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...

Ever since our first discovery of the 470 Series SATA 2 SSD way back in 2010, Samsung has been unstoppable, carving out a new standard with every SSD release. The release of the 850 Pro SSD with 3D V-NAND is a perfect example of just that.

We didn't spend a lot of time talking about the 3D V-NAND in this article or RAPID Mode. We just published a very detailed V-NAND whitepaper and RAPID Mode was discussed in detail in our initial reviews . The 850 Pro is a complicated product made easy by its performance.

In the past few weeks, we've seen a steady stream of new solid state drive releases, from the likes of Plextor, Crucial, and SanDisk. Our review of the Plextor M6M mSATA drive can be found here , and we covered Crucial's MX100 series here .

Strong Performance; High Endurance; Long Warranty

Somewhat Pricey; No Power Loss Protection

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

If you have a SATA-based PC and want to fit it with the best storage, take a close look at the Samsung 850 PRO. Samsung 850 PRO 1 TB review. Samsung 850 PRO 1 TB benchmarks.

I bought this SSD for both its quality and storage size. Went in without a hitch and the Samsung software easily copied my two 400GB RAID 0 drives to it flawlessly. Three partitions were copied. Not one hitch. If you want more speed, buy several smaller size 850 EVO Pros and RAID 0 them.

The Samsung 850 PRO arrived just too late for last year's round-up of the best SSDs, but even a year down the line it still has little serious competition in the stakes for the world's best SATA SSD. It may be left for dust by more modern PCIe drives such as Samsung's own XP941, but if you have a SATA-based PC and want to fit it with the best storage, take the closest look at the 850 PRO.

Considering the breakneck one-upsmanship we saw among early SSD makers, record-setting iterations have been slower to arrive over the last two years with 2012's Samsung SSD 840 Pro series maintaining relevance among a laundry list of competing options after price cuts brought it from $1.05 per...

Samsung says the 850 Pro is the fastest; most reliable SATA SSD available and we'll buy that line until we test the SanDisk Extreme Pro or experience a failure

It certainly isn't the best value considering its premium over the Extreme Pro and availability of drives like the Crucial MX100; RAPID isn't as useful as you may think

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.