The Samsung 850 EVO 4TB SSD Review
by Billy Tallis on July 11, 2016 10:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Heavy
Our Heavy storage benchmark is proportionally more write-heavy than The Destroyer, but much shorter overall. The total writes in the Heavy test aren't enough to fill the drive, so performance never drops down to steady state. This test is far more representative of a power user's day to day usage, and is heavily influenced by the drive's peak performance. The Heavy workload test details can be found here.
The 4TB 850 EVO is slightly faster overall on the Heavy test than the 2TB 850 EVO, so it takes over as the fastest TLC drive. The 1TB and 2TB 850 Pros are only a little faster.
Average service time of the 4TB 850 EVO has regressed somewhat compared to the 1TB and 2TB models, but it still can't be beat by TLC from anybody other than Samsung.
The quantity of latency outliers experienced by the 4TB 850 EVO places it at the bottom of the highest tier of drives and below the 1TB and 2TB models.
The 4TB 850 EVO uses very slightly more power than the 2TB, but both are much more efficient than the 1TB model and score reasonably well given the high capacity.
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Adm_SkyWalker - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
At CES Mushkin said they were planning on releasing a 4TB SSD by the end of the year. They are targeting a $500 price point. Unless they scrapped it, this could be a cheaper option before the end of the year.http://techreport.com/news/29583/mushkin-previews-...
http://techreport.com/news/29583/mushkin-previews-...
Kristian Vättö - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
It was a misinterpretation. The $500 price point was for the 2TB drive, with the price of the 4TB being unannounced (likely a double at least).http://www.anandtech.com/comments/9986/ces-2016-ro...
Adm_SkyWalker - Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - link
I should of figured it was to good to be true. Still a competing $1000 drive could convince Samsung to lower their price. Assuming the speed is comparable between the two.aggiechase37 - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
Way WAY WAAAAYYY too expensive. For this price you could get piece together a RAID configuration out of regular HDD and get a decent amount of the same performance AND the added bonus of having redundancy in the case of a drive failure. Can't see who purchases this.Chloiber - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
Not sure why anyone would want to buy this when you can get a 4TB Samsung P863 Enterprise SSD for 300$ more...Taracta - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
Isn't the 25% over-provisioning getting a bit much for these larger SSDs? Does a 4TB SSD really need 1TB over-provisioning to max-out relative performance? Would 10% be enough for these large drives?Billy Tallis - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
That is something I've wondered about and will probably look in to eventually, but it would be pretty time consuming to test and isn't something I can see adding to the routine suite of benchmarks.Impulses - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
Something to ask Samsung tho?Taracta - Thursday, July 14, 2016 - link
Thanks for your reply. I believe that you should just test this 4TB SSD for now to see the impact and another couple of different ~4TB SSDs when available to compare with these results. Forget about the lesser drives, too many and too late.ACE76 - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
hopefully we see more manufacturers release 4tb and greater SSDs...these drives will end the need for platter based hard drives for good...price is too high right now but it should come down over the next 6 months to a year.