Review on 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SATA III Internal SSD - 2.5 Inch (MZ-76E1T0B/AM) by Jonah Koehnke

I have an almost 9 year old CyberPower desktop with an Asus P6T motherboard and wanted to eliminate a potential source of failure to find more Durability. And if I get more power, all the better. It turned out to be a very good move. Of course, the order came within the main two-day window you'd expect from Revain. I also got a Corsair dual SSD mounting bracket which was an option to order for another $6. I've covered it separately, but it's required if you're installing it in a 5 1/2" bay like I did. The SSD comes with an installation guide which I didn't need except to follow the website link to install Samsung Data Migration Software and Samsung Magician Software. Since I installed an SSD to replace the C system drive, I had to clone this drive to the SSD. And the data migration software works great. After formatting the SSD (NTSF), I cloned a 232GB SSD in just 31 minutes using a SATA 3.0 to SATA 3.0 connection. It would be much faster if my computer supported SATA 6.0. Then removed the HDD and installed the SSD in the bracket, connected the SSD to the SATA data cable and the power cable (I used the same connector that the C drive HDD was connected to), turned on the computer and booted it up no problem, no Problem. It really was a perfect clone of the previous disc. There were no issues requiring entering the BIOS screen. This is only a problem if you're not using the exact same SATA data connection that was connected to your old system C drive. I'm amazed at how much faster this drive is. Not only does the Magician software free up some drive overhead, but it also has a cool performance test that can be run on all installed drives. So I ran it on an SSD and a 6TB WD image disk and the random IOPS results were as follows: SSD 8,789 reads and 19,775 writes versus 178 reads and 244 writes for the HDD. While this may sound unbelievable, it is not. You actually experience this difference in speed when working on a PC. It was definitely $150 well spent!