I wasn't kidding earlier. Samsung has so much confidence in the increased endurance of their V-NAND that they've upped the warranty to 10-years, rated at 40GB of writes per day, which equates to 150TB of total writes.

Samsung created a lovely product with the 850 Pro series of SSDs, they are remarkably fast in pretty much any and all tests from our benchmark suite. The drive is continuously in the top 5 of tested SSDs performance wise and to see performance that high with such consistency shows that the SSD is...

October 20, 2014 by Lawrence Lee Product Crucial MX100 512GB 2.5 inch SSD Samsung 850 Pro 256GB 2.5 inch SSD Manufacturer Crucial Technology Samsung Street Price US$210 US$190 Crucial and Samsung are two of the biggest names in solid-state drives.

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.

Late deliver

I have purchased quite a few hard ssds and always come back to Samsung. magician and transfer software works first time and no bugs left behind after the swap. Cant see how you could improve on this one. Off the scale performance on a i7 processor

simple and effective

nothing to dislike

When it works it's good. Next time a different brand.

Fast; lots of storage

Stops responding every once in a while requiring a reboot Very bad firmware support search samsung 850 pro firmware if you want to see for yourself..

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

I think I'll grab two of the 1-TB versions for my gaming laptop and stripe them so they're twice as fast. :D

Speed

Cost

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.