Time will tell, however from past purchases the Samsung's have proven very reliable. This drive comes with system copy software as well as health analysis software.

Considering the breakneck one-upsmanship we saw among early SSD makers, record-setting iterations have been slower to arrive over the last two years with 2012's Samsung SSD 840 Pro series maintaining relevance among a laundry list of competing options after price cuts brought it from $1.05 per...

Samsung says the 850 Pro is the fastest; most reliable SATA SSD available and we'll buy that line until we test the SanDisk Extreme Pro or experience a failure

It certainly isn't the best value considering its premium over the Extreme Pro and availability of drives like the Crucial MX100; RAPID isn't as useful as you may think

Late deliver

Installed it in a mid-2012 MBP unibody A1278 with macOS sierra update, 16GB RAM, after the factory HDD crashed. Reinstalled Yosemite on the SSD. EtreCheck went from "very poor" to "excellent". MBP boots up very fast.

When it comes to flash memory, Samsung is probably be the biggest innovator. While it's true that Crucial have repeatedly earned our praise (most recently for the featuring 16 nm MLC NAND with a memory density of 256 Gbits per Die), Samsung is known for more radical changes: last year, the Samsung...

Outstanding Performance; Support for Microsoft eDrive / TCG Opal; Very high write load specification; Ten-year warranty

We didn't spend a lot of time talking about the 3D V-NAND in this article or RAPID Mode. We just published a very detailed V-NAND whitepaper and RAPID Mode was discussed in detail in our initial reviews . The 850 Pro is a complicated product made easy by its performance.

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 manufacturing its own NAND flash memory.

Super fast; 10-year warranty; slick software that could be a stand-alone product

Quite expensive for what you're getting; warranty is overkill

If one cannot afford nor wants to play in the new & growing world of NVMe SSD's, this is top of the line. Only one or two other brands offers a 10 year warranty on the same drive, or 150 TBW written.

Nice Retail packaging, no way this SSD is going to move around in the tightly packed box; Fast as one is going to get in the SATA-3 SSD line 10 year warranty, double that of the 840 Pro; Going strong for a year, having been in three different PC's

That is's not a NVMe SSD.;-

The 850 Pro is Samsung's new flagship consumer SSD, and the follow-up to the wildly popular 840 Pro, which was one of the best performing SSDs money could buy when it launched in September 2012. We're reviewing the 512GB model here which is priced at ￡232 (US$399, around AUD$420).

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/write speeds exceeding 1000MB/s and although for...

- Build Quality; - Excellent Overall Performance; - Features (TurboWrite/RAPID Mode/eDrive Support; - Samsung Magician Software; - 10 Year Warranty; - Available In 1TB

- Price (For Some