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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% (229th of 1058)

Based on 827,550 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: 103% Great: 123%

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Outstanding average bench

The Samsung 850 Evo 250GB averaged 2.7% 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 310MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 51.8MB/s

Average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Samsung 850 Evo 250GB is 49.9%. 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 371MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 827,550 samples)
Rank 229103%
Min Avg Max
371 Read 471 507
263 Write 428 490
270 Mixed 371 416
114 SusWrite 246 327
85% 379 MB/s
Min Avg Max
25.6 4K Read 39.5 47.5
46.7 4K Write 93 124
31.2 4K Mixed 51.8 64.2
175% 61.4 MB/s
Min Avg Max
217 DQ Read 344 386
108 DQ Write 297 362
142 DQ Mixed 310 369
235% 317 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
140GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 396 311 313 302 306 302 MB/s
117% Outstanding
Read 509
Write 480
Mixed 394
SusWrite 322
96% 426 MB/s
4K Read 45
4K Write 111
4K Mixed 61.1
205% 72.4 MB/s
DQ Read 300
DQ Write 280
DQ Mixed 286
216% 289 MB/s
132GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT01B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 334 192 190 177 187 192 MB/s
82.9% Excellent
Read 372
Write 416
Mixed 343
SusWrite 212
76% 336 MB/s
4K Read 35.1
4K Write 77.5
4K Mixed 52.2
161% 54.9 MB/s
DQ Read 47.9
DQ Write 136
DQ Mixed 65.4
58% 83.2 MB/s
184GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT03B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 313 303 304 300 304 306 MB/s
78.1% Very good
Read 425
Write 381
Mixed 348
SusWrite 305
82% 365 MB/s
4K Read 28.2
4K Write 45.4
4K Mixed 32.8
109% 35.5 MB/s
DQ Read 218
DQ Write 167
DQ Mixed 193
144% 193 MB/s
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 47,300,798 SSDs tested.

 Prices

MSRP ≈ $140 @ launch in Dec '14
AmazonUS $10019 months
EbayUS $1006 mins
BHPhotoUS $1043 years
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Gaming
Gaming 71%
Battleship
Desktop
Desktop 88%
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Workstation
Workstation 60%
Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel  $319Bench 83%, 572,193 samples9,910x
Core i5-6600KIntel  $210Bench 79%, 344,946 samples6,242x
Core i7-6700Intel  $340Bench 75%, 245,629 samples1,556x
GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia  $400Bench 80%, 1,151,383 samples3,691x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $290Bench 57%, 1,283,412 samples2,190x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $540Bench 105%, 878,504 samples2,168x
SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung  $100Bench 103%, 827,550 samples1,713x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $77Bench 84%, 507,810 samples1,468x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX  $125Bench 72%, 57,391 samples923x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $74Bench 85%, 517,339 samples876x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 59% - Above average Total price: $1,191

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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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8,120

Liked (edit your comment) Add link

2 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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4,950

Poor

7 months ago.

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

RUS-User
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4,272

Poor

14 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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4,188

Excellent

5 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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3,981

Excellent

2 years ago.

Lol with my macbook pro i have 3go/s

POL-User
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3,864

Terrible

20 months ago.

I have 2 years i haven't problem

AUS-User
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3,316

Poor

14 months ago.

Great SSD for a System Drive, and general storage.

MEX-User
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3,294

Disliked

5 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

ESP-User
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3,281

Liked

9 months ago.

Comment 

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

CZE-User
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2,840

Excellent

2 years ago.

Comment 

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

MYS-User
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2,787

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
Avatar level
2,442

Excellent

23 months ago.

Deal  order.komaks.com/...

Good price for this Samsung 850 Evo 250GB ssd

SRB-User
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2,364

Excellent

23 months ago.

Best thing happend to my crap lap top

HRV-User
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1,990

Excellent

1 month 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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1,990

Liked

3 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

PER-User
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1,934

Good

16 months ago.

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

DNK-User
Avatar level
1,890

Average

17 months ago.

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

SSDrivePro
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1,857

Outstanding

6 years ago.

SGP-User
Avatar level
1,672

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

IRL-User
Avatar level
1,428

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
1,418

Disliked

4 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
1,264

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

3 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

3 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

17 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

5 years ago.

I have this one, very good ssd.

Jeffs0418
Avatar level
2

Excellent

4 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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