Samsung 830 Series 512GB

296 reviews

Nov, 2024

General overview
Price comparison

alaTest has collected and analyzed 296 reviews of Samsung 830 Series 512GB. The average rating for this product is 4.7/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews.

We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Samsung 830 Series 512GB is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 90/100 = Excellent quality.

Review analysis

(Based on 296 reviews)

Expert Reviews

User Reviews

Disclaimer:

Below is a list of reviews for this or similar products. If you think this grouping is wrong please click here to flag.
Read more on our FAQ’s page.

Showing 1 - 291 of 296 Show Reviews: in English

Consumer review (amazon.com)

Amazon.com review summary for Samsung 830 Series 512GB

alaTest has collected and analyzed 281 user reviews of Samsung 830 Series 512GB from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.7/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com.

96% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Nov, 2024

Expert review by : Andrew Harrison (techadvisor.co.uk)

Samsung 830 Series 512GB review

The Samsung 830 Series includes four capacity options – 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and 512GB. We previously reviewed the Samsung 830 256GB model, and found it to be a very capable drive that could stand among the fastest products available.

Samsung’s 830 Series 512GB SSD is an exemplary solid-state drive, able to boast very decent sequential reading and writing speeds. Its controller seems to be tuned to favour reads over write speeds in small file juggling, but overall all-round...

Sep, 2012

Read the full review

Expert review by : Allan 'Zardon' Campbell (kitguru.net)

Samsung 830 Series 512GB SSD Review

2011 has certainly been the 'Year Of The Solid State Drive', with many manufacturers vying for sales 2011 has certainly been the ‘Year Of The Solid State Drive', with many manufacturers vying for sales in various, competitive sectors. Today we are...

Controller is very good.

It is slower than the leading Sandforce 2281 drives.

Kitguru says: A great drive from Samsung and well worth shortlisting.

Dec, 2011

Read the full review

Consumer review (newegg.com)

So Far So Good

I still feel some buyers remorse based on the price of this drive and I think I could've held off another year for another price drop, now that I own it, and stopped drooling over how great it would be to have extra speed. For some reason I thought it...

No issues so far ; It's been running fast ; My boot time went from 1:30 to 50 seconds ; I only have SATA2, so I'm not getting max speeds ; I did not actually need the notebook mounting bracket for my unibody macbook pro to make it 2.5" it will mount...

None so far. Drive works fine and is fast

Jan, 2012

Read the full review

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Works on 2011 Macbook Pro

Have not used Trim Enabler, going to stick it out with the built in garbage collection see how that does.

Works on my 17" MacBook Pro 8,3 2011 ; Picked up the drive on Friday evening using Will Call ; Drive is fast on my Mac. On BlackMagicDesign's HD benchmark I scored 397 writes, and 476 reads. Can't complain for now

Price. Look for sales, I didn't so it pains me to see this on sale, like today ; Flashing this drive to firmware CXM02B1Q was a pain. The included Magician Software tool didn't recognize CXM02B1Q, since it was pulled from autoupdate. But they still had...

Jan, 2012

Read the full review

Consumer review (newegg.com)

none have died yet

great drive from the 128 gb up to the 512gb have not tried the 64gb but im shure its good

fast have some computers booting win 7 and then loading IE in under 12 sec ; all programs load once clicked on waiting ; Bought 5 of this for my job and non-have died and 7 of the 256 gb model none have died yet

none

Jan, 2012

Read the full review

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Great drive

SSD is probably one of the best upgrades you can make to your PC, notably your laptop. The speed difference between a SSD and a disk drive is beyond what you can imagine without trying it. Cold boot in Windows 7 in less than 20 seconds, super fast read...

Capacity ; Speed ; Build quality ; Included software and cables

Price ; It's fast, but can't really tell the difference between this and my 2 year old SSD

Dec, 2011

Read the full review

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Super Fast

I have 4 of these with Asus Crosshair V and RAID 0. This's very fast on Windows 7 x64. I get 7.9 on WEI. Never look back RatorVelocity or any HDD ; Price is ok for now, but I want to get cheaper

Very good drive SSD

Dec, 2011

Read the full review

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Seriously?

The page lists five reviews, but there are only four, three of which come from the same person and are, for the most part, incoherent ramblings. Either take the time to post something useful that people with some sort of education can read and...

High capacity, very fast, great reputation for Samsung SSDs

Expensive

Dec, 2011

Read the full review

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Super fast and reliable

Super on everything and No BSOD no matter what I do to it, im a samsung ssd man now ,sandforce what? Please do a fresh win install with the ssd to be safe ,copy all your pics,docs,music manualy on a external drive , I wouldnt use norton ghost. Samsung...

Fast ; Reliable ; Stable ; Easy software ; Looks great ; Small and lightweight ; Came with lastest firmware

none besides price but you get what you pay for

Dec, 2011

Read the full review

Consumer review (newegg.com)

Raid 0 possible?

Any help of course from Asus support would be helpful if i can get one who can answer questions without a script.

512GB SATA III under a grand

I bought two, one here and other else where. I not sure if raid 0 possible on SATA III on rampage III extreme X58, alot of conflicting info. I would have bought the Revo 480GB due to about same cost but I have two 580"s and the pci 4x is covered(as...

Nov, 2011

Read the full review