Testseek.co.uk have collected 228 expert reviews of the Samsung 2.5 inch 840 Evo Series SATA600 and the average rating is 89%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung 2.5 inch 840 Evo Series SATA600.
August 2013
(89%)
228 Reviews
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3490 Reviews
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The editors liked
Keen pricing across the range
Outstanding 120GB performance
Good choice of capacities up to 1TB
RAPID Mode is one to watch
Available with laptop/desktop upgrade kits
Strong allround performance
Spacious 750GB capacity
TurboWrite acceleration
506 MB/s reads on large files
416 MB/s writes on large files
Lightweight
Perfect for a notebook
Samsung SSD Magician software is handy and intuitive
504 MB/s reads on large files
492 MB/s writes on large files
The Samsung SSD 850 Evo delivers great performance with useful features
At an affordable price. The drive is available with up to 2TB of storage space
Speedy performance
Good
Value
Five
Year warranty
Lightning fast drive
Super easy installation
Light on batteries (for laptop users)
“Samsung Magician” software works great for firmware updates and SSD optimization. The software also gives you 4 options
Max Performance/ Max Capacity / Max Reliabili
Fantastic performance
Strong IOPS throughput
Equally good with incompressible and compressible data
Playstation 4 compatibility …. if money is no object
The editors didn't like
RAPID Mode currently singledrive only
TurboWrite less effective at high queue depths
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Pricier than the Crucial M500 on a perGB basis
Samsung SSD 840 EVO (750GB)
The 750GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO is available to order from Scan Computers
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TLC flash memory is theoretically three times less longlasting than MLC
Write speed drops to 260 MB/s on files over 3 GB
The drive carries a 5-year warranty instead of the 10 years the Pro model offers. The Samsung Magician software only works with Windows
Not a huge generational leap
Definitely consumer
Class SSD
In order to use the drive to its full potential
AHCI Mode must be enabled in the bios
And motherboard should support SATA 3
The 1TB SSD is recommended as one of the features Samsung software offer is Over Provisioning. A part of the SSD itself is use
A smaller capacity will suit a much wider audience
Kitguru says
A lightning quick 1TB SSD to cater to those high end system builders who don't want to compromise on boot drive storage capacity
Abstract: After this week already sharing Linux disk performance results of the Kingston SSDNow V300 SSD and Western Digital WD10EZEX, the latest disk testing done from Ubuntu is with the popular Samsung 840 EVO solid-state drive. If you are curious how this lower-...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths, Excellent 4K random writing performance, at low queue depths, Outstanding 4k random reading performance at very low queue dep
If pushed very hard, the writing performance does drop off a bit.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths.Excellent 4K random writing performance, at low queu...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths, Excellent 4K random writing performance, at low and high queue depths, Outstanding 4k random reading performance at very low
Nothing to mention.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Excellent sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths.Excellent 4K random writing performance, at low and...
Abstract: I feel a little silly saying this, but the Crucial M500 960GB and Samsung 840 EVO 1TB are two of the best values in the SSD market. Both drives sell for north of $500, which puts them firmly in high-end territory. However, they also have loads of storage....
Really fast with the RAPID off!, Extremely fast with the RAPID on!, Storage capacity (up to 1 TB), 3 year warranty, SelfEncrypting Drive (SED) security technology
This was the first SATA3 drive that I've tested and before this, I didn't think that there would be a need for such an upgrade on the SATA standard. I was totally happy with the throughput of my previous data storage setup based on the SATA2 units. Wi...
"PRO PERFORMANCE WITHOUT THE PRO PRICE TAG."TurboWrite brings 840 PRO performance to the EVO line. For everyday usage and outside of files copy, I do not expect to see I/O writes greater than 3GB at one time. So as long as the write I/O stays under the 3G...
Abstract: TLC NAND is supposed to be the wave of the future for SSD’s. Triple Level Cell (TLC) NAND promises to significantly lower dollar per GB costs, making solid state storage significantly more affordable thereby increasing mainstream adoption. A lot of ma...
Stand-out software package, RAPID Mode lets you use extra RAM as a cache for benchmark-busting speed, Available in capacities as high as 1TB, Reasonably priced
TLC NAND longevity is rated lower than MLC chips' in other drives
Samsung's TLC-NAND-based SSD should be good for years of super-fast performance, and if you make use of its RAM-caching feature, it should feel faster with common tasks than any other consumer-grade SATA drive on the market. Read More…...
Quick and dependable yet roomy and affordable everything we've been waiting for in an enthusiast solid state drive.
Honestly, not much. RAPID caching occupies up to a gig of system memory (for a good reason), and it's not as affordable as the Crucial M500 but you can't have it all.
Samsung has yet to disappoint us with one of its SSDs. Three years ago, the 470 series topped our performance charts and gave the Crucial RealSSD C300 a run for its money. A year later, Samsung followed up with its 830 series, whose extreme performance be...
