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title: "Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW"
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# 97K IOPS ultra-fast random read 520 MB/s sequential write speed AES 256-bit hardware encryption Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW

**Brand:** samsung
**Price:** € 388.77
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Upgrade your PC to lightning speed and elite security—because your workflow deserves the best.

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW by samsung
- **How much does it cost?** € 388.77 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- samsung enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted samsung brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Rock-Solid Data Security:** Protect your sensitive files effortlessly with hardware-based AES 256-bit full-disk encryption—no performance trade-offs.
- • **Sleek, Ultra-Light Design:** At just 7mm thin and 2 ounces, this SSD fits seamlessly into ultraportables and desktops alike, combining style with durability.
- • **Blazing-Fast Boot & Load Times:** Experience up to 10X faster performance than traditional HDDs with Samsung’s TurboWrite and RAPID caching technology.
- • **Shock-Resistant & Whisper-Quiet:** No moving parts means silent operation and superior protection against shocks, dust, and corrosion—work smarter, stress less.
- • **Effortless Migration & Management:** Samsung’s intuitive Data Migration and Magician software make upgrading and optimizing your drive a breeze.

## Overview

The Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD is a high-performance internal solid state drive featuring a 2.5-inch SATA III interface, delivering up to 97,000 IOPS random read speeds and 520 MB/s sequential write speeds. Engineered with Samsung’s proprietary TurboWrite and RAPID caching technologies, it dramatically accelerates boot times and application loading. Its AES 256-bit hardware encryption ensures robust data security without slowing performance. The drive’s slim 7mm form factor and lightweight design make it ideal for both laptops and desktops. Included Samsung software simplifies data migration and drive management, making it a top-tier upgrade for professionals seeking reliability, speed, and security.

## Description

Product Description Upgrading your PC with a Samsung SSD is the most economical way to breathe new life into an aging PC. The 840 EVO reads, writes and multi-tasks at incredible speeds, enhancing boot-up speed, application loading and multi-tasking performance. It's more than an upgrade, it's a complete transformation of your PC. From the Manufacturer With upgrades to NAND, a new controller and firmware, the 840 EVO features the latest technology, while providing class leading responsiveness under everyday workloads, enhancing boot-up, application loading, and multi-tasking performance. Its 97K IOPS powers performance that is up to 10X faster than a regular HDD. And, Samsung's TurboWrite technology delivers dramatically faster sequential write performance. This 840 EVO has a storage capacity of 250 GB and comes with software for easy installation.TurboWrite technology delivers dramatically faster sequential write speeds, boosting overall PC performance.All components are designed and produced by Samsung.TurboWrite for Faster PerformanceSamsung TurboWrite technology uses an innovative write acceleration algorithm and a high-performance write buffer to dramatically boost the sequential write speeds for overall improved performance. RAPID Mode for Efficient Data CachingThe 840 EVO includes Samsung Magician software with RAPID mode--an innovative DRAM caching enhancement which boosts PC performance by using idle DRAM as an ultra-fast buffer that improves system performance over time as the drive optimizes to your tasks. Encryption Technology to Secure Your DataThe 840 EVO features Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) technology to encrypt your data and help keep your personal files secure. Because the technology is hardware-based, it eliminates performance degradation that can occur in software-based encryption. Sleek, Sophisticated DesignAt only 7 millimeters thick and weighing just 2 ounces, the 840 EVO Series SSD features a sleek, lightweight design. The stunning brushed aluminum design emphasizes luxury and refinement, but is durable enough to protect your data from loss due to shock, dust and corrosion. All of the components of the 840 EVO are designed and manufactured by Samsung to ensure optimal quality, performance, and lifespan. Included Software for Smooth InstallationThis 840 EVO includes Samsung Data Migration software, which makes it simple to migrate your data, applications, and operating system from your hard disk drive to the SSD. In addition, Samsung Magician gives you all the tools to monitor, manage, and maintain your new SSD. Easier-Than-Ever Upgrade ToolsSamsung's One-stop Installation Navigator provides a comprehensive guide for software installation, data migration, and hardware setup. The simple Samsung Data Migration software supports a powerful and unique "Custom Cloning" feature that simplifies the transition to your new SSD. What's in the BoxSamsung 840 EVO SSD, Samsung One-Stop Installation Navigator software, Samsung Data Migration software, and Samsung SSD Magician software.840 EVO Series 250 GB SSD (Single Unit Version)At a Glance:Optimized to improve everyday PC productivity, including web-browsing, email, multimedia, and gamingQuieter and more shock-resistant than a traditional HDDSamsung's TurboWrite write acceleration technology offers significantly faster write speedsUltra-fast data buffering with Samsung RAPID technologyAES 256-bit hardware-based encryption to protect files100 percent genuine Samsung memory componentsIncluded software helps you install the SSD and safely and simply migrate your dataView larger.Available in capacities up to 1 TB (see chart below). Samsung 840 EVO Series Solid State Drives Capacity 120 GB 250 GB 500 GB 750 GB 1 TB Model # MZ-7TE120BW MZ-7TE250BW MZ-7TE500BW MZ-7TE750BW MZ-7TE1T0BW Type of Drive Solid State Drive (SSD) Form Factor 2.5-inch (Reduced 7mm z-height for use with ultraportables and netbooks) For Use With Desktop and laptop PCs (including ultraportables and netbooks) Interface SATA III 6Gbits/s (backwards compatible with SATA II 3Gbits/s and SATA I 1.5Gbits/s) Random Read Speeds** 94K IOPS 97K IOPS 98K IOPS Sequential Read Speeds 540 MB/s Sequential Write Speeds 410 MB/s 520 MB/s 520 MB/s 520 MB/s 520 MB/s Controller 3-Core Samsung MEX Controller Type of NAND Flash 1xnm Samsung Toggle DDR 2.0 NAND Flash Memory (400 Mbps) Type of Cache 256 MB Samsung LPDDR2 512 MB Samsung LPDDR2 SDRAM 1 GB Samsung LPDDR2 SDRAM Dimensions 0.27 by 2.75 by 3.94 in. (H x W x D) ** 4K Random Read (QD32)

