Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC

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alaTest has collected and analyzed 6224 reviews of Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC. The average rating for this product is 4.7/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. Reviewers really like the design and size. The price and reliability also get good opinions.

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Consumer review (amazon.co.uk)

Amazon.co.uk review summary for Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC

alaTest has collected and analyzed 711 user reviews of Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 4.7/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.co.uk. People really like the design and size. The reliability and price are also mentioned favorably.

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97% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2024

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Amazon.com review summary for Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC

alaTest has collected and analyzed 764 user reviews of Samsung 830 Series MZ-7PC from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.7/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. Reviews about the design and size are on the whole positive. The price and reliability are also mentioned favorably.

usability, reliability, price, size, design

95% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Apr, 2024

Expert review by : Matthew Murray (pcmag.com)

Samsung SSD 830 Series (256GB)

The 256GB drive in Samsung's SSD 830 series performer delivers terrific read and write speeds almost across the board.

Excellent overall performance. Includes Norton Ghost software, Batman: Arkham City download.

Performance during intensive applications not the fastest available.

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Jan, 2012

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Expert review by : Dong Ngo (cnet.com)

Samsung 830 SSD review: Samsung 830 SSD

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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Samsung SSD 830 Series (128GB)

This 2.5-inch-form-factor drive (which measures only 7mm in height—short for an SSD) is all Samsung, all the time, from its stylish black frame to its three-core controller to the DRAM to the 20nm MLC toggle DDR NAND flash memory itself. Samsung even...

Outstanding overall speed in most situations. Uses SATA III interface

Expensive. Random, write performance sometimes shaky

Samsung comes into its own with its 830 Series of SSDs, which offer some of the fastest speeds you can currently find on the market.

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Expert review by : Anand Lal Shimpi (anandtech.com)

The Samsung SSD 830 Review

Samsung is a dangerous competitor in the SSD space. Not only does it make its own controller, DRAM and NAND, but it also has an incredible track record in terms of reliability. Samsung SSDs were among the first I reviewed and while they weren't...

Sep, 2011

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Expert review by : Nathan Edwards (maximumpc.com)

Samsung 830 Series SSD Review

Samsung is kind of a big deal. In addition to manufacturing everything from tablets to televisions to turbines, the Korean giant is one of the world's largest producers of DRAM and NAND flash memory, and it has long provided SSDs to OEMs and systems...

Blazing fast, especially in sustained writes; sleek and attractive; comes with a full copy of Norton Ghost

Can't match SandForce for 4k random IOPS

And boy, does it cook. The 256GB Series 830 SSD we tested matched the fastest second-gen SandForce drives, such as OCZ’s Vertex 3, in nearly every benchmark, and it exceeded them in some. The 830 Series’ sustained read speeds stayed north of 500MB/s,...

Dec, 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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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 : Allyn Malventano (pcper.com)

Samsung 830 Capacity Range Roundup - Samsung Takes a Serious Turn on Performance

Samsung has been in the SSD business for a good long while now. My first "serious" SSD setup consisted of a pair of 32GB G.Skill 'FlashSSD's in a RAID. A few months later I upgraded to an Intel X25-M, starting working for PCPer, and have since seen a...

Mar, 2012

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Expert review by : Andrew Ku (tomshardware.com)

Samsung Goes 6 Gb/s: Is The 830-Series SSD King Of The Hill?

Samsung's 830 is a late entry to the 6 Gb/s SSD market, but the company claims impressive performance. Can it unseat the incumbent ...

Samsung is withholding pricing information for the full product line, but prices should be similar to the 470-series, which the 830 is expected to replace

Sep, 2011

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Expert review by : Marco Chiappetta (hothardware.com)

Samsung SSD 830 Series Preview

It was back in December of last year that we took a look at the Samsung SSD 470 Series solid state drive. Unlike the vast majority of other SSDs on the market at the time that used third-party controllers from SandForce or Indilinx (among others), the...

Strong Performance ; Slim Profile ; 2xnm DDR Toggle NAND ; SATA III Interface

Not Available Yet ; Pricing Uncertain At The Moment

Performance Summary: The Samsung SSD 830 Series solid state drive offered top end performance throughout all of our testing. Overall, drives based on SandForce's SF-2200 series controllers (when paired to synchronous NAND flash memory), like the OCZ...

Sep, 2011

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