Samsung 850 Pro 512GB Full Review - NAND Goes 3D!

Samsung has certainly been pushing the envelope in the SSD field. For the past two years straight, they have launched class leading storage products, frequently showing outside-the-box thinking. Their 840 PRO series was an impressive MLC performer to say the least, but even more impressive was the 840 EVO, which combined cost-efficient TLC flash with a super-fast SLC cache. The generous SLC area, present on each die and distributed amongst all flash chips within the drive, enabled the EVO to maintain PRO-level performance for the majority of typical consumer (and even power user) usage scenarios. The main win for the EVO was the fact that it could be produced at a much lower cost, and since its release, we've seen the EVO spearheading the push to lower cost SSDs.

All of these innovations might make you wonder what could possibly be next. Today I have that answer:

If you're going "Hey, they just changed the label from 840 to 850!", well, think again. This SSD might have the same MEX controller as its predecessor, but Samsung has done some significant overhauling of the flash memory itself. Allow me to demonstrate.

[mars]

Samsung's technology is the alien's technology.
That's awesome!

[jesper]

Samsung is still the king of SSD! Still running my Samsung 830, so the 850 pro would be a great opgrade (512gb)

[laharlk]

i'm happy with my 500gb 840 EVO. Good to know samsung's pushing the prices down while retaining good performance. That was the main reason i choose mine.

[RongGuy]

It's necessary to push performance of course, so that we will finally get faster storage interfaces like SATA-Express to become more "mainstream". But for me personally, I'm more interested in the costs going down rather than having higher performance, because the difference between a HDD and a "budget" SSD is a lot bigger than the difference between a "budget" SSD and a performance SSD.

[corty]

If they make pci-e version I would buy. finally a v-nand(3d-nand)product been hearing about the tech since 2005.

[Sukyfbebe]

wow alllen is a hard drive and ssd wizard..

[TheKwod]

awesome horribly under utilized in the full podcasts but here you kickass.

[muhammadaamir]

I think now is my time to shift to SSD from HDD. I was actually concerned about the endurance and life of SSD. Now not anymore with 10 years of warranty

[mastahswordz]

after replacing my logic board on my macbook pro, my samsung ssd 840 pro benchmark read became 40mbs and write 120mbps before  it was 450++. How do I fix this?

[Cheesepuff]

I want the m.2 version. I got an ASUS Maximus VII Hero in anticipation of populating that m.2 slot!

[TheOfficialLBG]

Isn't this one of the main evolving points for DDR4 too?

[delatroy]

840 Pro likely gonna be a great buy shortly bros~

[MVrockersPS]

Love my 840 pro. Need more space though 256gb is not enough!

[WiseOldDudee]

Hmmmm 840 or 850 pro for gaming?( i can pay the extra 25 euros for the improvements it has)

[Bladex]

Just preordered 4 1TB 850PRO SSD's :D

Gonna be replacing by 2 1TB 840 EVO SSDs

Maybe be costly, but since it's the SSDs from samsung, it will be worth every penny.

[earnestbunbury]

229$ on Newegg for 256gb, 429$ for 512gb model.

[topchoice]

would this be good for my macbook pro 13 inch non retina i wanna upgrade my laptop with the 512 850 and 16g of ram from owc is this possible 

[gideonxl]

Happy to remove my Agility3 128gb,
Now watching this on Samsung 850 Pro 256gb.  :)
Cost € 157

[drsnowmon]

After using 830, I won't buy anything else other than Samsung

[Lawls]

Gee, was just about to buy a computer with an 840 evo in it, glad i saw this video haha XD
btw, which is better? pro or evo cuz I haven't got a clue lol