Comments on: Samsung 850 EVO SSD Review (120/500GB) – Showing Off 3D TLC V-NAND

By: Tomy Tom

Tomy Tom — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:23:00 +0000

ssd samsung 850 evo 1tb lpddr2 is it working to any laptop?

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 15:16:00 +0000

In reply to Danny Ong Lay Siang. RAPID is not an indication of performance, but rather, of caching high performance that may be possible in very rare instances. You need to test the drive without RAPID.

By: Danny Ong Lay Siang

Danny Ong Lay Siang — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 08:25:00 +0000

i bought this samsung 850 evo 250GB to replace my Laptop HDD. DId a complete clean Window 10 installation. Did a benchmark and show a 550/510MB/s Read/write with ~80k iops which is expected. Window boots up in 15s. However, i install Samsung SSD magician tool and enabled Over provisioning, RAPID and Highest Performance Setting. Same Benchmark tool result shoot up to over ~4000/3000MB/s with 150,000 iops but Window still boots up in 15s. Please advice why the seeing the tremendous increase reading from benchmark. It is real?

By: J.G. Hek

J.G. Hek — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 12:03:00 +0000

In reply to Gordon Jones.

Don’t ever… I did have an OCZ Vertex 4 (250GB) in my laptop on a SATA2 interface. When I needed more room, I upgraded to an Samsung EVO 850 (500GB). I sucks! Performance on a SATA2 interface is way slower than my OCZ Vertex 4. The RAPID mode makes it better, but in essence just ‘cheats’ its way out of bad performance on SATA2. It appears that the performance is better on SATA3… Check this before you buy one!

By: Les@TheSSDReview

Les@TheSSDReview — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:56:00 +0000

In reply to WolfenWings. Performance is the same for the most part. The benefit of having such an M.2 in a system that supports it is virtually no footprint.