Review on Sleek and Powerful: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD - Boost Your Device's Performance! by Wiktor Witold Skow ᠌

Name: Sleek and Powerful: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD - Boost Your Device's Performance!
Item: Sleek and Powerful: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD - Boost Your Device's Performance!
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

Just super, the product is made wonderfully, very satisfied.

I have a fairly old computer that I built in 2022. It is assembled on the basis of the Asus P5K motherboard, with 4 gigs of RAM and a Core 2 Quad Q9300 quad-core processor. I've been going to change it for a long time, but sometimes my hands don't reach, sometimes I have a problem with money, sometimes I can't decide what I still need, to assemble a computer, or to buy a good laptop. Yes, and I became attached to the old man, to be honest. Despite the JMicron JMB363 controller that died back in 2022, which I just stupidly disabled in BIOS. In the meantime, I decided to take this drive so that I can use it on my future machines.
Now a little with what I encountered. I was frankly too lazy to rearrange the system from scratch, especially since I did it in the spring due to an accidental power outage while loading Windows. I decided to clone the disk, but I doubted that Acronix could do it. The manufacturer's website has a beautiful presentation about "Samsung_Data_Migration_Setup". I decided to try to transfer this program. True, it says there that the Samsung 860 drive must be connected via a SATA to USB adapter, which costs money. I decided to try without it, connecting to a free SATA port No. 2. Just in case, I also had a plan "B", this is to get this adapter from a portable USB disk for a while. Everything turned out fine, the program saw the drive and transferred all 400 gigs to a new drive in an hour. Then I turned off the computer and unfastened the old screw. Let it lie down for a month, if everything is normal, I will return it to the system under the file storage.
When loading, one cant also sometimes arose, the system required to insert disk F. I cured it by ating the BIOS to the latest version. There is a video on how to do this for the Asus P5K on YouTube. The most interesting thing is that I replaced version 1201 with the same 1201, and the jamb disappeared. I also noticed that if you created a system disk by connecting it to a connector with a number such and such, then you will not be able to rearrange the cable to another port, the system will not boot. Something like this.
So far I'm very pleased.

Pros

Ease of installation in an old computer, there is support for SATA I, SATA II and SATA III. In my case it is Asus P5K. Installed, cloned with a proprietary utility (Samsung_Data_Migration_Setup) an old hard drive on this one and everything works fine, only much faster. Of course, the maximum speed on my motherboard cannot be achieved, since it only has SATA II (SATA 3.0 Gb / s) standard connectors. The system (Win 10) is loaded (with a password) in exactly 40 seconds, instead of the previous 4-5 minutes! Any reaction to a mouse click is many times faster. It has become much more convenient to work, including on the Internet. The advantages will also include the brand, a five-year warranty (!), A very large number of reviews, high user ratings.

Cons

Games load faster, but nothing has changed inside the games. But I was mentally prepared for this, and not very upset. There were no screws in the kit, it’s good that at least they were with a margin in the kit of the purchased adapter (AT-DH05). The price is a little expensive, there are a lot of models cheaper by 1000. But I decided not to be stingy, and not save on reliability. Anyone who has ever suddenly lost all data due to a dead screw will understand. This happened to me three times.