New Samsung 860 Pro SSD

I have a Samsung 850 Evo I got a year ago but the new 860 Pro ups the TBW 8-fold for the 1TB and the 2TB models, from 150 -> 1200 and 300TB --> 2400 TB. Meaning it's not likely you will use it until it fails. It will probably outlive the machine its in.


https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-860-pro-ssd-review,5434.html

that does look very exciting.

 

The 850 EVO will also oulive the machine and probably more than one....but yes the 860 pro is the best SATA3 SSD available at the moment.

 

That is good to know.

 

I will get the 2TB version of "60 pro is the best SATA3 SSD" when the prices come down some. It seems to go for $600 +/- on your fav auction site.

 

The Micron 1100 2TB is usually found for $230-300 depending on where you look. Micron is the parent of Crucial. It’s a TLC NAND drive unlike the MLC based 860 PRO but it will still last you way longer than you’d need it. Both would be limited by the SATA bus in terms of sequential reads/writes which will be similar. For the price of the 860 Pro, you could literally buy two 1100s and put them in RAID 1 for redundancy or RAID 0 (not really RAID) if you don’t need redundancy. Micron/Cruicial make great drives.


There are better drives than even the 860 but eMLC drives would be overkill outside of enterprise.


https://www.amazon.com/Micron-1100-SATA-2-5-inch-MTFDDAK2T0TBN-1AR1ZABYY/dp/B01LB05YOO

 

Interesting

Well the reviews are 4.5/5 which is good.