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Vast: Tons of capacity; good performance; great endurance and warranty; SATA is ubiquitous. (-) Empty: Very expensive; not as fast as PCIe solutions; SATA is limiting.Don't get us wrong: We love super-fast SSDs like the Intel SSD 750 or Samsung 950 Pr...
Vast: Tons of capacity; good performance; great endurance and warranty; SATA is ubiquitous...
Empty: Very expensive; not as fast as PCIe solutions; SATA is limiting...
Samsungs 2TB 850 Pro offers the most capacity youll currently find in a 2.5-inch SATA drive, but its upstaged by the bang-for-the-buck of its 850 Evo sibling...
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maximumpc.com Updated: 2018-02-01 05:04:36
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The question we're here to answer today is how much performance you give up by going for a higher capacity SATA drive compared to a lower capacity PCIe drive. And that's not the only thing we need to discuss today, as we're doing a double-header of 2TB dr...
Tons of capacity, good performance, great endurance and warranty, SATA is ubiquitous.
Very expensive, not as fast as PCIe solutions, SATA is limiting...
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During the early days of SSDs, we saw rather quick development in capacities. The very first SSDs were undoubtedly small, generally 32GB or 64GB, but there was a need for higher capacities to make SSDs more usable in client environments. MLC NAND caused a...
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Since the release of the first 1TB SSD, enthusiasts have looked to the next capacity point. It's always easy to demand a bigger, faster or better product. But when push comes to shove, those jumps only happen when there's financial impetus. I can ask for...
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hardocp.com Updated: 2018-02-01 05:04:55
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Good, fast, cheap; pick a maximum of two. While typically considered in the context of services for hire, this Unholy Trinity of aspects that allows consumers to, on a rigid and mutually-exclusive basis, have or eat their cake also makes up the foundation...
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Today Samsung released a new addition to its 850 PRO SSD line, the SSD 850 PRO 2TB. This marks the largest capacity consumer SSD for Samsung and the first 2TB consumer SSD commercially available. Like the rest of the line, the new 850 PRO 2TB uses Samsung...
Highest capacity SSD currently available, Set a new bar in performance in many of our benchmarks, Samsung pedigree with a 10-year warranty...
Much more expensive than a 2TB HDD...
The Samsung 850 PRO 2TB drive is a bar-setting SSD in both capacity and performance, offering power users arguably the best consumer drive on the market...
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For the past decade we've been hearing people say that it was only a matter of time before Solid-State Drives (SSD's) will nearly completely kill off magnetic drives. Traditional hard drives will still exist in niche markets they said, but SSDs will event...
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Where are all the 2TB SSDs? It's a question we've been hearing since they started to go mainstream seven years ago. While we have seen a few come along on the enterprise side as far back as 2011 , those were prohibitively large, expensive, and out of reac...
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Help support Bare Feats by clicking our Apple display ads or THIS Apple USA link when ordering any Apple product or Apple compatible product.Live outside the USA? No problem. We are also an affiliate of these Apple Stores:PowerMax not only sells new and u...
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It's been quite some time since our last SSD roundup and we hadn't seen much need for one until recently. SSD technology grew stale after saturating the SATA 6Gb/s bus, bringing mostly minor improvements in recent memory and making up for it with price cu...
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Samsung has been what I would consider a major player in the consumer SSD market for a couple of years now. They had at least two well known drives on the market in their 840 EVO and Pro lines, each serving a different audience. The EVO was the barely slo...
Samsung had a great thing going with its acclaimed 840 EVO and Pro drives from both performance per dollar on the EVO, straight performance on the Pro, and reliability was high on both. With the use of the 2nd generation, 32 layer 3D V-NAND, they look t...
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myce.com Updated: 2018-02-01 05:06:05
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Back in July 2014, I reviewed the 1TB version of the Samsung 850 Pro SSD. The unit I tested was a pre-production test sample. Now I'm reviewing the Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD, and this time it's a production sample, which Samsung has sent me for long term...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Outstanding sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths, Outstanding 4K random writing performance, at low queue depths, Outstanding 4k random reading performance at very low, and...
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Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Outstanding sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths.Outstanding 4K random writing performance, at low...
