

The Samsung 860 EVO launched early this year as the follow-up to the exceptionally popular Samsung 850 EVO.

While the Samsung 860 EVO is still our favorite for most people, it pays to shop around-and if any of the other drives we tested is substantially cheaper, you can go with that without losing out on much. That said, unless you have a high-end laptop that supports faster "NVMe" memory (we'll address these in a later roundup), pretty much all SSDs are going to perform about the same. It's fast, it's competitively priced, it will work with just about every laptop on the market, and it has a 5-year warranty. We've got you: We've tested the most popular solid state drives, and we believe the best overall SSD for most people is the Samsung 860 EVO ( available at Samsung). Even if your laptop came with a 128GB SSD, upgrading to a bigger one can just make your life easier.īut while buying an SSD is a no-brainer, actually picking one means navigating a sea of confusing buzzwords. SSDs are cheaper than ever and easy to install, so there's really no excuse. It's 2022: If any of your devices still have a spinning hard drive-be it a laptop, gaming console, or PC-it's high time you upgrade to a solid state drive.
