Samsung updates its own SSD product every year. Last year, Samsung updated the M.2 interface NVMe SSD product to the 960 EVO SSD and the 960 PRO SSD, while the SATA interface product was updated to the new 860 PRO and 860 EVO. The product I'm testing today Is the SATA interface 512GB 860 PRO SSD.
Faced with the rapid growth of people's daily lives in the data, Samsung storage in order to solve this problem, the new maximum capacity to 4TB, and combines the new 512GB and 256GB 64-layer V-NAND, more than 4GB of LPDDR4 mobile DRAM And a new MJX controller that enhances the user and business user experience.
More capacity, more data, but also on the reliability of the solid state drive itself has higher requirements, so in the choice of SSD product itself, when in the future we recommend that you choose the best brand products, Samsung is optional one.
The 860 PRO offers a five-year limited warranty that shows Samsung's confidence in the safety and reliability of its products and the new MJX controller that enables faster communication with the host system, which is powerful enough to handle workstation storage while improving Linux operating system compatibility.
At the same time, the 860 PRO uses 3D-V-NAND MLC Flash Particles, which are theoretically faster and have a longer life expectancy than TLC Flash Particles, and a total of 8x more data writes than the previous generation.
After dismantling the product, you can clearly see the structure of the PCB inside the product, 512GB 860 PRO SSD PCB front of a flash memory chips, a master chip and a cache chip, the back is only one Flash chip.
↑↑↑ Samsung MJX controller
↑↑↑ 512MB low-power DDR4 SDRAM
↑↑↑ Two 256GB V-NAND particles that make up 512GB
Test platform and project description:
The test platform using the Z270 motherboard + I7 7700K processor platform with a detailed configuration is as follows:
CrystalDiskMark:
This is a more mainstream hard drive basic performance testing tools, through the average of five tests, so have a higher accuracy for continuous transfer rate, this software test is more accurate here we use the amount of 1000MB data Test.
AS SSD Benchmark:
Is a software specifically designed for SSD testing to test the sustained read and write performance of SSDs, including 4KB small file transfer performance under single-threaded and multi-threaded, etc. The results display can be divided into two types, one is MB / S form, the other is IOPS form.
PCMark 8:
Is currently the most comprehensive PC performance of the most professional test methods, through genuine registration software can be a separate test hard disk performance.
PCmark 8 built-in mainstream game loading test, as well as Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, Adobe lllustrator, Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint ten tests. Hard disk performance evaluation with longer test scores have a higher reference value .
Test scores reference:
CrystalDiskMark: This is a more mainstream hard drive basic performance testing tools, through the average of five tests, so have a higher accuracy rate for continuous transfer rate, the software test is more accurate here we use 1000MB The amount of data testing.
CrystalDiskMark test, 512GB Samsung 860 PRO SSD read reached 541.6MB / s, write reached 515.8MB / s in 4K small file read and write performance test to reach 128.9MB / s, read 44.5MB / s .
AS SSD Benchmark:
Is a software specifically designed for SSD testing to test the sustained read and write performance of SSDs, including 4KB small file transfer performance under single-threaded and multi-threaded, etc. The results display can be divided into two types, one is MB / S form, the other is IOPS form.
AS SSD Benchmark test, reading and writing performance, 512GB Samsung 860 PRO SSD reads up to 511.6MB / s, writing has reached 491.6MB / s, in the 4K small file read and write performance test to reach 114.6MB / s, read over 41.1MB / s.
ATTO Disk Benchmark:
A simple and easy to use disk transfer rate detection software that can be used to detect the read and write rates of hard disks, USB disks, memory cards and other removable disks. The hierarchical test mode makes the test results more accurate and reliable.
ATTO Disk Benchmark test, 512GB Samsung 860 PRO SSD read results 564.6MB / s, write 535.8MB / s.
PCMark 8:
Is one of the most comprehensive and systematic professional testing methods for PC performance at present, and can test the hard disk performance separately through the genuine registration software. PCmark 8 built-in mainstream game loading test, as well as Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, Adobe lllustrator, Microsoft Office Word, Office Excel, Office PowerPoint and other ten tests.
Hard disk performance evaluation with longer, test scores have a higher reference value.
Buying advice and summary:
As you can see, the Samsung 860 PRO SSD, which has been fully upgraded, excelled in all tests and outperformed its predecessor, the 850 PRO, in terms of read / write speed and overall performance, achieving top-notch performance in current consumer products. Performance are super 500MB / s, 4K performance is also very good, such a result in the face of large-capacity data can easily deal with.
More importantly, this series of new products, the maximum capacity has reached 4TB, the data show that last year the average capacity of mechanical hard disk 2.2TB, and 4TB capacity has completely exceeded the current capacity of people using the daily mechanical hard drive, so people no longer have to Worry about SSD capacity is too small.
The price, the future QLC flash memory may be really mature, it will bring surprises, by that time, the mechanical hard disk I really have to face it!
