Samsung SSD 850 Pro (128GB, 256GB & 1TB) Review: Enter the 3D Era
by Kristian Vättö on July 1, 2014 10:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench 2011
Back in 2011 (which seems like so long ago now!), we introduced our AnandTech Storage Bench, a suite of benchmarks that took traces of real OS/application usage and played them back in a repeatable manner. The MOASB, officially called AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Heavy Workload, mainly focuses on peak IO performance and basic garbage collection routines. There is a lot of downloading and application installing that happens during the course of this test. Our thinking was that it's during application installs, file copies, downloading and multitasking with all of this that you can really notice performance differences between drives. The full description of the Heavy test can be found here, while the Light workload details are here.
The dominance continues in our 2011 Storage Benches. The 840 Pro was already the fastest drive in both suites, so it does not come as a surprise that the 850 Pro takes the lead.
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Pastuch - Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - link
When will we see Vnand in smart phones? This 16gb Nexus 5 is brutal! Always out of space.ajlueke - Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - link
Page 1, "Scaling below 20nm was seemed", I believe you intended "Scaling below 20nm was seen".Automaticman - Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - link
Can current EVO 840 users upgrade to Magician 4.4 and get the benefits of RAPID 2.0 (assuming they have >16GB DRAM)?bsd228 - Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - link
just as RAPID support was extended to the 840 PRO, I would expect this to support the 840 pro/evo soon, if not right off the bat.Automaticman - Sunday, July 6, 2014 - link
Well, I was certainly able to upgrade to Magician 4.4, and it did take a couple reboots while it was re-activating RAPID. I am going to guess and say yes it seems to be the new version of RAPID, but I don't see anywhere that it actually says RAPID 2.0 or any indication of how much memory it has available.sirvival - Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - link
Ah ok.When I select the 470 in Bench there is no slumber so I got confused.
Since power cosumption is a big thing in Mobile could you do the following:
Bench the impact on the Battery of a Laptop due to a fast drive.
E.g. drive A is fast but has the downside that it draws more under load as drive B which is slower. But since its done faster it returns to idle faster.
I mean impact on real world scenarios.
Or how much power was used for bench x etc. and have a average per hour or something like that.
sirvival - Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - link
damn this was to be a reply tohttp://www.anandtech.com/comments/8216/samsung-ssd...
sorry
Nickat - Thursday, July 3, 2014 - link
Thank you so much. You explained everything so well.Stokkolm - Thursday, July 3, 2014 - link
Newegg still has them for preorder at the more expensive price, hopefully they drop those before the release date.skarthikeyan - Monday, July 7, 2014 - link
Hi, How come random read is 106.8MB/sec and random write is 292.4MB/sec for the SSD 850 Pro 256 GB? Aren't writes supposed to be slower than reads?