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Samsung MZ-75E250B

850 Evo 250GB

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Controller: Samsung Dual Core MGX. Memory: Samsung 40nm TLC V-NAND. Release date: Q4 2014.

Average Bench: 105% (186th of 1011)

Based on 507,744 user benchmarks.  Models: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB, Samsung SSD 850 EVO, Samsun SSD 850 EVO 250G, Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G, Samsung SSD 850

The 250GB Samsung 850 Evo has a similar architecture to its hugely successful predecessor, the 840 Evo. Both drives are TLC based but the 850 uses 3D V-NAND as opposed to regular NAND. Both drives also feature a Turbowrite cache (TWC) which buffers up to 3GB of writes. The TWC enables high burst write speeds but when the cache exhausts write speeds drop to 300 MB/s. Comparing the 850 and 840 Evos shows that effective speed, has improved by 11% and the warranty has been extended from three to five years but prices are also up by 11%. The 850 Evo does put in superb benchmarks (second only to the 850 Pro) but these are only valid within the TWC. At current price levels the 850 Evo struggles to compete with the value leaders. [Dec '14 SSDrivePro]

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Poor: 74%Average: 105% Great: 123%

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Outstanding average bench

The Samsung 850 Evo 250GB averaged 4.9% higher than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Samsung 850 Evo 250GB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 315MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 53.5MB/s

Average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Samsung 850 Evo 250GB is 49%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the Samsung 850 Evo 250GB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 248MB/s
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 373MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 507,744 samples)
Rank 186105%
Min Avg Max
377 Read 474 507
275 Write 438 492
297 Mixed 373 417
124 SusWrite 248 327
85.9% 383 MB/s
Min Avg Max
26.2 4K Read 40.1 48.3
49.7 4K Write 99.2 132
33.4 4K Mixed 53.5 65.3
182% 64.3 MB/s
Min Avg Max
154 DQ Read 338 385
148 DQ Write 307 361
151 DQ Mixed 315 368
238% 320 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
168GB free (System drive)
Firmware: 2B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 420 300 301 281 291 252 MB/s
126% Outstanding
Read 513
Write 497
Mixed 416
SusWrite 308
97% 433 MB/s
4K Read 48.7
4K Write 129
4K Mixed 66.4
227% 81.2 MB/s
DQ Read 384
DQ Write 345
DQ Mixed 362
272% 364 MB/s
155GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT01B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 357 262 251 250 255 255 MB/s
93.3% Outstanding
Read 475
Write 461
Mixed 369
SusWrite 272
88% 394 MB/s
4K Read 32.3
4K Write 66.9
4K Mixed 42.8
139% 47.3 MB/s
DQ Read 281
DQ Write 354
DQ Mixed 113
142% 249 MB/s
64GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 258 180 169 162 162 157 MB/s
89.2% Excellent
Read 423
Write 407
Mixed 302
SusWrite 181
74% 328 MB/s
4K Read 30.6
4K Write 78.5
4K Mixed 44.1
144% 51.1 MB/s
DQ Read 379
DQ Write 342
DQ Mixed 346
264% 356 MB/s
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 19,850,011 SSDs tested.

 Prices

Approx. $140 @ launch in Dec '14
EbayUS $6110 mins
BHPhotoUS $10421 months
AmazonUS $10920 months
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Typical 850 Evo 250GB Builds (Compare 33,536 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
Gaming
Gaming 74%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 80%
Battleship
Workstation
Workstation 56%
Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $228

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel  $298Bench 81%, 379,186 samples14,767x
Core i5-6600KIntel  $200Bench 76%, 239,590 samples10,627x
Core i7-6700Intel  $259Bench 69%, 134,493 samples2,127x
GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia  $409Bench 78%, 677,712 samples6,497x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $412Bench 103%, 554,017 samples4,214x
GTX 970Nvidia  $399Bench 52%, 512,504 samples3,981x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $61Bench 105%, 507,744 samples3,885x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $58Bench 84%, 285,104 samples2,654x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX  $169Bench 85%, 22,476 samples1,685x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX  $125Bench 72%, 34,346 samples1,658x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 61% - Good Total price: $1,054

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 Comments

SSDrivePro
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1,352

Official site www.samsung.com/...

Controller: Samsung Dual Core MGX. Memory: Samsung 40nm TLC V-NAND

A higher caliber SSD with enhanced performance and endurance...

Added 4 years ago.
USA-User
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5,966

Liked (edit your comment) Add link

16 days ago.

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This is by far one of the best purchases I have ever made. I swapped it in for my 1TB 5400rpm HDD, and the difference is day and night. I made the TB drive storage, and use this as an OS drive (and some programs like Visual Studio). Overall, it is a great buy!—Jun '15

Comment 

Really awesome SSD drive from samsung, can really drop out the intel SSD 730 Series that cost x2 his price. —Sep '15

Comment 

Got this for $80.24 with tax and free shipping included on Newegg's 24hour sale. Fast speed and is awesome after being used to harddrives. Never going back to non-SSD again! Great Price:Performance, costing twice a 1TB Harddrive to get the amount of storage I NEED rather than overkill.—Nov '15

RUS-User
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3,532

Excellent

3 months ago.

In my opinion the samsung work very fast and the hyper only fast, the process of samsung is better than hyper

CAN-User
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3,156

Good

7 months ago.

Wicked boot times, super fast at everything. Even compared to SSD's on my computers at work, this one seems twice as fast.

FRA-User
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3,097

Excellent

5 months ago.

Lol with my macbook pro i have 3go/s

POL-User
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2,968

Good

8 months ago.

I have 2 years i haven't problem

ESP-User
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2,643

Disliked

13 days ago.

