The Samsung 750 EVO (120GB & 250GB) SSD Review: A Return To Planar NAND
by Billy Tallis on April 22, 2016 8:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy
Our Heavy storage benchmark is proportionally more write-heavy than The Destroyer, but much shorter overall. The total writes in the Heavy test aren't enough to fill the drive, so performance never drops down to steady state. This test is far more representative of a power user's day to day usage, and is heavily influenced by the drive's peak performance. The Heavy workload test details can be found here.
The Heavy test doesn't write enough data to fill a 120GB drive, and when there's still spare area the 750 EVO performs better than any other planar TLC drive. When the test is run on a full drive the 750 EVO suffers more than most and falls to the bottom of the rankings.
The penalty that the 750 EVO pays when filled is even more apparent when looking at average service times, pushing it into last place.
Even when starting on an empty drive, the 750 EVO's latency outlier situation isn't great, beating the ADATA SP550 but little else.
The energy usage of the 750 EVO only stands out for the full drive case. When starting with an empty drive, the 750 EVO uses less energy overall than the other planar TLC drives.
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ewitte - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link
System builders will likely go even cheaper there are a lot of 240GB drives around $60. Nearly a $20 difference.Murloc - Saturday, April 23, 2016 - link
They're going to put it into computers and write "Samsung SSD inside" and it will be cheaper for the system builders, but the average customer will not be able to tell the difference.So yes, it's a winner.
lilmoe - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
You think $10 is worth the downgrade? Bruh...5th element - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
To the 3rd party selling complete machines to the everyday masses yeah. Like haukionkannel said above. Most people out there aren't tech heads and the lower £££ matters.lilmoe - Saturday, April 23, 2016 - link
Sure, but the price difference is even lower with higher volume...nathanddrews - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
Meh.Thanks for the great review - as always. The "meh" is just for the drive itself.
nathanddrews - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
The problem I have with SSDs right now is that they're so boring to me. What I need in my life are consumer grade NVMe 2TB+ SSDs. I'm sick and tired of buying multiple SSDs or splitting my application and data across SSDs and HDDs. One drive to rule them all, please.TheinsanegamerN - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
We should probably work on getting 1TB drives out and purchasable before worrying about 2TB models.vanilla_gorilla - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SSD are $291 on Amazon (Prime) right now. And the Samsung 850 EVO 2TB is the same price per gigabyte ($600 for 2TB).Meteor2 - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
I don't know about 2+ TB but definitely more 1 TB NVMe drives. SATA is yesterday's tech.