![]() ![]() Rapid uses some of your RAM as a cache to speed up transfer performance. ![]() Samsung does offer one other bonus in the form of its Magician Software, which includes a cool feature called Rapid mode. It’s hard to recommend the 850 EVO over the MX100 unless you’re particularly worried about SSD longevity, or want that five year warranty (Crucial’s warranty is three years). For gaming and general system usage, there’s little perceivable difference between the consumer and “professional” drives. The Samsung 850 Pro and Sandisk Extreme II are more premium-priced SSDs at $175 and $185 for 250GB and 240GB, respectively. And the Crucial MX100-which we didn’t benchmark, but is the current go-to recommendation for a cheap, high-performance SSD-costs only $110 for a 256GB model. The 840 EVO performs similarly in most use cases-you’ll be hard pressed to notice the speed difference-and only costs $125 for 250GB. Price is where the 850 EVO falters.Īmazon is currently selling pre-orders of the 250GB drive for $140, which is $10 cheaper than its MSRP. The Samsung 850 EVO is plenty fast, and its reliability will be a great benefit for anyone doing gigabytes of writes on a daily basis. Our benchmarks with ATTO show how consistently the drives perform, but you can see that the 850 EVO has a slight speed edge over the 840 EVO, and continues to ramp up in speed at larger transfer sizes, unlike the Sandisk Extreme II. Anandtech found that the 1TB model of the 850 EVO performed about 50 MB/s faster in 4K random reads than its 250GB version. The 850 EVO’s slower random write speed is partially due to its size of 250GB compared to the other two 1TB Samsung drives we hand on-hand. The SanDisk Extreme II and Samsung 850 Pro delivered very fast sequential reads, but all of Samsung’s SSDs stayed pretty competitive. Here are some basic results from Crystal Disk Mark:Īs you can see, all the drives returned similar results, with just a few standout categories. All the SSDs were connected to a Haswell-E 5960X system running Windows 8.1 with 32GB of RAM. We benchmarked the 850 EVO against its predecessor, the newer 850 Pro, and a couple other SSDs we had available. That technology doesn’t have any bearing on using the drive day-to-day, but if you want more detail, Anandtech has you covered. The improved performance and endurance of the the 850 EVO comes from some new technology Samsung has implemented: 3D V-NAND, stacking 32 layers of cells on top of one another. ![]()
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