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Refurbished: Samsung 870 EVO Series 2.5" SATA III V-NAND Internal SSD: 500GB

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Best Buy has Select Samsung 870 EVO Series 2.5" SATA III V-NAND Internal Solid State Drives (Geek Squad Certified Refurbished) on sale from $34.99. Shipping is free for My Best Buy Members (free to join).

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Available Options:
  • Samsung 870 EVO Series 2.5" SATA III V-NAND Internal Solid State Drives (Geek Squad Certified Refurbished)
    • 500GB (GSRF MZ-77E500B/AM) $34.99
    • 4TB (GSRF MZ-77E4T0B/AM) $224.99

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Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • Reviews:
    • These Drives are highly rated receiving 4.8 Stars out of 5 Stars based on over 50 Customer Reviews.
  • Warranty:
    • Includes 90-Day Warranty for parts and labor
  • Refer to Best Buy Return Policy
No Longer Available:
  • 1TB (GSRF MZ-77E1T0B/AM) $54.99
  • 2TB (GSRF MZ-77E2T0B/AM) $109.99

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Best Buy has Select Samsung 870 EVO Series 2.5" SATA III V-NAND Internal Solid State Drives (Geek Squad Certified Refurbished) on sale from $34.99. Shipping is free for My Best Buy Members (free to join).

Thanks Community Member for sharing this deal

Available Options:
  • Samsung 870 EVO Series 2.5" SATA III V-NAND Internal Solid State Drives (Geek Squad Certified Refurbished)
    • 500GB (GSRF MZ-77E500B/AM) $34.99
    • 4TB (GSRF MZ-77E4T0B/AM) $224.99

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
  • Reviews:
    • These Drives are highly rated receiving 4.8 Stars out of 5 Stars based on over 50 Customer Reviews.
  • Warranty:
    • Includes 90-Day Warranty for parts and labor
  • Refer to Best Buy Return Policy
No Longer Available:
  • 1TB (GSRF MZ-77E1T0B/AM) $54.99
  • 2TB (GSRF MZ-77E2T0B/AM) $109.99

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Joshua.Mattingly
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These are a great upgrade for older computers that only have SATA, not m.2.
You can get free software download from Samsung's website. Magician Software will let you clone from the old drive to your replacement refurbished 870. Magician Software also provides firmware updates for the Samsung drives. Very stable, useful drives at a great price point for those on a budget but want a quality name brand drive.
https://semiconductor.samsung.com...ort/tools/
rushe244
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BestBuy is also offering these drives through eBay for same price, added advantage is 1 year warranty through Allstate included. Link below is for 2TB drive
https://www.ebay.com/itm/205471519568
vatoloco4ever
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Where?

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MWink
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Quote from myanth :
https://www.newegg.com/team-group...6820985045

https://www.newegg.com/crucial-4t...6820156405
Quote from Calicar805 :
Not sure why this was downvoted the 2 & 4 Tb options are new and the 4 tb is only 5 dollars more. The 1tb is also cheaper.
Those are low end DRAM-less QLC drives. Even with substantial use, the 870 EVO would likely outlive either of those. Not to mention, the BX500 is an utterly terrible drive that I wouldn't recommend for any use. It's literally the worst SSD I've ever used, and I have the TLC version.
Jun 8, 2025
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GreenSparrow1991
Jun 8, 2025
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Mine just arrived (2TB). Mfd is Dec 2024, 196Gb written and it's on latest firmware. The box is a bit dusty but I don't mind 🤞
Jun 9, 2025
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Calicar805
Jun 9, 2025
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Quote from MWink :
Those are low end DRAM-less QLC drives. Even with substantial use, the 870 EVO would likely outlive either of those. Not to mention, the BX500 is an utterly terrible drive that I wouldn't recommend for any use. It's literally the worst SSD I've ever used, and I have the TLC version.
I agree those are DRAM- less but that was not part of the original request. The only question that myanth was asked is "Where?"
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cscamp20
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Should we be trusting refurb Geek Squad drives? We have unknown brands that sell 2.5 drives nowadays.
Last edited by cscamp20 June 10, 2025 at 07:56 PM.
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DLV9100
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Mine just arrived (2TB). Mfd is March 2025, 195Gb written and it's on latest firmware. The drive enclosure is not very securely sealed (it seems like it has been opened but not closed properly). It works fine as a boot drive after cloning with Macrium. Speed is slightly better than the TeamGroup drive it replaced, just per observation. Samsung Magician does not support this drive, likely due to I am using it on RAID. So I am not able to verify that it is genuine from Samsung Magician.
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Tigerwang
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Wut does Refurbish even mean for a SSD???
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FFIW my refurb 1TB arrived with 359.2 TBW

