Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB & 1TB Drives Tested

Name: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 250GB & 1TB Drives Tested
Brand: Samsung

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 12:10 PM EDT

Next up we ran the Compression Benchmark built-into AS SSD, an SSD specific benchmark being developed by Alex Intelligent Software. This test is interesting because it uses a mix of compressible and incompressible data and outputs both Read and Write throughput of the drive. We only graphed a small fraction of the data (1% compressible, 50% compressible, and 100% compressible), but the trend is representative of the benchmark’s complete results.

AS SSD Compression Benchmark

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Regardless of the type of data used, the Samsung SSD 840 EVO series of drives offers consistent performance. There is no drop-off in write performance as the data become more incompressible, unlike the SandForce based drives featured here.

And this is what happens to the 1TB drives performance if RAPID is enabled. As you can see, transfer speeds are all over the map. Of course, this data isn't necessarily representative of real-world performance because of the synthetic nature of the benchmark. We've included strictly for reference purposes.

Tags: Samsung, SSD, Storage, SATA, Drives, solid state, 840 EVO

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com