Thoughts about the Samsung 850 Pro Sata SSD?

g67575 · 15 Jul 2021 at 01:58

The Samsung 850 Pro 2TB released in 2015 and is an MLC (2 bit per cell, NAND flash) based SSD. I recently brought a 2nd hand (appears to be in decent condition) one to replace a (potentially) dying BX500.

Is the Samsung 850 Pro still considered to be a really good drive, or are some drives (like NVME) considered to provide better real world performance?

I noticed that features like 'Rapid mode' provide little improvement (sometimes none) in real world tests, like copying various file types in Windows, see link:
https://www.techspot.com/review/838-samsung-850-pro-ssd/page3.html

Tetras · 15 Jul 2021 at 02:41

NVMEs are faster than sata drives, but it's not important for most use cases. If you're gaming it's fine.

Rroff · 15 Jul 2021 at 03:19

I've got an 840 Evo SSD w/ RAPID mode enabled and 970 Evo Plus NVME in this PC and for a lot of uses there is very little between them - game load times are like 2 seconds difference (~10%) some stuff you don't notice the difference for a few niche tasks the NVME is massively quicker.

I find RAPID mode on/off similar - for many tasks not much noticeable difference, for a few things it does dramatically speed things up but it is more the exception than the rule.

g67575 · 15 Jul 2021 at 04:09

Thanks