Editors Liked
- Overall strong write performance
- Performance in our consumer real-world benchmarks
- Price-point with TLC NAND
- 930GB of usable storage
- 4K random write figure very impressive
- Good price
- Good choice of capacities up to 1TB
Editors Didn't Like
- Questionable reliability compared to MLC NAND
- RAPID mode did not offer a performance boost
- TurboWrite less effective at high queue depths
- SSDs still more expensive than hard drives
The Samsung 840 Evo is the new member to its highly-regarded SSD 840 range. The 840 EVO sports 19nm 128Gb TLC NAND, proprietary firmware and the latest-gen multi-core MEX controller. The 840 Evo features in 120GB and 250GB capacities speeds of 520MB/s, and in its top capacities of 500GB, 750GB and 1TB registers 520MB/s.