Testseek.com have collected 231 expert reviews of the Samsung 2.5 inch 850 Pro Series SATA600 and the average rating is 90%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung 2.5 inch 850 Pro Series SATA600.
July 2014
(90%)
231 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(93%)
3371 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Incredibly fast transfers
Build quality
Low power consumption
Huge capacity
Fast for a SATA drive
Mega 10 year warranty
The Samsung SSD 850 Pro has fast performance
High endurance -- you can write a lot of data to it before it becomes unreliable -- and its 2TB capacity is the highest on the market. The drive comes with a lot of useful features
Including encryption
And a
The editors didn't like
Comparatively slow 128GB version
Strong mid-range competitors
Expensive price
Especially for 512GB
Insanely expensive
Outpaced by M.2 drives
Limited appeal outside of laptops
The drive is expensive compared with competing solid-state drives. The Samsung Magician software only works with Windows
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...
Abstract: 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...
Published: 2015-07-10, Author: Andrew , review by: techadvisor.co.uk
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...
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...
Abstract: 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...
Published: 2014-10-07, Author: Richard , review by: vortez.net
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...
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. ...