Review: VERY FAST, EASY install (UPDATED with iastor FREEZE/HANG FIX) - I got the 250GB Samsung EVO 840 for a client who wanted to upgrade their older computer's hard drive for better performance. Their old hard drive was a 250GB 7200 RPM WD Blue series drive which was over half empty. The older Dell Optiplex computer only has SATA II interfaces. The Optiplex uses caddies for the 3.5 inch drives. I got a SABRENT 3.5 to 2.5-Inch drive bay adapter which is supposed to work well with screwless caddies. The Optiplex caddy had to be modified to remove a piece of plastic to work with the adapter's centered placement of the 2.5 inch drive. FYI. Except for the above, installation was effortless. Closing the existing hard drive to the SSD using an Apricorn USB to IDE/PATA/SATA Drive Adapter was very easy. When we could boot the system we installed the Samsung utility and upgraded the firmware. Easy and no problems. The performance difference was stunning. The system booted in seconds and applications loaded almost as fast. The client was thrilled and felt it was like having a new computer at a fraction of the cost and hassle. I found the utility for the drive very useful as it could give an assessment of the drive life and helped with some performance tuning so we could get the most out of the drive. Nicely done giving the impression of a professional tool rather than an engineering afterthought. I'm giving the EVO 5 stars. It provides a great product in a great package with excellent supporting software. My only concern is one I have for all SSD drives and that is longevity. With Samsung utility addresses this issue well. Hope this helps someone! UPDATE: May 12, 2014 I recently purchased another EVO for installation in an older Dell laptop. It has only SATA II but got a great performance boost! However, some settings of the Intel SATA interface (iastor - aka Intel Matrix Storage) do not play nice with the Samsung (or a number of other SSD drives). I checked for newer drivers and the Intel driver upgrade tool said I had the latest. The symptoms are occasional hangs (maybe once or twice a day) for around a minute and log entries reporting: The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period. If you get these symptoms with your SSD and are comfortable with using the registry editor... WARNING: You can destroy your Windows installation editing the registry of your don't know what you are doing!!! That said... This issue can be addressed as follows in Windows 7: Go to the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\Parameters\Port0 Your port number may be different. In my laptop's Samsung EVO was connected to Port0. Next export the Port0 sub-hive (or whatever port number you are working with) to restore things in case of a mistake. Inside there you'll find 3 DWORD keys: LPM, LPMDSTATE and DIPM. All three default to a value of 1. Change all 3 to a value of 0. Then restart your computer. This worked for me and I hope this saves someone time if they run into this issue.
Review: Samsung worth the headache?....... You decide - I have been a loyal Samsung customer for years. I have dozens of their products and when I entered the market to buy a SSD for my computer I was pleased to be referred to them as one of the top names for SSD's. My headache began as soon as I started the drive and initialized the 'Data Migration' Software to copy my existing Hard Drive so that I would not have to reinstall OS and all my programs. ( I do not mind doing this, but prefer not to if I can help it ). Right after the drive cloning was complete and I had successfully restarted with what seemed like no problems I was thrilled with the boot speed ( roughly 3x faster than my old hard drive ) from powered off to loaded desktop in solid 20 seconds. Fantastic. Then I proceeded to launch a game and test out some load speeds. I started receiving blue screen windows crashes ( too this day I had NEVER had ONE on this computer) and could not pinpoint the cause. Since this was the only new piece of hardware in my machine I started with the drive. I was unable to confirm exactly what when wrong but within 3 days this drive had become the bane of my existence. Every program I would attempt to run would crash. Nothing could load on it and I started getting constant errors for any and everything under the sun. (I even got an error when I attempted to shutdown?!) finally the drive just stopped all together. I then began to get an error on my motherboard. After contacting EVGA customer support I was guided to reset my CMOS. Cleared my issue and then had to diagnose what the heck was up with this drive.This drive was inoperable after my reboot. Whatever the final straw was set this drive into what Samsung calls a 'frozen state'. This drive also came with another product called Samsung Magician which helps optimize to drive and customize certain settings but also allows the user to do a 'Secure Erase' on the drive to wipe it to factory defaults. Apparently for whatever reason you are not suppose to reformat the drive within any other program as it can wipe certain factory settings off the drive leaving you with a pricey paper weight. Since this drive was inoperable at this point