wow.... can also handle a total of 150TB worth of writes before expiring
wow x2.Samsung offers an incredible 10-year warranty with the 850 Pro SSD series
With the SSD 850 Pro's performance as good as a SATA SSD is going to be right now, a $10 to $30 boost in price over the 840 Pro series isn't surprising. As it stands, 128GB costs $130 or $1.00/GB, 256GB is $230 ($0.89/GB), the 512GB model we tested costs $430 ($0.83/GB) and the 1TB 850 Pro is listed at $730 ($0.73/GB).
Nice review, Only thing I wish you guys could include is the Corsair Neutron GTX SSD's as they use some crazy 8 core propriety controller on them, would be interesting to know where they sit amongst the others!
Other than that, Samsung have definitely proved that their new NAND works like a charm.
Well I've been following the story you guys linked to on the weekends, the one about killing SSD's with writes to see how long they last? Last article Techspot linked to was when they hit the Petabyte threshold, Samsung had a drive die but the Corsair not only was the strongest performer from the start (even against the 840 Pro) but hasn't slowed down almost at all since the start, while all the other SSD's are getting slower and slower by the 100TB.Thank you. I was under the impression that the Neutron GTX series was quite old, there is also nothing crazy about its controller. I was also under the impression that is was slower than the 840 Pro, wasn't it released around the same time as the 830 Pro? I must admit I am not as up to date as I should be with the Corsair SSDs, has their been a new revision?
Yeah the drive scores well on the benchmarks and is very fast but looking at the numbers the Crucial MX100 is not very far behind in many tests. Can't beat the so called bang for the buck that the MX100 delivers. I got a 512GB MX100 for $199.
What I want to know is what's the next form factor after SATAIII? Is it PCIe or mSATA? Wouldn't PCIe use a graphics card slot? In that case, wouldn't mSATA be the way to go?
I'm wondering because when I decide to upgrade my system, I want to make sure it fully supports the next interface iteration.
What I want to know is what's the next form factor after SATAIII? Is it PCIe or mSATA? Wouldn't PCIe use a graphics card slot? In that case, wouldn't mSATA be the way to go?
I'm wondering because when I decide to upgrade my system, I want to make sure it fully supports the next interface iteration.
I have recently been looking into getting an SSD and looking at a stress test on "The Tech Report" site, they put their drives through a series of writes. The Samsung Evo Pro, and Corsair Neuron GTX seemed to be doing well to get past 1 Petabyte, and they still live.
I would expect this new 850 to do better. The only problem with Stress Testing SSDs as far as I can see is that firstly, power outages can = loss of data. Sure we all lose data if theres a power cut and we havent saved our work. But from what I was reading this can really screw the pooch on SSD's more so than on HDD's.
Secondly each SSD make has its own software, that determines when things are failing. The Corsair SSD software, shows that with its current speed of decline the drive would surpass 4 Petabytes of writes before giving up. Which even they were like "we should ask corsair how they measure the rate this drive is dying at".
Would like to see this drive do the Petabyte test. If any drive can survive that I would be more than happy to run it as an OS drive that I can format at will.
Please SATA3 just die already! I wonder what speed this hardware would do without the SATA bottleneck?
10 year warranty is incredible! Kudos Samsung for setting the bar.
You can buy an APC (or other) UPS for pretty cheap nowadays and then can be more confident about running more performant cache settings.As for power outages I have not experienced any issues. I live in a rural area that suffers regular outages and my system runs 24/7 using the Samsung SSD 840 Pro 512GB. The system faces dozens of power outages per year and I have never had a problem. The system always just boots back up like nothing happened and software such as word/excel and chrome all restore my work to where I was last.