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samsung evo 860

Forum discussion tagged with samsung evo 860.
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    Question 70MBS Write Speed SSD Shortly After Boot

    Hi, Ive been pulling my hair out for a few days trying to figure out what is causing the issue. My read and write speed is around 500mbs when i boot and then shortly after booting my write speed drops to 70MBS to 80MBS. I have since used Macrium reflect and moved windows to a brand new 870...
  2. yp_rathore

    [SOLVED] Are WD green and Samsung evo 860 compatible with same port?

    My system is Acer e5-575-59fd which I'm trying to upgrade and it supports wd green(m.2 sata 2280). I want to know will my machine support samsung evo 860 also if it supports wd green as the Acer customer support says they can't provide any specific info which one will work but a m.2 sata 6gb/s...
  3. aden.anderson2001

    [SOLVED] is my ssd in bad shape?

    i have a samsung evo 860 250gb ssd on my laptop and its installed to the place the disks are supposed to be inserted to, i meant the dvd drive. I benchmarked it using samsung magician and it returned the following results: View: https://imgur.com/EUggmzR this is without rapid mode on are...
  4. B

    [SOLVED] Is this SSD: Samsung 860 EVO, 1TB, 2.5", SATA III compatible with ASUS ROG GL553VE-FY026?

    Is this SSD: Samsung 860 EVO, 1TB, 2.5", SATA III compatible with ASUS ROG GL553VE-FY026? And can I replace my old HDD with this SSD (I mean to remove the old HDD and to put the SSD in the same slot)?
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    [SOLVED] M.2 SSD won't show up in BIOS (incompatible?)

    I have been trying to install a Samsung 860 EVO Sata M.2 2TB SSD to my ASRock B365M Pro4-F Motherboard. It is not showing up in the BIOS. Looking around the internet I found some things to try: "In BIOS, go to Advanced settings, then go to Onboard Devices Configuration. Look for the PCI...
  6. lowanon99

    [SOLVED] Weird things happening with my new SSD

    Hi all, I have just bought a Samsung 256GB 860 EVO as a new boot drive, by cloning my old HDD. Not going well :( At disk management it somehow showed as 2 seperate disk, with both around 230GB Try cloning the HDD at Samsung Data Migration and the 860 EVO is detected with a volume of zero Then...
  7. M

    [SOLVED] Chip IDs of Samsung 860 EVO mSATA 1TB ?

    Does anyone of you have the Samsung 860 EVO mSATA 1TB bought from Samsung more or less directly (rather than from eBay or dubious resellers)? If so, I'd be grateful to you if you could post the relevant parts of the S.M.A.R.T. information (e.g., parts output via smartctl) showing the chipset...
  8. Noxious1

    [SOLVED] 2 SSD's Or 1 SSD?

    So I originally had a 2tb SSHD (hibrid) hard-drive for everything personal and gaming, I have now replaced it with a 2tb SSD (evo 860) . Would you reccomend still having a 2nd hard-drive or just stick to the 2tb ssd?.. personally I'm not a fan of having 2 hard-drives I rather much have the 1...
  9. D

    Question 860 Evo + Mac: Won't Format Drive! Please Help!

    I'm am pulling my hair out at this point having major issues formatting SSDs on OSX (High Sierra 13.6), doesn't matter if it's AFPS or HFS+ I get multiple different errors every time. I finally get it to format, and the drives will fail and all the data copied over will be lost. I've tried...
  10. S

    Question Why isn't my m2 Samsung 860 EVO appearing in Windows or BIOS?

    I recently picked up a Dell Inspiron 5575 on the cheap and decided to install an SSD to give it a bit more pep. I thought I did my compatibility research and went with an m2 Samsung 860 EVO as my SSD. However, after seating it and being unable to find it in the BIOS or in Disk Management, I'm...