Likelihood to Recommend They are well suited in any area of computing storage needs that require speed, reliability, ease of management (with their Magician software), and good pricing is desired (i.e. day-to-day end-user desktop computer usage to HA, always-on SAN storage). Your end-users particularly will thank you for a Samsung SSD upgrade, especially if their machine is running off a hard drive, currently.
Read full review For use in both Windows and Mac OS, it was well suited by default. Other hardware doesn't really allow multi os file system access.
Read full review Pros Incredibly fast response times. Accessing files and opening large programs like Photoshop have never been faster. Samsung Magician software can be combined with your computers available RAM to increase the SSD performance. It's reliable. Most standard hard drives are prone to failure, partitioning problems, and increased lag times. Samsung SSD is not. Read full review Improved response time of complex, high-load systems. Optimized write speed Reliable and market leading brand SSD and high durability and less chance of failure. Read full review Cons The QVO models of their drives suffer performance loss. Now, that is just inherent to the use of QLC NAND, but they could offset this by adding more fast cache to those drives. I would love to see Samsung bring enterprise-style hot-swappable 2.5" PCIe drives to a more mainstream market. One of my biggest reasons for not going with NVMe drives in my latest production storage server was the cost-prohibitive nature of enterprise-grade hot-swappable NVMe drives. I have been sitting here for 15 minutes trying to think of a 3rd improvement I'd like to see Samsung make to their SSDs. I cannot think of anything realistic to add. It was hard enough to come up with the first two. They are just really good all-around. Read full review Work on the storage to cloud links Work on the ability to reduce duplications Find easier ways to backup files that already exists Read full review Support Rating Contacting support was not necessary so far.
Read full review No support issues what-so-ever with Western Digital SSD. This product is so easy to use and configure that there have been no issues that required support other than individual research (online). This product is very stable also, even if dropped, functionality has never been compromised. In 2-3 years of usage, not one major issue at all has been experienced
Read full review Alternatives Considered WIth a one vendor solution you are most likely getting Samsung SSD's (unless its intel or Kioxia or Micron), but from a performance and reliability standpoint we have seen very good results with Samsung ssd's.
Read full review The price is the best option, and a key differentiator, the support and the native application for desktop and for mobile take advantages to others brands or manufactures, this apps are periodically updated this is a plus because others brands only update their apps one per year or more time
Read full review Return on Investment As developers, we improve our productivity with less wasting time booting our notebooks, and also when we finish the compilation of our projects in less time. Overall Samsung's SSD disks offer a better user experience. Read full review It helps avoid maintaining 2 different hard disks for different os or performing migration always before formatting the file system type. It helped to reduce cost of maintenance and double hardware procurement. Read full review ScreenShots