Decent launch MSRP's with availability of all lines and capacities on launch morning. Precisely how it should be done. The Samsung 850 EVO line carries a 5 year warranty, rated at 40GB/day for 120GB/250GB (75 TBW) and 80GB/day for 500GB/1TB (150 TBW).

I did my research. A great deal. M2 is the way to go.

I just purchased the Samsung 850 Evo in a z270e Strix motherboard. It was an ease to install once I realized this takes a SATA port away from motherboard. So you will have to move your primary hard drive if its using the first port. This threw me off guard as my primary dive disappeared.

From a technological perspective, the new 850 EVO drives do not bring anything new to the table since it's essentially the 2.5" 850 EVO in a smaller form factor, but what it does bring to the market is more selection in mSATA and M.2 form factors using the SATA protocols.

Samsung's 850 EVO SSD debuted in December inside the usual 2.5" case. Now, the drive is spreading to smaller mSATA and M.2 form factors....

The look of the item can trick you to think it is a 2.5" standard physical size. But it needs an adaptor in my application before in my laptop.

Samsung does it yet again. The 850 EVO 500GB M.2 SATA III SSD lights up our charts and takes no prisoners. Oh yeah, it's cheap too.

just now added to my HP x360 EnvyM6 AQ105 18h nov2017 its very easy and magician software by Samsung is awesome after so many days of reaserch and hard work finally work is done with a great fear as my laptop was brand new with HDD no ssd now i can use both for booting ssd M.2 sata and HDD as...

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Samsung is the 800-pound gorilla of the solid-state drive (SSD) world. Because of its size and capabilities, the company can manufacture every single critical component inside its M.2 SSDs, including the flash memory, the controller chip, and the firmware. This is a position that no other company enjoys—not even Intel, which is able to produce its own flash memory (known in SSD lingo as "NAND flash"), and its own circuit boards and firmware, but uses third-party controllers. This puts Samsung in a rare and enviable position, and one that it says allows it to fine-tune the performance of its SSDs in a way that other companies simply can't match. Though that sounds like marketing bluster, Samsung actually backs it up with class-leading performance across its SSD lineup. So there does appear to be some evidence of it. Although today's review is about the all-new M.2 version of the Samsung SSD 850 EVO ($119.99 for 250GB), let's rewind a bit and look at the context of this SSD. Si...

The SSD 850 EVO M.2 is the best-rounded SATA M.2 SSD we've tested so far, offering a superb blend of performance, endurance, affordability, and killer software.

Excellent all-around performance; Field-leading SSD utility software; Competitive pricing for M.2 form factor

SATA-bus only; Maximum capacity in SSD 850 EVO M.2 line is only 500GB