Features:

  • Storage Capacity: 512GB SSD.
  • Form Factor: 2.5” SATA III.
  • Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s Interface, compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s & SATA 1.5 Gb/s interface.
  • Sequential Read Speed: Up to 560 MB/s Sequential Read (Performance may vary based on system hardware & configuration).
  • Sequential Write Speed: Up to 530 MB/s Sequential Write (Performance may vary based on system hardware & configuration).RELIABILITY (MTBF):1.5 Million Hours Reliability
A well made MLC NAND SATA3 SSD with great compatibility and quality.

I've been using SATA3 SSDs for years. Those include the Plextor M6 Pro / Plextor M6S / Samsung 850 Pro / Samsung 860 Pro and Transcend SSD 360S. Among them, Plextor M6 Pro and M6S were the first ones for me and they have been impressive, although I had to replace my first M6 Pro due to initial recognition failure. After replacement the Plextor SSDs seemed to work flawlessly. Recently I'm using Samsung 850 Pro and 860 Pro at my workplace and on my laptop. They have been working flawlessly without any kind of event until now. Recently I purchased Transcend 360S and installed it onto my old laptop with SATA2 interface. Initially it seemed to work nice but after less than a week of use, my old laptop occasionally freezes up and I had to wait for more than tens of seconds to work with it again. And it was my first experience in which I regretted my purchase of SSD. I think Samsung SSDs are one of those having the greatest compatibility to various systems and quality and durability. As I do not want to get disappointed as time goes on, I may go further with those Samsung SATA3 SSDs. Compatibility? Its just Okay for Samsung. A lot of reviewers protested they are compatible with various systems they have / Reliability? There are a great number of people that say they purchase only Samsung SATA SSDs. / Speed? While speed is always next to reliability for me, my test result was best with Samsung SSDs, followed by Plextor MLC SSDs. / Price? Recently the prices for Samsung SSDs are decreasing suddenly and significantly. And I think the price itself may mean nothing unless the SSDs are compatible, reliable and fast enough. I'm thinking of purchasing a number of Samsung 860 Pro SSDs to store my music and movie files and as frequent backing drive. I think it is also good for Samsung to let the customers know whether they are buying an MLC NAND SSD or a TLC one, while there are a number of brands who does not give important information about their product to the customers. What else to say??

Arrived today and it's pretty awesome. I've tried 7

Arrived today and it's pretty awesome. I've tried 7, maybe 8 or so different brands of SSD drives, and various models within those brands over the years, and have to say that once again going with a Samsung doesn't disappoint. This Pro model is fast and snappy. Of the 2 testing programs I use the 860 Pro has outscored everything else i've ever tested. Simply awesome.

Difference Between Night and Day

My Macbook Pro was taking 10 minutes to boot up and thereafter would take at least 5 minutes to open apps, such as iTunes, Word, Excel, Spotify, etc. Typing outgoing emails in Outlook would begin the lagging cursor after more than 10 emails were in a chain. I was about to drop nearly $2,000 on a new Macbook Pro, when someone suggested that I upgrade my hard-drive to a SSD drive. I received it in two days (ordered on a Friday night and came on Sunday afternoon). I used Apple's Disk Utility App to erase/format the new Samsung SSD and SuperDuper! app (I had to download it) to clone my old hard-drive using Sabrent 2.5"SATA Hard Drive/SSD to USB 3.0 Adapter (EC-SSHD). After about 5.5 hours of letting SuperDuper clone the new SSD, it was ready to install. Took the screws out the bottom of the laptop, removed the old hard-drive carefully, and used a pair of vice scripts needle nose pliars to remove the side posts off the old hard-drive. Be very careful doing this (supposed to use a very tiny star head, but unless its steel, it's not going to stand up to these screws - this was the hardest part). Put the mounting posts in and hooked up the Samsung SSD (dont tear the thin tape cable), and screwed the 4 screws to secure the hard-drive. Next, replace the bottom of the laptop and turned on. MY MACBOOK BOOTED UP IN LESS THAN 15 SECONDS. APPS TAKE LESS THAN 3 seconds to open now. INCREDIBLE. And I saved nearly a couple thousand dollars for now by not buying a brand new macbook. Very pleased. I just hope that it's a reliable piece of hardware, but it has a 5-year warranty. Definitely recommend!

It's fast

I already own an 850 Pro in my Win 7 Desktop which is fast so I decided to get the 860 Pro so I could clone my 850 to it. I don't think anyones drive is faster. It's interesting that the 860 is cheaper than the 850.

