The 2.5" SATA versions of the 850 EVO will be available 'later this month (December)', with M.2 and mSATA versions coming 'next year'. The 840 EVO was a great launch and sold very well, but Samsung did not rest on their laurels.

My laptop had a 120GB mSATA, which was an upgrade and working fine. However, when I saw the price for this 250GB mSATA with a "5 YEAR" warranty, it just made logical sense to upgrade my laptop with this new SAMSUNG mSATA. My mSATA port is a SATA 3.0 port and this SAMSUNG mSATA is a speed demon.

Who won't like to buy it.. It's of samsung brand, 250 GB and such great discount

Can Samsung pull off a "three-peat?" The Seoul, South Korea-based memory giant this week unveiled the 850 EVO series, its latest solid-state drives for professionals and consumers that Samsung claims will deliver unmatched performance and endurance due to its 3-bit vertical NAND stacked-cell...

Installation was easy. Performance was greatly improved, most seen at startup and shutdown. Just order Item 9098819 to clone the old hard drive to the new hard drive. This item is a Universal SSD Cloning Kit for Win XP thru Win 10. It is suitable for anyone who can follow the on-screen directions.

installed this on 2 different computer and it increased boot and load time of games from your standard hard drive. Windows 10 boots within 15 seconds from a complete power off state. Total load time with 20 background apps is about 30 seconds.

Today we're looking at the M.2 version of Samsung's popular 850 Evo SSD. We've already benchmarked the 2.5-inch 840 Evo and 850 Evo , so we're curious to see how this smaller form factor shapes up. Thanks to Samsung, we've got our hands on a unit to serve in our XSR test rig, so let's take a look!

Pretty fast; Super tiny

Not the fastest; Limited to SATA speeds

Before we weigh in with our final verdict, we'll bust out a few of our famous value scatter plots. These plots use an overall performance score compared against a common baseline. This score is based on a subset of the performance data from our full suite, with CrystalDiskMark's sequential transfer...

The Samsung 850 EVO 500GB is an extremely impressive SSD that provides class-leading technology and speeds to the market. Through our benchmark results, we found the drive to perform consistently well and above all its competitors.

My windows processes became faster. No lags, 2 sec booting time. I was waiting for this kind of stuff for ling.