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Dec 16, 2015
A No-Brainer for Old Laptops
3 of 3 found this helpful This product is a no-brainer if you're looking to speed up your old laptop without spending what it would cost for a completely new one. I bought this SSD because it was highly recommended by several online reviewers. And although it sold for about $600 in some places, I found it for just $385 (selling for less now) and that was the tipping point for me. Combined with the right price and the technical specs, this was the right choice. After placing my order, it arrived within a week by USPS Priority mail in the OEM package. The SSD of course is small and it comes with a software installation disk that was easy to use. It clones your original hard drive that's in the laptop; all you need to buy is a SATA-to-USB cable (which you can get online for less than $25.00). I just followed the included instructions the whole process when without a hitch. My laptop hard drive was about 600GB with over 400GB in use, so it too about 10 hours to clone the drive to my new 1TB SSD. The physical install of the SSD into the laptop itself after the cloning process was just as simple (took only a few minutes), and after restarting the computer with the SSD installed, it was like night and day. WOW! Windows 10 booting went from about two minutes to less than 30 seconds and all my apps on the laptop seem to load instantly.
If your old laptop is slow and you're thinking of buying a new one, I'd recommend you try the Samsung 850 PRO SSD 1TB (or whatever size you can afford) first. You will truly be amazed at the performance improvement you get without spending hundreds of dollars more for a new computer. This drive does what the manufacturer says it will do. Buy it now!