It's been only a few short months since Samsung's 850 Pro delivered the company's long-lasting 32-bit 3D NAND to the high-end/corporate market.

3D NAND promise drive longevity; Good performance for the price

RAPID software creates a risk of data loss

The fastest mainstream SSD around, just not necessarily one to shake the solid state world.

Speedy performance; Good-value; Five-year warranty; The overall performance of the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is impressive; but not exactly earth-shatteringly different compared with the previous generation of affordable EVO drives.

Not a huge generational leap, Definitely consumer-class SSD, As we've said, it's not massively different in terms of performance; It's also not enough quicker than the 512GB Crucial MX100 to really separate it from the cheaper competition at that capacity.

It's true that in the SATA SSD market we don't get many surprises but if i was to choose a single company that has impressed us time and again with their models that would be Samsung.

- Build Quality / Endurance (150TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF; - Excellent Overall Performance; - Features (TurboWrite/RAPID Mode/eDrive Support; - Samsung Magician Software; - 5 Year Warranty; - Available In 1TB

- Price (For Some

When we sampled the previous generation 840 EVO from SAMSUNG we were very impressed. It was reasonably priced, had good encryption qualities and in stock format was also a very fast drive. Add RAPID technology and the drive became a performance beast.

+ RAPID Technology; + 3D V-NAND; + 5 year warranty; + 6.8mm Height

If you've been eyeing the Samsung SSD 850 Pro but can't quite afford it, the 850 Evo is an excellent alternative, if not a better choice. Though officially an upgrade to the Samsung SSD 840 Evo, the new drive is more like the higher-end 850 Pro.

The Samsung SSD 850 Evo delivers great performance and a nice set of features; all at an affordable price

The new SSD doesn't have the 10-year warranty that the Pro model offers; and its Samsung Magician software works only with Windows

M.2 is a new form factor that's quickly becoming the standard storage interface for tablets and Ultrabook laptops, replacing mSATA. Samsung's EVO 850 M.2 is one of the first consumer-friendly M.2 SSDs we've seen; it's essentially a regular EVO 850 SSD squeezed onto a circuit board the size of a...

Great, fast SSD and apart from one issue easy to install. Beware that this does not come with a USB/SATA cable and that putting it in some enclosures for the cloning step will not work.

Faster, significantly increased longevity and at the same time lower production costs. These three seemingly contradicting aspects are what Samsung are said to have succeeded with 3D V-NAND.

TurboWrite cache accelerates esp; smaller models, Supports Microsoft eDrive (encryption, Very good everyday performance, Five-year warranty

Loss of performance under extreme load

I have two of these in RAID 0 in a new build and it preforms better then I expected, OS loads in seconds

I decided to go whole hog and install a 1TB SSD in my new laptop, so I bought this Samsung 850 EVO and it works great. There is PRO series SSD, more expensive, but in the 1TB size the EVO is nearly comparable in performance (and in real world use I doubt most users would notice any difference).