This review is from: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5 inch SATA Solid State Drive (Accessory)
I can only echo the other reviews here in saying that adding this SSD to my desktop PC has provided the best performance boost I’ve seen in all my years of PC ‘fiddling’. My PC now boots in less than half the time and applications spring to life instantly. I highly recommend reading Khushiman’s review of 13th December for some excellent advice on using an SSD (no point in me repeating it). I too have a separate mechanical hard drive for all my applications & data and use my SSD purely for the operating system. Samsung’s ‘SSD magician’ software tool does a good job in helping you configure Windows for SSD use but I also suggest searching for and reading the ‘SSD optimisation’ guides available on the internet for some additional tips and tweaks to get the best out of the SSD. An excellent buy.
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This review is from: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5 inch SATA Solid State Drive (Accessory)
Unlike other people I decided to do a clean install of Windows7 on this and after setting things away I popped out to the kitchen to make a cup of tea… when I came back the first stage of the installation was done and the pc was about to reboot. Incredible. At the moment I’m only using it for my OS with all of my data being stored on 2 x 500 Gig disks… but I’m mightily impressed with the speed of the disk and will certainly be looking to move over to SSDs when the price drops a bit more into my price range. For me the main attraction of the Samsung SSD is the fact that everything is made in house so there are less likely to be any compatibility issues… Don’t forget if, like me, you are putting this in a tower system you will need to take into accounting the smaller profile of the 2.5″ SSD if you are putting it into a 3.5″ HD bay or a 5″ DVD bay. I found both of these usefull:
This review is from: Samsung 840 Series 120GB 2.5 inch SATA Solid State Drive (Accessory)
I will never buy an HDD again! The samsung SSD is so fast at booting up, is silent and has not gone wrong. I have installed them in three computer builds. Latest build is a mini ITX in a tiny case so cramped and low power. No room for an HDD or good fans. The speed of the SSD means that you can overcome the lower speed of the processor and with 8Gb ram you have a perfectly workable computer that isn’t slow. Asus C60M1-i motherboard, Powercool-6 case, kingston 1066 ram. Boots Win7 in 45 seconds Much better than the OCZ petrol SSD I had originally which had so many errors I had to keep reloadinf the operatin system
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Money well spent,
I can only echo the other reviews here in saying that adding this SSD to my desktop PC has provided the best performance boost I’ve seen in all my years of PC ‘fiddling’. My PC now boots in less than half the time and applications spring to life instantly. I highly recommend reading Khushiman’s review of 13th December for some excellent advice on using an SSD (no point in me repeating it). I too have a separate mechanical hard drive for all my applications & data and use my SSD purely for the operating system. Samsung’s ‘SSD magician’ software tool does a good job in helping you configure Windows for SSD use but I also suggest searching for and reading the ‘SSD optimisation’ guides available on the internet for some additional tips and tweaks to get the best out of the SSD. An excellent buy.
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|Great bit of kit,
Unlike other people I decided to do a clean install of Windows7 on this and after setting things away I popped out to the kitchen to make a cup of tea… when I came back the first stage of the installation was done and the pc was about to reboot. Incredible.
At the moment I’m only using it for my OS with all of my data being stored on 2 x 500 Gig disks… but I’m mightily impressed with the speed of the disk and will certainly be looking to move over to SSDs when the price drops a bit more into my price range.
For me the main attraction of the Samsung SSD is the fact that everything is made in house so there are less likely to be any compatibility issues…
Don’t forget if, like me, you are putting this in a tower system you will need to take into accounting the smaller profile of the 2.5″ SSD if you are putting it into a 3.5″ HD bay or a 5″ DVD bay.
I found both of these usefull:
Akasa 2.5/3.5 inch to 5.25 inch Mounting Adapter
Icy Dock MB990SP-B Dual 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch SATA and IDE SSD/HDD Bracket
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|faultless and fast,
I will never buy an HDD again!
The samsung SSD is so fast at booting up, is silent and has not gone wrong. I have installed them in three computer builds.
Latest build is a mini ITX in a tiny case so cramped and low power. No room for an HDD or good fans. The speed of the SSD means that you can overcome the lower speed of the processor and with 8Gb ram you have a perfectly workable computer that isn’t slow.
Asus C60M1-i motherboard, Powercool-6 case, kingston 1066 ram. Boots Win7 in 45 seconds
Much better than the OCZ petrol SSD I had originally which had so many errors I had to keep reloadinf the operatin system
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