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

PCMark7

Website: PCMark 7

PCMark 7's storage benchmark uses SATA traces to emulate specific workloads and apply them to each SSD on test. We've selected the Gaming and Application load tests to highlight here. As some PCMark tests generate the same result regardless of SSD, as we feel these speeds are more relevant than PCMark's overall score.

PCMark 7 Secondary Storage Test

Starting Applications test

  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB Rapid Mode
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 750GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 512GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 256GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 480GB
  • OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
    • 95
    • 67
    • 61
    • 61
    • 61
    • 60
    • 59
    • 58
    • 56
    • 54
    • 51
    • 50
0
25
50
75
100
MB/sec (higher is better)
  • Speed (MB/sec)

PCMark 7 Secondary Storage Test

Gaming Test

  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB Rapid Mode
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 750GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 256GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 512GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 256GB
  • OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 480GB
    • 18.49
    • 17.53
    • 17.46
    • 17.46
    • 17.46
    • 17.37
    • 17.11
    • 16.92
    • 16.72
    • 16.57
    • 16.45
    • 15.82
0
5
10
15
20
MB/sec (higher is better)
  • Speed (MB/sec)

BootRacer

Website: BootRacer

We've wanted to include more real-world tests for our SSD reviews, and BootRacer allows us to accuratly time Windows 7 64-bit reboot times down to hundredths of a second. We run the test on a fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit on the relevant SSD, first allowing five restarts to allow Windows 7 to get it's caching together, before taking the average of the five subsequent reboot times as our result.

BootRacer Restart time

Restart time

  • OCZ Vertex 3 240GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 500GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 120GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 512GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 480GB
  • OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 1TB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Evo 750GB
    • 9.37
    • 9.40
    • 9.48
    • 9.76
    • 9.80
    • 10.12
    • 10.22
    • 10.47
    • 10.67
    • 11.37
    • 11.40
0
3
5.5
8
10.5
13
Seconds (lower is better)
  • Restart time (sec)

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