Agent Orange
Veteran Member
I decided to upgrade my main/gaming machine storage this last week. I spent considerable time sorting out the what's what among the affordable SSD offerings. My idea was to move one my WD Velocirapter's down a notch to hold all of the videos, documents, pictures, emails, etc., and thereby freeing up the SSD to handle the boot duties and gaming. I decided on the Samsung 840EVO 250 GB SSD. All of the usual retail outlets had some sort of a deal ranging from about $156 to $178 - some included shipping others did not. I found a Canadian site, NCIX.COM, which is now has a warehouse in the US. They too wanted $156 but I stumbled onto one of those price search sites and got redirected back into NCIX.COM, where it was then offered for $144, shipping included. So I jumped on that one and it arrived UPS Friday afternoon.
The drive comes with an installation CD but no drive bay adapter (had one). The software is straight forward and consists of 2 parts; Samsung Magician and Samsung Migration. The SSD needs to be installed/cloned through a SATA port, as I found that when I tried to clone it though a USB it failed to include the boot tracks (everything else was there however). The Magician portion lets you customize just about every setting for the SSD. Upon installing the SSD as the 'C' drive, I then proceeded to move the WIN 8.1 libraries, email, and non-essential programs on down to the original WD Velociraptor. For now I like it - no heat, no noise. I'll see how it goes 3 or 4 months down the line.
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The drive comes with an installation CD but no drive bay adapter (had one). The software is straight forward and consists of 2 parts; Samsung Magician and Samsung Migration. The SSD needs to be installed/cloned through a SATA port, as I found that when I tried to clone it though a USB it failed to include the boot tracks (everything else was there however). The Magician portion lets you customize just about every setting for the SSD. Upon installing the SSD as the 'C' drive, I then proceeded to move the WIN 8.1 libraries, email, and non-essential programs on down to the original WD Velociraptor. For now I like it - no heat, no noise. I'll see how it goes 3 or 4 months down the line.
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