed, shut down and reconnect the power to your old drive and switch back on. You should now be able to move your old files to your SSD. Once you are happy that you have everything you need from your old drive, you can remove all the partitions off it (using EaseUS Parition Master Free Edition) and then create a new partition that will allow you to use the whole drive for storing your files and data. If you are really sure you want to just migrate the partition, then you can use the software provided. You will need to google any further information on how to accomplish this. I cannot state enough how important it is that you back up your files. This is not something that should be done just for this task, but should be done always. Cloud backup storage is ridiculously cheap now with services like desertcart S3 and software like CloudBerry Desktop Backup, so there is no excuse! Remember, you may be able to download all your music collection again, but you can't replace all those photos! Backing up 25gb will set you back about 20p per month for storage. That's probably less than the value of those copper coins you hate receiving so much.

## Features

- Benefit from enhanced flash memory architecture
- Secure data through enhanced AES 256 encryption
- Dynamic thermal guard protection
- One-stop install navigator software
- End-to-end integration solution

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00P73B1E4 |
| Best Sellers Rank | 67,141 in Computers & Accessories ( See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories ) 370 in Internal Solid State Drives |
| Box Contents | Solid State Drive |
| Brand Name | Samsung |
| Cache Memory Installed Size | 512 |
| Color | Black |
| Compatible Devices | Desktop |
| Customer Package Type | FFP |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (14,094) |
| Data Transfer Rate | 750 Megabytes Per Second |
| Digital Storage Capacity | 500 GB |
| Enclosure Material | Flash Memory |
| Form Factor | 2.5-inch |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 04053162537590, 04056203064819, 08806086523035, 08809321845657 |
| Hard Disk Description | Solid State Drive |
| Hard Disk Form Factor | 2.5 Inches |
| Hard Disk Interface | Serial ATA-600 |
| Hard-Drive Size | 500 GB |
| Hardware Connectivity | SATA 6.0 Gb/s |
| Installation Type | Internal Hard Drive |
| Item Dimensions L x W x Thickness | 6.4L x 6.4W x 6.4Th centimetres |
| Item Weight | 45 Grams |
| Manufacturer | Samsung |
| Media Speed | 300 |
| Model Name | MZ-75E500B_ 850 EVO |
| Model Number | MZ-75E500B/EU |
| Network Connectivity Technology | SATA |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Product Features | Internal^Operating temperature range:0 - 70 °C^S.M.A.R.T support^Security algorithms:256-bit AES^TRIM support |
| Product Warranty | 12 months |
| Read Speed | 540 Megabytes Per Second |
| Specific Uses For Product | Gaming, Business, Multimedia, Personal |
| UPC | 723856121971 758399113213 |
| Unit Count | 1.0 Count |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Samsung
- **Colour:** Black
- **Compatible devices:** Desktop
- **Connectivity technology:** SATA
- **Digital storage capacity:** 500 GB
- **Hard disk description:** Solid State Drive
- **Hard disk form factor:** 2.5 Inches
- **Hard disk interface:** Serial ATA-600
- **Installation type:** Internal Hard Drive

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size, Style** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You'll never go back to a hard drive and you'll only ever buy Samsung again!
