Samsung 860 Evo 1tb Solid State Drive
VIEW GALLERY – 59 IMAGES With competitors inching closer to matching the aging 850 EVO’s performance, Samsung is countering with a successor to the world’s bestselling SSD. Samsung’s new 860 EVO is designed to keep the TLC SATA performance crown firmly in Samsung’s camp. The 860 EVO comes armed with Samsung’s fourth generation V-NAND technology and a new Samsung ARM-based MJX controller.
We use PCMark 8 Storage benchmark to test the performance of SSDs, HDDs, and hybrid drives with traces recorded from Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, and a selection of popular games. You can test the system drive or any other recognized storage device, including local external drives. Unlike synthetic storage tests, the PCMark 8 Storage benchmark highlights real-world performance differences between storage devices.
We measure performance through a Dell H730P RAID card inside this server, although we set the card in HBA mode only to disable the impact of RAID card cache. A large focus is put on drive latency across gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb the entire load range of the drive, not just at the smallest QD1 (Queue-Depth 1) levels. We do this because many of the common consumer benchmarks don’t adequately capture end-user workload profiles.
The angle Samsung took was, rather than build a faster controller, let’s build our MJX SATA 3 controller with more power and enable it to provide faster communication with the host system. By doing this, we can remove the EVO from being simply a consumer product and provide much more stability in the NAS, workstation and similar business environments. Simply put, there is a absolutely massive business market that can now trust in the gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb.
Look for Jon to bring consumer SSD reviews into the spotlight. The 860 EVO ties with the 860 Pro for the best-read transfer rate for any SATA SSD we’ve tested to date. The drives on our chart that are powered by Micron and SanDisk 3D flash deliver better write transfer rates than the 860 EVO. Disk response times are measured at an industry accepted standard of 4K QD1 for both write and read. Each test runs twice for 30 seconds consecutively, with a 5-second ramp-up before each test. We partition the drive/array as a secondary device for this testing.
Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. The 500GB Samsung 860 EVO SSD fails to deliver in performance and comes at a premium price. For light users though, the EVO will probably get the job done and may be an option when pricing is more aggressive.
(One is HP, the other is Samsung.) No longer have to wait several minutes for my notebooks to boot up, now they boot up in about 30 seconds. I used Macrium Reflect free software to clone my HDDs to the new SSDs and it worked perfectly. Turns out that any non-windows apps that are running in the background are actively accessing your HDD and MUST be closed in order for the disk to be cloned. It does take roughly 1.5 hrs per 500gb for the cloning process. Don’t forget to grab a USB to SATA adapter so that you can clone!
In a higher-end Core i5 or Core i7 system, the improvement RAPID mode brought about was so small that it could only be detected by benchmark software, if at all. Might be because Samsung itself has a hilarious way to try to mislead and lists it as “Samsung V-NAND 3bit MLC”. They can argue all they want but MLC defines 2 bit per cell and this is false advertising. Samsung’s decision to keep the PRO tier around and based on MLC NAND signals that they will almost certainly do the same for their PCIe SSDs.