— Top of the pack back in the day: I purchased this baby at nearly 1€/GB possibly as far back as 2014. This workhorse was my Windows and Linux boot drive, and code compilation drive for several years. It absorbed everything I could throw at it through the SATA 3 bus, but given its capacity, at its peak and end-of-use, it didn't run very many of my programs beyond Windows, Steam, Firefox, and similar relatively small software you'd launch and use often. Could I have lived without it? No doubt. Would I say it was a good purchase way back when? Absolutely. Only downside were abysmal read speeds with the old firmware -- After a few months (years?) of data sitting there untouched, the read speeds would plummet to HDD levels. Thankfully a firmware update fixed this, possibly at the cost of endurance, but, even after abusing the drive much more than the average consumer would, I never even got close to Samsung's rated endurance.