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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Samus - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
But you could buy 8TB of MLC-based Mushkin Reactor for the price of 4TB of 850 EVO. Then you consider a RAID of Reactors will be 4x the sequential performance of a 850 EVO.And let's face it, with a storage drive like a 4TB SSD, sequential performance is all that really matters unless you actually plan to use it as a boot/system drive.
ACE76 - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/memory/39668-mushkin-...I can't wait for this...at $500 for 4tb, I'd move all my media over to SSDs in a RAID 10 array.
Ian Cutress - Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - link
We got clarification from Mushkin at the time when we posted similar: the $500 price point was actually a mischaracterization. The initial price would be much closer to $1000, with $500 being a goal nearer EOL.Oxford Guy - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
How does TRIM fit into the picture of RAIDed ssds, though?Impulses - Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - link
TRIM has been working on RAID for a while, years actually, at least on Intel's newer chipsets... They kept it from older chipsets (like my old rig's P67) but enterprising users back ported it thru BIOS edits/hacks.Impulses - Tuesday, July 12, 2016 - link
Not that I'm against the EVOs, running 2x 1TB in RAID myself.bittermann - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
Good luck fitting 4TB of data on that 1TB drive....Spoogie - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
With Optane on the horizon, no reason to bite at this price point.Flunk - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
I don't think it's the same market. Optane isn't going to be less than $1 a GB at the start.patrickjp93 - Monday, July 11, 2016 - link
65 cents/GB actually.