Samsung 860 Evo Mz
Jon joined the TweakTown team in 2013 and has since reviewed 100s of new storage products. Jon became a computer enthusiast when Windows XP launched. He was into water cooling and benching gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb ATI video cards with modded drivers. Jon has been building computers for others for more than 10 years. Jon became a storage enthusiast the day he first booted an Intel X25-M G1 80GB SSD.
The 2.5-inch version of the also achieved significantly higher random random read and write speeds that are MB/s faster. Like most, you’re looking for faster speeds from your hard drives. That makes the 860 EVO SSD ideal for high-bandwidth tracking sessions and high-resolution, sample-based virtual instrument rigs. With the 860 EVO 1TB Solid State Drive, you can safely store and render large-sized 4k videos and 3D data used by the latest applications with up to 8x higher TBW than the previous 850 EVO.
Samsung SSDs are still the only SATA SSDs to crack 300 MB/s storage bandwidth. They are really in a class of their own when running moderate workloads. This time the 860 EVO gets the better of the 850 EVO when running moderate workloads, and this is despite a significant capacity disadvantage. With a partition on the drive and 75% full, we are not quite able to hit factory max random read specs.
The synthetic tests are to determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD. The line is a fast and reliable choice in the world of high-performance SSDs. These storage drives utilize SATA III, the latest generation of SATA technology, allowing for read speeds up to 550 MB/s. Additionally, TRIM and S.M.A.R.T. are both supported on Samsung 860 EVO drives. The 860 EVO series comes to market in the same 256GB to 4TB capacities as the 860 Pro we recently tested. The EVO series uses 3-bit per cell flash, but it reserves 2.3% of the NAND capacity for background activities and caching.
But, now with the 860 EVO, class-leading endurance is backed up with a factory warranty that covers the 860 EVO for up to 6x the endurance of the 850 EVO. This is one hell of an accomplishment over the bandwidth limited SATA interface. Like we stated in our 860 Pro review, we didn’t think we would see another SATA-based EVO coming from Samsung, but we are glad to be wrong in this case.
Today we’re looking at the new 860 EVO to see how Samsung improved on the world’s best-selling SSD. We’ll compare it to the new lineup of scrappy competitors that spurred the company to finally bring a new series to market and see how it ranks among our list of best ssds. The Samsung Magician software failed to recognize the Samsung SSD! I had to use another file transfer program to clone the drive.