Samsung SSD 860 Pro Review: Fast, Reliable SATA Solid State Storage

Name: Samsung SSD 860 Pro
Brand: Samsung

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 10:00 AM EDT

Performance Summary: The Samsung SSD 860 PRO is among the highest-performing SATA-based solid state drives on the market. The Samsung SSD 860 PRO didn't sweep our benchmarks across the board, which is exceedingly hard to do with a SATA-based drive considering the limitations of the legacy interface, but regardless Samsung's latest SSD manages to take the lead more often than not. Sequential transfers and access times are best-in-class, the drive led across the board in IOMeter, and it put up strong 4K transfer speeds as well.

Samsung SSD 860 Pro SATA Solid State Drives - Find Them At Amazon

Both the Samsung SSD 860 PRO we've shown you here and the Samsung SSD 860 EVO will be hitting store shelves immediately, in five different capacities each. Both series top out at 4TB, but the smaller capacities are slightly different due to the way the drives are over-provisioned. The line-up looks like this...

SSD 860 PRO

256GB - $139.99

512GB - $249.99

1TB - $479.99

2TB - $949.99

4TB - $1,899.99

SSD 860 EVO

250GB - $94.99

500GB - $169.99

1TB - $329.99

2TB - 649.99

4TB - $1,399.99

At those prices, the Samsung SSD 860 PRO is among the more expensive SATA-based solid state drives on the market. With that said, it is also one of the fastest, and it offeres an excellent endurance rating and 5-year warranty as well. The Samsung SSD 860 EVO is more competitively priced, but without testing one first hand we can't comment on its performance just yet. Considering the technical similarities between the two series of drives, however, we suspect the Samsung SSD 860 EVO to be a relatively good value.

In the end, if you're in need of fast, SATA-based solid state storage, Samsung's got you covered. The Samsung SSD 860 PRO is about as good as a SATA SSD can get.


Strong Performance Good Endurance Rating 5 Year Warranty	SATA Is Old Hat Price Premium

Tags: Samsung, SSD, Storage, SATA, 860 pro

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com