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What is the Samsung 850 Pro 2TB? Samsung's 850 Pro represents the pinnacle of the performance SSD market, but its position at the top of the heap is under threat: cheaper drives are offering decent performance for less cash, and new form factors such as P...
Huge, hard disk-style capacity, Excellent performance levels, Lengthy warranty and endurance...
No quicker than 850 Evo 2TB, Pricier than 850 Evo 2TB, No extras included...
The Samsung 850 Pro combines impressive performance levels with the market's best endurance rating and warranty. But if you don't require that level of protection, then the 2TB 850 Evo offers equivalent performance for less...
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Samsung is updating its SATA SSD product line by adding new 2TB options to the 850 Pro and 850 Evo families. Are they any better than the existing models?A few days ago, we published a Tom's Hardware State of Solid State editorial that discussed what we w...
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The semiconductor division of the Korean giant has worked hard to make and market its solid-state drives, both to the computer industry where its drives are routinely installed in popular notebooks; and to the wider consumer audience that is now recognisi...
The Samsung 850 PRO arrived just too late for last year's round-up of the best SSDs, but even a year down the line it still has little serious competition in the stakes for the world's best SATA SSD. It may be left for dust by more modern PCIe drives such...
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The day is coming sooner rather than later when all but long-term cold storage will be solid-state. Soon every PC will ship with an SSD onboard. Today, Samsung hits a new milestone by delivering the first ever 2TB consumer SSD's. This high capacity is fac...
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Performance or capacity? That's been the dichotomy that's dominated data storage since the first mainstream solid-state drives for PCs appeared nearly a decade ago.But now Samsung has launched the first 2TB SSDs aimed at consumers. Give it up for the Sams...
Huge capacity, Fast for a SATA drive, Mega 10 year warranty...
Insanely expensive, Outpaced by M.2 drives, Limited appeal outside of laptops...
Samsung's latest SSD puts an end to solid-state capacity limitations, but at a price both in terms of money and performance...
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techradar.com/au/ Updated: 2016-10-24 01:32:58
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Performance or capacity? That's been the dichotomy that's dominated data storage since the first mainstream solid-state drives for PCs appeared nearly a decade ago.But now Samsung has launched the first 2TB SSDs aimed at consumers. Give it up for the Sa...
Huge capacity, Fast for a SATA drive, Mega 10 year warranty...
Insanely expensive, Outpaced by M.2 drives, Limited appeal outside of laptops...
Samsung's latest SSD puts an end to solid-state capacity limitations, but at a price both in terms of money and performance...
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Several readers commented on the lack of 2.5" SATA drives in our SM951 coverage...
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pcpowerplay.com.au Updated: 2016-10-24 01:33:02
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While Samsung might be better known for its LCD TVs, the company has simply dominated the SSD market for the last twelve months. Unlike other SSD makers, who need to source external memory modules or controller chips, Samsung has the ability to build ever...
The best SSD available today.
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apcmag.com Updated: 2016-10-24 01:33:06
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While manufacturers have announced larger capacity SSDs (2TB and more), for storing a lot of files, a mechanical HDD is still a much more affordable option. This looks set to change in the future though, as SSD production volume increases lead to lower pr...
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Samsung's current flagship is a testament to the benefits of controlling an entire supply chain, from research to production. That tight grip means Samsung's 850 Pro was the first commercial drive to deploy 3D V-NAND, and it helps this drive maintain a le...
The market-leading Samsung uses innovative memory chips to devastating effect...
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Nearly all SSD manufacturers refreshed their line-up this year. Armed with the test results of sixty 240/256 and 480/512 GB models, we'll be more than able to tell you which SSDs are the best choice right now. We'll briefly cover the SSDs that we've...
Samsung's 850 Pro SSDs are without a doubt the fastest SSDs of this moment. Given that this product does not seem to have any flaws, we heartily recommend it to those who are looking for the fastest possible SSD. The Vector 150 and AMD Radeon R7 SSDs ar...
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3D V-NAND allows Samsung to stack the cells in NAND flash chips vertically as well as horizontally, thereby increasing the capacity of NAND flash chips in a SSD without having to rely on ever smaller manufacturing processes that are increasingly difficult...
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Product on Review: ProManufacturer and Sponsor: SamsungStreet Price: TBCLast year, Samsung were the first manufacturer to mass produce layer V-NAND for use in enterprise solutions Never wanting to rest on their laurels, Samsung have today unleashed an e...
Very fast write speeds, Great IOPs performance, 10 year warranty...
Magician software (4.4 beta) not currently compatible with overclocked CPUs...
The Samsung 850 Pro is a logical progression from the drive it replaces in the Samsung line-up, the 840 Pro. It has faster read speeds and while our sample was inferior to the 840 Pro in terms of write performance in some benchmarks, we can only assume th...