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There are many choices when buying flash to accelerate intensive desktop-oriented workloads like those for media and entertainment (M&E), oil and gas research, CAD and more. It's not always obvious though where to justify the expense when it comes to figu...
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There are two different ways to counteract the effects of write speed reductions caused by larger capacity / fewer dies:Recently there has been a trend towards *lower* capacity dies. Micron makes their 16nm flash in both 128Gbit and 64Gbit. Shifting back...
Outstanding performance, especially at lower capacities, Excellent fragmentation resiliency in higher capacities, 10 Year Warranty...
PROS:Outstanding performance, especially at lower capacitiesExcellent fragmentation resiliency in higher capacities10 Year WarrantyCONS:Pricing runs higher than competing units (but you get what you pay for)Pricing:Intro MSRP's:128GB - $130 ($1.01/GB)256...
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The Samsung SSD 850 Pro (1TB) ($699.99) benefits from Samsung's control of all the manufacturing processes in every step of its design and construction. The solid-state drive (SSD) uses 3D NAND technology to top out at one Terabyte of capacity, and it als...
1TB capacity. 500MBps+ read and write speeds. 10-year warranty.
Expensive...
The Samsung SSD 850 Pro should be at the top of your list if you're looking for a speedy and reliable solid-state drive (SSD) for home use. Just make sure your wallet is ready to become a lot lighter...
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The strengths of each company are evident in the two drives we're evaluating today, the Crucial MX100 and Samsung 850 Pro. The former is positioned as the ultimate value SSD, with an excellent dollar per byte ratio. The latter is being pushed as the lates...
Crucial MX100 512GBThe most striking thing about the Crucial MX100 512GB is its price-tag of just US$210. At just $0.41/GB, it offers the best value on the SSD market today in the ~500GB capacity range (the 128GB and 256GB models are also priced similarly...
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It took a while but we finally got our hands on the Samsung 850 Pro SSD, not a small one either, it's that nicely sized 1 TB version. It is Samsung's first SSD with innovative 3D vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory, which ensures top performance and good...
The tested 850 Pro model which should offer you the comfort of an increased number of cell write cycles, but not only that. The Pro model offers very strong SATA3 performance throughout the scoreboard. In fact we can easily classify it as a top 3 SSD out...
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Samsung has been a pioneer in the SSD industry, mainly due to its strategy been tight vertical integration. Releases quite some time ago was the SSD 840, the the first mass produced SSD to utilize TLC NAND. The 840 EVO followed and now, Samsung innovates...
Samsung has definitely done an amazing job with the 850 Pro, which just excels in every aspect -- performance, features and software suites. The SSD is well-suited to demanding consumer workloads.It looks like Samsung's investment on 3D NAND is paying off...
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In the world of SSDs, the Samsung 850 Pro is a major achievement. Up until now, all of the advances in SSD technology have come from either shrinking the size of the memory cells through using smaller process nodes, or through packing more data into each...
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It may have taken just a tad longer for SATA solid state drives (SSDs) to finally hit the performance wall specified by the SATA III standard but the fact that we are here means that PCIex solutions will soon cease to be the only ones capable for read/wri...
Build Quality, Excellent Overall Performance, Features (TurboWrite/RAPID Mode/eDrive Support), Samsung Magician Software, 10 Year Warranty, Available In 1TB...
Price (For Some)...
Samsung took the market by storm when they released the consumer oriented 830 SSD series a few years back since that line could easily match and in many cases even surpass the performance of competing SSD models without extra cost (the fact that it was a...
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One of the first consumer-oriented products to take advantage of 3D V-NAND is Samsung's new 850 PRO SSD. First unveiled at the 2014 Samsung SSD Global Summit in Seoul, the 850 PRO is ideal for use in high-end PCs and workstations. The drive is powered by...
Equipped with 3D V-NAND, Available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities, Excellent sequential read and write speeds, Very good random read and write performance, Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data, Good looking, ultra-sli...
RAPID mode is Windows only, Pricey...
The Samsung 850 PRO is one of, if not the, best consumer-oriented SSDs currently available. Designed and built entirely in-house, this ultra-slim, high-capacity drive combines Samsung's triple-core MEX controller with their second generation, 32-layer 3D...
