Samsung Electronics 840 Pro Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive, 256GB

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Samsung Electronics 840 Pro Series 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive, 256GB

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Samsung's new solid state drive (ssd) is much faster than a traditional hard drive. This is due to new technology. If you want your computer's processor to be all it can be, you need to feed it with information as fast as possible. Samsung makes great... Read More

Cons

Reviewer found that benchmarking can kill the drive. The drive is not as fast as my intel intel 830.

Just died, less than 6 months after purchasing. There is a peculiar 'infant mortality' problem with this product.

O and samsung support is worthless. Require you to fill out a form tiring, every time, that will answer one of the ridiculous and disinterested questions. Tried chatting with samsung support but apparently filling out a rma form is too technical for t... Read More

Amazon is not the only retailer guilty of this.

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Quality

Great product, great for my games and easy to install.

Games feel smoother and respond without a harddrive bottleneck of 5400rpm as the drive they used to be on!

I do application development and have made applications that are being used in production mode by multiple companies and depart... Read More

Serious drive with nothing spared this on the latest technology it is a beast.

Price

A bit expensive but worth every penny,

Best upgrade you could make for the money.

I paid a premium for this 3 years ago.

The size to cost ratio makes it a bit pricey and nowadays 250 gb boot drives are a bit small but i just wanted to run an inhous... Read More

Shipping

Super fast, i'm able to cut my computer's loading time in half and in-game loading screens by 75%!

Satisfied with the quick delivery and the product of the order.

Packaging/appearance

I needed this older drive for a specific project and it arrived as described in a new box and worked fine.

Competitiveness

However, there are newer version of this ssd out there so you might consider other ssds.

I used to be a crucial fanboy, but now am transitioning to samsung after their latest successes in the ssd market.

Overview

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This product had a total of 2,149 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 21 2024.