Solid reliable SSD drive. I use it to replace an older and smaller, 500GB, Crucial M500 SSD drive. This 850 Pro drive is much faster to boot and run programs.

Degrading performance had me take the step to upgrade the hard drive. Glad I did, faster loading, quicker responses have enabled me to do more work in less time.

Samsung Customer Support will not advance replace a defective drive. Instead, you must ship the defective drive to Samsung, wait for them to test, repair or replace, and return ship. So if you (as I) need reliable, advanced replacement, Samsung is not the company to consider

Makes any PC come to life and boot up 'instantly'. This is very suitable for top range i7 Laptops (or PCs) and works well with fast Vengeange DDR ram. Like turning your PC into a top end Mac Book Pro. Result is top score on Windows performance ranking.

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.

We've seen many solid state drives over the past few years, some memorable and some forgettable. But it's rather rare to see new technologies emerge that push the boundaries of performance, features, and even pricing.

Extensive software package; Data Migration; Great stock performance; Otherworldly performance with RAPID Mode enabled

Price premium

Last year, Samsung were the first manufacturer to mass produce 24 layer V-NAND for use in enterprise solutions. Never wanting to rest on their laurels, Samsung have today unleashed an enhanced 32 layer 3D V-NAND equipped drive for the enthusiast market.

+ Very fast write speeds; + Great IOPs performance; + 10 year warranty

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.

Bought this to replace a Crucial M500 which was hosting a windows 10 VM on my imac. The Crucial disk wasn't giving any problems but I wanted the extra space and what I thought was extended life.

Got two of these a few weeks ago. I have raided them together on my iMac 27" in a thunderbolt enclosure. (StarTech.com S252SMTB3 - Thunderbolt Hard Drive Enclosure with Thunderbolt Cable). I get read speeds over 880mb/s and write speeds averaging around the 850mb/s mark. Amazing drives.