Rating 4.5 64 reviews
Manufacturer: Samsung
price $159.85
PureOverclock
11 years ago

Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD Review

Samsung has an excellent overall package here, with great features, innovative technologies, performance, and durability.
Pros:
  • Slim form factor
  • Very fast out of the box
  • Blistering fast with RAPID Mode enabled
  • Data Migration software
  • Large capacity
Cons:
  • Modest price premium
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TechReport
11 years ago

Samsung's 850 EVO solid-state drive reviewed

Before we weigh in with our final verdict, we'll bust out a few of our famous value scatter plots. These plots use an overall performance score compared against a common baseline. This score is based on a subset of the performance data from our full suite, with CrystalDiskMark's sequential transfer...
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Legit Reviews
11 years ago

Samsung 850 EVO Series SSD Review – 120GB and 500GB

The Samsung 850 EVO 120GB and 500GB drives have 128GB and 512GB (1GB byte = 1,000,000,000 bytes) of NAND on board respectively and yield user addressable capacities of 111GB and 465GB (1Gib = 1,073,741,824 bytes) in Windows as shown in the drive properties.
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crn.com
11 years ago

Samsung 850 EVO SSD Stacked For Speed

Can Samsung pull off a "three-peat?" The Seoul, South Korea-based memory giant this week unveiled the 850 EVO series, its latest solid-state drives for professionals and consumers that Samsung claims will deliver unmatched performance and endurance due to its 3-bit vertical NAND stacked-cell...
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NikkTech
11 years ago

Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD Review

After we reviewed the 850 Pro 512GB model and heard that Samsung would also send us the 850 EVO 500GB we thought that there would be a sufficient performance gap between those two to "justify" both the different target areas and the difference in price.
Pros:
  • - Build Quality / Endurance (150TBW / 1 Million Hours MTBF
  • - Excellent Overall Performance
  • - Features (TurboWrite/RAPID Mode/eDrive Support
  • - Samsung Magician Software
  • - 5 Year Warranty
  • - Available In 1TB
Cons:
  • - Price (For Some
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Ubergizmo
11 years ago

Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB Review

Once again, Samsung delivers a great product, taking the lead in the SSD space with its advanced technology. 3D V-NAND is really a game changer. The 3rd TCL generation offers pretty much everything the consumer would want to see from an SSD, performance, high endurance, encryption, low power...
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CDRLabs
11 years ago

Samsung SSD 850 EVO 120GB Solid State Drive

TRIM Performance: While SSDs offer many benefits, there are some downsides to using flash memory. One of the biggest issues people run into is performance degradation. Over time, an SSD will run out of fresh blocks and will have to write over data the file system has marked as deleted.
Pros:
  • Equipped with 3-bit 3D V-NAND
  • Available in 120GB
  • 250GB
  • 500GB and 1TB capacities
  • Features RAPID mode and TurboWrite technology
  • Excellent sequential read and write speeds under most conditions
  • Good random read performance
  • Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data
  • Good...
Cons:
  • Mediocre random write performance
  • RAPID mode is Windows only
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hardwareluxx.com
11 years ago

Faster, significantly increased longevity and at the same time lower production costs. These three seemingly contradicting aspects are what Samsung are said to have succeeded with 3D V-NAND.
Pros:
  • TurboWrite cache accelerates esp
  • smaller models, Supports Microsoft eDrive (encryption, Very good everyday performance, Five-year warranty
Cons:
  • Loss of performance under extreme load
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hardwareheaven.com
11 years ago

Samsung 850 Evo mSATA M.2 Review

Since entering the SSD market Samsung have created some very impressive drives. In the early drives, when other manufacturers were struggling for reliability, they were seen as being industry leading on that front.
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Overclock3D
11 years ago

Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SATA SSD Review

The M.2 socket first appeared a couple of years ago and the market has been slow to take it up in force. Whether, like Thunderbolt, this is because there is already a huge market for regular devices, or whether storage manufacturers are waiting to see which of the two variants will be the winner -...
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