I had to reformat and reinstall windows on my old hard drive and get to a working version of windows so I could fix my drive through Samsung Magician. --Skip ahead 3 hours -- (HEADACHE) Samsung Magician cannot secure erase the drive while it is in a frozen state. (figures!)There is a process it guides you through in order to 'unfreeze' the drive. While in windows the process did not succeed for me. The second option to unfreeze guides you to load a DOS program on a USB stick and restart the computer and boot from the USB stick. I changed all my options in my BIOS and for whatever reason this would not work. It was suppose to run the DOS program after exiting BIOS and would never work. (headache continuing). On to the third option of clearing frozen state! instead of USB stick you need a disk (CD or DVD) that is blank and burn the program onto. Thankfully my last option worked! but..... the DOS screen looked more like a garbled frozen screen of hieroglyphics. I had found a forum online that discussed how to reset it. It suggested that while at the garbled screen hit 'ESC' to pull up a DOS command line and enter SEGUI0.exe . well all that does is restart the program which is still garbled. after a call to Samsung's customer support they told me the issue is that with newer video cards the screen cannot display correctly unless you type SEGUI0.exe /s . IT WORKED. happy day. finally we are getting somewhere. The program that is running is just a DOS version of the secure erase function from windows. it runs before you computer has booted. you need to have the option in your BIOS turned on for 'hot plugging' whatever connection the drive is plugged in for the next step. it tells you exactly what to do and will guide you to PULL THE POWER CORD ON THE DRIVE WHILE THE COMPUTER STAYS ON. Then replug in the power connection after a few seconds. then restart the application with the previous command you entered. The drive FINALLY unfroze. I had to secure erase because there was no freaking way I was going to clone the drive again. (I am fairly certain the excessive amount of errors were coming from improper cloning of the system files for windows) Doing the old fashioned way with an OS disc install directly onto the drive. ---PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE I MADE HERE AS IT WILL COST YOU SEVERAL HOURS OF YOUR TIME TO FIX--- WHEN YOU GO TO INSTALL WINDOWS WITH THE OS DISK DISCONNECT ALL OTHER HARD DRIVES I did not do this and did get the drive working but after some testing realized that it was using the system reserved partition from my old hard drive to boot because windows did not make its own system reserved file on my new hard drive. And with several attempts I could not figure out how to clone the system partition over. Also when you are selecting the drive to install the new OS onto click on the drive and click the button at the bottom that says 'advanced options'. 3 or 4 more options should come up. CLICK NEW and it will tell you it has to secure part of the drive space for windows functions. It should create the partition right there in front of you that will read on the screen as 100mb in size. THIS IS THE SYSTEM RESERVED PARTITION YOU NEED TO BOOT THE DRIVE BY ITSELF. after you see that continue on installing the OS until you are all updated and have all your programs re downloaded. Then you can shut off your computer and reattach your other hard drives (if you have any). If you computer decides to start thinking for itself it may try to boot off of other drives, just goto BIOS and select the new drive the be the first in the BOOT priority. So after 2 re installs of windows and a lot of consideration for introducing my hammer to my SSD I did finally get a usable, NON ERROR forming drive that is fantastic. Perhaps some people did not have this much trouble but I certainly did. One note I would throw in. As of my current install I don't even run the Samsung Magician Software anymore. seemed to be more of a headache than anything else and my drive works fine without it after my old school OS install. All and all I am still happy with my purchase even with all the trouble shooting, in my opinion it shows the value and quality of this drive that It can recover from just about anything..... except maybe a smash from a hammer. I really doubt you should have any kind of compatibility issues but in case you specs are close to mine you may purchase without worries. My computer specs are: --Intel I5-2500K (Sandy) Processor --EVGA Z68 ATX DDR3 2133 Intel - LGA 1155 Motherboards 130-SB-E685-KR --EVGA GeForce GTX760 FTW with ACX Cooler 4GB GDDR5 256Bit Dual-Link DVI-I DVI-D HDMI DP SLI Ready 04G-P4-3768-KR --2x--Kingston Technology HyperX 8 GB (2x4 GB Modules) 1600 MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Kit (PC3 12800) 240-Pin SDRAM KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX --Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit (Full) --Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW --Western Digital 500GB and 1TB Blue HDD (7200rpm) SATA III --Pioneer Electronics USA 15x SATA Internal BD/DVD/CD Burner with 4 MB Buffer BDR-208DBK --Sony AD-7280S-0B 24x SATA Internal DVD+/-RW Drive (Black)

