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850 Evo 500GB

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

Average Bench: 112% (196th of 1058)

Based on 684,094 user benchmarks.  Models: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500G, Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, Samsun SSD 850 EVO 500G, Samsung SSD 850 EVO, Samsung SSD 850
Poor: 85%Average: 112% Great: 134%

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Outstanding average bench

The Samsung 850 Evo 500GB averaged 11.7% higher than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Samsung 850 Evo 500GB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 305MB/s
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 54MB/s

Average consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Samsung 850 Evo 500GB is 48.7%. This is a relatively wide range which indicates that the Samsung 850 Evo 500GB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. Sustained Write Speed 363MB/s
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 376MB/s
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Average Bench

(Based on 684,094 samples)
Rank 196112%
Min Avg Max
397 Read 478 507
292 Write 439 490
312 Mixed 376 412
147 SusWrite 363 488
93.1% 414 MB/s
Min Avg Max
29.9 4K Read 40.8 47.6
47.2 4K Write 94.9 127
35.9 4K Mixed 54 65.3
181% 63.2 MB/s
Min Avg Max
216 DQ Read 338 386
101 DQ Write 289 362
132 DQ Mixed 305 370
231% 310 MB/s
User Benchmarks Bench Sequential Random 4k Deep queue 4k
The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
243GB free
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 482 485 485 486 486 485 MB/s
132% Outstanding
Read 502
Write 490
Mixed 403
SusWrite 485
106% 470 MB/s
4K Read 46.2
4K Write 117
4K Mixed 62.9
213% 75.4 MB/s
DQ Read 378
DQ Write 353
DQ Mixed 363
273% 365 MB/s
334GB free (System drive)
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 321 436 467 479 477 476 MB/s
117% Outstanding
Read 502
Write 484
Mixed 398
SusWrite 443
103% 457 MB/s
4K Read 44.9
4K Write 67.7
4K Mixed 53.1
172% 55.2 MB/s
DQ Read 380
DQ Write 336
DQ Mixed 248
216% 321 MB/s
320GB free
Firmware: EMT02B6Q
SusWrite @10s intervals: 463 464 463 465 465 463 MB/s
117% Outstanding
Read 500
Write 458
Mixed 386
SusWrite 464
102% 452 MB/s
4K Read 43.1
4K Write 93.6
4K Mixed 58.4
190% 65 MB/s
DQ Read 219
DQ Write 184
DQ Mixed 201
151% 201 MB/s
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 Market Share (See Leaders)

The number of benchmark samples for this model as a percentage of all 44,171,174 SSDs tested.

 Prices

MSRP ≈ $178 @ launch in Dec '14
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Typical 850 Evo 500GB Builds (Compare 19,571 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.
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Gaming 70%
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Desktop
Desktop 88%
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Workstation
Workstation 60%
Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel  $310Bench 83%, 526,268 samples8,939x
Core i5-6600KIntel  $199Bench 79%, 321,546 samples5,734x
Core i7-6700Intel  $350Bench 76%, 231,211 samples1,385x
GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia  $400Bench 80%, 1,127,629 samples3,405x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia  $290Bench 57%, 1,201,235 samples1,996x
GTX 1080Nvidia  $450Bench 106%, 831,064 samples1,975x
SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung  $135Bench 112%, 684,094 samples1,427x
RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair  $94Bench 81%, 510,924 samples1,348x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX  $125Bench 72%, 55,625 samples852x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair  $79Bench 85%, 449,640 samples793x
EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 57% - Above average Total price: $1,234

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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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7,886

Good (edit your comment) Add link

18 days ago.

userbenchmark kept giving me error Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected.

FRA-User
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3,905

Excellent

5 months ago.

The first time I experience fast boot of windows 10 in my pc!

IND-User
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3,744

Good

5 months ago.

I've been using it for more than a year now. excellent performance and thanks to a very handy software kit bundled with it

CHE-User
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2,242

Good

22 months ago.

Perfect SSD, fast and realible

mazinga
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54

Excellent

2 years ago.

wopr

NorthStar
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52

Excellent

8 months ago.

Still a great SSD, even in 2020. Fast load times for both OS and applications/games.

BurntTech
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42

Good

2 years ago.

Works good enough if the price was right

xDEFCONx
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28

Excellent

22 months ago.

SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs like this are still fantastically priced for the near unnecessary performance you can get out of this for almost all use cases.

Doncalypso
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18

Poor

2 years ago.

too old

MMarioMX
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14

Excellent

4 years ago.

O boy This Thing is the bomb!!! expensive (for my country) but TOTALLY WORTH IT!

zorz
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14

Outstanding

4 years ago.

Best of the best

usbserial
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12

Excellent

3 years ago.

Besides gaming and a GPU upgrade, this is the biggest upgrade you can make for your computer. It'll feel faster and more responsive in every way except framerate. I enjoy the 500GB size as it is large enough to use as a boot drive and to store almost all of my games and applications without having to worry about space constantly.

3dmark
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10

Excellent

2 years ago.

Outstanding SATA SSD, a market standard.

SirNatty
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8

Good

5 years ago.

Bloody quick. Seems more reliable with RAPID mode OFF though

metzzy
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8

Excellent

4 years ago.

Excellent SSD with its amazing value. Worth it.

hitekk
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8

Excellent

4 years ago.

SSD's been the most life changing part in years. I am loyal to Samsung for fiability and top performances.

MrWiggles
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6

Outstanding

4 years ago.

Amazing quality, easy to install and optimize, plenty of space and great warranty.

kamkelsey
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6

Excellent

4 years ago.

I like it and it works well.

steveng
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6

Excellent

2 years ago.

The Samsung SSD EVO 500GB is an unbelievably fast SSD, it improved my laptop speed and boot time by at least 1000%, its the best investment I've ever made and its brought my Aspire 5750/2414 that initially had an i5-2410M 4GB 1333MHz RAM (upgraded now to 8GB) and changed the processor to an i7-2720QM into the 21st century. I've never had any problems with Windows 10 Pro and even with the new v1809 that runs perfectly on this system. I highly recommend this SSD!

4790k
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4

Excellent

4 years ago.

Cold boot went from 30 or 35 seconds to 6 seconds.

westharpe
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2

Good

4 years ago.

Gave my machine new life...however, it is running pretty slowly percentile-wise.

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