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

When it comes to flash memory, Samsung is probably be the biggest innovator. While it's true that Crucial have repeatedly earned our praise (most recently for the featuring 16 nm MLC NAND with a memory density of 256 Gbits per Die), Samsung is known for more radical changes: last year, the Samsung...

Outstanding Performance; Support for Microsoft eDrive / TCG Opal; Very high write load specification; Ten-year warranty

It may have taken just a tad longer for SATA solid state drives (SSDs) to finally hit the performance wall specified by the SATA III standard but the fact that we are here means that PCIex solutions will soon cease to be the only ones capable for read/write speeds exceeding 1000MB/s and although for...

- Build Quality; - Excellent Overall Performance; - Features (TurboWrite/RAPID Mode/eDrive Support; - Samsung Magician Software; - 10 Year Warranty; - Available In 1TB

- Price (For Some

The Samsung SSD 850 PRO gives enthusiasts about everything they could want in a single SATA SSD. Like drives before it, Samsung has infused the SSD 850 PRO with new technology to make it a class leader in terms of performance, endurance and warranty.

Top-in-class performance; 10-year warranty; Low overall power consumption

Samsung SSD Evo; OCZ Vertex 460; Crucial/Micron M550; Crucial MX100; SanDisk Extreme Pro; SanDisk Extreme Pro (480GB; SanDisk 1Ynm; eX2 ABL MLC Flash; SATA; Samsung SSD 840 Pro; Intel SSD 730; Top-in-class performance; 10-year warranty; Low overall power consumption; Write power consumption higher...

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.

Before we weigh in with our final verdict, we'll bust out a few of our famous value scatter plots. The best solutions will gravitate toward the upper left corner of the plot, which signifies high performance and low prices.