The 2TB Samsung 850 Pro & EVO SSD Review
by Kristian Vättö on July 23, 2015 10:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Light
The Light trace is designed to be an accurate illustration of basic usage. It's basically a subset of the Heavy trace, but we've left out some workloads to reduce the writes and make it more read intensive in general. Please refer to this article for full details of the test.
The situation in our Light workload is similar to the Heavy one where the performance difference between 1TB and 2TB models is essentially negligible.
One interesting aspect to note is that the 2TB EVO had zero IOs with latency over 10ms. I had to put 0.01 in the graph because our software wouldn't display zero result at all. The Light trace has so few writes that it actually fits in the SLC cache, explaining why the 2TB EVO has no high latency IOs. When running the test on a filled drive (i.e. can't take advantage of SLC cache), the EVO has equal portion of >10ms IOs as most of the other drives.
Power consumption is again lower than 1TB models and brings the EVO to the level of other drives.
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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.