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Question: How is the whole "SSD Life Span" quality for this ssd?This will be my first ssd, and I'm curious about the do's and dont's
Document: Not really seeing a whole lot of added battery life but then I didn't really have a baseline in the first place. That i-7 burns up the extra capacity battery pretty well on its own, so I wasn't expecting the SSD to make a noticeable difference.
I'm disappointed with Maximum PC and Samsung. Don't trust everything you read in Maximum PC.&#34;SLC (single level cell) SSD's are the longest lasting NAND and are super expensive - meant for enterprise solutions. MLC (multi level cell) NAND is 2 bits per cell, won't last as long as SLC, and have been marketed to the general public for years. TLC (triple level cell) is new and has the lowest expected life span.
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 tried every other suggestion I found, such as adjusting settings in BIOS, but nothing worked. I have tried two different drives after exhausting every option with the first drive. The second drive seemed to have fewer problems initially, but I still can't get it to work. This whole process has been a nightmare and I will probably stay away from Samsung SSDs in the future as a result of this experience. I'm sure it's probably a great drive if you can get it to work.
I've wanted to give this SSD a try due to seeing all the good reviews online. It installed and booted with no problems. Extremely light and small. SSD drives have a pre-determined life span, however I think I will use them anyways and make frequent backups. This drive booted up between 13-15 seconds. I did 7 tests.
This thing is fast, my boot was at 46s now it take 6s, photoshop launchs in 5s, Cyberlink PowerDirector launchs in 7s, Avid Protools launchs in 11s. Plus this SSD has TRIM and that will increase the life span of SSD by writing over deleted files . I will be getting the 500gb one of these and will ether use this 120gb one as  paging or will keep this as boot and use it for creation programe that I want to be fast.
I have three operating systems installed on this ssd, ubuntu, xp professional and windows 8.1. Had a little trouble at first with setting it all up, but everything seems to be working well now thanks to my son's help. This would most likely be even work better had I installed it in a newer computer.I'm thinking of buying another one for an external backup.
Everyone can do it, it's a click-next-next kind of setup and you are done.Of course, my main concern was it's life span, as you know these devices are not meant to last forever, as it has a limited number of writing attempts per sector. There is even a software that will tell you how long it will last !
This thing has definitely added a longer life span to my four year old MacBook! I have the white, unibody one from 2009. Intel Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM, so it is definitely showing its age. However, this thing has made it (feels like) faster than it was when I bought it. I partitioned it in half, with OS X 10.8 on one half and Windows 8 on the other and it still blazes. Highly recommended.
Samsung also offer a reasonable price for super quality SSD products. If you have the money I would highly suggest buying the 1TB SSD, you will not be sorry. The 840, hasn't no froze or crashed for about a few months now. Save some time in your life and buy a SSD(Samsung 840, great quality inside)
Answer: I can't speak for Life Span on this particular drive since I only have it for a month.  So far, the unit work beautifully on my macbook pro 17" 2009.  To be honest with you, I don't use it differently from the stock HD.  I unplug the power cord, fold and put in my bag without quitting apps or shutting down and it wake up just fine.  I can't even advise any Do & Don't for you.  I've heard people concerning sleep mode issue and so on...The reason I pulled for this SSD.  I've worked as a graphic artist for the last 18 years on apple macintosh.  I've seen many HDD failed over the years.  We've upgraded all our 9 mac pros to SSD since 2010.  We use our macs 24/7 for production and they're very reliable and fast compare to stock HDD.  So far, one failed after 2 years.  Base on these facts, I can't imagine going back to HDD again.  Yes, It's not 100% just like an airplane and that's why you always backup your stuffs.  Finally, SSD 2014 are much improve than 2010.  The # won't lie and I would buy with confident.Thank you for asking and good luck on your search,