Comment 

Good price and excellent performance .The best ssd after samsung 850 pro!!—Feb '15

AUS-User
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2,524

Excellent

4 months ago.

Great SSD for a System Drive, and general storage.

MEX-User
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2,520

Liked

10 months ago.

Comment 

FINALLY ACHIEVED 100% OF BENCHMARK! For those of you having trouble please follow the next recommendations: *** Set up AHCI on your BIOS (to take advantage of NCQ) *** Install Windows or modify it to use AHCI Driver http://goo.gl/tk9An *** Update to latest intel AHCI driver, and use device manager to update. (current on your system probably is old, not taking advantage of new instructions) https://goo.gl/zUIUPe *** Use High Performance as Windows Power Setting *** Create an Over Provisioning Partition on the SSD Enjoy your SSD!!! Need help? find me at vicc.san@gmail.com —Sep '15

CZE-User
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2,224

Excellent

2 months ago.

Comment 

good read and write speeds, fast switching off and on pc, inaudible—Feb '15

MYS-User
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2,005

Good

11 months ago.

Dont buy this in malaysia this thing suck your money.Buy PenDrive RapidX better in performence and save money.

SRB-User
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1,864

Excellent

1 month ago.

Best thing happend to my crap lap top

BGR-User
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1,854

Excellent

1 month ago.

Deal  order.komaks.com/...

Good price for this Samsung 850 Evo 250GB ssd

ISR-User
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1,548

Liked

16 months ago.

Comment 

The Samsung 850 Evo 250GB performs very well. Unfortunately I have issues with deinstalling old divers and installing new drivers in my Windows VM running on Xen. That's probably why my SSD performance is sub-par.—Jun '15

DNK-User
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1,536

Good

12 months ago.

it seems to have the best performance-price standpoint i can find currently

PER-User
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1,356

Good

20 months ago.

Nice software to keep you notified and updated about the SSD status

SSDrivePro
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1,352

Outstanding

4 years ago.

SGP-User
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1,322

Liked

6 months ago.

Comment 

I used in a Lenovo notebook running AMD E1-6010 despite the slower CPU, its sped things up in the read/write dept especially when accessing big files....web surfing was not much faster though...—Sep '15

LVA-User
Avatar level
1,156

Disliked

2 years ago.

Comment 

Top speed without RAID. In RAPID mode (RAM cached) it runs space ship. Very high price/performance value, but it depends on country you buy it in. Despite that 5 year warranty still is a great confidence booster. Bundled cloning software lets noob users transfer everything to your new SSD with 3 clicks (I dunno what if your previous drive is larger,mine was not). All you have to do afterwards is swap your disks places. Some POOR comments are unintentional. I just discovered, that I had left POOR rating 4 days ago. I don't know how it happened.—Feb '15

IRL-User
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1,144

Good

12 months ago.

I own it, it hasn't failed me yet, performs just as quick as you'd want for a great price.

DOM-User
Avatar level
966

Good

21 months ago.

I installed this ssd in my dell Inspiron 14 5000 series and it is amazingly fast.

Minoku
Avatar level
202

Outstanding

3 years ago.

Significantly faster boot times than any HDD.

ViceCity
Avatar level
82

Excellent

17 months ago.

awesome performance, good price

Asdfguy86
Avatar level
22

Excellent

13 months ago.

Really awesome SSD! Boot times are amazing

TeaEqualsLife
Avatar level
18

Excellent

15 months ago.

Best budget SSD there ever was.

serebit
Avatar level
18

Excellent

13 months ago.

Great drive. The one I got is performing somewhat poorly in comparison to others, but still boots Windows quite fast, and shows no signs of slowing down.

Bigboyiy
Avatar level
16

Terrible

10 months ago.

It’s too small for most triple a titles.

ISnortFlour
Avatar level
12

Good

2 years ago.

Good fast drive but with m.2 dropping in price it won't be long before the price vs performance of the ssd goes into the negative. AMD CPU USERS with WINDOWS 10: download latest chipsets drivers for your cpu setup at amd's website http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/chipsets Windows 10 does not install the proper ide/atapi controller drivers from windows update or even let amd's installer to install it as well so you will have to do it manually to get your ssd running the way it should have been all along as Microsoft and intel are trying to destroy amd's competition. After downloading and running the installer open your device manager by searching it, click on ide/atapi controllers, right click on standard sata controller, click on update driver, click on search for driver on computer, browse to where the amd chipset installer installed the drivers (usually c:\amd or c:\program files\amd or c:\amd\amd chipset drivers) and make sure the include subfolders box is checked then click next. After it installs driver it will tell you to restart but before you do make sure standard sata controller changed to amd sata controller and if it did restart if not keep trying until you find the proper location of drivers you installed from amd.

somangee
Avatar level
8

Very good

2 years ago.

A good ssd at a reasonable price, especially on sales. Fast and doesn't look half-bad either. Looks like there's some considerable variability between products though so might have to win the hardware lottery.

Termi27
Avatar level
6

Excellent

22 months ago.

Best SSD ever

TekkiesUk
Avatar level
4

Outstanding

3 years ago.

Fast and FDE from BIOS

djmoslemok
Avatar level
4

Good

2 years ago.

super speed

silashsouza
Avatar level
2

Good

3 years ago.

I have this one, very good ssd.

Jeffs0418
Avatar level
2

Excellent

2 years ago.

Got one 3 months after they were released. Still my snappy boot drive.

eaposztrof
Avatar level
2

Good

2 years ago.

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/5334217 I was buying this drive because of the great speed, but somehow i can't experience and even the results is below average. What can be the problem?

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