*by J***N on 27 November 2017*

I've been using SSDs for years now and once you've used one you can never go back to having a hard drive as your boot drive. I paid £160 for my first SSD which was a 128GB Crucial M4 in October 2011 and since then I've used lots of other SSDs in personal and client builds from SanDisk, OCZ and Samsung mainly. I bought the M4 because at the time it was one of the fastest drives available and crucially it had one of the most stable SATA controllers, which was important at the time because a lot of drives had fairly unstable controllers and often caused a lot of problems such as blue screens of death and system crashes. A few years later and after having used SanDisk and OCZ SSDs, the Samsung SSDs had become extremely popular especially when the 840 was launched in 2013 or 2014. I bought my first Samsung SSD in July 2014 to replace the SSHD that I bought for my ThinkPad which was an 840 EVO 250GB and since then I have only bought and recommended Samsung SSDs. After that I bought an 850 Pro 256GB for a build I did in November 2014, then an 850 EVO 250GB in March 2015 to replace the 128GB OCZ Vertex 4 in my desktop and recently this 850 EVO 500GB to replace that 840 I had in there previously. I used to be very active on an online forum and I've recommended these 850 drives to hundreds of people and I've never had anybody come back and say the drive failed or that they were disappointed with it. The 850 is a truly stellar drive - well-priced, fast and easy to setup. The chances are that you'll buy one Samsung SSD and then only buy them without looking at the other brands. The speed is great. This is probably the fastest SATA SSD on the market, when used on a SATA 6GBps connection you're pretty much guaranteed to get at least 500 MB/s read and write speeds with this drive. These drives were and still are exceptionally popular with members on the forum I used to post on and most people on there were able to get between 500 and 550 MB/s read and writes with these. For comparison's sake, the Crucial M4 I bought in 2011 achieved around 400 MB/s read and write and the OCZ Vertex 4 I purchased in February 2013 when it was the fastest drive available could achieve around 450 MB/s read and write, so for those upgrading from an older SSD this is a little bit faster. Most desktop boards manufactured since 2012 will have SATA 6GBps and most laptops made since 2012 or 13 will also have SATA 6GBps, but even on the older SATA 3GBps connection you're likely to achieve around 250-300 MB/s read and writes which is reasonable. Those upgrading from hard drives will notice a huge difference. A 5400 RPM disk usually found in laptops typically reads and writes between 90 and 110 MB/s and a good 7200 RPM disk typically reads and writes between 120 and 150 MB/s. An SSD like this is the best single upgrade you can do to increase general performance of your system and it's fantastic that these days it can be done quite cheaply - certainly a lot cheaper than it was in 2011 when I first bought an SSD. If you plan to stripe two of these in a RAID-0 configuration you're likely to get around 1GB/s read and write with these drives. Several users on the forum had these in RAID-0 and got these kind of speeds. I've presently got the 250GB 840 EVO and 250GB 850 EVO in a RAID-0 stripe set in my desktop and I get something like 1GB/s read and 990 MB/s write. The 840 and 850 are so similar that you can quite happily stripe them and the two drives typically get 500 MB/s read and write speeds in single drive configurations so you won't be losing performance by doing so. The speed is of course phenomenal but for day-to-day use I can't really see the difference between one and two of these drives, but for things like writing Adobe Media Cache and copying files there is a benefit to using RAID-0 on these drives. Of course, the benefits of this SSD are the same as using any other SSD. Compared to a hard drive everything is instantaneous, everything loads faster and the speed of your OS in general just improves dramatically. You'll never go back! You actually won't be able to, the speed of an HDD will drive you mad if you go back to having an OS installed on your HDD. In a laptop it can improve the battery life too, but I didn't really notice this when I replaced the SSHD in my ThinkPad with the 840. Speaking of SSHDs, if you're thinking about an SSHD instead of a large SSD like this because it's cheaper then think again. I had a 1TB SSHD, of which only 8GB was solid state storage for operating system cache, which meant that the OS would cache files to the 8GB solid state storage so it would boot and shut down quickly. but programs were ran from what was essentially a 5400 RPM HDD and the OS ran as if it were on a 5400 RPM HDD, so the benefits of the SSHD were minimal and it died on me after only a few months, luckily by which point I had replaced it with an SSD. When I bought my 128GB Crucial M4 a 500GB drive like this was way out of most people's reach - it would probably have cost close to £1,000. Even a 256GB SSD was out of most people's price brackets, but now with a 500GB drive costing around £140 and a 250GB drive costing about half that, there's no reason to buy an SSHD really especially if you own a desktop computer and can have a large hard drive to store data on. Even if this is your only drive, 500GB is probably big enough for you. Who really has more than 500GB of data? So, you'll never go back to having a hard drive as your boot drive and you'll also only buy Samsung SSDs after you've bought one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A great drive that will boost your PC performance. Additional info below...
