Windows 8.1 starts in ~ 7 seconds

Very fast and reliable. Although a boat Samsung has hit me with this record a nerve does not distinguish time of a few seconds and the Windows installation 3 minutes this SSD (largely) by their competitors.
The 850 Pro (with me in the 256GB version) stands out due to other things from the market, this SSD clearly aims at the performance market, read with ~ 530 MB / s and ~ 480 MB / s write (sequential values ​​=> Best Case Scenario) is they are one of the fastest hard drives on the market semiconductors (in the SATA 3 standard, with M.2 significantly higher values ​​can be achieved, however, these still overly expensive). Abegesehen of the performance is the 850 Pro, unlike the many competing products simply designed (ergo who owns a color-coordinated system with acrylic window must not bother the worry him this SSD the big picture dims) also can be optionally the Samsung Magician 4 Software from the Samsung website to download which is relatively Easy to use and with a mouse click optimizes the system for the new hard drive (4 modes are available, including performance and reliability) or if necessary also without much intervention the latest firmware airs.

Neutral and criticism to the hard disk and the packaging by Samsung

Adjusted Neutral I'm packaging the SSD, it comes in a cardboard box the size of a paperback book and it is a locking device of a kind of hard plastic to prevent going the plate in the packaging walkies. However, a few things seem to me a little strange, though semiconductor storage media are much more tolerant of shocks but whether they should therefore be packed undamped I do not (am not a package developer) my however, came undamaged therefore seems the holder to carry out their work without any problems. Also, due to static electricity, I was a little worried as the SSD with me without anti-static bag, how they arrived of motherboards, graphics cards and so knows more; turn unfounded she was working.

Negatives can be found only at a high level (only disks in M.2 standard are noticeably faster, but still have some teething problems as miserable appearance or that can be part not boot from it) nevertheless bothered me that the advertised as a kind of turbo mode RAPID function actually completely useless because it is shortened, for example, load times in games by only 0.2 seconds (I myself have tested, similar results can be read also in the network) which is not too bad considering the normal speed of the SSD. The built-in benchmark of Samsung Magician 4 is a bit euphemistic images related appendix.