(Most of those come with three years of coverage.) Pricing may be its biggest hurdle to SSD stardom-at least at first. The drive's performance is very impressive, and its five-year warranty bests that of other mainstream drives. It comes in 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB versions. 8, 2014, and expected to start selling to consumers later in December. The SSD 850 EVO ($269) is indeed here, debuting on Dec. (Opens in a new window) Read Our OCZ Vertex 460 (240GB) Review And we theorized that this eventual drive might combine the cost-effective Triple Layer Cell (TLC) NAND memory-chip technology (present in the SSD 840 EVO) with the speed and endurance benefits of the newer kind of memory, 3D V-NAND, that debuted in the SSD 850 Pro. That made the SSD 850 Pro hard to recommend to mainstream users-it was more of a specialty drive for power users seeking every last bit and byte of speed-per-second from their SSDs.Īt the time, though, we predicted that Samsung would likely deliver a cheaper model, an SSD 850 EVO drive, before too long.
Given the performance bottleneck that the SATA 3.0 interface has become, however, it really wasn't that much faster than other, much more affordable drives, such as the excellent Crucial MX100 or the older Samsung SSD 840 EVO. When we reviewed the high-end Samsung SSD 850 Pro drive earlier this year, we were very impressed by its speed (it's still the fastest overall of any SATA-based drive we've tested) and its 10-year warranty, double that of most other enthusiast- and consumer-focused solid-state drives (SSDs). Launch pricing is higher than other mainstream drives.How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.
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