Samsung SSD 850 Pro

usability, price, reliability, size, design

95% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

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.

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.

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...

The Samsung 850 Pro is a cracking SSD, but you pay a high price for its incredible performance. The 256GB model costs £140 or 55p per gigabyte. The 512GB

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,...

Nothing to mention.

As an operating system drive, the Samsung 850 Pro 1000GB SSD is pretty hard to fault. Performance is outstanding and the SSD proved to be very stable during the testing period. The new 3D V-NAND is a huge step in the right direction in my opinion....

Edges out the Intel SSD 670p in 4K random reads ; Competitive pricing for its performance class ; Field-leading SSD software suite ; Good durability rating for MLC ; Five-year warranty

Still capped at PCI Express 3.0's natural ceiling

Samsung's SSD 980 M.2 drive provides a stellar mid-tier option for new or returning fans of the company's SSDs, squeaking the most performance possible out of PCI Express 3.0 in 2021.

Excellent price-to-performance ratio for a SATA-based SSD ; Very fast 4K read and write speeds ; Feature-rich Magician management software ; 8TB version coming soon

Warranty is only three years ; QLC's modest durability ratings make it less suited to heavy write duty

If you're looking for one of the best 2.5-inch SATA SSDs in terms of value and performance for the money, search no further than Samsung's SSD 870 QVO, a stellar followup to its first QLC-based outing.