*by M***. on 7 November 2015*

Being the kind of person that spends a ridiculous amount of time researching tech before parting with my money, I am very happy with this drive. When you purchase a SSD, you need to keep a few things in mind. If you need to store around 200gb, then a 250gb drive will not do and you will need 500gb. Always aim to have double the space required. These are not like traditional hard drives. The fuller the drive, the more of a performance hit you get. Don't get me wrong, even with the performance hit, it will still make your old HDD feel like a waste of space, but if you are shelling out the money, then why not get the benefits. Once the drive is installed and configured correctly (using the Samsung Magician tool), you will end up with a usable partition of around 420gb. This is down to a couple of things. The first is your OS. Windows will kindly snatch around 33gb for things like FAT tables, hidden partitions and the obligatory space conversion (you know, the one where a gigabyte is not actually a gigabyte - this is the same on all drives, HDD and SSD). Samsung will then recommend a 10% buffer to help maximise life and performance. This is obviously optional and the percentage can be configured. At this point you may be thinking "what a rip off". It's just the way it is unfortunately. The thing you have to remember is that you may still be able to use your old HDD to store files. The benefits of SSD are mostly felt when booting and loading applications (unless you are loading large files - say 50gb+, in which case storing these on there would be good as well), so using your SSD to contain your OS and frequently used applications is where you will really see the difference. All your files (photos, music, etc..) can sit on your old drive. If you are installing into a PC then keeping both drives should be easy. If you are installing into a laptop, then some laptops will allow 2 drives and the ones that don't, you could see if there is a optical drive bay replacement. This is basically an adapter that you can use to hold a 2.5" drive where the CD/DVD drive goes (lets face it, those CD/DVD drives are being used less and less). Alternatively, you could buy an external drive bay and stick your old drive in that (this is available for both PC and Laptop). Things to note: If you are installing into a PC, you will probably need a 2.5" to 3.5" mounting bracket (unless your chassis has an area for mounting 2.5" drives). If you are planning to keep your old drive, then you will need to purchase an additional SATA3 cable for your new SSD. This drive only comes with the drive and software. You do not get screws, USB adapter (used to migrate data in accordance with the instructions) or fancy stickers. The instructions state to use the USB adapter if you are using the partition migration software (supplied), but this is not the only way to do this (unless you are looking to migrate your partition on a laptop). I would always recommend installing your OS as a clean install in situations like this. To do this, install the SSD into your PC ensuring that you have connected it to the SATA-1 port and moved your old drive to the SATA-2 port (the number is just the port number and does not dictate the SATA version so don't just go and plug it into the SATA-3 port because the drive is SATA3). Leave your old drive in place but unplug the power cable (the larger of the two). Check to make sure your bios is set to the correct drive mode. Install your OS from either a bootable USB key or CD depending on what your have (if you are using Windows 10, then you can create a bootable USB key using the Microsoft Windows 10 Media