Samsung 860 EVO MZ-76E500BW 500 GB

Evolution

For a long time, the Evo 850 drive from Samsung was considered almost the benchmark of a solid state drive. By the onset of a new round of price wars, the company approached fully armed and launched the ideological heir to the 860 EVO, which became a little cheaper and got rid of most of the ancestor's shortcomings.

Stable and flawless performance in all scenarios

Firstly, the claimed write resource in the new drives has doubled, which is perfectly combined with the high practical endurance of the Samsung TLC 3D V-NAND and allows you not to lose the warranty with fairly intensive use of the SSD. At the same time, the warranty here is 5 years, and not 3 like most inexpensive SSDs. Secondly, 64-layer 3D TLC NAND with doubled capacity crystals provides approximately 20 percent more storage density. Thirdly, problems with the TRIM command in Linux OS have disappeared. With all this, a high read / write speed and a high IOPS, which indicates the total number of input / output operations per second, have been preserved. And the speed drawdown when copying large amounts of data is 15 – 20% lower than most inexpensive SSDs.

No flaws

All this leads us to the following conclusion: from the point of view of an ordinary user who is unlikely to need to “drive” hundreds of gigabytes of data there daily, clogging the SLC cache, the performance of the Samsung 860 EVO is enough for the eyes. If we talk about options for 1 TB and more, then thanks to the parallelism of flash memory arrays, we get faster performance than the 850 EVO in absolutely all scenarios. In other words, it is very difficult to claim performance of the 860 EVO.