Home News Reviews Forums Shop


In House Review - Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB SSD

In depth discussions on hard drives, SSDs, RAID setups and network storage systems.

In House Review - Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB SSD

Postby Ian on Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:56 am

Today, CDRLabs brings you a review of Samsung's new 850 EVO M.2 SSD. Designed for Ultrabooks, ultra-thin computing devices and motherboards with built-in M.2 (NGFF) slots, this new addition to the 850 EVO family isn't much larger than a stick of chewing gum. The 850 EVO M.2 is powered by the same MGX controller found in the 850 EVO and is available with up to 500GB of Samsung's 3-bit 3D V-NAND flash memory. The drive also shares many of the same features as its full size counterpart. Along with Turbo Write, it supports Device Sleep (DEVSLP) for lower power consumption and self-encrypting drive (SED) technology that is TCG Opal 2.0 and IEEE-1667 compliant. Moreover, the 850 EVO M.2 supports Samsung's RAPID (Real-time Accelerated Processing of I/O Data) technology. By using free PC memory as a cache, RAPID can push the performance of the SSD beyond the limits of the current SATA specification.

Image
Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 250GB Solid State Drive
"Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt." - Steve Jobs
User avatar
Ian
Grand Poobah
 
Posts: 15127
Joined: Sun Apr 08, 2001 2:34 pm
Location: Madison, WI

Re: In House Review - Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB SSD

Postby Ian on Mon May 04, 2015 3:50 pm

Samsung (finally) released version 4.6 of their Magician software so the review has been updated to include RAPID benchmarks.
"Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt." - Steve Jobs
User avatar
Ian
Grand Poobah
 
Posts: 15127
Joined: Sun Apr 08, 2001 2:34 pm
Location: Madison, WI


Return to Hard Drives and Solid State Drives (SSD)

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

cron
All Content is Copyright (c) 2001-2024 CDRLabs Inc.