Samsung 860 PRO 256GB 2.5 SATA III

Bought as a present for my dad who was complaining of a slow computer, even after fresh installs. Upgraded his memory a year or so ago, and that helped. Bought him this, he transferred over his existing OS, and couldn't believe how fast his computer was! He is so happy that he didn't have to buy a new computer, and now his computer operates like it's brand new again - only better because boot and load times are astronomically faster! Best bday present ever :)

2TB Samsung 860 Pro * Fastest Performance & Highest Endurance Rating * of all SATA III SSD's

I needed more SATA III Storage for my 17.3" ASUS ROG Gaming notebook so I purchased the 2TB Samsung 860 Pro SSD to replace my notebooks awesome 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD. Aside from the obvious increase in storage capacity, the 860 Pro is slightly faster then the 850 Pro in almost all performance benchmarks & actual real world storage usage but not by as much as I thought it would be (Must be limited by the legacy SATA III interface) ! See attached photos of benchmark comparisons btw. 860 Pro & 850 Pro. The Samsung 860 Pro has a much higher endurance rating then the Samsung 850 Pro but it's nullified by only having a 5 year Samsung Warranty verses the 850 Pro's 10 year Samsung warranty. Samsung 860 Pro is the best overall SATA III SSD sold & it's a 5 star SSD like it's predecessor despite the high price tag. If I didn't need the additional Storage capacity of the 2TB Samsung 860 Pro SSD it would not have been worth upgrading my 1TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD b/c it's performance increase alone isn't enough to justify the high cost. However, If you need increased SATA III storage capacity or are upgrading a slow SATA III HDD then the Samsung 860 Pro is the best SATA III SSD in the World.

Fastest Real World SATA SSD I've Used, Better Reliability Specs For Peace Of Mind

I'm very pleased with this Samsung 860 Pro 1TB SATA SSD from Samsung. I got a pair it to upgrade a client's tower from 3.5in hard drives and breathe new life into the system's performance. I also took the opportunity to run a little performance testing. It did well. I used crystaldiskmark to benchmark drive performance. It tests with and without command queuing. Since all current operating systems I use (Windows 7 and later, Linux and Mac) all enable command queuing by default I'll focus on those results. The drive does great with sequential reads/writes. I got reads of about 558MB/s and writes of about 512MB/s. Most SSD drives do fairly well on sequential read/write operations. With this drive the difference is only about 10% for queued vs unqueued. This 860 PRO drive did better than many other drives with random reads at about 300MB/s and writes at about 207MB/s. Unqueued reads were about 36MB/S (almost 1/10th the queued rate!) and writes were about 65MB/s (about 1/3 the queued rate). Command queuing makes a big difference with random access and makes this drive stand out for this use. The 2.5in SATA form factor works well with the Dell 2.5in to 3.5in adapters that fit into the existing drive caddies making 3.5in drive replacement a breeze. An important factor for me and my clients is reliability. SSD's have come a long way since they were introduced some years ago. The Samsung Pro series has better reliability and higher write specs than their EVO models. They also have slightly larger sizes in powers of 2 rather rounded down to the nearest decimal value. In conclusion, this Samsung 860 SSD is one of the faster ones I've used, especially on random reads/writes with queuing enabled. This drive was perfect to upgrade my client's system. The old mechanical drive is now retired and their previously fairly fast tower just flies now! With this sort of result I love these drives for upgrades. Definitely 5 stars.

Took a quiet a few restarts to train it seems like but now it starts up so fast

This is quite a boost in startup time in Windows 10. Took a quiet a few restarts to train it seems like but now it starts up so fast. Also, before Windows 10 would often lockup shortly after boot-up for at least 5 minutes then continue fine, often this would happen like 5 times in a row before it would work okay. I had tried a lot of things to fix it but nothing worked, I even reset Windows to a clean state with hardly anything installed it would still lockup. It got so annoying that it got to the point where I'd boot up then go away for a half hour or so until it settled down before I would attempt to use it, or I would just boot to Linux if I needed to do something quickly -- Linux never had this problem for me. This drive fixed the random lock-ups (by replacing the boot disk for Windows). Sometimes a lockup still happens for like 5 seconds or so but hardly ever and feels like expected behavior that I'm used to in OS's. This drive was so worth it for me.

Good stuff!

Blazing fast. Boot up time for a 2011 MacBook Pro is now about 10 seconds from “Off” to signing in, and another 10 seconds until opening an app. No more bouncing icons - click and it opens. Good stuff!

No need to buy a 3000 dollar new MacBook Pro anymore

So I was about to buy a new MacBook Pro, but I thought for 150 bucks, let's try a SSD Pro. (if I'm going to do it might as well get the best one). And what a great surprise, this thing runs like an absolute beast. what I didn't think would happen is my graphics are much clearer. (also have 16gram prior to this purchase). Worth every penny. I did do a few extra things to help it run even better... one I didn't do a time machine backup...I reinstalled from a hard reset the operating software to have a clean version of the latest Mac OS Mojave. However...its a bit complicated.... apple won't let you go straight to OS Mojave. You have to first get the original OS your Mac came with (mine was mid 2012)....so I started with lion.... then had to go to high Sierra..... then a hard reset AGAIN, erase the SSD completely....then reinstall OS Mojave to get a clean unlayered version of the OS. It took me a little bit of time to figure it out so I hope this helps. Also to log into you iCloud you need two part ID (sends message to your phone) but the old OS doesn't support two part identification...so after you type your cloud password you need to type in your verification code without spaces.... this will let you login. took me forever to figure this out. I hope this review helps save you some time. And this SSD saved me 3 grand.. Buy it!

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