Well, so far so good. The SSD was, as usual, Amazon, two days after ordering and in a nice packaging. The high-quality impression continued when removing the SSD from the cardboard. The brushed, dark metal surface evidence of solidity and quality. The package is the cabling, the software and a 3.5 "mounting frame incl. Screws. The screw was fast and the installation proved to be problem-free. The wiring connected to a free SATA3 port and restart your machine. Then filled with the bundled software Norton Ghost to my existing system, including programs and settings to migrate to the SSD or clone. But so easily the migration of data designed by no means. Moving from a larger to a smaller HDD SSD works for Norton Ghost is not, although the SSD is large enough to accommodate the amount of data to be playing. OK Then I tried the way on the Windows 7 System Restore to create a system image, then what I wanted to spieln on the SSD. Also did not work, because Windows did not accept the SSD than to recovery media. So then a few hours have passed until I finally after a long research on the web to the ingenious Freeware EaseUS Todo Backup Free 4.5, which has my system HDD completely cloned within 20 minutes. During the subsequent start of the computer, I have changed the boot order in the BIOS and already launched the calculator without difficulty by the Samsung SSD. Programs, settings, and desktop data is now available as usual. Everything works well and above all, extremely quickly. Booting the system is in less than 20 seconds of equip, open programs and files and copy comes in a stunning speed of equip. Valuable tips on how to optimally configure the system for SSD, and you should observe, I have found here: [...]
Thus a top performance of the computer, nothing stands in the way.
Conclusion: The Samsung SSD has more than met my expectations, the charge for the software I could but I can save. That is why "only" 4 stars.