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computershopper.com Updated: 2018-02-01 05:08:40
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The SSD 850 Pro, the company's new flagship drive for consumer-level enthusiasts, follows on from last year's SSD 840 Pro and continues the company's excellent record on the SSD front. The SSD 850 Pro delivered the best performance we've seen overall in o...
Class-leading 10-year warranty, thanks to 3D memory, Fastest SATA SSD we've tested yet overall, Available in capacities up to 1TB...
Expensive compared to mainstream SSDs that are nearly as speedy...
If you feel the need for both maximum speed and maximum durability from a consumer-focused SSD, Samsung's SSD 850 Pro is the best choice on both fronts. But if you can live with a shorter warranty and a little less speed, good drives are available for a...
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We've seen many solid state drives over the past few years, some memorable and some forgettable. But it's rather rare to see new technologies emerge that push the boundaries of performance, features, and even pricing. Typically we see such advances when e...
Extensive software package; Data Migration; Great stock performance; Otherworldly performance with RAPID Mode enabled...
Price premium...
Fast SSD that turns on the afterburners with some unique technological innovation...
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The revolution has arrived. Up to the release of the Samsung 850 PRO , the most common strategy was to shrink the die to increase higher bit densities in order to reduce cost and while offering higher capacity. Shrinking a planar layout can only take you...
The 850 PRO is an impressive piece of technology. By going vertically the 3D V-NAND opens the path to much higher SSD capacity in the near future, we are talking 8TB by 2017. For now, it offers pretty much everything the consumer would want to see from a...
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Over the last three years, Samsung has become one of the most dominant players in the SSD industry. Samsung's strategy has been tight vertical integration ever since the beginning, which gives Samsung the ability to be in the forefront of new technologies...
Samsung does not cease to amaze me with their SSDs as the 850 Pro just kills it in every aspect. The performance is there. The endurance is the best of the class. Heck, even Samsung's feature and software suites beat the competition by a mile. To be hones...
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Over in Seoul Samsung have announced their latest SSD, the 850 Pro. It may just be a standard SATA drive, but it contains an innovative approach to scaling that stacks memory vertically to fit more GBs into the same space.If SSDs are to completely replace...
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Although now one of the most well known SSD manufacturers on the market, just four years ago Samsung wasn't really a name in the consumer SSD market. Despite the fact that Samsung had been one of the pioneers in the SSD industry, until the launch of the S...
Back when the Samsung 840 PRO was released in 2012, I really didn't really think Samsung would release another SATA based drive as its successor. At the time, the Samsung 840 PRO was already clearly hitting the limits of the SATA interface, and there wasn...
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Samsung SSDs have been extremely popular which is mostly due to their excellent performance but it doesn't hurt that they've marketed pretty aggressively. Their 840 series, including the EVO and PRO versions, sold very well and were looked upon favorably...
Samsung has made some nice improvements over the 840 PRO drives, helped along with modified firmware and their proprietary high density 32-layer 3D V-NAND. Performance is pretty even across all capacities with the 128GB drive just a little slower than the...
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hardwareunboxed.com Updated: 2018-02-01 05:09:45
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For a while there things were moving at breakneck speed in the Solid-State Disk business with a new record-breaker being released every other week. However for the last year or two things have slowed down in a big way. In fact it has been almost 2 years n...
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Introducing the world's first consumer SSD with Samsung's second generation of 3D NAND called V-NAND, the new and improved Samsung 850 Pro! Yes, that is right, 3D NAND. Oh, and do I even need to mention that it is fast?Finally, we are making break through...
The Samsung 850 Pro is the highest performing SATA 6Gb/s SSD we have reviewed to date. Packed with new innovative 3D V-NAND, full encryption support, and backed by an industry leading 10 year warranty, it is definitely worth a look!...
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After winning an award last year for its 840 EVO, Samsung is ready to follow up with another high-end offering. The company's 850 Pro SSD merges the EVO's familiar MEX controller with 3D V-NAND. Does the combination justify an upgrade, or should you wait?...
The all-encompassing brilliance of Samsung's 850 Pro is muted somewhat by the fact that SATA 6Gb/s is restrictive. The 850 Pro works within the interface's constraints, though. It's well-rounded and fast, no doubt. But most of the SSDs we've reviewed late...
