SAMSUNG 860 EVO SSD 1TB - mSATA Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology (MZ-M6E1T0BW)

Review for Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB mSATA Internal SSD (MZ-M6E1T0BW)Worked very well in a Dell M3800 machine for several years.It was reliable and tremendously faster than the old HDD that came with the computer.My unit did eventually die after about 5 years of daily use but I don't believe this was actually a fault with the device, but rather abuse. I kept large libraries of equipment manuals and several VMs on the drive which meant that it was nearly full for most of its life. Keeping an SSD full defeats wear leveling, so the same sections of memory for temporary files, paging, etc get used over and over again until they fail prematurely.I wish you could still buy these because I would happily buy another to fix that old computer.

I added the Samsung 860 EVO 1TB mSATA Internal SSD (MZ-M6E1T0BW) to my four year old Dell XPS 8500. Desktop computing is now as much fun as using my iPad, but the PC can obviously do much more. It's like I got a brand new PC, but kept all my trusty software, settings and data files.The Dell XPS which originally came with Windows 8 and later upgraded to Windows 10 was running slow whenever the PC went looking for files on the old hard disk drive. This slow-pokieness was manifest with slow startups, mind numbing waits for Windows Explorer to open and loading large files into running programs. After installing the mSata, startup times are reduced by 75%, Windows Explorer pops, Microsoft Office purrs and I have even been surprised by the speed gain in applications and internet access (Edge).Installation was a breeze and greatly facilitated by YouTube instructional videos on mSata installs in the XPS 8500. The mSata drive did not come with the tiny M2 screws necessary to hold the card in the slot, but these were easily available on Amazon. I had one problem. I broke off the small plastic lever that helps hold the video card in place ( OOPS ), but this doesn't seem necessary so I haven't replaced it. While mSata slots are fairly obsolete now and have been replaced by better technology, they work fine and have double the bandwidth of a regular slot on the 8500's PCI bus. This means that all other things being equal, the mSata or equivalent slot will run much faster that installing a regular SSD drive in a PCI slot.The partition moving software that came with the drive looked fine, but I didn't use it. I used EaseUS Partition Manager 12.9 purchased on Amazon. There are many other partition manager software options for this job. I first used EaseUS to clean up unused partitions on the C: hard disk drive. You don't have to do this but it eliminated 300 GB of wasted space and created a full 1 TB C: partition.After partition cleanup on the C: hard disk drive, I had a clean 1TB partition. EaseUS was able to move the entire C: drive image onto the new mSata drive, rename the mSata drive as the C: drive and remapped the old disk drive version of the C: drive as drive H: so it is still accessible. All of this work was accomplished in a very straightforward manner by EaseUS. I now have a complete drive image backup on the H: hard disk drive and plan on using EaseUS to transfer the complete partition/image from the C: mSata drive to H: from time to time. Pretty simple local backup strategy. I also have everything backed up on the cloud.I would recommend spending the extra dollars to get a SSD drive large enough to store everything on the C: drive. Getting a smaller albeit less expensive SSD drive requires quite a bit of manual effort to move Windows to the SSD while keeping Windows data file libraries on a regular hard disk drive. ( Note: many have done this with 128 GB SSD drives and been happy with their results. ) With the larger 1TB mSata, I was able to move everything from the Dell XPS' 1 TB disk drive to the mSata all at once and automatically via partition manager software. Much less effort and chance for error.I have had this new mSata setup for a month without any problems. I'll update this review if problems arise.

Excelente.

Recently I decided to upgrade the mSATA drives in my circa 2011-1013 Samsung Series 9 Ultrabook computers. I have three of these units. A 1st generation Core i3 11.6" NP900X1A-A01US, a 3rd generation Core i7 13.3" NP900X3C-A04US, and a 3rd generation Core i5 13.3" NP900X3D-A01US. In the same order they came provisioned with 64GB, 256GB, & 128GB mSATA drives. I chose the 250GB Samsung 860 EVO as the replacement for the first & third of the lot as both needed a bit more storage capacity, particularly the 11.6" with its diminutive 64GB drive. I selected the 1TB model as the replacement for the Core i7 NP700X3C.Installing the new drives was fast & easy. For cloning I fitted the new drives in Zheino USB 3.0-to-mSATA enclosures also purchased here on Amazon. No need to completely assemble the drive enclosure for this step. Just insert the drive into the PCB & connect the cable. Windows detects the new drive & you are all set with no special drivers or software required. Acronis True Image was used to partition & clone the new drives. As the original drives are relatively small this step took perhaps 10-15 minutes per computer. Next I removed the bottom panel of the computers, swapped out the mSATA drives, & buttoned everything back up, using the opportunity to blow out any accumulated dust & debris. The physical swapping of the drives required another 10-15 minutes per computer, including the clean out. Finally, I installed the original drives in the Zheino USB-to-mSATA enclosures for use as fast & portable storage. Upon reboot Windows fired up without incident, detecting the new drive hardware, & installed whatever drivers it required automatically. One more reboot & I was finished save for installing the optional "Samsung Magician" software that allows for setting drive preferences, running benchmarks, & keeping tabs on drive health & life status.Though these computers came fitted with mSATA drives, they were older models & the performance of the new EVO 860 is a marked improvement. The performance gain was particularly notable on the 13.3" NP900X3D which was factory-equipped with a slow SanDisk UM100 SSD. It now cold boots in about 12 seconds & is almost as fast as the Core i7 model. CrystalDiskMark 6.x screenshots of the replacement drive performance is included in the photos. (Note that the 11.6" NP900X1A is limited to a 300GB/s SATA bus).These models of the Samsung EVO 860 are the bare drive versions & include no software or cables for migrating your current drive contents. The 250GB model includes a 5 year/150TBW (terabytes written) warranty while the 1TB model comes with a 5 year/600TBW warranty. All three installations were fast & 100% trouble-free. I am loving the performance boost & security of new drives with a 5 year warranty.