Samsung 860 Evo Review
It wouldn’t be much of a surprise to start seeing 6TB or 8TB SATA SSDs in the near future but the speeds probably won’t improve too much. Like its predecessor, the 860 EVO comes in capacities as high as 4TB, however the lower end now stops at 250GB. The new 860 EVO leverages the same 3bit MLC 3D V-NAND as the 850 but comes with an updated Samsung MJX controller.
Best of all, this 2.5″-format internal hard drive features SATA connectivity, making it an easy upgrade for any compatible computer. With sequential read and write speeds of 550MB/s and 520MB/s respectively, this can freshen up any PC, helping it boot faster and decreasing load times in some games. Looking at performance, we see a rare misstep for Samsung. Generally speaking Samsung is a performance trend-setter in end-user computing, which has been the case with many of their SSDs. With the 860 EVO, although perhaps harder hit with the lower capacity version, the drive falls flat under performance-heavy workloads. In our test/dev SQL server benchmark the EVO only had 353.6 TPS and an average latency of 37,673ms.
As I’ve noticed some anomaly in the initial test, the test setup is readjusted where files are being copied to and from gtx 1090 with another PCIe Gen3 x4 SSD. With the sequential read and write performance of the PCIe Gen3 X4 SSD rated at 3480MB/s read and 3080MB/s write, we can ensure minimal performance bottleneck during the test. The next advancement in NVMe SSD. The 970 EVO Plus fits up to 2TB onto the compact M.2 form factor, greatly expanding storage capacity and saving space for other components.
By submitting this form you acknowledge you have read the Privacy Policy Privacy Policy and consent to receiving calls/texts from Samsung representative. It recorded a score of 4981, which was only 17 points off from the top-performing Samsung SSD 850 Evo. Looking at the actual speeds, the WD Blue SSD gigabyte gtx 1060 3gb managed 274.26MB/s, which makes it over 34% faster than the Plextor M7V and OCZ Trion 150. On the other hand, the Samsung SSD 850 Evo was only 10% faster than the WD Blue SSD. Samsung has three different drives with the M.2 connector – a Legacy SATA with AHCI, a PCie with AHCI and an NVMe drive.
Samsung managed to increase the performance over the 850 EVO, but at a price that most will simply pass on. The SATA interface limits what the company can do with this series and competition is closing in from both directions. I recommend Samsung provide a more reliable link for the data migration software.
Those that have that sort of write level should probably go for the larger models where even their excessive use seems well within the longevity of their new design. The 860 Evo addresses that issue by offering 150TB TBW on the smallest 250GB drives, and then doubling that number at each subsequent size. At 1TB the TBW is an impressive 600TB, and the 4TB mechanism has an incredible 2,400TB or 2.4 Petabytes TBW. This test doesn’t actually provide comparison numbers, it’s more about spikes on the graph and how these represent compression bottlenecks. The 860 Evo is devoid of these, and presented a very consistent performance across the spectrum of this benchmark.