Samsung 840 Pro SSD

It was roughly one year ago that I covered the Samsung 840 Pro SSD, and I found it a very impressive performer. Quite a lot has changed with the 840 Pro over that year. It has new firmware, and it now supports ‘Rapid mode' via the Samsung Magician...

Samsung's SSD 840 Pro is one of the best options on the market if you're looking for a solid state drive with excellent writing, as well as reading performance. It's also one of the lightest units we've...

This is a very fine drive: not only is it one of the quickest around, it comes with the peace of mind that you're buying from a big outfit that is very unlikely to disappear. If you do have a problem, the odds of being able to cash in your warranty are...

Samsung’s latest performance drive is among the fastest consumer drives we’ve tested to date, with a reasonable price given the speed. Professionals and enthusiasts should short-list it; mainstream users should consider the cheaper non-Pro model...

Excellent Performance- read, write- sequential/random, doesn't matter. It has a very low access...

Samsung has worked hard from a nearly standing start to gain consumer mindshare as a premium supplier of SSDs for after-market upgrades. With Toshiba, the Korean giant is one of only two brands that can control the whole design and manufacture of the...

The Samsung 840 Pro 256GB can be picked up for £180, and it's a great high performance SSD for the money. The OCZ Vector 256GB is very similar in terms of performance, and also carries an identical five year warranty – but it's a bit more expensive at...

As is the way with a surprising number of its products, Samsung's SSD lineup is developed entirely by the various arms of the massive Korean company. It not only features its own in-house controller chip in the form of the MDX controller, which has three...