At launch the 850 EVO 250GB costs a little more than the bottom of the barrel drives, but offers performance, endurance, and a five-year warranty never before seen at this price level. Earlier this ...

Last year, I had the opportunity of reviewing the original Samsung 840, which I felt was a good effort on the Samsung’s part. Despite the challenges of being the first to market with a TLC NAND based ...

As we saw in CrystalDiskMark, Samsung's SSD 850 Evo drivers are able to max out the SATA 6Gb/s interface when measuring sequential read performance. Like many modern SSDs, the 850 Evo can hit the ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

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The Samsung 860 EVO has convinced us: It is now safe to equate TLC (Triple-Level-Cell) SSDs with top-notch SATA performance. TLC-NAND SSDs used to be more about affordability, but the 860 EVO is the ...

Samsung unleashes its new 860 EVO series SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs. The new revision is fabbed with 64-cell layer V-NAND and their new MJX controller. Armed with proper SATA3 performance and interesting ...

Recently Samsung has released their Plus series of the 970 EVO, let's call this series the supercharged edition of the M.2. 970 EVO drives which on their end were blazingly fast as well already. The ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

The Evo drives delivered roughly 480MB/s in CrystalDiskMark's sequential read test and enabling RAPID made no difference on the 250GB model, in fact it was a little slower. The 1TB version gained ...

Several months ago at the 2013 Samsung Global SSD Summit, Samsung unveiled their latest and greatest SSD, the Samsung 840 EVO. Based off a brand new MEX controller and Samsung’s latest 19nm TLC Toggle ...