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product_id: 431659
title: "Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE500BW"
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# Up to 550MB/s read/write speeds 500GB high-capacity SSD storage AES 256-bit full-disk encryption Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE500BW

**Brand:** samsung
**Price:** HK$1706
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Transform your PC into a powerhouse with Samsung 840 EVO SSD!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE500BW by samsung
- **How much does it cost?** HK$1706 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- samsung enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted samsung brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Lightweight & Sleek:** Ultra-thin 7mm profile fits seamlessly into laptops and desktops, boosting portability without bulk.
- • **RAPID Mode Acceleration:** Leverage your system RAM as cache to turbocharge speeds beyond SATA III limits for next-level multitasking.
- • **Silent & Durable Design:** No moving parts means zero noise, less heat, and superior shock resistance for long-lasting reliability.
- • **Blazing Fast Performance:** Experience lightning-quick boot times and app launches with up to 550MB/s read/write speeds.
- • **Rock-Solid Data Security:** Protect your sensitive files effortlessly with military-grade AES 256-bit full-disk encryption.

## Overview

The Samsung 840 EVO-Series 500GB SSD delivers a transformative upgrade for aging PCs with ultra-fast 550MB/s read/write speeds, AES 256-bit encryption for robust data security, and a slim 7mm design that fits most laptops and desktops. Its no-moving-parts architecture ensures silent operation and enhanced durability, while RAPID mode leverages system RAM to push performance even further. Trusted by over 3,000 users with a 4.6-star rating, this SSD is the ultimate choice for professionals seeking speed, security, and reliability.

## Description

Upgrading your PC with a Samsung SSD is the most economical way to breathe new life into an aging PC. The 840 EVO reads, writes and multi-tasks at incredible speeds, enhancing boot-up speed, application loading and multi-tasking performance. It's more than an upgrade, it's a complete transformation of your PC.

Review: Great drive. I just wish I had paid more attention. - *THIRD UPDATE*(Edited October 11, 2015) The drive is still chugging along like a champ. The computer I put it in has been junk, but the drive has been fantastic. Still 5 stars. -------------------------------------------- *SECOND UPDATE*(Edited August 3, 2014) Still running like a champ. I can see no reasons at all to not buy this drive. I have no choice to give it 5 stars. -------------------------------------------- *UPDATE*(edited June 16, 2014) Wow. This thing is just unbelievably fast, even after having it for a month and a half. I run several games off of it, and the load times are incredible. An example would be Fallout: New Vegas. With a standard drive, the loading wheel would normally spin for 10-15 seconds. With my OCZ drive, it cut it down to about 5 seconds. With this drive, it is down to maybe 2 seconds. I just can't say enough good things about this drive. If I had the chance to go back in time and either do it again or save my money, I would buy it again in an instant. -------------------------------------------- The drive is excellent. I had an OCZ Agility 3 drive that was only 120gb. It was simply too small. I upgraded to this 500gb drive. It is blazing fast. I had bought RAM for my old laptop that ended up not being compatible for some reason, and I was too late to return that to the store. Since it was sitting around, I decided trying to stick one of the 4gb sticks into the open slot on this laptop. It worked like a charm, and boosted my ram to 12gb. Realistically, I won't use the 12gb any time soon. However, this drive has a "RAPID" feature that allows you to steal some of the ram from your system(2gb in my case) and use it as a cache space for the SSD. Even though this drive is FAST to begin with(I was actually getting 550MB/s read and write), the RAPID feature speeds it up even more. In ATTO Disk Benchmark, I am actually showing read and write speeds of ~1050MB/s. I realize that is impossible, as the maximum theoretical rate for SATA III is 6.0Gb/s, or 750MB/s. I can't say anything about the included migration software, as I used Ghost to clone everything. The only thing I was disappointed to find was that it didn't have the spacer or migration cable, but that is my own fault for ordering the "Single Unit" product and not the "Notebook Kit". I feel it would be unfair to give the product a lower rating due to my mistake. I would just like to warn any prospective buyers that they need to look at the Notebook Kit or Desktop Kit if they are expecting this to come with anything else. The drive is only 7mm thick. If your laptop just lets the drive slide into a slot, this one will likely have some wiggle room. The spacer that comes in the Laptop Kit will take care of that. Since I have only had the drive in here for 1 day, I plan on updating my review about 3 months from now, unless the drive fails before then.
Review: Good news for Linux users - Well, the world ignores us, so I figured I'd ignore it back and write about what Linux users might want to know about this product. The good: First, except for the manuals on it, you can ignore the included CD and the software, it only runs on that other OS. There is no software on the SSD -- but check yours anyway when you get it, because like all manufacturers, Samsung is likely to change that at any time. The setup couldn't be easier. You don't needs the Windows-only "import" software on the CD, any cloning tool will do. I used a copy of live Clonzilla, installed on an ancient USB thumb-drive (512MB and still plenty of space left on it). The Clonezilla site (and so many others) will tell you how you can make a USB thumb-drive or CD that you can use to boot up with and run Clonezilla from it. This is not a Clonezilla how-to, so I won't bother anyone with details, but make sure that when you clone your boot drive/partition (drive sda, partition sda1 for most, check yours), you include the MBR when Clonezilla prompts you for it. Other than that, it's pretty straightforward. You HAVE to use the SSD on the computer, connected to a SATA header internally, because eSata won't work, the Clonezilla mini-linux OS has no support for it. Get your original HDD into an external enclosure, connect via USB, launch Clonezilla, use Disk to Disk or Partition to Partition (no need to make an image for this process), go have a cup of coffee. It will take 10 minutes, or 4 hours, depending on how much data is on your HDD. Bear in mind that the size of your target SSD has to be greater than or equal to your source HDD or partition. If there is an option in Clonezilla to image or clone only the used portion of a partition, I haven't found it (doesn't mean anything, I'm no expert on this tool). Performance is amazing. In my case, I use it on an aging HP-DV8T-1200 that has no AHCI in the BIOS setup. I installed my first SSD as the secondary drive on that system (sdb) first, because that's where I keep a whole bunch of very slow winXP and win7 VMs. I used to watch the grass grow while the XP was booting, now it's just like sitting at a PC with a fresh, brand new, clean install of winXP. Then I replaced the Linux boot drive with another SSD. Ubuntu boots up so quick that you never even see the "blinking dots" screen. The bad: Manufacturers don't like to say this in public, but SSD drives don't have the longevity of HDD drives (I have a couple from the 90s that still work well). So don't toss your HDDs away, and in fact, you could periodically make backup images of your SSD partitions just in case. The Dos: Enjoy it. The Dont's: I know we Linux users running on HDDs formatted as ext4, ext3 etc., never have to worry about fragmentation, but if you run VMs with the VMWare-Player or Workstation too, and some of your guests are Windows, you might be tempted to use Windows-based defragmenters to clean up and eliminate slack. DON'T. EVER. PERIOD. Defragmenters were made for HDDs, for good reasons, and they perform tons of write operations of minute data, and this will definitely shorten the life of your SSD. When, not if, the performance slows down (you could do this right now, no need to wait for it), you may want to consider using fstrim in a cron job. SSDs are great at writing to empty memory cells, but the presence of data from files marked for deletion and not yet deleted (that's how an HDD works), will force the SSD to spend time copying the page to a cache, manipulating it there, erasing the page, and re-writing it from the cache, and that will definitely impact performance. Plenty of good articles on this topic, google them up. That's it. Enjoy!

