3 thoughts on “SAMSUNG 830 Series 2.5-Inch 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7PC256B/WW”

1. 20 of 22 people found the following review helpful

   
   Love this little speedster!, May 4, 2012

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   Avery D. Lyde (Columbia, SC) –
   
     

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   This review is from: SAMSUNG 830 Series 2.5-Inch 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7PC128B/WW (Personal Computers)

   I have got to say. This little ssd is a breast. There are others that may be faster, but for the money and value in my opinion it does not get any better. It is especially easy to install the firmware and Trim support for Windows 7. This keep your ssd running in tip top shape, and for those of who like speed consider this an option. I have had other ssd’s such as OCZ, Kingston, and Corsair where you normally have to go into the bios to perform firmware upgrades. This process is tedious and quite annoying. In other cases, tuning your computer for trim is also a hassle. Samsung has streamlined this process and made it simple.

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2. 21 of 24 people found the following review helpful

   
   More than I can say, April 19, 2012

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   Minh Le –

   This review is from: SAMSUNG 830 Series 2.5-Inch 512GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7PC512B/WW (Personal Computers)

   It took me some days to think about buying a SSD. I read a lot of review, comments and decided to go with Samsung 830 series.
   The first impression is it is light and slim. It’s slimmer than normal 2.5 inch HDD. The process to upgrade is pretty straight forward. Here are the steps that I did:

   1. Connect the SSD to MBP via usb cable then create an ext2 partition.
   2. Use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the entire Mac partition to the SSD.
   3. I also have a bootcamp partition that running windows 7, so I use WinClone to create an image for bootcamp partition.
   4. Turn off and replace the hard disk. Turn on and It only takes about 15s to boot up.
   5. Everything work fine except the TRIM is not supported (TRIM is only supported for Apple SSD), so search google for how to enable the TRIM feature for Mac OS X. It brings you about 10{b81fbfd19e1fca5890798868c0714c408bbd5ec471654b6f9630c0fffa6e7eb3} to 15{b81fbfd19e1fca5890798868c0714c408bbd5ec471654b6f9630c0fffa6e7eb3} performance.
   6. Create a windows partition (FAT) and use WinClone again to copy the bootcamp partition from the image to disk.
   7. Enjoy the speed.

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3. 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

   
   Fantastic in my Mid-2010 Macbook Pro 17″ (MacBookPro6,1), July 2, 2012

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   Thomas –

   This review is from: SAMSUNG 830 Series 2.5-Inch 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-7PC256B/WW (Personal Computers)

   Before this drive, I was experiencing 90-120 second startup times and 30-45 second shutdown times (I have a few servers running). Parallels would resume Windows 7 in about 90 seconds.

   Now, startups (from clicking the button to login screen) are 25 seconds (13 of which the screen hasn’t even turned on yet–the SSD can’t speed that up). Tack on 2-4 seconds for logging in and starting my servers, etc. Shutdowns occur in around 10 seconds now, mostly because Crashplan slows things down a bit. Parallels resumes Windows 7 in 7 seconds flat and shuts down in 2-3. Not too shabby.

   Here are the steps I followed to install this beast:

   Plug SSD into PC to check for latest firmware. Update if necessary. (Mine came with the latest)
   Unmount drive then disconnect cables
   Put SSD in external eSATA/USB enclosure and plug into Mac
   Format with Disk utility as a single “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” partition
   Get Carbon Copy Cloner (Free) and open it
   In Preferences, ensure first check box (Auto create archive of Lion’s Recovery HD volume) is checked
   Select Source: Old Macintosh HD
   Select all files on the drive
   Select Destination: New Macintosh SSD
   Click Clone
   It should walk you through extracting Lion’s Recovery Partition. Just follow the steps
   If, for some reason, the clone stops mid-way through, just start it back up again and it should continue where it left off.
   Once complete, swap the drives and reboot. You’ll need a really small philips head screwdriver and torx driver.

   Note: Upon starting up with the new drive, Little Snitch and a couple other random programs on my computer seemed to have lost some of its preferences.

   Good luck, and hope this helps someone!

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