Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1TB Review

Written by Edward Chester

July 25, 2013 | 19:15

Tags: #nand #samsung-ssd-840-evo #ssd

Companies: #samsung

AS SSD Benchmark Results

Website: AS SSD

AS SSD is a freeware benchmarking tool designed just for SSDs, performing a battery of sequential read and write tests, as well as random read and write tests and sequential access tests over a 3GB portion of the drive. As Windows 7's caching technology makes using real world tests such as FC-Test almost impossible, this is the next best test for judging sequential read and write speeds. It also produces accurate access times, and is wonderfully easy to use.

AS SSD's benchmark uses data that is predominantly incompressible, which negates much of SandForce's DuraWrite compression technology. This means that it can be seen as a worst case scenario for drives that use compression, such as the OCZ Vertex 3.

Sequential Speeds


AS SSD

Incompressible Data, Sequential Read Speeds

  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB Rapid Mode
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 750GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 250GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 256GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
    • 962
    • 538
    • 537
    • 537
    • 534
    • 524
    • 522
    • 521
    • 521
    • 515
    • 512
    • 508
    • 498
0
250
500
750
1000
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Read Speed

AS SSD

Incompressible Data, Sequential Write Speeds

  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB Rapid Mode
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 750GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 250GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
  • Crucial M4 256GB
  • Crucial M4 128GB
    • 1076
    • 504
    • 503
    • 505
    • 502
    • 503
    • 498
    • 440
    • 392
    • 389
    • 300
    • 278
    • 199
0
250
500
750
1000
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Write Speed

Random Performance


AS SSD

Incompressible Data, 4K Random Read, Single QD

  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB Rapid Mode
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 750GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 250GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 256GB
  • Crucial M4 256GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
    • 40.38
    • 40.94
    • 40.90
    • 40.62
    • 39.82
    • 33.77
    • 31.33
    • 29.02
    • 28.66
    • 27.37
    • 22.77
    • 22.55
    • 21.18
0
10
20
30
40
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Random Read Speed

AS SSD

Incompressible Data, 4K Random Write, Single QD

  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB Rapid Mode
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 750GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB
  • Samsung SSD 840 256GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
  • Crucial M4 64GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 256GB
    • 254.00
    • 113.38
    • 104.96
    • 104.46
    • 103.96
    • 103.63
    • 103.18
    • 102.56
    • 98.43
    • 95.68
    • 94.40
    • 77.44
    • 77.29
0
50
100
150
200
250
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Random Write Speed

AS SSD

Incompressible Data, 4K Random Read, 64 QD

  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB Rapid Mode
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 750GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 250GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 256GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
  • Crucial M4 256GB
    • 457.62
    • 384.21
    • 382.21
    • 381.90
    • 370.00
    • 345.59
    • 344.85
    • 341.78
    • 308.67
    • 301.12
    • 265.00
    • 213.51
    • 152.00
0
100
200
300
400
500
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Random Read Speed

AS SSD

Incompressible Data, 4K Random Write, 64 QD

  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB Rapid Mode
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 750GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB
  • OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 256GB
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 256GB
    • 879
    • 338
    • 328
    • 327
    • 324
    • 324
    • 309
    • 298
    • 237
    • 207
    • 166
    • 120
    • 70
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Average Random Write Speed

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