In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. This is the unfortunate but temporary state of consumer SSDs that aren't the Intel 750 or Samsung SM951. Both of those drives offer cutting-edge performance, value (relative to peers), and the potential...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Several readers commented on the lack of 2.5" SATA drives in our SM951 coverage...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
If you want a fast drive without spending a lot, a 250GB SSD is an excellent choice nowadays. There is a lot to choose from in this affordable segment, with differing prices and performance levels. Therefore we compare 33 SSDs with this capacity in this a...
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 ...
There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the Samsung SSD 850 Pro.It's the first SSD on the market that uses the innovative 3D vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory for top performance and ultra-high endurance. It also comes with a rarely seen 10-year...
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...
Now that the price per gigabyte of a lot of SSDs continues to go down, SSDs with more capacity become a lot more interesting. Right now 500 GB SSDs offer a lot for what they cost, making it interesting to take a closer look. Here we compare 20 2.5 inch...
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...
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...
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...
For a long time the operating system was pretty much the only thing installed on an SSD, while everything else, e.g. games, was installed on a secondary hard drive. With the falling pice of SSDs it is becoming more and more common to store more data on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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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...
Samsung has built a good reputation for fast and high-quality SSDs. It introduced the 470 to desktops four years ago, and its SSDs were in high-end laptops before that. The company also distinguished itself by designing its own controller chips and manufa...
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...
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 ...
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
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 ...
Samsung has been very aggressive over the last few years on the solid-state drive (SSD) front. The company has been taking good advantage of its broad range of component-making abilities to stay on the cutting edge of SSD performance while often undercutt...
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 ...
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 ...
There are plenty of reasons to be excited about the Samsung SSD 850 Pro.It's the first SSD on the market that uses the innovative 3D vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory for top performance and ultra-high endurance. It also comes with a rarely seen 10-year...
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...
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...
The supply of SSDs remains high and prices are falling again: it is high time for a new comparison test. You can read it here, based on a completely new test setup, with which we can test SSDs even better than before. We scored 67 models in this test, inc...
You can consider yourself very lucky if you bought an SSD last year. Since September 2016 we have been warning you about a possible price increase and nowadays the price of SSDs is at least a quarter more than we were used to. Which SSD should you purchas...
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 ...