## Features

- Highest-quality components and engineering from the #1 memory manufacturer
- Worry-free data security with AES 256-bit full-disk encryption
- No moving parts means no hard drive spin ups, no noise and superior data protection
- An innovative lightweight design that allows you to work smarter and play longer.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B00E3W19MO |
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,916 in Internal Solid State Drives |
| Brand | Samsung |
| Color | Silver |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (3,105) |
| Date First Available | August 12, 2013 |
| Department | hdd |
| Flash Memory Size | 500 GB |
| Hard Drive | 500 GB Solid State Drive |
| Hard Drive Interface | Solid State |
| Hardware Platform | PC; Mac; Linux |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 3.94 x 2.75 x 0.28 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.92 ounces |
| Item model number | MZ-7TE500BW |
| Manufacturer | Samsung Electronics |
| Product Dimensions | 3.94 x 2.75 x 0.28 inches |
| Series | EVO 840 500GB |
| Standing screen display size | 2.5 Inches |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** Samsung
- **Color:** Silver
- **Compatible Devices:** This device is compatible with any server that accepts 2.5"x7mm (Thin/Case) SATA drives
- **Connectivity Technology:** SATA
- **Digital Storage Capacity:** 500 GB
- **Hard Disk Description:** Solid State Drive
- **Hard Disk Form Factor:** 2.5 Inches
- **Hard Disk Interface:** Solid State
- **Installation Type:** Internal Hard Drive
- **Special Feature:** Durable, Portable

## Images

![Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE500BW - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61K7gqNXWwL.jpg)
![Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE500BW - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5137dfU4aYL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great drive. I just wish I had paid more attention.
*by J***1 on April 23, 2014*

