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 .

Strong Performance; High Endurance; Long Warranty

Somewhat Pricey; No Power Loss Protection

Let's first step back a few years, to when SSDs first started to appear. They were very expensive, low capacity affairs. Sequential speeds were faster than HDDs, but not by much. Access times were much faster than HDDs, and of course small file random performance also was, in general, much better...

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 very high queue depths; Sustainable writing...

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Samsung created a lovely product with the 850 Pro series of SSDs, they are remarkably fast in pretty much any and all tests from our benchmark suite. The drive is continuously in the top 5 of tested SSDs performance wise and to see performance that high with such consistency shows that the SSD is...

Ever since our first discovery of the 470 Series SATA 2 SSD way back in 2010, Samsung has been unstoppable, carving out a new standard with every SSD release. The release of the 850 Pro SSD with 3D V-NAND is a perfect example of just that.

Today Samsung is unveiling their latest SSD and successor to the mighty 840 Pro. Named the 850 Pro it is not only faster than the 840 Pro and possibly the fastest SATA SSD money can buy, but more importantly it is also one of the most reliable thanks to its use of V-NAND flash memory.

October 20, 2014 by Lawrence Lee Product Crucial MX100 512GB 2.5 inch SSD Samsung 850 Pro 256GB 2.5 inch SSD Manufacturer Crucial Technology Samsung Street Price US$210 US$190 Crucial and Samsung are two of the biggest names in solid-state drives.

Samsung recently introduced their 850 Pro SSDs, which are the first consumer-oriented SSDs based on 3D V-NAND. Do they allow Samsung to reclaim the performance crown?

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.

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.

Samsung SSD 850 PRO 256GB Review Manufacturer: Samsung UK price (as reviewed): Approx £145 (inc VAT) US price (as reviewed): MSRP $199.99 (ex Tax) Despite being introduced a couple of years ago now, Samsung's SSD 840 PRO continues to find itself at the top of performance benchmarks, with other...