Samsung 830 – Series MZ-7PC256N/AM 256 GB 2.5 Inch SATA III MLC Internal SSD Laptop Kit with Norton Ghost 15
- Enables you to boot up your computer in as small as 15 seconds
- Energy efficient – improve your battery life by up to 30 minutes
- Outstanding Multitasking Performance – It’s the ideal solution for your everyday computing needs, such as web browsing, document creation, viewing or editing multimedia files, playing PC games, etc.
- Superior Reliability ? from the world’s #1 DRAM, NAND Flash and SSD Supplier, all Samsung SSD’s feature 100% genuine Samsung components
- Industry-leading Design – Stunning design and precision engineering ? inside and out. Brushed metal case blocks dust and corrosion and it measures only 7mm thick, so it can even accommodate the latest ultra-slim laptop PCs.
- A complete, user-friendly solution ? Comes with all the components you need to upgrade your desktop PC. Also includes Norton Ghost — the most preferred consumer and business Drive Migration solution today
- Backed by a three-year limited warranty
The Samsung SSD 830 Series boasts superior random read speeds and quicker sequential read and write speeds (up to 520 MB/s & 400 MB/s respectively). It’s the ideal solution for your everyday computing needs, such as web browsing, document creation, viewing or editing multimedia files, playing PC games, etc. As the world’s #1 DRAM, NAND Flash, and SSD supplier, Samsung has unique, industry-leading engineering resources, technologies, and manufacturing processes as well as more stringent quality an
List Price: $ 579.99
Price: $ 579.99
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Brilliant SSD & Installation was Simple into my MacBook Pro,
This is my very first Solid State Drive (SSD) buy, which I place into my late 2008 unibody 15-inch Macbook Pro (MBP) 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM. I was initially going to buy a new laptop as my MBP seemed to be running a bit slower and hung up here and there when I had many applications running. In particular, I experienced considerable slowness and lag after I would end using my VirtualBox (free virtualization software) to access Windows XP whenever I needed to use Internet Explorer.
My main reason for choosing the Samsung 830 SSD over others, was due to the fact that Samsung makes all the components in this SSD and that Apple themselves currently use Samsung and Toshiba as suppliers for SSD – and we all know how serious Apple is about their quality control and selection of vendors/suppliers they use. In addition, I had read excellent reviews from online sources such as AnandTech.
I wanted something that was reliable and was simple to set up. In addition, this SSD does not need a separate enclosure as the device itself is enclosed and it comes with the SATA/USB connection cable.
For all of you out there with a Macbook thinking about upgrading, I would highly recommend this. I read through tons of websites and how to’s and wanted to share the steps I took below in swapping out my hard drive for the SSD, for those of you out there thinking about upgrading their MBP with a SSD in simple steps. See below (bear in mind that depending on the model and year of your MBP, it maybe simple or more hard to access your hard drive vs mine)
All I had to do to replace my hard drive with this SSD (for my Macbook Pro) was to:
1) Download Carbon Copy Cloner (free, find it using google)
2) Open the Carbon Copy Cloner application
3) Insert the SATA connection (the SATA/USB connection is included in the box) into the Samsung 830 SSD, and plug in the USB connector into my MBP -> use Disk Utility to format the SSD (do your partitions once it’s been formatted if you want)
4) Then using Carbon Copy Cloner -> clone my current hard drive into the Samsung 830 SSD (took me about 2 hours or less to copy over 140GB worth of data)
5) Test the Samsung 830 SSD by booting up through the external Samsung 830 SSD, by restarting the MBP, then holding onto the Option key before the gray screen appears, then boot it up
6) Once external booting through the external SSD is successful, shut down the MBP, open and swap out the hard drive with the SSD (make sure you have the necessary tools to open and access your hard drive in your MBP)
7) Power up your new MBP and delight in your new and quick Samsung 830 SSD
*After I had cloned my hard drive to my new Samsung 830 SSD, it took me a whole 15-20 minutes to swap out the hard drive and I’m now using my MBP to type this review. I read some PC users installing their SSD’s taking ages, reinstalling software and operating systems. This is the simplest and simplest solution for me (thanks to Carbon Copy Cloner as it copies everything including the operating system) and allows me to get back to work on my MBP with small to no down time and no hassles with reinstalling anything* Just in case people were wondering, this was my first time swapping out any hard drive, so I have small experience with computer components, yet it was super simple for me to do.
I’m currently running my new SSD with no issues and enjoying the speed that comes with having a SSD vs the traditional hard drive. I’m glad I chose Samsung. As I use my MBP primarily for work, I need the reliability and do not want the hassle of having my SSD returned or having the controller die on me as I read happens on a lot of other SSD’s.
Thanks for reading my very first review/post on amazon and delight in everyone, hope it will help some of you Mac users out there : )
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|Quick and comes with some goodies,
Noticeable improvement over stock 5400RPM drive in my Samsung Series 3. Combined with an i5, this thing makes laptops seem like viable desktop replacements in terms of speed. Comes with Norton Ghost 15 (free licensed software is always excellent, no matter what you reckon of Ghost) and the latest Batman game, which retails for $50 ATM. No problems with physical installation and a fresh install of Win7. This review might be useful for those trying to choose:
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|Fantastic SSD, terrible accessories,
Should have bought the set with the desktop kit. The internal laptop kit consist of only a rectangular plastic around 2.5mm thick which allows one to place the 7mm SSD into the 9.5mm bay of other laptops. But, the designer may have forgotten that the 4 screws of most devices are drilled in the centerline and when you used the spacer, the holes are off by 1 to 2 mm either side. What they should have made was two pieces of 1.25mm spacer.
So the desktop kit would be more worth it because a 3.5 inch bracket cost a few bucks and the SSD itself is the same for both kits. The SSD speed is quicker than most of the SSD I have owned. I had Intel X18, X25, toshiba 1.8″ and the samsung 830 series (128GB above) runs quicker than the default samung MLC 128GB SSD inside my lenovo T420s.
Overall, its a excellent buy and I am giving it 4 stars because of the useless plastic spacer
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