Testseek.co.uk 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
Very fast write speeds
Great IOPs performance
10 year warranty
Massive capacity
Very solid performance
Excellent endurance
10-year warranty
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
Outstanding reads
Outstanding writes
SSD Magician
Cloning software included
10year warranty
3D VNAND
Powerful architecture
Huge
Hard disk-style capacity
Excellent performance levels
Lengthy warranty and endurance
The editors didn't like
Magician software (4.4 beta) not currently compatible with overclocked CPUs
Price
Solitary form factor
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
Published: 2015-05-12, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
Abstract: 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...
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...
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
Nothing to mention.
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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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 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...
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...
Published: 2014-09-03, Author: Joel , review by: extremetech.com
Abstract: 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...