Creation Tool downloadable from Microsoft). Once your OS is installed, shut down and reconnect the power to your old drive and switch back on. You should now be able to move your old files to your SSD. Once you are happy that you have everything you need from your old drive, you can remove all the partitions off it (using EaseUS Parition Master Free Edition) and then create a new partition that will allow you to use the whole drive for storing your files and data. If you are really sure you want to just migrate the partition, then you can use the software provided. You will need to google any further information on how to accomplish this. I cannot state enough how important it is that you back up your files. This is not something that should be done just for this task, but should be done always. Cloud backup storage is ridiculously cheap now with services like Amazon S3 and software like CloudBerry Desktop Backup, so there is no excuse! Remember, you may be able to download all your music collection again, but you can't replace all those photos! Backing up 25gb will set you back about 20p per month for storage. That's probably less than the value of those copper coins you hate receiving so much.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by C***C on 13 July 2016*

Vor ca. 3 Jahren habe ich unsere Laptops mit unterschiedlichen SSD aufgerüstet: - eine riesige Intel in dem Toshiba Qosmio mit Intel i-7-Prozessor und 16 GB RAM - eine Samsung 840 PRO mit rd. 500 GB i dem Asus N56V, ebenfalls mit Intel i-7 - 2 oder 3 andere Samsung mit 256 GB in einem Medion Akoya und zwei Toshiba Satellite, die wenig benutzt werden. Generell würden die Rechner enorm schnell, so bootet z.B. den Qosmio mit Windows 7 in weniger als 45 Sekunden mit SSD und braucht um 3 Minuten wenn er von der Toshiba 1TB HDD hochfährt. Allerdings hat die sehr teuere Intel SSD nach ca. 2,5 Jahre schlapp gemacht und ich habe sie jetzt durch diese 850 EVO mit rd. 500 GB ersetzt. Auch die Software wie MS Office, Corel Draw oder PaintShop Pro X8 wird ohne Wartezeit geladen. Ohne SSD dauert es bei Corel bis zu fast 10 Sekunden. Man muß natürlich sagen, dass die Toshiba 1 TB HDD nicht die schnellste und daher kein Referenz für einen Vergleich ist. Ähnliche Erfahrungen habe ich mit dem Asus N56V gemacht. Hier erscheint der Windows Desktop mit allen Ikonen nach ca. 15 Sekunden und nach weiteren 10 Sekunden ist alles betriebsbereit. ------------------------ PRO oder EVO Die Samsung PRO läuft jetzt seit ca. 2,5 Jahre täglich absout einwandfrei und die gestrige Prüfung mit der Software Magician zeigte einen guten Zustand. Sie hat auch 10 Jahre Garantie, die halb so teuere EVO dagegen nur halb so lange. Trotzdem habe ich mich beim Ersetzen der defekten Intel SSD im Toshiba Qosmio für die preiswertere Samsung EVO entschieden, weil der Laptop bereits 3 Jahre alt ist und ich brauche keine Festplatte, die garantiert 10 Jahre läuft für den doppelten Preis. --------------------------------------------------- SSD EVO mit 500 GB ab 108 Euro, NEBENKOSTEN Für diese 850 EVO mit ca. 500 GB habe ich regulär bei Amazon 138 Euro mit Prime Versand ausgegeben. Eigentlich kann man eine SSD selber einbauen und konfigurieren. Man muß aber in der Beschreibung darauf achten, dass die Migrations-Software dabei ist. Bevor ich mich stundenlang Kenntnisse über Bootsektoren und -Software aneigne, die ich nie wieder brauchen werde und Notebooks mit labile Plastik-Abdeckungen auseinander schraube, lasse ich lieber Fachleute ran, die das jeden Tag machen. Den Einbau, die Migration der Software von der klassischen Festplatte und eine komplette Hardware-Reinigung durch einen lokalen Dienstleistler