SAMSUNG 870 QVO SATA III SSD 1TB 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive, Upgrade Desktop PC or Laptop Memory and Storage for IT Pros, Creators, Everyday Users, MZ-77Q1T0B

Works really wellI have a 2018 Mac, 27" with 32gb memory and a 2 TB fusion drive and I try to keep about 350-400 GB free space, but sometimes it isn't easy!The reason why I got an SSD is that I use Parallels for Mac and have three Windows VM's and a few Linux and over time with the fusion drive, I was losing performance from time to time. Seems that I have no issues or complaints until I install an update from Apple or an update from Parallels then it slows down again and I have to go and optimize and then it runs pretty fast for 3-4 days until another update! The intent of the SSD was to remove the fusion issues and just go solid SSD. If I bought a 2 TB drive, it would solve ONE problem but would not solve the needed space to give me more flexibility. I chose the 4 TB, even though it wasn't in my budget, to solve both problems at once and I am glad that I did and would recommend anyone to invest the money and move up to the extra space.This is really interesting for those who have a Mac but don't want to open up the computer to replace the drive.I bought a USB-C enclosure and made sure the cable has USB-C on both ends. USB will work fine, but why not go with USB-C and get better performance? I placed the SSD in the enclosure and after booting up the Mac and logging in, plugged the enclosure with the 4 TB SSD into a USB-C port. I formatted it (don't format as encrypted).I have been using Acronis True Image for a couple years now, so I didn't have to buy any software. I opened the app and chose to "Clone" and ensure that I chose the correct drives! Triple check so you don't lose your host drive. I started the process at 1:45 p.m. and by 7:30 p..m. same day cloning 1.6 TB of data, it was done.Next, I went to the disk utility to rename the cloned drive! Obviously since it is a clone, it will clone the name as well!!!! I put SSD as part of the name so I would be able to verify that I am actually booting from it. I was able to reboot and holding down the option key able to boot into my SSD.Important step - go to the "About This Mac" and verify the startup disk is the cloned one!Now that I had a faster system, I chose to do some more updates on the OS and clean up my Windows 10 VM's. At first, everything seemed a little slow. That was expected as your Mac is optimizing things, as well as the Windows VM.When we buy a drive with more space than we may feel we need, something good happens... we alleviate risks and remove bad habits! With Parallels for Mac, it is essential that you take snapshots and create backups. Parallels will do this automatically, but you do need to ensure that you have the room. I was able to go to the settings and now, I will be able to access a backup up to two months old, a week old, and every other day. I feel better! Of course, backup to external drive but I feel better one of the most important part of my system is now being backed up automatically.The first few hours, I noticed a little bit of speed but not much but I knew why. Before I did the SSD upgrade, I never gave a lot of the VM's room to breathe or do the necessary updates and I had a lot of bottlenecks. I would use one VM for awhile but not another so I feel that Fusion was trying to optimize my experience but because of the size of the VM's (400gb +), it just wasn't getting it.After about 8 hours of updating, uninstalling apps I don't need in each of the Windows VM and just working through it, I am finally able to see some very fast appreciable and consistent speeds on both the Mac and the VM's. Could I have optimized my Mac and Windows experience beforehand and would that have helped with performance? Yes, I do admit that I could've done that and seen some improvements. In fact, my original fusion drive is still inside the Mac, so I could go back to the fusion drive and do all the optimizations!I always trust Samsung for SSD and have used them in servers before without having any issues. I am more than pleased with the performance and performing my work is so much faster now.I may choose to have the drive installed as an internal drive. I am grateful that I am able to boot to the SSD as an external drive and still see a major performance boost. It's well worth it!Overall, very pleased. The 4 TB was a bit out of my price range, but I made it happen and thankful that I did. I would love (as anyone else would be) for SSD 4TB and 8TB prices to come down 50% below what they are now. I have 24 TB of data that I would really love to convert to SSD but not at $800-$1,000 for the 8TB one. Come on Samsung! Let's do it and save the environment!

For the capacity it's a great priced drive. I've been slowly switching my NAS over to these the past few years, so I've got probably 3 years on the oldest one. Like you'd expect from a solid state drive, they're quiet and work where a 2.5" drive would fit. I don't push the speed enough to speak to that, but I'm happy with them.

Has been serving me well for the past 3 years, no problems, very reliable!

I considered an external NAS or an a large SSD. In the end chose the large SSD because of the general simplicity of the entire setup. That means, pound for pound, in terms of storage, I'm getting a significant amount of storage for relatively low cost.SSDs are incredibly fast and this one is no different. It works perfectly for it's intended purpose, and I dont think lifespan is going to be an issue. The data going on this device is one and done. There will be few if any, writes or rewrites. Which leaves one serious concern and that is data integrity, but there is software that can help ensure that.Likewise heat isn't an issue. The computer this is in isn't a power house but it the SSD is far away from the primary heat source, the GPU and CPU.As for value, if you're buying an 8TB SSD and it's a Samsung money isn't an issue for you to begin with, so this isn't going to really factor in. The question is is this route over a NAS worth it compared to the price of the SSD and only time will tell.

Samsung is top-dog when it comes to SSD storage and this drive doesn't disappoint. I've been waiting quite a few years since first purchasing my first 512GB Samsung SSD drive for them to develop an SSD with a ton of storage and here it is. Data transfer speeds are as advertised - I believe I was able to get up to 460MBps write and nearly 553MBps read using Crystal Disk Mark testing which is awesome. I was able to remove three spinning hard drives that had a storage total of 12TB and replaced them with three of these SSD's for a total of 24TB of storage, nearly doubling the storage, lowering the power consumption required, and keeping my desktop cooler since these run at lower temperatures. Overall, I'm extremely impressed with these hard drives as I've been using the Samsung SSD's and M.2's for years and have yet to have even one failure. Using the Samsung Magician app, you can adjust the performance of each hard drive and even upgrade the hard drive's firmware when a new one is released. Absolutely love this product.