Samsung's new 850 Pro line of SSDs are easily the fastest on the market at the time of publishing. They offer all the newest features in one single package. Samsung's 3D V-NANA, RAPID Mode, and the huge 150TBW make this drive stand out from the crown.

Late deliver

The Samsung 850 Pro is the first Samsung SSD to use a new type of NAND flash: 3D V-NAND. Although it's a very complicated technology, 3D V-NAND is potentially very important for the future of SSDs.

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

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

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 you have a SATA-based PC and want to fit it with the best storage, take a close look at the Samsung 850 PRO. Samsung 850 PRO 1 TB review. Samsung 850 PRO 1 TB benchmarks.

I bought this SSD for both its quality and storage size. Went in without a hitch and the Samsung software easily copied my two 400GB RAID 0 drives to it flawlessly. Three partitions were copied. Not one hitch. If you want more speed, buy several smaller size 850 EVO Pros and RAID 0 them.

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.

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.