My camtasia program opens in about 10 seconds, and my 2 hour 40 minute project with hundreds of edits opens to begin work in 2 ...  Read More

My camtasia program opens in about 10 seconds, and my 2 hour 40 minute project with hundreds of edits opens to begin work in 2 minutes and has fully loaded all sound and video files on the timeline in 3 minutes!  Read Less

It does a great job as a fast read cache when paired with spinning disk array.

It does a great job as a fast read cache when paired with spinning disk array.  Read Less

I'm not quite sure what samsung was thinking when they made that calculation, because these nand cells should have at least 100...  Read More

I'm not quite sure what samsung was thinking when they made that calculation, because these nand cells should have at least 1000 (heck, if not 10000) write life cycles, so they're definitely low-balling the 1tb version.  Read Less

What this basically means is that you can only fill the 1tb drive up 150 times before your warranty expires, but you have to wr...  Read More

What this basically means is that you can only fill the 1tb drive up 150 times before your warranty expires, but you have to write 1200 times to the 128gb version to reach the same threshold.  Read Less

I suppose though if you're willing to drop $700 for a 1tb drive, they figure you aren't hurting to source your own machine screws.

I suppose though if you're willing to drop $700 for a 1tb drive, they figure you aren't hurting to source your own machine screws.  Read Less

If you're looking for a new sata ssd and can afford it, this is the one to choose.

If you're looking for a new sata ssd and can afford it, this is the one to choose.  Read Less

The samsung 850 came in 2 days with prime, it was easy to install and took only about a half hour, (i got the cradle and the ca...  Read More

The samsung 850 came in 2 days with prime, it was easy to install and took only about a half hour, (i got the cradle and the cable separately).  Read Less

Packaging is just the standard fare for ssds.

Packaging is just the standard fare for ssds.  Read Less

They're too cheap to throw in drive screws--so much for "retail" packaging.

They're too cheap to throw in drive screws--so much for "retail" packaging.  Read Less

I could see that the bottleneck was my hard drive loading into memory so i researched a lot about ssd's and the samsung seems t...  Read More

I could see that the bottleneck was my hard drive loading into memory so i researched a lot about ssd's and the samsung seems to be consistently the fastest and most reliable, especially with their new stacked technology it seemed the best performance and price wise, and i decided to get this samsung 850 pro 256 to speed up the project loading time, and i hoped that it would help with my boot up and program loading time as well.  Read Less

Samsung did a good job with their earlier 840 pro, but this 850 pro takes things a step further.

Samsung did a good job with their earlier 840 pro, but this 850 pro takes things a step further.  Read Less

If so, then i'd order a sandisk, either the extreme ii or, more recently, the faster extreme pro.

If so, then i'd order a sandisk, either the extreme ii or, more recently, the faster extreme pro.  Read Less