Product Details
- Color: silver
- Brand: Samsung
- Model: MZ-5PA256/US
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 2.75" h x
3.94" w x
.37" l,
Features
- Spend more time doing and less time waiting. Samsung Solid State Drives access data a lot faster than standard hard drives. This means less time for a computer to boot up or programs to launch.
- Samsung?s Solid State Drive design has a look to match its performance. The sturdy brushed metal hard shell case protects from shock, dust and corrosion.
- A Samsung SSD drive has no moving parts so it uses two-thirds less power than a typical hard drive. This adds an average of 30 minutes to a laptop?s battery or decreases the amount of electricity needed to run a hard drive on a desktop computer.
Product Description
Samsung Solid State Drives leap over the performance of traditional hard drives with its stylish enclosure, reliability, durability and energy efficiency. With Samsung focused on every technological detail, the NAND flash, controller and DRAM are made to work together-streamlining performance and resulting in lightning fast read/writes for even the most demanding users.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By Steven
I have several SSD's that I've used over the years. From an Intel 32GB E-Extreme SLC, Intel 80GB G2, Patriot 64GB, Corsair F-120GB, with my latest one being the Samsung 256GB model. I can honestly say that I cannot tell a difference between the Samsung and my Intels. I have never experienced one hiccup with this drive, boot times are very respectable. The biggest downside of this drive is the procedure that you must use to update the firmware. Why Samsung chose this type of upgrading is beyond me. On my Intel's I simply create a disc from the file, slap it in my drive bay and boot. The F/W updates in seconds and you do not lose your OS. So simple, so easy. I guess it's just one of the little things that helps add to the price of the Intels.I honestly feel that you can't go wrong with any type of SSD these days. 2 or 3 years ago I would not be stating that. BTW, the Corsair SSD has been the worst of my SSD's and nothing can even come close to the boot start up times with my Patriot. It has the worst performance specs of them all, go figure!
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
By Marconiex
A definite must have for gaming. These SS Drives are super fast. No more HDD drives for me. I'll only use HDD drives for storage till the prices really come down on the SS Drives.This is my second one with zero problems so far. Can't wait till I can purchase a 3 TB SS drive for around $300.Solid State Drive (SSD) Pro's and BenefitsSolid state drives have no spin up time, meaning they are instantly ready to read or write to the drive, while HDD's may need up to around 2 seconds before they can actually access the drive. Solid state drives are also able to both read and write files at about twice the speeds of hard disk drives. This means your computer will boot faster and video games and other programs will load quicker! SSD's also do not need to be defragmented, in contrast a fragmented HDD will greatly reduce read/write times of the hard disk drives and slow your computer down. SSD's are also much less likely to break if you drop them or if they sustain an impact, because they have no moving parts. Strong magnetic fields can corrupt an HDD, while the SSD's are unaffected by magnets. Solid state drives also consume much less power and produce much less heat than hard disk drives do (2W SDD vs 7W HDD power consumption).Solid State Drive (SSD) ConsThe only two current cons to having a solid state drive is if you need to encrypt data or you don't want to fork out the extra cash to buy one. Currently the most popular SSD are based on MLC NAND flash memory and this type of memory cannot overwrite files and can only write information to empty blocks or previously erased blocks. This means that if you have a file on your computer and you use a program to encrypt it, the old data is not overwritten and can still be accessed. Thus you would need to encrypt the file, and then securely erase the old data, preferably with a secure erase feature built into the SSD. If you need to encrypt data I highly recommend buying a SSD that has a "Secure Erase" feature built into the drive or look into Truecrypt creating an entire encrypted partition of the drive and Windows installation. Solid state drives are currently much more expensive than HDD's. Currently a SSD costs about $1.80 USD per gigabyte, while a HDD costs about $0.11 USD per gigabyte (As of 3/17/2011).Solid State Drive (SSD) LifespanSSD also has a limited life span due to the limited number of write cycles. However, today's current MLC SSD's have an Mean time between failures (MTBF) of 2,000,000 hours, which simply put means that your SSD will typically last for 228 years! They technically have a limited amount of writes they can perform too, but they are able to sustain about 40 years of constant, non-stop, writing before they would start failing. Hopefully that puts the myth that SSD's will not last very long to rest, unless you need to have your SSD last you for over 228 years...
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
By MK
I installed Samsung SSD 256G on my 2010 MacBook Pro.Most of all, the duration to boot the OS X and Windows 7 reduced significantly.It is super silent and generates much less heat.Definately worth its price!!
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