Review on SAMSUNG 860 EVO 1TB Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0E), 2.5-Inch SATA III, 1 TB Capacity by Brock Chisholm

Went to Samsung website, downloaded their data migration software and scanned the PDF quick guide from the same downloads section. Fast and easy. The data migration software is NOT a "wizard" as another reviewer noted - it's a disk utility, not a migration tool. Of course it is. Works great. You connect the appropriate cable to your computer's USB drive and run the DATA MIGRATION program. It will ask you to select the Samsung drive you want to transfer to and then includes a drop-down list that will show you all the drives it sees on your computer. In my case, my ASUS laptop only had one drive - Seagate that I wanted to migrate from. My connection used a "Sabrent 2.5 SATA Hard Drive/SSD to USB Adapter Cable". new Samsung 860 EVO - boot drive. I started the migration and when I removed the mouse the Seagate 1T drive had 3% of my 500GB of data and was showing an estimate of about an hour and a half. . However, it was done in less than an hour, and as per the instructions, my computer shut down upon completion. I turned my ASUS on its back, undid the screws and the bottom came off easily. The old Seagate was easily accessible so I removed it, unplugged it, plugged in the Samsung, plugged it in, pre-secured, reinstalled the bottom of the laptop, flipped it up and hit the power button. For almost two years, this meant it took minutes for Windows to ask me to scan my fingerprint, and then another ten to fifteen minutes for Windows to actually download its background data so it could be used. Port, I was asked for a fingerprint - less than 15 seconds. I thought *this is too good to be true*. I scanned my finger and spun the mouse to turn it on, and when I looked up ten seconds later, my desktop was fully loaded and working. Whatever time-consuming background tasks Windows performed at startup have already been completed. Those ten or fifteen minutes of constant hard drive access that I used to endure are gone from my life forever. And again I thought: *That was too easy. Something will go wrong.* But nothing went wrong. My laptop now boots in seconds, fully functional, everything loads as fast as my apps on my iPad. She's a bit like a hot rod. Thank you In ASUS' defense, the version I received was for a machine with an SSD, but they sold the mechanical drive version as an evaluation pack. The seller suggested upgrading to an SSD, but I didn't have time to leave it with them.