Samsung SSD 860 Pro Review: Fast, Reliable SATA Solid State Storage

Name: Samsung SSD 860 Pro
Brand: Samsung

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 10:00 AM EDT

Next we ran SiSoft SANDRA, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provide the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run on clean drives after the test system reached and idle state. Average read and write performance metrics are detailed below.

SiSoft SANDRA

Synthetic Disk Benchmarking

The Samsung SSD 860 PRO 2TB drive we tested put up the best read and write scores in the SiSoft SANDRA physical disk benchmark. We're bumping into the limitations of the SATA interface with many drives today, but Samsung still manages to wring a couple of additional megabytes per second versus the competition.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

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ATTO is another "quick and dirty" type of disk benchmark that measures transfer speeds across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and graphs them out in an easily interpreted chart. We chose .5KB through 64MB transfer sizes and a queue depth of 6 over a total max volume length of 256MB. ATTO's workloads are sequential in nature and measure raw bandwidth, rather than I/O response time, access latency, or the like.

Reads are very tightly grouped with the ATTO Disk Benchmark, but there is a bit of a delta separating the drives in the write test. The Samsung SSD 860 PRO performs well overall, but doesn't quite catch the leaders at the largest transfer sizes.

Tags: Samsung, SSD, Storage, SATA, 860 pro

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