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850 Evo 250GB

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

Average Bench: 103% (242nd of 1071)

Based on 951,591 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]

Poor: 72%Average: 103% Great: 124%

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Outstanding average bench

The Samsung 850 Evo 250GB averaged 3.4% 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 320MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 52.2MB/s

Below average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Samsung 850 Evo 250GB is 52%. 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 247MB/s
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 370MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 951,591 samples)
Rank 242103%
Min Avg Max
370 Read 466 507
286 Write 434 492
252 Mixed 370 416
110 SusWrite 247 328
85.1% 379 MB/s
Min Avg Max
25.3 4K Read 39.4 47.6
48.8 4K Write 94.6 129
29 4K Mixed 52.2 64.6
177% 62.1 MB/s
Min Avg Max
221 DQ Read 354 386
143 DQ Write 308 362
159 DQ Mixed 320 370
243% 328 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
79GB free
Firmware: EMT03B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 412 297 300 301 301 302 MB/s
120% Outstanding
Read 498
Write 481
Mixed 416
SusWrite 319
96% 429 MB/s
4K Read 43
4K Write 123
4K Mixed 61.5
209% 75.8 MB/s
DQ Read 371
DQ Write 318
DQ Mixed 340
256% 343 MB/s
68GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 387 254 234 231 225 213 MB/s
111% Outstanding
Read 504
Write 490
Mixed 410
SusWrite 257
93% 415 MB/s
4K Read 43.1
4K Write 95.1
4K Mixed 56.5
188% 64.9 MB/s
DQ Read 384
DQ Write 360
DQ Mixed 370
278% 371 MB/s
69GB free
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 402 298 297 298 297 296 MB/s
104% Outstanding
Read 495
Write 454
Mixed 392
SusWrite 315
93% 414 MB/s
4K Read 41.3
4K Write 88.6
4K Mixed 54.2
179% 61.4 MB/s
DQ Read 223
DQ Write 184
DQ Mixed 201
151% 203 MB/s
183GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 332 239 270 309 308 309 MB/s
80.9% Excellent
Read 312
Write 325
Mixed 263
SusWrite 294
67% 299 MB/s
4K Read 29.7
4K Write 51.1
4K Mixed 37.9
121% 39.6 MB/s
DQ Read 324
DQ Write 244
DQ Mixed 271
206% 280 MB/s
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 63,629,843 SSDs tested.

 Prices

MSRP ≈ $140 @ launch in Dec '14
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AmazonUS $1002 years
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Typical 850 Evo 250GB Builds (Compare 9,206 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
Gaming
Gaming 69%
Battle cruiser
Desktop
Desktop 87%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 58%
Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel  $163Bench 81%, 588,978 samples4,356x
Core i5-6600KIntel  $150Bench 72%, 342,244 samples2,460x
Core i7-6700Intel  $250Bench 72%, 282,363 samples689x
GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia  $200Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples1,446x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $130Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples935x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples825x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $90Bench 103%, 951,591 samples606x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $49Bench 82%, 606,405 samples570x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $47Bench 85%, 653,654 samples382x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX  $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples381x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 84% - Excellent Total price: $797

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 Comments

SSDrivePro
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1,857

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 8 years ago.
USA-User
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9,176

Liked (edit your comment) Add link

12 months ago.

Comment 

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

GBR-User
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5,430

Poor

24 months ago.

There are far superior SSDs for the same price. Outdated tech. Was good at the time.

CAN-User
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4,682

Excellent

22 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.

RUS-User
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4,544

Poor

2 years ago.

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

IDN-User
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4,333

Excellent

10 months ago.

because i used it and work very well

FRA-User
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4,321

Excellent

3 years ago.

Lol with my macbook pro i have 3go/s

POL-User
Avatar level
4,258

Terrible

3 years ago.

I have 2 years i haven't problem

AUS-User
Avatar level
3,672

Poor

2 years ago.

Great SSD for a System Drive, and general storage.

ESP-User
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3,531

Liked

2 years ago.

Comment 

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

MEX-User
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3,512

Disliked

21 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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3,128

Excellent

1 month ago.

Comment 

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

MYS-User
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3,059

Good

4 years ago.

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

BGR-User
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2,706

Excellent

3 years ago.

Deal  order.komaks.com/...

Good price for this Samsung 850 Evo 250GB ssd

SRB-User
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2,598

Excellent

3 years ago.

Best thing happend to my crap lap top

HRV-User
Avatar level
2,160

Excellent

18 months ago.

Reliable, big and reasonably cheap. I installed more than 30 of these in upgrade tasks, and they are really nice. Not fast as Pro, but again - nothing is. :-) My main reason for buying these, is reliability. EVO 850 and especially 860 successor are highly reliable.

ISR-User
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2,158

Liked

4 years 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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2,074

Average

2 years ago.

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

PER-User
Avatar level
2,074

Good

2 years ago.

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

SSDrivePro
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1,857

Outstanding

8 years ago.

SGP-User
Avatar level
1,822

Liked

22 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

IRL-User
Avatar level
1,586

Good

4 years ago.

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

LVA-User
Avatar level
1,582

Disliked

5 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

DOM-User
Avatar level
1,382

Good

4 years ago.

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

Minoku
Avatar level
222

Outstanding

7 years ago.

Significantly faster boot times than any HDD.

ViceCity
Avatar level
118

Excellent

4 years ago.

awesome performance, good price

Asdfguy86
Avatar level
22

Excellent

4 years ago.

Really awesome SSD! Boot times are amazing

TeaEqualsLife
Avatar level
18

Excellent

4 years ago.

Best budget SSD there ever was.

serebit
Avatar level
18

Excellent

4 years 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

4 years ago.

It’s too small for most triple a titles.

Mogesla
Avatar level
16

Excellent

2 years ago.

Getting ~1.000% with RAPID mode on in Samsung Magician |6GB/s read | 5GB/s write

somangee
Avatar level
8

Very good

6 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

5 years ago.

Best SSD ever

TekkiesUk
Avatar level
4

Outstanding

7 years ago.

Fast and FDE from BIOS

djmoslemok
Avatar level
4

Good

6 years ago.

super speed

silashsouza
Avatar level
2

Good

6 years ago.

I have this one, very good ssd.

Jeffs0418
Avatar level
2

Excellent

5 years ago.

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

eaposztrof
Avatar level
2

Good

5 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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