Mixed Random Read/Write Performance

For full details of how we conduct our Iometer tests, please refer to this article.

Iometer - Mixed 4KB Random Read/Write

In mixed random performance the Trion at least isn't the only drive that performs poorly because the Ultra II is nearly as bad, but that's is a very little delight.

Iometer - Mixed 4KB Random Read/Write (Power)

Power follows the same pattern as we saw in the two previous pages: it's not specifically higher than others but when performance is taken into account the efficiency is rather poor.

OCZ Trion 100

In terms of scaling the Trion is just generally slow; there's no particular distribution that stands out except pure writes but that was expected given the poor random write performance in the first place.

Mixed Sequential Read/Write Performance

Iometer - Mixed 128KB Sequential Read/Write

In mixed sequential performance, once again, the Trion is at the bottom and this time the power consumption is also higher than the rest.

Iometer - Mixed 128KB Sequential Read/Write (Power)

OCZ Trion 100
Sequential Performance ATTO & AS-SSD
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  • extide - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    Published endurance ratings != actual endurance!!!

    Published endurance ratings are only used for two reasons:
    1) To keep write heavy enterprize users away
    2) For warranty purposes (A published endurance rating gives a hard cutoff for the end of warranty period, besides the time period running out)

    ACTUAL endurance of the NAND is usually WAY higher, especially with the Samsung 850 series drives.
  • Solid State Brain - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    It looks like these drives have had their endurance validated according to the JEDEC JESD219A client workload specification, which means it's actually a meaningful value rather than one arbitrarily set by the manufacturer to keep heavy users away.
  • jann5s - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    I'm really really really curious to some data retention measurements. I would appreciate it greatly if AT would throw some MLC and TLC SSD's in the vault for half a year and then report back with an awesome review!
  • Ken_g6 - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    Looks like the Trion is a drive to bypass. Maybe they'd do better with a drive called the "Succeedon".
  • camelNotation - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    LOL nice one
  • Impulses - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    Samsung's 850 line looks poised to have as much staying power as the 830s (luckily I skipped the buggy 840 EVO since I wasn't looking for more capacity at the time)... Looking forward to some BF or Amazon's 20th deals on that 1TB 850 EVO! (tho I probably should've just bought it when it hit $340 not long ago) Is Samsung releasing a new series early next year or are they all about PCI-E/M2 moving forward?
  • The_Assimilator - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    2.5" SSDs aren't going away anytime soon, so I'm sure we'll see Samsung 860 series SSDs in the future. How soon is the question, because it seems there's not much that can be done to speed up drives without having them bottlenecked by SATA3 and AHCI.
  • Gigaplex - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    The advances for the 860 series are likely to focus on density rather than performance upgrades. However, there is still a lot of room for improvement in random IO performance.
  • Byte - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    Samsung already announced 2TB 850 Evo and Pros, the prices look pretty good also. Its gonna be hard to top the 850 series!

    http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2015/07/07/s...
  • eek2121 - Thursday, July 9, 2015 - link

    You guys act like the 840 EVO was the worst drive in the world. I've had 0 problems with mine in the year that i've owned it and couldn't be happier.

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