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With the 860 Evo SSD, Samsung proves that it’s still the king in the SSD market. However, I can’t see why you should pick the 860 Pro over the 860 Evo unless you need extreme endurance. That said, if you’re looking to upgrade your computer, gtx 1080 8gb especially one with an mSATA, or SATA-based m.2 slot, the 860 Evo is an excellent choice. More specifically, I found that with a computer that ran an Intel Core i3 processor and 8 GB or more of RAM, RAPID clearly showed improvement.
V-NAND also shows a sustained P/E cycle for longer periods of time. Layering cells vertically in three-dimensional stacks provides much greater cell density. Samsung V-NAND technology lets heavy-workload users and data centers store and handle more data with greatly improved capacity. Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a tech subject he didn’t like. He primarily covers Windows, PC and gaming hardware, video and music streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he’s not covering the news he’s working on how-to tips for PC users, or tuning his eGPU setup.
The 960 evo isn’t much more either really, at the 250gb level anyway. Samsung claims its fourth-generation 64-layer V-NAND is 30% more energy efficient than its 48-layer predecessor. Samsung gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb accomplished the feat by reducing the input voltage from 3.3 volts to just 2.5 volts. It also reduced the program time to 500 microseconds, which is 1.5X faster than the previous generation.
But irrespective of capacity the same 550MB/s read, 520 MB/s write and 98,000 IOPS , and a five year warranty. Samsung provides the most popular form factor with 22mm X 80mm model (i.e., 2280). ※ Since M.2 is a form factor specification, SSD manufacturers can produce various types of M.2 SSD with different interface (SATA-based M.2, PCIe-based M.2 and NVMe-based M.2, for example). Consumer drives don’t outperform Enterprise-Class SSDs that were designed for enterprise workloads. Consumer drives based on old technology are not outperforming modern Performance-Class SSDs, etc.
SSDs were introduced some 11 years ago now, although flash technology had been in use prior. Price-wise, the Samsung 860 EVO isn’t the most affordable SATA III SSD around for sure, especially for the 1TB model which is priced at RM 759. For the amount of money I’ve spent on the Samsung 860 EVO 1TB, I don’t really regret the purchase even though I could have opted for an NVMe SSD that runs 3~5 times faster and cost almost the same as this SSD. Under the enclosure, you’ll find two 512GB Samsung 3bit MLC 3D V-NAND which totals up to 1TB in capacity, a Samsung MJX controller and a total of 1GB LPDDR4 DRAM cache. The content of the box is rather simple this time as compared to the Samsung 850 EVO. Not much information can be found at the back of the box and Samsung is basically telling you to visit their product page at /ssd if you need more information on this product.
The new drive uses an improved version of Samsung’s memory cell technology, called V-NAND. Like they did with previous EVO series, Samsung gives you the full nine-yards when you buy an 860 EVO. You get easy to use Samsung Migration software for cloning, you get the industries best SSD Tool-Box software, and you also get Samsung’s award winning RAPID caching technology. We didn’t cover RAPID in this review, but it can deliver a massive performance increase in certain scenarios, and additionally reduce write amplification significantly. This test hammers a drive so hard we’ve dubbed it “Sledgehammer”. Our 70/30 Mixed Workload test is designed to simulate a heavy-duty enthusiast/workstation steady-state environment.
Compared to the 850 EVO, the 860 EVO can allocate up to 6X the capacity for TurboWrite during the most demanding write-intensive workloads. When turned on, RAPID mode increases the SSD’s performance by using part of the host computer’s system memory as its cache. In my testing, this feature worked, but interestingly the lower hardware specs a computer had, the more noticeable an improvement it delivered. Take the 250 GB version, for example, Samsung guarantees that if you write some 80 GB (that’s about ten times my average) every day, the drive will last for longer than five years. Larger capacities of the 860 Evo will have even more endurance accordingly. Despite being equipped with less flash memory, the Evo scored almost as well as the Pro in my tests.