Samsung SSD 850 EVO 3D V-NAND 500GB on SATA3 Benchmark

Samsung SSD 850 EVO don’t think I can get any faster on SATA3

Today I received my long wanted Samsung EVO 850 3D V-NAND and decided to perform few benchmarks using one of my modern PC on SATA3 bus.

Technical Specification:

Samsung SSD 850 EVO

Usage Application

Client PCs

Capacity

500GB

Dimensions (LxWxH)

100 x 69.85 x 6.8 (mm)

Interface

SATA 6Gb/s (compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s)

Form Factor

2.5 inch

Controller

Samsung MGX controller(120GB, 250GB, 500GB & 1TB)

NAND Flash Memory

Samsung V-NAND 3bit MLC

DRAM Cache Memory

512MB(250GB&500GB) LPDDR3 DRAM Cache Memory

Data Security

AES 256-bit Full Disk Encryption, TCG/Opal V2.0, Encrypted Drive(IEEE1667)

Weight Max

55g

Reliability

MTBF: 1.5 million hours

TBW

500GB/1TB: 150TBW

Power Consumption

Active Read/Write (Average): Max. 3.1W(4TB) / Max. 3.6W(4TB)

Idle

Max. 2mW(120/250/500GB), 4mW(1TB), 5mW(2TB), 10mW(4TB)

Supporting features

TRIM(Required OS support), Garbage Collection, S.M.A.R.T

Temperature

Operating: 0°C to 70°C Non-Operating: -40°C to 85°C

Humidity

5% to 95%, non-condensing

Vibration

Non-Operating: 20~2000Hz, 20G

Shock

Non-Operating: 1500G , duration 0.5m sec, 3 axis

Warranty

5 years limited

Product Images

Benchmarks

Anvil storage utility show 500Mb/s Read and 475Mb/S Write consistently

Crystal Disk Mark Performance is 552 Mb/s Read and 529 Mb/s Write

ATTA Benchmark Top performance is 552 Mb/s Read and 526 Mb/s Write. Which is pretty much inline with CrystaDiskMark

AS SSD Benchmark measured 495 Mb/s Read and 483 Mb/s Write

AS SSD Compression benchmark is inline with file benchmark

Anvil Storage Utility Threaded QD Mixed Random IO scores 41346 IOPS for 4K Blocks

Conclusion

Samsung SSD 850 EVO displayed pretty good performance throug out the set of benchmarks. I think it shines at pretty solid IOPS numbers as well as overall throughput at around 520/500Mb/s R/W. Also for the money it is really good deal especially if you get it on sale. I got one for 205 $CAD which was about the same as Crucial MX300 but with much better performance according to various sources. Will be nice to cimpare to MX300 on the same rig and with same benches, but I don’t have one currently.

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