*THIRD UPDATE*(Edited October 11, 2015) The drive is still chugging along like a champ. The computer I put it in has been junk, but the drive has been fantastic. Still 5 stars. -------------------------------------------- *SECOND UPDATE*(Edited August 3, 2014) Still running like a champ. I can see no reasons at all to not buy this drive. I have no choice to give it 5 stars. -------------------------------------------- *UPDATE*(edited June 16, 2014) Wow. This thing is just unbelievably fast, even after having it for a month and a half. I run several games off of it, and the load times are incredible. An example would be Fallout: New Vegas. With a standard drive, the loading wheel would normally spin for 10-15 seconds. With my OCZ drive, it cut it down to about 5 seconds. With this drive, it is down to maybe 2 seconds. I just can't say enough good things about this drive. If I had the chance to go back in time and either do it again or save my money, I would buy it again in an instant. -------------------------------------------- The drive is excellent. I had an OCZ Agility 3 drive that was only 120gb. It was simply too small. I upgraded to this 500gb drive. It is blazing fast. I had bought RAM for my old laptop that ended up not being compatible for some reason, and I was too late to return that to the store. Since it was sitting around, I decided trying to stick one of the 4gb sticks into the open slot on this laptop. It worked like a charm, and boosted my ram to 12gb. Realistically, I won't use the 12gb any time soon. However, this drive has a "RAPID" feature that allows you to steal some of the ram from your system(2gb in my case) and use it as a cache space for the SSD. Even though this drive is FAST to begin with(I was actually getting 550MB/s read and write), the RAPID feature speeds it up even more. In ATTO Disk Benchmark, I am actually showing read and write speeds of ~1050MB/s. I realize that is impossible, as the maximum theoretical rate for SATA III is 6.0Gb/s, or 750MB/s. I can't say anything about the included migration software, as I used Ghost to clone everything. The only thing I was disappointed to find was that it didn't have the spacer or migration cable, but that is my own fault for ordering the "Single Unit" product and not the "Notebook Kit". I feel it would be unfair to give the product a lower rating due to my mistake. I would just like to warn any prospective buyers that they need to look at the Notebook Kit or Desktop Kit if they are expecting this to come with anything else. The drive is only 7mm thick. If your laptop just lets the drive slide into a slot, this one will likely have some wiggle room. The spacer that comes in the Laptop Kit will take care of that. Since I have only had the drive in here for 1 day, I plan on updating my review about 3 months from now, unless the drive fails before then.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good news for Linux users
*by R***L on May 17, 2014*

Well, the world ignores us, so I figured I'd ignore it back and write about what Linux users might want to know about this product. The good: First, except for the manuals on it, you can ignore the included CD and the software, it only runs on that other OS. There is no software on the SSD -- but check yours anyway when you get it, because like all manufacturers, Samsung is likely to change that at any time. The setup couldn't be easier. You don't needs the Windows-only "import" software on the CD, any cloning tool will do. I used a copy of live Clonzilla, installed on an ancient USB thumb-drive (512MB and still plenty of space left on it). The Clonezilla site (and so many others) will tell you how you can make a USB thumb-drive or CD that you can use to boot up with and run Clonezilla from it. This is not a Clonezilla how-to, so I won't bother anyone with details, but make sure that when you clone your boot drive/partition (drive sda, partition sda1 for most, check yours), you include the MBR when Clonezilla prompts you for it. Other than that, it's pretty straightforward. You HAVE to use the SSD on the computer, connected to a SATA header internally, because eSata won't work, the Clonezilla mini-linux OS has no support for it. Get your original HDD into an external enclosure, connect via USB, launch Clonezilla, use Disk to Disk or Partition to Partition (no need to make an image for this process), go have a cup of coffee. It will take 10 minutes, or 4 hours, depending on how much data is on your HDD. Bear in mind that the size of your target SSD has to be greater than or equal to your source HDD or partition. If there is an option in Clonezilla to image or clone only the used portion of a partition, I haven't found it (doesn't mean anything, I'm no expert on this tool). Performance is amazing. In my case, I use it on an aging HP-DV8T-1200 that has no AHCI in the BIOS setup. I installed my first SSD as the secondary drive on that system (sdb) first, because that's where I keep a whole bunch of very slow winXP and win7 VMs. I used to watch the grass grow while the XP was booting, now it's just like sitting at a PC with a fresh, brand new, clean install of winXP. Then I replaced the Linux boot drive with another SSD. Ubuntu boots up so quick that you never even see the "blinking dots" screen. The bad: Manufacturers don't like to say this in public, but SSD drives don't have the longevity of HDD drives (I have a couple from the 90s that still work well). So don't toss your HDDs away, and in fact, you could periodically make backup images of your SSD partitions just in case. The Dos: Enjoy it. The Dont's: I know we Linux users running on HDDs formatted as ext4, ext3 etc., never have to worry about fragmentation, but if you run VMs with the VMWare-Player or Workstation too, and some of your guests are Windows, you might be tempted to use Windows-based defragmenters to clean up and eliminate slack. DON'T. EVER. PERIOD. Defragmenters were made for HDDs, for good reasons, and they perform tons of write operations of minute data, and this will definitely shorten the life of your SSD. When, not if, the performance slows down (you could do this right now, no need to wait for it), you may want to consider using fstrim in a cron job. SSDs are great at writing to empty memory cells, but the presence of data from files marked for deletion and not yet deleted (that's how an HDD works), will force the SSD to spend time copying the page to a cache, manipulating it there, erasing the page, and re-writing it from the cache, and that will definitely impact performance. Plenty of good articles on this topic, google them up. That's it. Enjoy!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review
*by M***H on October 22, 2014*

Do go for it if you're looking to buy SSD having 500GB capacity. Read speed has improved after updating to the latest firmware released on 15th oct. Getting 551MBbs, sigh! Not going to comment on TLC vs MLC. Each one has its own merits and demerits. Definitely a worthy storage option for a typical client load.

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