Testseek.co.uk have collected 144 expert reviews of the Samsung 2.5 inch 830 Evo Series SATA600 and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung 2.5 inch 830 Evo Series SATA600.
November 2011
(85%)
144 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(84%)
74 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Premium Samsung components
ARM9 triple core CPU
Consistently strong performance
Attractive bundle
Outstanding performance
Reliability emphasised
Great incompressible writes
Sleek design
Huge capacity (for a SSD) matched by extremely fast performance. Good bundled software in the form of Norton’s Ghost 15
Fast boot times
Very good performance
Bundled SATA USB interface
Controller is very good
Fantastic read performance
Bundle is loaded
The editors didn't like
Still expensive compared with a standard disk at a similar capacity
Down on performance vs competitors
Still not as fast as the fastest Sandforce drives. Cost per gigabyte is very high
Bundled software Windows only
It is slower than the leading Sandforce 2281 drives
64GB and 128GB models won't be as fast as this
Kitguru says
A great drive from Samsung and well worth shortlisting
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Published: 2012-12-12, Author: Mike , review by: alphr.com
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