schlagen mit weiteren 80 Euro zu Buche wobei der Laptop Nachmittags abgehohlt und am nächsten Morgen zurückgebracht wurde. Ohne Express-Service kostet diese Leistung inkl. Reinigung i.d.R. um die 60 Euro bzw. um die 50 Euro ohne Reinigung. Ich würde bei der Gelegenheit eine Reinigung für jeden Laptop, der länger als 6 Monaten im Betrieb ist, empfehlen, weil man glaubt es nicht, wieviel Staub ich im Innere ansammelt und die Kühlung beeinträchtigt. .Mein Qosmio hatte sich vor diesen Umbau wegen Überhitzung abgeschaltet. Daher bietet den Einbau einer SSD eine gute Gelegenheit für eine gründliche Reinigung von Innen. --------------------------- SELBSTEINBAU ? WAS BEI EINER NEUINSTALLATION ZU BEACHTEN IST ! Eine Festplatte zu ersetzen ist total einfach: Alte rausziehen, neue reinstecken. Das Problem ist eher den Zugang zum Steckplatz, weil manchmal gibt es keinen Deckel sondern das Ganze Gerät auseinander genommen werden muss. In dem Fall würde ich es persönlich nicht riskieren. Bei der Software-Überspielung braucht man eine spezielle Migrations-Software, die nicht immer mitgeliefert wird. Daher Beschreibung sorgfältig lesen. Am einfachsten geht es, wenn man vom Hersteller Installations-DVDs hat und alles auf die SSD neu instaliert. Bei Toshiba kann man z.B. für rd. 30 Euro einen kompletten DVD-Satz für sein Gerät bestellen. Der hilft auch wenn die Festplatte irgendwann den Geist aufgibt um eine komplette Neuinstallation durchzuführen. Ich habe solche Sätze vorsichtshalber für unsere drei Toshiba im Schrank, nur für den Fall... Auch wenn man sein Laptop verkauft kann man ihn damit im Neuzustand zurück versetzen. Der Einbau einer SSD ist eine gute Gelegenheit eine komplette Software-Reinigung durchzuführen. Mein Qosmio war nach Jahren vollkommen überladen mit Dutzende mehr oder weniger sinnlose Software und das machte sich im täglichen Betrieb negativ bemerkbar. Eine komplette Neuinstallation auf die neue SSD vom DVD-Laufwerk aus ist eine gute Gelegenheit reinen Tisch zu machen und den Rechner zu bereinigen. Danach läuft er erstaunlich flotter und stabiler ! Man muß lediglich das Passwort für den W-LAN und die Lizenz-Nr. bereithalten und viel, viel, Zeit ... weil Windows 2-3 Tagelang ständig neu startet und Unmengen Updates herunterlädt und installiert. Auch sollte man vorher möglichst viel Software bei bestehede Internetverbidung desinstallieren. Vieles von Microsoft wie z.B. Publisher darf nur einmal installiert werden und man hat u.U. umsonst bezahlt, da hilft keine Hotline oder e-mail. Das gilt auch z.B. für den BluRay-Player von Mac für Windows oder die Anti-Vren Multi-Lizensen von f-secure, sie müssen erstmal online abemeldet werden, wenn man sie auf die neue SSD-Festplatte erneut verwenden möchte. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DIE GÜNSTIGSTE SSD mit 500 GB FÜR z.Z. 109 EURO Nun habe ich 2 weiteren SSD Samsung 750 EVO mit 500 GB für 108,69 Euro / Stück als Blitzangebot bestellt um weitere Laptops umzurüsten. Das ist sehr günstig und damit werden die Rechner in etwa doppelt so schnell sein, selbst ein Aldi-Laptop für wenige hundert Euro wird damit richtig flott. ------------------------ HALTBARKEIT Nach 2-3 Jahren Erfahrungen mit 4 SSDs erscheinen mir persönlich die Samsung PRO und EVO als zuverlässiger und preiswerter als die teuere Intel. Sie werden auch durch die Fachpresse ebenfalls sehr positiv beurteilt, wobei es ebenfalls andere gute Fabrikate woanders gibt (Sandisk, Toshiba, Crucial, Plextor, Kingston...) Die PRO 500 GB läuft nach über 2 Jahren täglichen Einsatz wie am Ersten Tag. Die EVO auch, aber da die entsprechende Geräte (Medion, Acer, 2 Toshiba Satelitte) viel seltener gebraucht