## Features

- Highest-quality components and engineering from the #1 memory manufacturer
- Worry-free data security with AES 256-bit full-disk encryption
- No moving parts means no hard drive spin ups, no noise and superior data protection
- An innovative lightweight design that allows you to work smarter and play longer.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00E3W1726 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,022 in Internal Solid State Drives |
| Brand | Samsung |
| Computer Memory Type | SDRAM |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (5,270) |
| Date First Available | August 12, 2013 |
| Department | hdd |
| Flash Memory Size | 250 GB |
| Hard Drive | 250 GB Solid State Drive |
| Hard Drive Interface | Solid State |
| Hardware Platform | PC; Mac; Linux |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 3.94 x 2.75 x 0.28 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.76 ounces |
| Item model number | MZ-7TE250BW |
| Manufacturer | Samsung Electronics |
| Product Dimensions | 3.94 x 2.75 x 0.28 inches |
| RAM | 250 GB |
| Series | 840 EVO |
| Standing screen display size | 2.5 Inches |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Samsung
- **Compatible Devices:** Desktop
- **Connectivity Technology:** SATA
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 250 GB
- **Hard Disk Description:** Solid State Drive
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 2.5 Inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** Solid State
- **Hard Disk Size:** 250 GB
- **Installation Type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special Feature:** Portable

## Images

![Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5137dfU4aYL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ VERY FAST, EASY install (UPDATED with iastor FREEZE/HANG FIX)
*by S***N on May 4, 2014*

