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

PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2015 11:56 am
by Ian
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.

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Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 250GB Solid State Drive

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

PostPosted: Mon May 04, 2015 3:50 pm
by Ian
Samsung (finally) released version 4.6 of their Magician software so the review has been updated to include RAPID benchmarks.