wurden, kann ich das nicht wirklich vergleichen und beurteilen. Fundierte und aktuelle Informationen, Hintergrundwissen, Tests und Tipps findet man z.Z. u.a. bei pcgameshardware.de --------------------------------- WELCHE GRÖSSE ? Bei der Grösse habe ich mich prinzipiell auf 500 GB festgelegt, weil die Software (Windows-Betriebssystem, umfangreiche Bildbearbeitung,.Videoschnitt, Office-Paket und ein Dutzend Utilities z.B. um BluRay abzuspielen etc.) zwischen 90 und 140 GB - je nach Laptop und Windows-Version belegen. Dazu sollte man noch reichlich Platz für Wiederherstellung / Sicherungen, Dateien (auch Videos) und Oversizing budgetieren und 256 GB könnte knapp werden..Eigentlich sind 256 GB ausreichend, aber 500 GB-SSDs sind pro GB meistens etwas günstiger, kosten nur ein Paar Scheinschen mehr, sind etwas scheller und bieten massig Reserven. Daher wäre das meine Empfehlung, egal ob der Laptop ein oder zwei Plätze für 2,5-Zoll-Festplatten bietet. ----------------------------- PREIS-LEISTUNG Die aktuellen Preisen zwischen 110 und 140 Euro für eine 500GB-SSD finde ich recht akzeptabel, Preise über 400 Euro für eine 1 TB-SSD finde ich abschreckend und absolut nicht notwendig. Mit 500 GB hat man mehr als genug für Betriebssystem, Software, Sicherungen / Wiederherstellung und jede Menge Dateien in der aktuellen Bearbeitung, auch Videos in 4K-Qualität. Alles was fertig ist kann man in kassischen HDD-Festplatten archivieren, 1TB-Grössen kosten inzwischen unter 100 Euro, es macht einfach keinen Sinn schneller und teuerer SSD-Speicher für bereits bearbeiteten Dateien bereitzustellen. Daher stellt die 500 GB-Grösse m.E. das optimale Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis. Er liegt auch z.Z. (Sommer 2016) bie 28 cents pro GB. Hinzu kommt, dass SSDs ab 500 GB mehr Chips und bessere Controller haben und schneller sind als die kleineren Modellen. ----------------------------------------------- PARTITIONIEREN ODER NICHT ? Früher habe ich die SSDs in C: für die Software und D: für die Dateien partitionniert. Das mache ich jetzt nicht mehr, weil das schon eine Einschränkung, z.B. beim Schneiden von grossen Video-Dateien, oder wenn ich verschiedenen Versionen installieren oder testen möchte, ist. Stattdessen bearbeite ich alles in C: und auslagere die fertige Datei in D: bzw. eine klassische, interne Festplatte mit 1 TB. --------------------------------------------- ARBEITSTEILUNG SSD / HDD Schließlich benutze ich neben der Auslagerung auf interne HDDs noch eine kleine Seagate Expansion Portable Drive mit 2 TB als Datensicherung. Diese Festplatte, ist völlig unkompliziert und zuverlässig und enorm preiswert. Mit der Auslagerung auf eine interne HDD und Datensicherung auf eine externe, preiswerte HDD 2 TB ist die bzw. sind die SSDs mit 500 GB ausschliesslich dazu da, das zu tun, was sie am Besten können, nämlich dafür zu sorgen, dass die Rechner optimal und ausserordentlich schnell arbeiten, und das für eine sehr geringe Investition von knapp über 100 Euro pro Rechner. ------------------- FAZIT Es gibt verschiedene, aber wenige Möglichkeiten einen Rechner / Notebook zu tunen, z.B. den Arbeitsspeicher zu verdoppeln. Aber keine macht sich so krass bemerkbar wie den Einbau einer SSD als C:-Festplatte. Andere wie den Anschluß eines externen BluRay-Laufwerk mögen noch etwas bringen, aber alles andere wie schnelleren Prozessor (mit Hitzeprobleme), Display, Grafikchip usw. ist praktisch ausgeschlossen. Insofern sehe ich das als die einzige sinnvolle Ausgabe ohne gleich ein neues Gerät anzuschaffen. Ich würde diese SSDs wieder kaufen und einem Freund mit gutem Gewissen empfehlen.

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