Testseek.com have collected 228 expert reviews of the Samsung 2.5 inch 840 Evo Series SATA600 and the average rating is 89%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung 2.5 inch 840 Evo Series SATA600.
August 2013
(89%)
228 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Abstract: After this week already sharing Linux disk performance results of the Kingston SSDNow V300 SSD and Western Digital WD10EZEX, the latest disk testing done from Ubuntu is with the popular Samsung 840 EVO solid-state drive. If you are curious how this lower-...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths, Excellent 4K random writing performance, at low queue depths, Outstanding 4k random reading performance at very low queue dep
If pushed very hard, the writing performance does drop off a bit.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths.Excellent 4K random writing performance, at low queu...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths, Excellent 4K random writing performance, at low and high queue depths, Outstanding 4k random reading performance at very low
Nothing to mention.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths.Excellent 4K random writing performance, at low and...
Abstract: I feel a little silly saying this, but the Crucial M500 960GB and Samsung 840 EVO 1TB are two of the best values in the SSD market. Both drives sell for north of $500, which puts them firmly in high-end territory. However, they also have loads of storage....
Really fast with the RAPID off!, Extremely fast with the RAPID on!, Storage capacity (up to 1 TB), 3 year warranty, SelfEncrypting Drive (SED) security technology
This was the first SATA3 drive that I've tested and before this, I didn't think that there would be a need for such an upgrade on the SATA standard. I was totally happy with the throughput of my previous data storage setup based on the SATA2 units. Wi...
"PRO PERFORMANCE WITHOUT THE PRO PRICE TAG."TurboWrite brings 840 PRO performance to the EVO line. For everyday usage and outside of files copy, I do not expect to see I/O writes greater than 3GB at one time. So as long as the write I/O stays under the 3G...
Abstract: TLC NAND is supposed to be the wave of the future for SSD’s. Triple Level Cell (TLC) NAND promises to significantly lower dollar per GB costs, making solid state storage significantly more affordable thereby increasing mainstream adoption. A lot of ma...
Stand-out software package, RAPID Mode lets you use extra RAM as a cache for benchmark-busting speed, Available in capacities as high as 1TB, Reasonably priced
TLC NAND longevity is rated lower than MLC chips' in other drives
Samsung's TLC-NAND-based SSD should be good for years of super-fast performance, and if you make use of its RAM-caching feature, it should feel faster with common tasks than any other consumer-grade SATA drive on the market. Read More…...
