Bleeding-edge NVMe solid state drives are a hot commodity in the enthusiast space and the premium laptop market, but there are still billions of legacy SATA ports out there just waiting to be attached to fast, reliable solid sold state storage. To that end, Samsung is delivering some band new SATA-based solid state drives today using the company's latest 64-layer 3D V-NAND flash memory and a new controller ? the Samsung SSD 860 PRO and 860 EVO Series drives.

We?ve got a 2TB Samsung SSD 860 Pro in-house and have put it through its paces alongside some other recently-released SATA-based solid state drives.

The numbers may not be as sexy as some killer NVMe PCIe-based SSDs, but as you'll see in the end, the Samsung SSD 860 PRO is still a heck of a performer...