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i'd buy if i could get full 5 yr warranty
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shackrock
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Quote from rushe244 :
BestBuy is also offering these drives through eBay for same price, added advantage is 1 year warranty through Allstate included. Link below is for 2TB drive https://www.ebay.com/itm/205471519568
Thank you for this. Free returns (if I get one with hundreds of TB writes like the commenter above). Also 1 year warranty through allstate. Same price! Best of all worlds, in for 2.
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hummy
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Quote from shackrock :
Thank you for this. Free returns (if I get one with hundreds of TB writes like the commenter above). Also 1 year warranty through allstate. Same price! Best of all worlds, in for 2.

When you click under where it says this product will get a one year warranty, it says certified refurbished is supposed to get 2 years. Am I missing something?
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shackrock
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Quote from hummy :
When you click under where it says this product will get a one year warranty, it says certified refurbished is supposed to get 2 years. Am I missing something?
I don't see that on my end
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hummy
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Quote from shackrock :
I don't see that on my end
Here's the link: Certified Refurbished [ebay.com]

I just saw the "Excellent - refurbished" tag condition on product page, so that's why it's 1 year warranty even though it is certified refurbished. Earlier when I was on my phone, I didn't read it carefully enough.
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ScarsUnseen
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Quote from 78StayUpLate :
Drive makers have mostly moved on, so yes, I feel like on average an NVME drive is more reliable in 2025. 870 evo is a hold out to when SSD was made better, as reliable as anything else with a different formfactor. NVME is faster, granted you have a computer that can use them. Most people buying a SATA SSD can't install an NVME M2 drive so it's less of a choice than a necessity with older computers. FWIW, the one I bought one of these (2TB) refurbished from Bestbuy a couple of months ago had a manufacture date of December '24, long past the past firmware issue. Still good to check but I'd expect these to be relatively recent and way past that problem period. Agree on all points, MWink knows their drives. I ordered a 2TB drive, BestBuy refurb about two months ago. It was manufactured in December of 2024, had been booted three times (my turning it on being the third time), and had transferred maybe 250GB of data during those two other boots (I don't recall the exact number transferred or the powered on hours). It was effectively a brand new drive. Can't promise that they are all that low use but I'm two for two so far (also bought a 500GB drive last year for a different project). My understanding is that most of these are GeekSquad techs backing up someone's data and then transferring it back to the customer's computer. The numbers I've seen match this theory but I have no inside knowledge. Getting 2-3 years out of it makes me think there was nothing inherently wrong with the drive being used but rather some underlying problem that would have popped up regardless... maybe one of the bad drives/firmware that MWink mentioned above. Presumably BestBuy as these are used drives. I don't believe they are refurbished in any meaningful sense, just used once or twice and then wiped/verified before reselling. Obviously they can't sell them as new, at that point. I didn't try to register mine but even "refurbished" it's only 6-7 months old.
"My understanding is that most of these are GeekSquad techs backing up someone's data and then transferring it back to the customer's computer. The numbers I've seen match this theory but I have no inside knowledge. Getting 2-3 years out of it makes me think there was nothing inherently wrong with the drive being used but rather some underlying problem that would have popped up regardless... maybe one of the bad drives/firmware that MWink mentioned above."


Former store employee here for MANY years. In the stores, Geek Squad "precincts" each can use a local NAS drive called a "MULE" to temporarily back up customer data for 30 days, but customers are recommended to buy their own backup drives to THEY have a copy forever. (It's their data, so they should have it, not Best Buy.) It's in all the paperwork that every customer receives.
Best Buy takes data issues really seriously tbh. I know that sounds rather corporate of me, but I'm not. I've literally witnessed people get fired for being sketchy with data. Best Buy does not sell hard drives or SSDs that get returned by customers, ever. These SSDs were probably refurbished by some 3rd party company. Hope that helps!
P.S. - I don't speak on behalf of immoral corrupt employees who do whatever they want (and eventually get fired)!!

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