Today Samsung is unveiling their latest SSD and successor to the mighty 840 Pro. Named the 850 Pro it is not only faster than the 840 Pro and possibly the fastest SATA SSD money can buy, but more importantly it is also one of the most reliable thanks to its use of V-NAND flash memory. For benchmaking we have the 512GB model on hand...

For a while there things were moving at breakneck speed in the Solid-State Disk business with a new record-breaker being released every other week. However for the last year or two things have slowed down in a big way. In fact it has been almost 2 years now since Samsung released its award winning SSD 840 Pro series, which to this day is still one of the best SATA high performance SSD series available.

When released back in 2012 the Samsung SSD 840 Pro series wasn't the most aggressively priced SSD range as the focus was on performance. Back when we reviewed it the 256GB model was fetching $1.05 per gigabyte and at the time that was a good deal for such a product. Today pricing of the 840 series has dropped considerably, as the 256GB model costs just $190 or $0.74 per gigabyte.