With a reduced warranty and only a tiny speed boost, the 860 Pro is massively overpriced

Improved power consumption; Huge endurance improvements; Very slightly faster than the 860 Evo

Warranty has been halved to five years; Seriously expensive

Launched at the same time as the EVO model, the Samsung SSD860 PRO, the successor the mighty 850 PRO, uses Samsung's 64-layer MLC V-NAND and has an endurance rating that eclipses the previous generation 850 PRO's life expectancy.

Performance; Endurance rating; 5 year warranty

Pricey

Between the small speed increases and big internal upgrades, the Samsung 860 Pro is a worthy successor to the world's best SATA SSD. But it's ultimately an iteration most users can skip.

Slightly faster speeds; New 4TB capacity model; Improved security and reliability

SATA III limits maximum write and read speeds

Solid State Drives endured a difficult birth that sparked massive debate across the internet. Anyone who ever used one new instantly that this was a proper game-changing piece of hardware, and even now after all this time we still say that the biggest upgrade you can do is to go from a mechanical...

I bought the Samsung 860 pro in the hope of injecting life into my 6 year old toshiba qosmio laptop and I'm so glad that I did. At first I wasn't sure if I should fork out over ￡300 on a ssd when you can easily get a 2tb hybrid drive for a quarter of what your paying for the Samsung 860 pro.

I mainly purchased the Samsung 860 PRO as I understand it is more resilient to heavy use - as far as extra speed goes I cannot see any difference between my old SSD, that is until I activate the Rapid mode in the software (Samsung Magician) when a slight increase in performance is noticeable - at...

Installed this into an old PC and instantly transformed the performance. All applications opened within a few seconds and the machine felt like a brand new one. I was very happy with it. Sadly after about 3 months, the computer would not boot and reported that it was unable to repair itself.

Very good SSD, I like it, not issue for the moment.

Samsung is a global leader in V-NAND memory technology and has released the updated 860 PRO and EVO SSD (solid state disks). They are fast. Ray Shaw [email protected] has a passion for IT ever since building his first computer in 1980.

The fastest SATA 6GB/s interface SSDs yet

A little pricey

The Samsung 860 Pro is fast, and reasonably priced considering its best-in-class endurance rating (read about the NVMe Intel 900P to learn about some truly jaw-dropping endurance). You may find something a bit cheaper in a 2.5-inch SATA SSD-but you won't anything better. Tags samsung