The 2TB Samsung 850 Pro & EVO SSD Review
by Kristian Vättö on July 23, 2015 10:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy
While The Destroyer focuses on sustained and worst-case performance by hammering the drive with nearly 1TB worth of writes, the Heavy trace provides a more typical enthusiast and power user workload. By writing less to the drive, the Heavy trace doesn't drive the SSD into steady-state and thus the trace gives us a good idea of peak performance combined with some basic garbage collection routines. For full details of the test, please refer to the this article.
In our Heavy trace, the 1TB and 2TB Pros are practically on par. The 2TB EVO enjoys a slight advantage over the 1TB model, which is likely due to the larger SLC cache being able to cache more writes.
The 2TB models are again more power efficient than their 1TB counterparts. It's a welcome improvement since especially the 850 EVO isn't the most power efficient drive for laptops (at least when compared against the BX100).
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SviatA - Friday, August 21, 2015 - link
As I see it, Samsung is pushing really hard to win over the whole market. The 850 Evo line is a substantial step forward. I really like the way PC starts working with an SSD rather than with HDD.I've bought one here http://hardware.nl/harde-schijven/samsung/ssd/mz-7...
But you may find even a better offer on eBay, I think. Anyway, even for 85 euro this is a great purchase.
htwingnut - Saturday, September 19, 2015 - link
Can someone please explain the "Performance Consistenty" charts and how to read them? They change every time I switch the default and 25% OP even with the same drives... confusing.joyce.shue@verizon.net - Thursday, October 15, 2015 - link
I purchased the Samsung SSD 850 Pro to install in my new Windows 10 computer. I can't clone Windows 10 or anything to this drive. I've talked to Samsung for over 7 weeks and keep getting a new date for the release of their cloning software. I've tried 2 different cloning software and they don't work with this drive. Until Samsung updates the software for Windows 10 DON'T BUY.Miller1331 - Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - link
Using 2 of these in a music production rig and they are monstersMeteor2 - Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - link
I don't think this reviews specifies what interface the 850 Pro uses anywhere.Meteor2 - Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - link
...until the last page. Would've thought it page 1 material, myself.