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This is the fourth and final 850 Pro single drive review we have to publish. On launch day, we tested the massive 1TB drive, and the surprisingly speedy 128GB model. Last month, we looked at the 512GB drive, which offered a perfect balance of cost, perfor...
Samsung had nearly two years on Toshiba/SanDisk in the TLC flash race, and it looks like Samsung will have a two-year head start on 3D flash technology as well. Although we haven't seen 3D TLC flash from Samsung in a retail product yet, the company has a...
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Samsung has been in the SSD business for over ten years. Most of that time has been spent delivering drives to the Enterprise and OEM segments. Since the introduction of its first consumer SSD drive (the SSD430) in 2010, it has since shipped over 12m dri...
With even some low-end SSDs fast approaching the limits of the SATA 6Gb/s interface, performance really isn't as big an issue as it was this time a year ago. Samsung has turned its beady eye on another very important aspect of the SSD, namely endurance...
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Solid-state storage is found in everything from smartphones and tablets to servers and workstations. Flash has become the dominant form of memory because it's faster than traditional spinning hard disks, more reliable, and prices have dropped dramatically...
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ocaholic.ch.english Updated: 2016-10-24 01:33:33
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The 850 PRO 256 GB is Samsung's flagship consumer-grade SATA SSD. The series features Samsungs latest 3D V-NAND with 24 layers and 128Gbit density. Thanks to this NAND flash memory the drive features a high endurance rating and apart from that also perfor...
Announcement: Despite the circumstance that the rating of a product is based on as many objective facts as possible there are factors which can have an influence on a rating after publication Every autor may perceive data differently over time whereas one...
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digitalversus.com Updated: 2016-10-24 01:33:36
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The Samsung 850 Pro takes off where the outstanding 840 Pro left off. This faster series of solid-state drives introduces Samsung's 3D V-NAND architecture, which is unique in that it stacks the memory cells on top of each other in order to save space. Thi...
Outstanding reads, Outstanding writes, SSD Magician, Cloning software included, 10year warranty...
No accessories, Much more expensive than competing SSDs...
With brand-new 3D V-NAND in tow, the Samsung 850 Pro Series has achieved the difficult feat of slightly outperforming its predecessor, which makes it one of the fastest SSDs on the market. But fast reads and writes aren't all it offers. It also has two he...
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On paper, the Samsung 850 Pro 512GB should be the most exciting SSD for our normal audience. The 850 Pro drives we've already tested, the 128GB and massive 1TB, were both faster than competing products in their capacity sizes, and offer the longest warran...
We didn't spend a lot of time talking about the 3D V-NAND in this article or RAPID Mode. We just published a very detailed V-NAND whitepaper and RAPID Mode was discussed in detail in our initial reviews...
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uk.hardware.info Updated: 2016-10-24 01:33:49
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Samsung recently introduced their 850 Pro SSDs, which are the first consumer-oriented SSDs based on 3D V-NAND , or stacked flash memory. And for those of you who don't really care about this innovation in the domain of flash memory, we also have good ne...
The combination of Samsung's existing MEX controller, the new firmware, and the second generation of 3D V-NAND ensure that the Samsung 850 Pro SSDs are clearly the fastest Serial ATA 600 based SSDs in the world. The SSDs achieve excellent scores in all...
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At first glance, the untrained eye may see very little difference between Samsung's newest SSD, the 850 Pro, and its predecessor, the widely lauded 840 Pro. A black shell that clings on to the same dimensions of the previous model, the 850's only obvious...
From what we've seen, the Samsung 850 is one of the fastest and most powerful SSDs on the market. Simply by going vertical, Samsung has found in 3D V-NAND an opening to much higher solid state drive capacity. In other words, this could be the enabler for...
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Buying an SSD can massively increase the speed of your PC, improving boot times, program loading speed and slashing power consumption. But what makes one solid-state drive different to another? All the changes you can't see. Samsung's new 850 Pro makes so...
Incredibly fast transfers, Build quality, Low power consumption...
Comparatively slow 128GB version, Strong mid-range competitors, Expensive price, especially for 512GB...
The Samsung 850 Pro is, by all metrics, one of the fastest and most powerful SSDs on the market. If you want the best, though, this is the drive to get — and when you're building or upgrading a computer to stand the test of time, it makes excellent sense...
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Just moments ago, we posted a review of the Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SSD. The drive performed very well in our tests, blew us away with its advanced technology but left us scratching our heads with the price. Now it's time to look at the smallest capacity size...
Even with a controller that is a year old, the Samsung 850 Pro is the most advanced SSD on the market. What is amazing is that the factory where the new V-NAND comes from is also around a year old. Not a yearlong into production but the new factory broke...
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One year ago, Samsung flexed its tech muscle and delivered the first retail SSD with triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash, 840 EVO. 2D planar NAND flash, typically referred to as SLC, MLC or TLC got us to where we are today...well yesterday. Like other sili...
sections. We had to wait for Samsung's MSRP list to hit our email and when it came, it hit hard...
