Samsung Laptop Pro And Cons

This is now the third Samsung 850 PRO SSD that I have purchased. First my laptop (7 year old MacBook Pro) now flies. Then the 3 year old Mac Mini boots in 40 seconds! I am now transferring the hard drive contents from my wife's 5 year old iMac and I expect fantastic results. Given the 10 year warrantee from Samsung I may never have to buy another! I have gotten transfer rates approaching 7 GB / Minute! JR

I am using it with a Samsung 980 PRO 2TB inside and so far no problems. I have not tested its speed yet. I bought it because I did not want, and don't want yet, to install the M.2 SSD inside my laptop - which has room for a 2nd SSD, since the laptop is brand new.

I bought my first Samsung Pro SSD around eight years ago, I think it was a 256GB. Then another for my other laptop. Then a 1TB and now a 2TB. Obviously very happy with all, I just keep needing more storage space and fortunately, Samsung keeps making larger SSDs.

Every SSD I add to anything is always from Samsung. From my laptop to my PS4 Pro it has never disappointed and now that I added one to my PS5 it continues to impress by far exceeding their minimum specs for SSD's and will continue to be my goto brand in the future.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This laptop is lighter than my Samsung tablet pro, but has more power and features...great buy for my wife.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Finally got my hands on the Samsung 990 Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe and I am super impressed! I have always been a huge fan of Samsung SSDs and use them almost exclusively in all my computers/laptops. So the first order of business was popping it in my external enclosure and getting an idea of the speed and testing it out, I loved what I saw so much I immediately cloned my main SSD in my new PCIe 4.0 capable laptop and swapped those drives out! As with any M.2 drive the install was super easy and is usually just popping it into the slot and screwing it down. As for setup, I used a cloner to clone the OS and main drive to the 990 Pro. The laptop was already fast before the Samsung 990 Pro but it's smoking fast now, probably the fastest laptop I have had to date! The Samsung 990 Pro specs out as follows from the manufacturer: Up to 1400K/1550K IOPS Sequential read/write speeds up to 7450/6900 MB/s (near the max performance of PCIe 4.0) So what did I see so far? Well boot time is superb at ~10 seconds from power on to fingerprint and maybe 2 seconds from fingerprint to usable desktop! CrystalDiskMark testing comes in as follows: Sequential read/write speeds - 6963/4175 MB/s Random read/write speeds - 3260/2304 MB/s 796K/562K IOPS This is definitely a fast SSD offering from Samsung and I highly suggest getting out there and grabbing one for laptop/desktop/or even external use. For me I am using this as my primary drive in the laptop going forward as that's where the video editing happens!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] When we got the Samsung 990 Pro NVMe we decided to use it in our laptop as it's primary drive and the speed is just amazing. Nearly everything I do on the laptop is almost instantaneous to load. Video editing is faster than previously and everything just works better! I am not as much of a techie as my husband is so I cannot say much as to the specifics but real world this drive is just plain FAST!!

Can't go wrong with these. Entry level pro system with no major cons.

I used the 20L (plus a hardshell carryon suitcase) for a 2-week trip to Greece. Lots of pros and only 2 (pretty minor) cons. Pros: fit everything for day of walking in hot/dusty conditions. I used it as personal item on plane, beach bag, and for days of hiking and sightseeing. Put passport in hidden compartment under top flap and used security features on zippers. Compartments kept food, extra water and gear, micro beach blankets, etc. all separate and protected. All the means of access and secure pockets made it easy to access things in ferries and during car rides. Laptop was totally protected. Did well with sand and salt water. The luggage passthrough was a huge win - very secure in airports and walking around cobblestones. Only cons: 1) it was hard to fit under seat in front of me regardless of which class seat I was flying and 2) I couldn't fit both a laptop and an ipad pro in the zippered compartment, so I just brought my personal laptop (which ended up being find but for work travel I like a personl laptop or ipad in addition to my work pc).

This is the second case I buy but the first one doesn't have the laptop insert. I wish I had known about this other model before. Overall it is a great case. Only cons might be its weight and the fact that when rolling over not so smooth surfaces the wheels don't seem to absorb the vibration very well. That's just a feeling, so far though (knock on wood) this hasn't caused any problems.