SAMSUNG 870 QVO SATA III SSD 8TB 2.5″ Internal Solid State Drive, Upgrade Desktop PC or Laptop Memory and Storage for IT Pros, Creators, Everyday Users, MZ-77Q8T0B

Mac Fusion cloned to Samsung SSD and boot from external enclosure
Works really wellI have a 2018 Mac, 27″ with 32gb memory and a 2 TB fusion drive and I try to keep about 350-400 GB free space, but sometimes it isn’t easy!The reason why I got an SSD is that I use Parallels for Mac and have three Windows VM’s and a few Linux and over time with the fusion drive, I was losing performance from time to time. Seems that I have no issues or complaints until I install an update from Apple or an update from Parallels then it slows down again and I have to go and optimize and then it runs pretty fast for 3-4 days until another update! The intent of the SSD was to remove the fusion issues and just go solid SSD. If I bought a 2 TB drive, it would solve ONE problem but would not solve the needed space to give me more flexibility. I chose the 4 TB, even though it wasn’t in my budget, to solve both problems at once and I am glad that I did and would recommend anyone to invest the money and move up to the extra space.This is really interesting for those who have a Mac but don’t want to open up the computer to replace the drive.I bought a USB-C enclosure and made sure the cable has USB-C on both ends. USB will work fine, but why not go with USB-C and get better performance? I placed the SSD in the enclosure and after booting up the Mac and logging in, plugged the enclosure with the 4 TB SSD into a USB-C port. I formatted it (don’t format as encrypted).I have been using Acronis True Image for a couple years now, so I didn’t have to buy any software. I opened the app and chose to “Clone” and ensure that I chose the correct drives! Triple check so you don’t lose your host drive. I started the process at 1:45 p.m. and by 7:30 p..m. same day cloning 1.6 TB of data, it was done.Next, I went to the disk utility to rename the cloned drive! Obviously since it is a clone, it will clone the name as well!!!! I put SSD as part of the name so I would be able to verify that I am actually booting from it. I was able to reboot and holding down the option key able to boot into my SSD.Important step – go to the “About This Mac” and verify the startup disk is the cloned one!Now that I had a faster system, I chose to do some more updates on the OS and clean up my Windows 10 VM’s. At first, everything seemed a little slow. That was expected as your Mac is optimizing things, as well as the Windows VM.When we buy a drive with more space than we may feel we need, something good happens… we alleviate risks and remove bad habits! With Parallels for Mac, it is essential that you take snapshots and create backups. Parallels will do this automatically, but you do need to ensure that you have the room. I was able to go to the settings and now, I will be able to access a backup up to two months old, a week old, and every other day. I feel better! Of course, backup to external drive but I feel better one of the most important part of my system is now being backed up automatically.The first few hours, I noticed a little bit of speed but not much but I knew why. Before I did the SSD upgrade, I never gave a lot of the VM’s room to breathe or do the necessary updates and I had a lot of bottlenecks. I would use one VM for awhile but not another so I feel that Fusion was trying to optimize my experience but because of the size of the VM’s (400gb +), it just wasn’t getting it.After about 8 hours of updating, uninstalling apps I don’t need in each of the Windows VM and just working through it, I am finally able to see some very fast appreciable and consistent speeds on both the Mac and the VM’s. Could I have optimized my Mac and Windows experience beforehand and would that have helped with performance? Yes, I do admit that I could’ve done that and seen some improvements. In fact, my original fusion drive is still inside the Mac, so I could go back to the fusion drive and do all the optimizations!I always trust Samsung for SSD and have used them in servers before without having any issues. I am more than pleased with the performance and performing my work is so much faster now.I may choose to have the drive installed as an internal drive. I am grateful that I am able to boot to the SSD as an external drive and still see a major performance boost. It’s well worth it!Overall, very pleased. The 4 TB was a bit out of my price range, but I made it happen and thankful that I did. I would love (as anyone else would be) for SSD 4TB and 8TB prices to come down 50% below what they are now. I have 24 TB of data that I would really love to convert to SSD but not at $800-$1,000 for the 8TB one. Come on Samsung! Let’s do it and save the environment!

Gets the job done
Works as advertised.

Calidad en todos los aspectos
Gran calidad. Capacidad y velocidad

Buy again
Overwhelming results! Grade A on PS4 PRO install as SSD. I now have 3t of storage using the old hard drive as an external.

Produto excelente!

も，当方ではついにSSDになりました．夏場，自室ではエアコンを控えめにしていることもあり，デスクトップPCのケースを開け扇風機で強風を当てても，HDD温度が40度を超えてしまいます．室温まではなかなか下がりません．SSDに交換することで，大容量HDDの故障の不安が，今夏以降は多少は払しょくされるだろうと期待しています．

Qualité samsung, plus que reconnu