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In the past few weeks, we've seen a steady stream of new solid state drive releases, from the likes of Plextor, Crucial, and SanDisk. Our review of the Plextor M6M mSATA drive can be found here, and we covered Crucial's MX100 series here. And reviews of s...
Strong Performance, High Endurance, Long Warranty...
Somewhat Pricey, No Power Loss Protection...
The Samsung SSD 850 PRO Series -- Find Them At Amazon.ComLooking back through the benchmarks, it's clear that Samsung's new SSD 850 PRO series is a winner in terms of performance. The drives led the pack almost across the board, which is quite impressive...
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Considering the breakneck one-upsmanship we saw among early SSD makers, record-setting iterations have been slower to arrive over the last two years with 2012's Samsung SSD 840 Pro series maintaining relevance among a laundry list of competing options aft...
Samsung says the 850 Pro is the fastest, most reliable SATA SSD available and we'll buy that line until we test the SanDisk Extreme Pro or experience a failure.
It certainly isn't the best value considering its premium over the Extreme Pro and availability of drives like the Crucial MX100. RAPID isn't as useful as you may think.
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All of these innovations might make you wonder what could possibly be next. Today I have that answer:If you're going "Hey, they just changed the label from 840 to 850!", well, think again. This SSD might have the same MEX controller as its predecessor, bu...
Outstanding performance, Excellent fragmentation resiliency, 10 Year Warranty (yeah, I said it)...
Hard to come up with one, but I'd really like to see this V-NAND doing the TLC/SLC trick that the EVO series does. Samsung tells me this is absolutely doable, which likely makes this con into a pro, Intro price of smaller capacity units is a bit on the hi...
PROS:Outstanding performanceExcellent fragmentation resiliency10 Year Warranty (yeah, I said it)CONS:Hard to come up with one, but I'd really like to see this V-NAND doing the TLC/SLC trick that the EVO series does. Samsung tells me this is absolutely doa...
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benchmarkreviews.com Updated: 2018-02-01 05:10:00
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The Samsung SSD 850 PRO offers up to 100,000 IOPS random reads and a 540/470 MBps sequential read/write speed – both made possible by Samsung 3D V-NAND technology and 850 PRO's MEX controllers. According to Samsung, with the 850 PRO solid state drive in R...
Outstanding 566/537 MBps read/write speed with ATTO, Random 4K read/writes produced 94,985 IOPS – best tested!, 32layer 3D VNAND Flash delivers double the endurance, Native write acceleration – no compression used, Samsung 3core MEX controller supports TR...
Expensive enthusiast product...
Our first rating is performance, which compares how effective the Samsung SSD 850 PRO performs in benchmark operations against competing SATA-based solid state drive storage solutions. For reference, Samsung specifications suggest 550 MB/s maximum reads...
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Here we go again. Another Serial ATA SSD is ready for prime time. Like all the others that have been cropping up recently, it combines a familiar controller with next-gen flash memory.But Samsung's 850 Pro isn't like the others at all.In most new SSDs, th...
Before we weigh in with our final verdict, we'll bust out a few of our famous value scatter plots. The best solutions will gravitate toward the upper left corner of the plot, which signifies high performance and low prices. Click the buttons below the pl...
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Samsung's 3D V-NAND was introduced as a natural solution to these concerns. With 3D V-NAND, Samsung promises twice the density of conventional memory, up to twice the write performance, half the power consumption, along with an incredible 10 times the end...
Samsung has stepped well in front of their competition by introducing the newest 850 Pro SSD with their newest 3D V-NAND architecture. Unbelivable endurance, greater performance, higher density and a 10 year warranty make this an easy SSD purchase decisi...
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Both the Samsung Pro and the Samsung EVO go on sale very soon in a 2TB capacity and the only way a company could have reached this capacity point in a typical notebook SSD is with 3D V-NAND technology. 3D V-NAND memory has the ability to increase capacity...
We don't think that anyone would expect a performance difference between the Samsung EVO/Pro 1TB SSD and the 2TB SSD, but that's the effect of most of us seeing flash technology increase at such a fast pace.I could be wrong but I believe that, up until th...
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