I got the 250GB Samsung EVO 840 for a client who wanted to upgrade their older computer's hard drive for better performance. Their old hard drive was a 250GB 7200 RPM WD Blue series drive which was over half empty. The older Dell Optiplex computer only has SATA II interfaces. The Optiplex uses caddies for the 3.5 inch drives. I got a SABRENT 3.5 to 2.5-Inch drive bay adapter which is supposed to work well with screwless caddies. The Optiplex caddy had to be modified to remove a piece of plastic to work with the adapter's centered placement of the 2.5 inch drive. FYI. Except for the above, installation was effortless. Closing the existing hard drive to the SSD using an Apricorn USB to IDE/PATA/SATA Drive Adapter was very easy. When we could boot the system we installed the Samsung utility and upgraded the firmware. Easy and no problems. The performance difference was stunning. The system booted in seconds and applications loaded almost as fast. The client was thrilled and felt it was like having a new computer at a fraction of the cost and hassle. I found the utility for the drive very useful as it could give an assessment of the drive life and helped with some performance tuning so we could get the most out of the drive. Nicely done giving the impression of a professional tool rather than an engineering afterthought. I'm giving the EVO 5 stars. It provides a great product in a great package with excellent supporting software. My only concern is one I have for all SSD drives and that is longevity. With Samsung utility addresses this issue well. Hope this helps someone! UPDATE: May 12, 2014 I recently purchased another EVO for installation in an older Dell laptop. It has only SATA II but got a great performance boost! However, some settings of the Intel SATA interface (iastor - aka Intel Matrix Storage) do not play nice with the Samsung (or a number of other SSD drives). I checked for newer drivers and the Intel driver upgrade tool said I had the latest. The symptoms are occasional hangs (maybe once or twice a day) for around a minute and log entries reporting: The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period. If you get these symptoms with your SSD and are comfortable with using the registry editor... WARNING: You can destroy your Windows installation editing the registry of your don't know what you are doing!!! That said... This issue can be addressed as follows in Windows 7: Go to the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\iaStor\Parameters\Port0 Your port number may be different. In my laptop's Samsung EVO was connected to Port0. Next export the Port0 sub-hive (or whatever port number you are working with) to restore things in case of a mistake. Inside there you'll find 3 DWORD keys: LPM, LPMDSTATE and DIPM. All three default to a value of 1. Change all 3 to a value of 0. Then restart your computer. This worked for me and I hope this saves someone time if they run into this issue.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Samsung worth the headache?....... You decide
*by N***D on December 14, 2013*

