Samsung 870 QVO 8 TB SATA 2.5 Inch Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-77Q8T0)

Reviews

DAVE G.

The drive itself is smart in appearance and is 2. I had an Intel 730 series 480GB which was 6 years old and didn't use over provisioning at all, that still had over r90% health with over 250TB written to it in 6 years.

Al-W

Swap the securing bracket from old drive to the new, slide in new drive and screw in the retaining screw to bracket. I have no doubt the Samsung 870 8TB will outlast that, with a 2880 TBW, no normal user is going to reach that write rate this side of 10 years. Disconnect, reverse process, bobs your uncle. Although I use an android tablet for most things nowadays, I still need a windows platform PC laptop for some things like editing my website.

Tele-Addict

As for performance, well over 500MB/s read and write, bang on for a SATA 6 SSD. For PC / laptop you use the Magician software that clones the existing drive then pop it in. 2 drive but my system is having difficulty detecting one of those (non Samsung) so I opted for this as I am only using it for storage and not gaming with it. So glad I did, the difference is like night and day.

jack price

RAPID mode is not necessary unless you have more than 16GB of system RAM as it can allocate up to 25% of RAM in order to speed up frequent file access, but note that you could lose those RAM cached files if you lose power before the RAM cache has written to the SSD so keep that in mind. Windows 11 recognised the disc and installed it quick time without issue. 100% reliable. Reports on the internet of the drives only lasting a couple of years so went for broke voided the warranty and put an SSD in it.

Tell

After cloning the HDD drive to the new SSD all that was needed was to remove all the screws on the base of the laptop, lift the keyboard sufficiently and slightly move to the side without needing to remove its cables and wedge up with a none conductive pack. (see image). Plan ahead :). This keeps an eye in the device for you and off a comprehensive suite of tools available for free.