SSD drive for late 2011 Macbook Pro

Hi there
Has anyone any experience with late 2011 macbook pros and upgrading to ssd ?
Looking at the Samsung 840 ssd but whats the biggest difference between the Samsung 840, 840 pro and evo.
And what is there performance in like in a mac ?
Regards
Paraic

Bear008,
A dock like this "docking station":
...where you just plug your hard drive in instead of putting it in an enclosure.
Clinton

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