The Samsung 750 EVO (120GB & 250GB) SSD Review: A Return To Planar NAND
by Billy Tallis on April 22, 2016 8:00 AM ESTATTO
ATTO's Disk Benchmark is a quick and easy freeware tool to measure drive performance across various transfer sizes.
The ATTO benchmark shows the 750 EVO has good performance on small transfers and a maximum write speed that is very close to the read speed. The 120GB 750 EVO even provides better write speeds than the 850 Pro 128GB thanks to the former's SLC write caching.
AS-SSD
AS-SSD is another quick and free benchmark tool. It uses incompressible data for all of its tests, making it an easy way to keep an eye on which drives are relying on transparent data compression. The short duration of the test makes it a decent indicator of peak drive performance.
The 750 EVO provides top-notch burst speeds for reads and writes. The write speeds in particular distinguish the 750 EVO from most other TLC drives and low-end MLC drives that suffer from a lack of parallelism at small capacities.
Idle Power Consumption
Since the ATSB tests based on real-world usage cut idle times short to 25ms, their power consumption scores paint an inaccurate picture of the relative suitability of drives for mobile use. During real-world client use, a solid state drive will spend far more time idle than actively processing commands. Our testbed doesn't support the deepest DevSlp power saving mode that SATA drives can implement, but we can measure the power usage in the intermediate slumber state where both the host and device ends of the SATA link enter a low-power state and the drive is free to engage its internal power savings measures.
We also report the drive's idle power consumption while the SATA link is active and not in any power saving state. Drives are required to be able to wake from the slumber state in under 10 milliseconds, but that still leaves plenty of room for them to add latency to a burst of I/O. Because of this, many desktops default to either not using SATA Aggressive Link Power Management (ALPM) at all or to only enable it partially without making use of the device-initiated power management (DIPM) capability. Additionally, SATA Hot-Swap is incompatible with the use of DIPM, so our SSD testbed usually has DIPM turned off during performance testing.
Idle power consumption of the 750 EVO is comparable to other Samsung drives: great when ALPM is enabled, and average when it is disabled.
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Meteor2 - Saturday, April 23, 2016 - link
Can't you come up with a more insightful comment, rather than a personal jibe?Eden-K121D - Sunday, April 24, 2016 - link
His Name Speaks VolumesBrokenCrayons - Monday, April 25, 2016 - link
Wouldn't embracing the internet mean using offsite storage or streaming content rather than storing it locally?cm2187 - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
Any news on Samsung's 4TB SSDs?trparky - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
Crap. Does this mean that production of the 850 EVO will stop? God I hope not, the 850 EVO is still a clear winner in my mind.Kristian Vättö - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
Absolutely not. The 850 EVO and PRO will continue to be available - the 750 EVO is just a new entry-level addition to the lineup.Coup27 - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
What part of the article gave you that impression?trparky - Saturday, April 23, 2016 - link
I was thinking along the lines of the 750 EVO replacing the 850 EVO in the product lineup. That's something I hope doesn't happen.StrangerGuy - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
Enjoyed the bottom to the barrel, cost cutting to the max 768p crappy laptop TN LCDs? Now coming to every future consumer SSDs near you.ingwe - Friday, April 22, 2016 - link
I'll take a cheap SSD over a shitty 768p panel any day!