Samsung 860 QVO 2TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76Q2T0B/AM), Gray
May 2, 2019 - Comment
Samsung 860 QVO 2TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76Q2T0B/AM), Gray Step up to ssd-level performance. The 860 qvo gives you huge, terabyte storage and the incredible speed and reliability of an SSD. Product Features Latest 4-Bit MLC technology delivers fast read/write speeds of 550/520 MB/s Terabyte-level capacity eliminates the need for multiple storage
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Perfect 1TB drive… I’ve never had a 1TB ssd, although I’ve had 256gb and 512gb drives all of different makers, but I figured if I was going up to 1T I’d go Samsung.I cloned my 512gb Mushkin to the Samsung drive w/o a problem using Acronos True Image 2019 instead of the Samsung Magician software that you can download.Put the Samsung in as the boot drive to see if it would boot and the PC booted right up…I booted the drive several times to see if there were any problems but there were none.I then erased the 512gb drive and will use it as my second drive putting Linux 19.1 Mint on it giving me a dual boot system.I’m very, very pleased.
A troublesome installation. Hope to see good performance going forward. Since this SSD includes absolutely no installation instructions, outside of the most unhelpful diagram ever, if you just want an extra drive to run certain stuff more quickly one, rather than migrating data. Thankfully, I am a software engineer… which meant I had no idea what to do. So I contacted support. It’s 3 am, I didn’t expect much. Restarted a couple times. Tried rewiring the sata cables (which it didn’t come with, by the way…kinda inconvenient). Nothing.So, finally, about to give up I right clicked on “This PC” in File Explorer, hoping to find something of note. I found Manage. Navigated to Disk Management, and waited for a moment. Finally, it was shown that the new SSD was not formatted. Like literally at all. So I just did that, and now it shows up in file explorer. yay.After a few tests, it says that it’s downloading and moving files at around 1 MB/s, where the other components are now bottlenecking it. So…all in all…looks good for a hard…