Samsung 850 EVO vs Pro

Golf1.6 · 12 Dec 2015 at 21:47

Wow, firstly SSDs are getting cheaper and cheaper each year. One day HDD will be more expensive.

I have a 240GB Samsung 850 pro on my machine. Is EVO better or worse than Pro? I bought it 2 years ago?

wazza300 · 12 Dec 2015 at 21:57

Worse,it uses TLC nand memory,the pro uses better mlc nand

ED209 · 12 Dec 2015 at 21:59

Pro is better than the evo and the pro comes with longer warranty as well

BlackAle · 13 Dec 2015 at 01:03

In real life usage I doubt you'd notice any difference between the two, for most usage scenarios.

ShakenNstirred · 13 Dec 2015 at 11:18

BlackAle said:
In real life usage I doubt you'd notice any difference between the two, for most usage scenarios.

^^
Also who's going to still be using it in 10 years
surely we would have moved on by then

Golf1.6 · 13 Dec 2015 at 15:17

thanks, funny how the older drive is better. I will keep it then. I was thinking of upgrading from pro 256gb > 500gb evo. Then passing down the pro 250gb to the laptop and then the laptops crucial m4 to my nephews homework pc.

But I will keep the pro 256gb on my main desktop, buy a 250gb evo for my laptop and pass over the m4.

The laptop only has space for 1 HDD so I reall need 200GB+ on it as it's running out of space. Desktop can be configured to just run the OS from the SSD

Golf1.6 · 13 Dec 2015 at 15:19

ShakenNstirred said:
^^
Also who's going to still be using it in 10 years
surely we would have moved on by then

I agree. at the time I got the crucial m4 there was a lot of noise about how it's going to run out of read/write ops and fail in a few years. People were suggesting you turn off caching and the swap file etc. But that's never been a problem the m4 still only has 2% wear after all these years.

koolpc · 13 Dec 2015 at 15:22

BlackAle said:
In real life usage I doubt you'd notice any difference between the two, for most usage scenarios.

This

Nelly · 13 Dec 2015 at 17:25

In terms of endurance, according to the official Samsung 850 PRO specs, the 128GB and 256GB versions are good for 150TB of total writes, while the 512GB and 1TB/2TB versions can withstand 300TB of total writes.

In terms of endurance, according to the official Samsung 850 EVO specs, the 120GB and 250GB versions are good for 75TB of total writes, while the 500GB and 1TB/2TB versions can withstand 150TB of total writes.

I've had my Samsung 830 256GB for 3.5 years and written 16TB. I think it's totally safe to say any average home user/gamer will be good for years and years with either the 850 EVO or PRO. :cool:

wazza300 · 13 Dec 2015 at 19:17

so the pro's live twice as long as the evo's

Nelly · 13 Dec 2015 at 20:08

wazza300 said:
so the pro's live twice as long as the evo's

Going by the rate I used my Samsung 830, an EVO 500GB+ would last me around 27 years and a PRO 54 years. I have never kept a hard-drive longer than 3 to 4 years myself.

wazza300 · 13 Dec 2015 at 20:10

good to know you'll be a silver surfer long before it dies

I have a lot of hdd's over 5 years old so its good to know it has the potential to last a long time,but as with any ssd/hdd they can spontaneously pop their clogs

kayomani · 13 Dec 2015 at 20:20

I'd still go for Pros these days, a terrabyte isn't that much. Mine has done 3tb in three months.

Nelly · 13 Dec 2015 at 20:38

Bought a 1TB EVO on the whim in the black Friday sale for £184.99; I dunno whether to keep it, send it back, or sell it on. With a few games installed, I've still got around 70GB of free space on my 256GB 830 SSD.

Golf1.6 · 14 Dec 2015 at 14:12

oops i just double checked I actually have a 840 pro, not 850 pro. But the 840 pro is still marginally better than 850 evo. The biggest advantage the 840pro has over 850 evo is the triple core controller (as opposed to the dual core on the evo) and the MLC.

Ayahuasca · 14 Dec 2015 at 15:19

Nelly said:
Bought a 1TB EVO on the whim in the black Friday sale for £184.99; I dunno whether to keep it, send it back, or sell it on. With a few games installed, I've still got around 70GB of free space on my 256GB 830 SSD.

Whack it on MM

ShakenNstirred · 14 Dec 2015 at 18:57

Golf1.6 said:
oops i just double checked I actually have a 840 pro, not 850 pro. But the 840 pro is still marginally better than 850 evo. The biggest advantage the 840pro has over 850 evo is the triple core controller (as opposed to the dual core on the evo) and the MLC.

thought I seen somewhere the 3core wasn't any real world advantage, that's why they went to the duel core in the 850.
think it was a YouTube video

Michael_10 · 14 Dec 2015 at 19:01

Thinking of getting a 500GB 850 EVO, but reading about it seems they had quite a big discount during Black Friday? Think it's worth buying now or holding off for another sale soon?

Golf1.6 · 15 Dec 2015 at 02:06

ShakenNstirred said:
thought I seen somewhere the 3core wasn't any real world advantage, that's why they went to the duel core in the 850.
think it was a YouTube video

the stats seem to suggest that, yes.

Golf1.6 · 15 Dec 2015 at 02:08

Michael_10 said:
Thinking of getting a 500GB 850 EVO, but reading about it seems they had quite a big discount during Black Friday? Think it's worth buying now or holding off for another sale soon?

on a laptop with only 1 drive slot it's worth it, but on a desktop computer i cant think of any practicl appication. video ediotrs and general creatives who work with tonnes of data might find it useful to have all the project files on a ssd. but i cant think of a real reason to have 1tb ssd.