Continuing the minimalistic theme, the drive is a carbon black with both logos being screen printed rather than via stickers which was a nice touch of class adding to the aesthetics.


The rear of the drive features a host of serial numbers along with warnings regarding ESD and of course the drive title and size in bold font. The drive stands a little under 7mm, measuring just 6.8mm in height and will consume (based on 1TB models) 4.4W under load while just 50mW when idle along with a 2mW power draw during device sleep conditions.


Sadly, we couldn't open up the drive thanks to SAMSUNG protecting the innards with a 3x Silverhill 5 point torx screws. However, we do know that inside the Samsung 850 EVO you will find 32 layer 3D V-NAND flash memory, 512MB DRAM Cache along with Samsung's 3-core MGX Controller.