I have been a loyal Samsung customer for years. I have dozens of their products and when I entered the market to buy a SSD for my computer I was pleased to be referred to them as one of the top names for SSD's. My headache began as soon as I started the drive and initialized the 'Data Migration' Software to copy my existing Hard Drive so that I would not have to reinstall OS and all my programs. ( I do not mind doing this, but prefer not to if I can help it ). Right after the drive cloning was complete and I had successfully restarted with what seemed like no problems I was thrilled with the boot speed ( roughly 3x faster than my old hard drive ) from powered off to loaded desktop in solid 20 seconds. Fantastic. Then I proceeded to launch a game and test out some load speeds. I started receiving blue screen windows crashes ( too this day I had NEVER had ONE on this computer) and could not pinpoint the cause. Since this was the only new piece of hardware in my machine I started with the drive. I was unable to confirm exactly what when wrong but within 3 days this drive had become the bane of my existence. Every program I would attempt to run would crash. Nothing could load on it and I started getting constant errors for any and everything under the sun. (I even got an error when I attempted to shutdown?!) finally the drive just stopped all together. I then began to get an error on my motherboard. After contacting EVGA customer support I was guided to reset my CMOS. Cleared my issue and then had to diagnose what the heck was up with this drive.This drive was inoperable after my reboot. Whatever the final straw was set this drive into what Samsung calls a 'frozen state'. This drive also came with another product called Samsung Magician which helps optimize to drive and customize certain settings but also allows the user to do a 'Secure Erase' on the drive to wipe it to factory defaults. Apparently for whatever reason you are not suppose to reformat the drive within any other program as it can wipe certain factory settings off the drive leaving you with a pricey paper weight. Since this drive was inoperable at this point I had to reformat and reinstall windows on my old hard drive and get to a working version of windows so I could fix my drive through Samsung Magician. --Skip ahead 3 hours -- (HEADACHE) Samsung Magician cannot secure erase the drive while it is in a frozen state. (figures!)There is a process it guides you through in order to 'unfreeze' the drive. While in windows the process did not succeed for me. The second option to unfreeze guides you to load a DOS program on a USB stick and restart the computer and boot from the USB stick. I changed all my options in my BIOS and for whatever reason this would not work. It was suppose to run the DOS program after exiting BIOS and would never work. (headache continuing). On to the third option of clearing frozen state! instead of USB stick you need a disk (CD or DVD) that is blank and burn the program onto. Thankfully my last option worked! but..... the DOS screen looked more like a garbled frozen screen of hieroglyphics. I had found a forum online that discussed how to reset it. It suggested that while at the garbled screen hit 'ESC' to pull up a DOS command line and enter SEGUI0.exe . well all that does is restart the program which is still garbled. after a call to Samsung's customer support they told me the issue is that with newer video cards the screen cannot display correctly unless you type SEGUI0.exe /s . IT WORKED. happy day. finally we are getting somewhere. The program that is running is just a DOS version of the secure erase function from windows. it runs before you computer has booted. you need to have the option in your BIOS turned on for 'hot plugging' whatever connection the drive is plugged in for the next step. it tells you exactly what to do and will guide you to PULL THE POWER CORD ON THE DRIVE WHILE THE COMPUTER STAYS ON. Then replug in the power connection after a few seconds. then restart the application with the previous command you entered. The drive FINALLY unfroze. I had to secure erase because there was no freaking way I was going to clone the drive again. (I am fairly certain the excessive amount of errors were coming from improper cloning of the system files for windows) Doing the old fashioned way with an OS disc install directly onto the drive. ---PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE I MADE HERE AS IT WILL COST YOU SEVERAL HOURS OF YOUR TIME TO FIX--- WHEN YOU GO TO INSTALL WINDOWS WITH THE OS DISK DISCONNECT ALL OTHER HARD DRIVES I did not do this and did get the drive working but after some testing realized that it was using the system reserved partition from my old hard drive to boot because windows did not make its own system reserved file on my new hard drive. And with several attempts I could not figure out how to clone the system partition over. Also when you are selecting the drive to install the new OS onto click on the drive and click the button at the bottom that says 'advanced options'. 3 or 4 more options should come up. CLICK NEW and it will tell you it has to secure part of the drive space for windows functions. It should create the partition right there in front of you that will read on the screen as 100mb in size. THIS IS THE SYSTEM RESERVED PARTITION YOU NEED TO BOOT THE DRIVE BY ITSELF. after you see that continue on installing the OS until you are all updated and have all your programs re downloaded. Then you can shut off your computer and reattach your other hard drives (if you have any). If you computer decides to start thinking for itself it may try to boot off of other drives, just goto BIOS and select the new drive the be the first in the BOOT priority. So after 2 re installs of windows and a lot of consideration for introducing my hammer to my SSD I did finally get a usable, NON ERROR forming drive that is fantastic. Perhaps some people did not have this much trouble but I certainly did. One note I would throw in. As of my current install I don't even run the Samsung Magician Software anymore. seemed to be more of a headache than anything else and my drive works fine without it after my old school OS install. All and all I am still happy with my purchase even with all the trouble shooting, in my opinion it shows the value and quality of this drive that It can recover from just about anything..... except maybe a smash from a hammer. I really doubt you should have any kind of compatibility issues but in case you specs are close to mine you may purchase without worries. My computer specs are: --Intel I5-2500K (Sandy) Processor --EVGA Z68 ATX DDR3 2133 Intel - LGA 1155 Motherboards 130-SB-E685-KR --EVGA GeForce GTX760 FTW with ACX Cooler 4GB GDDR5 256Bit Dual-Link DVI-I DVI-D HDMI DP SLI Ready 04G-P4-3768-KR --2x--Kingston Technology HyperX 8 GB (2x4 GB Modules) 1600 MHz DDR3 Dual Channel Kit (PC3 12800) 240-Pin SDRAM KHX1600C9D3K2/8GX --Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit (Full) --Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW --Western Digital 500GB and 1TB Blue HDD (7200rpm) SATA III --Pioneer Electronics USA 15x SATA Internal BD/DVD/CD Burner with 4 MB Buffer BDR-208DBK --Sony AD-7280S-0B 24x SATA Internal DVD+/-RW Drive (Black)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by V***L on November 3, 2014*

The disk is obviously a direct fir and post installation the laptop is giving pretty good response and boot up time is very less as compared to my old disk. There are many software products to clone your old disk into this new disk to use, but i personally recommend starting from scratch and installing fresh operating system directly to the new disk using your windows recovery disk or linux cd. You can use a caddy and use the old hard disk as an external hard disk or swap temporarily in case you forgot something in your old installation. Hope this helps others in choosing this product. Highly recommended as its much cheaper than the pro version but quite reliable for home use.

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