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hardwareheaven.com Updated: 2016-10-24 01:34:05
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It would be fair to say that the Samsung 840 Pro was one of the best SSDs we have tested. It offered class leading performance, good build quality, a decent software suite and a good warranty. In their 840 Evo they offered many of the same benefits but pr...
Video Review:As we noted earlier in the review, the 840Pro was an SSD which hugely impressed us. Essentially it was a product which offerd a high quality experience in every aspect, including the two most important, speed and reliability. We have yet to h...
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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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What we do know is that the SSD 850 PRO is actually using the second generation of Samsung's 3D VNAND. The first to be developed was a 24 layer structure, though as yet it hasn't made it to market in a consumer SSD. 3D VNAND is based on Samsung's Charg...
The SSD 850 PRO is yet another fantastic entry into the SSD market from Samsung. With the limits of the SATA interface quickly being reached now, it's harder to tease out the performance differences between drives. Even so, the SSD 850 PRO is class-leadin...
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How does one introduce a company that had revenue of $327 billion in 2013? Simple, Samsung have been one of the main global cornerstones of technology since their emergence onto the market all the way back in 1938. With products ranging from TVs, hard d...
Having had the pleasure to be given the opportunity to try out the new Samsung 850 Pro at least a week or two before release, I had a good chance to have a play around, test and use it on a daily basis prior to writing this conclusion. The big question r...
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Now in 2TB flavours: Samsung 850 Evo (left) and Samsung 850 Pro (right) The dropping prices of solid-state drives is a good thing for the consumer. Driven down by the economic benefits of mass-produced NAND, it's now possible to purchase 250GB drives for...
Massive capacity, Very solid performance, Excellent endurance, 10-year warranty...
Price, Solitary form factor...
Samsung has used its proprietary 3D V-NAND technology to construct a new SSD that expands storage to a whopping 2TB. Interesting insofar as the technology uses an older, more mature process in a stacked formation, endurance, capacity and warranty are all...
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We have mentioned many times in previous SSD reviews that the market for SSDs is extremely competitive and price-sensitive. And the only way to remain competitive is to own your NAND production facilities or intellectual property in the form of the SSD co...
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As technology moves forward, SSDs nowadays becomes faster, more affordable and comes with larger capacities. Today let's take a look at Samsung's first SSD featuring 3D V-NAND Technology and it's also the first SSD in the market to have such kind of techn...
3D V-NAND Technology is just the beginning and has just opened new doors for the SSD industry. While PCIe based SSDs are slowly rising from the market, there is still very limited market due to its very high price, despite that it offers a much faster rea...
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Vertical integration, that is the keyword today in the SSD business. In an increasingly competitive and crowded marketplace, it is important to be able to distinguish yourself from your competitors and being vertically integrated, meaning to have your own...
Greatness AwaitsDespite the multitudes of different SSDs that are available in the market today, truly great innovations in this market are few and far between. The reason for this is because there are only a handful of NAND manufacturers and an equally s...
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One night, staying up late after doing some work, I caught the fact that eBay was having a 15% off “everything” sale. A few minutes later, a bright idea popped in my head, and almost equally as quickly, over AU$500 had been spent. The bright side? Well, I...
As expected, Samsung's 850 Pro is a monster of an SSD. It turns out great performance figures for a client SSD and is starting to be limited by the ability of the SATA III connection. The 3D VNAND technology remains a specialty of Samsung (although Toshib...
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Solid-state storage is standard-issue for storing data in tablets and smartphones, where it's relied upon for its tiny size and rugged nature. Those same virtues can be handy in desktop PCs and especially laptops too, but it's the speed of an SSD (solid-s...
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Form factor is the shape and connection type used to hook up the SSD to your computer. There are two main physical shapes on the market: the traditional 2.5in drive, which is direct drop-in replacement for a hard drive, and the M.2 format. This latter typ...
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We have mentioned many times in previous SSD reviews that the market for SSDs is extremely competitive and price-sensitive. And the only way to remain competitive is to own your NAND production facilities or intellectual property in the form of the SSD co...
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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: 2016-10-24 01:32:50
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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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Now in 2TB flavours: Samsung 850 Evo (left) and Samsung 850 Pro (right) The dropping prices of solid-state drives is a good thing for the consumer. Driven down by the economic benefits of mass-produced NAND, it's now possible to purchase 250GB drives for...
Massive capacity, Very solid performance, Excellent endurance, 10year warranty...
Price, Solitary form factor...
Samsung has used its proprietary 3D V-NAND technology to construct a new SSD that expands storage to a whopping 2TB. Interesting insofar as the technology uses an older, more mature process in a stacked formation, endurance, capacity and warranty are all...
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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: 2016-10-24 01:32:56
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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: 2016-10-24 01:33:02
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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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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: 2016-10-24 01:33:45
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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: 2016-10-24 01:34:17
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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: 2016-10-24 01:34:20
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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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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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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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