Samsung 830 512 GB 2.5 SATA III SSD Drive

28 reviews

May, 2013

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We have collected and analyzed 6 expert reviews and 22 user reviews from international sources. Experts rate this product 87/100 and users rate it 94/100. The average review date is Jun 5, 2012. We have compared these reviews to 28822 reviews from other Solid-State Drives. The alaScore™ for this product is 92/100 = Excellent. Last update: May 18, 2013.

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(Based on 28 reviews)

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Expert review by: Dong Ngo (cnet.com)

Samsung 830 (256GB, SSD, Notebook Kit)

It's really hard to rate a solid-state drive (SSD) without knowing its exact pricing, and that's just what we had to do with the Samsung 830 series. Samsung has been very tight-lipped about how much the 830 costs and will not reveal that until the...

The 2.5-inch SATA 3 (6Gbps)-based Samsung 830 series solid-state drive offers great performance, is well-built and good-looking. The drive comes with helpful desktop software for Windows.

Due to the thin profile, the Samsung 830 series requires padding or a laptop kit, which costs extra, to fit in most existing laptop computers.

If the price is right, you don't need to look any further than the Samsung 830 series to upgrade your computer's internal storage to the best possible performance.

Sep, 2011

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Expert review by: brandon (circuitremix.com)

Samsung 830 256GB Solid State Drive

Over the past year, the SSD product landscape has changed drastically. Performance has gone up, prices have dropped, and new competitors have emerged in the market place. One company that has been around through this and more is Samsung. While it's not...

Oct, 2012

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GOLDEN AWARD

Expert review by: Henry Butt (hardwaresecrets.com)

Samsung 830 Series 256 GB SSD Review

We take a look at Samsung's latest 256 GB performance solid state drive. Let's see how it fares when we put it up against the competition.

Sep, 2012

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Expert review by: Jon Coulter (rwlabs.com)

Samsung 830 256GB SSD Review

The Samsung 830 is the one of the only completely proprietary SSD's on the market. Samsung manufactures their own in house controller and of course their own NAND. The 830 contains Samsung's own 3 Core MCX Controller (S4LJ204X01) and Samsung's own 20nm...

Jul, 2012

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Consumer review by: n8dogg2121 (cnet.com)

"Absolute awesomeness"

This is the absolute best $260 I've spent on a tech product for a laptop (or desktop for that matter)ever. This is a no brainer. 256GB is plenty for an operating system and games and even adobe products to do image and video editing on... I would have...

-Super fast at everything

I have had none yet at all

Apr, 2012

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Consumer review by: KRUNNCH (newegg.com)

Impressed..

I'm quite impressed with this SSD drive. I previously bought a Crucial 128GB SSD that was a huge PIA. It crashed a lot, lots of blue screens, and getting a Windows 7 install was impossible. This drive - no problems since buying it back in November. I'm...

It wasn't free? It isn't larger? All things I knew before I bought it

Mar, 2013