Frozen_Lizard—November 17, 2025
I got this Samsung 500gb 2.5" SATA SSD to upgrade from the 512gb HDD in an old HP Pavilion laptop (model HP 15-f233wm). It's a perfect fit and works great. It's made the old device MUCH faster and improved the overall performance immensely. I consider myself a functioning illiterate when it comes to computers. So, when I tell you that this drive was easy to install and get working you can believe it. Once I got the laptop open and ready it was an easy process to swap over the new SSD for the older HDD. With the ongoing phase out of Windows 10 I've decided to better educate myself on computer systems by tinkering around with this older laptop that cannot run the newer system (Windows 11). It was recommended to me that, given the outdated system and limited room for improvement, the best thing I could do to upgrade the old Pavilion was replace the original HDD with a newer SSD to improve overall performance. I was a little nervous as I've never done this type of thing before and I don't really have much tech savvy. I watched a few YouTube videos, ordered this Samsung SSD replacement, and got to work. It was a major improvement. The old laptop runs better than it has in years; faster, quieter, overall better functionality. It's still old and outdated but it works well for basic productivity. BOTTOM LINE: I think this is a great product and a wonderful value. I have no complaints at all and I highly recommend it. Read more
bob frost—October 22, 2025
its a shame sata III will likely be disappearing in the next 5 to 7 years, the formfactor is so much nicer then nvme and it is still more then fast enough for like 99 percent of people, there are sata III drives available with real ecc error correction and super durable enterprise grade drives, trying to find equivalent in nvme is literally impossible, to say a Kingston DC 600m or the old Samsung 860 pro which used real mlc memory and had real error correction, the Samsung 970 pro was literally the only actual professional nvme ssd and ever since the 980 pro and beyond, they removed ecc error correct and now use inferior tlc memory, much like this drive does, but at least this drive strikes balance of being affordable and pretty reliable, irs certainly more then enough for average work loads. I just wish Samsung didn't cheapen and ruin their pro line with inferior products that normies couldn't appreciate. sure nvme is faster, but in most cases most people hardly notice a difference. Im using the 500 gig version of the Samsung 870 Evo, for Linux mint cinnamon edition 22.2 and it is more then adequate, I also used a 1tb version to rebuild a friends laptop and used workarounds for him to use windows 11, surprise surprise, its still more then enough even for windows 11 and how much of a bloated mess it is, especially when performance mode is selected in Samsung magician and rapid mode driver is installed and it uses 2 gigs of ram as a fast cache pool, on another old desktop running an i7 6700 Skylake cpu with dual channel mode two 8 gig sticks of jdec standard 2133mhz ram which has a 1tb Samsung 860 pro "the best ssd they ever made" with write caching on as well, it gets around 3,500mb per second... Nearly nvme 3.0 speeds and ofc is dependent on how fast your ram is... For a sata III drive which the interface is technically limited to around 600mb per second after that cache pool and the ddr4x one on the drive fill up, I still dont "really miss the extra speed" buy with confidence... If I had the money I'd buy several just to have before they stop making them. Read more
Celestron—October 17, 2025
I installed the Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SSD in my Alienware Aurora 11 as additional storage for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, and it performs flawlessly. Installation was quick and easy, and the speed improvement is impressive. Load times are much faster, and everything runs smoothly. As always, Samsung delivers top-notch quality and reliability. Highly recommended for anyone needing a fast, dependable SSD for large games or simulations. Read more
