Saturday, September 24, 2011

Samsung 830 SSD review: Fast and not so furious

Even if you get a good offer, solid-state drives still cost significantly more than normal hard disks of the same capacity, and drive, the price naturally one of the biggest factors to determine its value. For this reason, it is very difficult to know without the SSD, how much the cost of speed. However, that's what I have with the Samsung 830 have to do.
While the final product available to the press, very tight lipped about the Samsung is pricing the new SATA 6 Gbps-based SSD, and will not be revealed until the drive for sale in October. To date the company has said that the new drive with SSD prices promises similar to the other at the same rate and capacity in the market and that there are no "surprises" in the final price. So let's just sometimes assume that the drive is about $ 500 for the 256GB version with different capacities ranging from 64 GB to 512 GB will cost more or less very expensive.

Witch Samsung offers a variety of software tools for managing, tweaking, and even benchmarking SSDs.
(Credit: Dong Ngo / CNET)
Price aside, the 830-series offers a great power is made perfect in our testing, making it one of the fastest SSD on the market to become the standard. Starting in the tradition of the previous 470 series, 830 new drive is also very handsome, like a piece of jewelry, a big bonus if you want to get it to give as gifts.
Although the above design the next standard 2.5-inch, slim drive is just 7mm 9mm drive a standard in drive or other SSDs more. This means it will fit with ultraportable laptops, and requires a bit of padding with a standard laptop drive bay to work.
Samsung provides a spacer for this purpose in the upgrade kit laptop that is more cost $ 10 and includes a SATA to USB adapter is an external drive as a hard disk, a convenient solution for those who are in the laptop is to clone your hard drive to work on the new SSD. There is a $ 10 upgrade kit desktop additional SATA cable, screws and converter slots that contain it fits the drive into a desktop computer.
What Samsung free 830 bundle with the drive is a copy of Norton Ghost 15.0 backup and disk cloning software and Samsung witch who manages a number of practical tools that allow each user and to optimize SSDs from Samsung.
All in all, this new SSD offers a great value if the price is right. To learn more about them, read the full CNET review of the Samsung SSD 830.

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