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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: 104% (228th of 1058)

Based on 758,733 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: 73%Average: 104% Great: 123%

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Outstanding average bench

The Samsung 850 Evo 250GB averaged 3.7% 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 312MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 52.8MB/s

Average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Samsung 850 Evo 250GB is 49.2%. 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 246MB/s
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 373MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 758,733 samples)
Rank 228104%
Min Avg Max
358 Read 472 507
296 Write 434 493
268 Mixed 373 417
121 SusWrite 246 328
85.5% 381 MB/s
Min Avg Max
26.9 4K Read 39.8 47.4
44.5 4K Write 94.7 126
33.5 4K Mixed 52.8 64.5
178% 62.4 MB/s
Min Avg Max
216 DQ Read 345 386
108 DQ Write 300 362
146 DQ Mixed 312 369
237% 319 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
23GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 400 317 318 317 306 231 MB/s
124% Outstanding
Read 510
Write 470
Mixed 374
SusWrite 315
94% 417 MB/s
4K Read 47.6
4K Write 124
4K Mixed 64.3
220% 78.5 MB/s
DQ Read 382
DQ Write 344
DQ Mixed 358
270% 361 MB/s
133GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT03B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 402 309 308 310 306 242 MB/s
116% Outstanding
Read 496
Write 482
Mixed 396
SusWrite 313
95% 422 MB/s
4K Read 42.8
4K Write 110
4K Mixed 58.6
198% 70.6 MB/s
DQ Read 376
DQ Write 322
DQ Mixed 346
260% 348 MB/s
134GB free
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 348 314 311 312 312 311 MB/s
113% Outstanding
Read 499
Write 458
Mixed 401
SusWrite 318
94% 419 MB/s
4K Read 42.1
4K Write 90.5
4K Mixed 54.5
182% 62.4 MB/s
DQ Read 387
DQ Write 364
DQ Mixed 367
278% 373 MB/s
34GB free
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 332 140 136 122 121 110 MB/s
105% Outstanding
Read 504
Write 489
Mixed 415
SusWrite 160
88% 392 MB/s
4K Read 44.4
4K Write 100
4K Mixed 52.9
188% 65.9 MB/s
DQ Read 385
DQ Write 361
DQ Mixed 368
277% 371 MB/s
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 41,718,125 SSDs tested.

 Prices

MSRP ≈ $140 @ launch in Dec '14
AmazonUS $10014 months
BHPhotoUS $1043 years
EbayUS $1051 min
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Gaming
Gaming 71%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 89%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 60%
Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $228

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel  $267Bench 83%, 535,154 samples8,197x
Core i5-6600KIntel  $188Bench 81%, 290,890 samples5,370x
Core i7-6700Intel  $299Bench 75%, 199,289 samples1,276x
GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia  $330Bench 80%, 1,088,853 samples3,140x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $290Bench 57%, 1,119,893 samples1,853x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $450Bench 106%, 850,334 samples1,829x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 104%, 758,733 samples1,491x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $73Bench 82%, 440,698 samples1,257x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX  $125Bench 72%, 52,140 samples792x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $79Bench 85%, 429,937 samples711x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 64% - Good Total price: $998

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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 6 years ago.
USA-User
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7,708

Disliked (edit your comment) Add link

2 months 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

GBR-User
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4,812

Poor

1 month ago.

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

RUS-User
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4,134

Poor

8 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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4,022

Excellent

23 hrs 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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3,839

Excellent

22 months ago.

Lol with my macbook pro i have 3go/s

POL-User
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3,710

Terrible

14 months ago.

I have 2 years i haven't problem

ESP-User
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3,177

Liked

4 months ago.

Comment 

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

MEX-User
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3,172

Liked

2 years 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

AUS-User
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3,168

Poor

8 months ago.

Great SSD for a System Drive, and general storage.

CZE-User
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2,722

Excellent

19 months ago.

Comment 

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

MYS-User
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2,607

Good

2 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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2,382

Excellent

17 months ago.

Deal  order.komaks.com/...

Good price for this Samsung 850 Evo 250GB ssd

SRB-User
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2,286

Excellent

18 months ago.

Best thing happend to my crap lap top

ISR-User
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1,908

Liked

2 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

SSDrivePro
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1,857

Outstanding

6 years ago.

PER-User
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1,848

Good

10 months ago.

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

DNK-User
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1,840

Average

11 months ago.

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

SGP-User
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1,594

Liked

16 days 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
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1,388

Good

2 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
1,374

Disliked

3 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
1,212

Good

3 years ago.

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

Minoku
Avatar level
222

Outstanding

5 years ago.

Significantly faster boot times than any HDD.

ViceCity
Avatar level
102

Excellent

2 years ago.

awesome performance, good price

Asdfguy86
Avatar level
22

Excellent

2 years ago.

Really awesome SSD! Boot times are amazing

TeaEqualsLife
Avatar level
18

Excellent

2 years ago.

Best budget SSD there ever was.

serebit
Avatar level
18

Excellent

2 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

2 years ago.

It’s too small for most triple a titles.

Mogesla
Avatar level
16

Excellent

11 months ago.

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

somangee
Avatar level
8

Very good

4 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

3 years ago.

Best SSD ever

TekkiesUk
Avatar level
4

Outstanding

5 years ago.

Fast and FDE from BIOS

djmoslemok
Avatar level
4

Good

4 years ago.

super speed

silashsouza
Avatar level
2

Good

4 years ago.

I have this one, very good ssd.

Jeffs0418
Avatar level
2

Excellent

3 years ago.

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

eaposztrof
Avatar level
2

Good

3 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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