1. Introduction2. Samsung SSD750 500GB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMeter8. Real Life File Testing9. Samsung RAPID10. Closing Thoughts11. View All Pages

Samsung has the SSD850 EVO positioned in the mainstream segment with the SSD850 PRO and M.2 950 PRO in the high-end market space. The one sector that was missing from their SSD portfolio was an entry level, value end of the market drive. This gap has now been filled by the SSD750 EVO series, first of all with the 120GB and 240GB models and more recently the 500GB capacity drive.

 

Samsung are in the enviable position of having every component of an SSD design available in-house. This allows them the freedom to price their drives at a level other drive manufacturers just can't compete with.

They can also include features normally found in more expensive drives. For example, despite it being aimed at the value end of the market the SSD750 EVO still comes with AES 256-bit data encryption and TCG/Opal v.2.0 support. We aren't so sure a drive at this end of the market needs hardware encryption but at least it's there if needed.

Samsung rate the drive Sequential read/write performance as up to 540MB/s and 520MB/s respectively, numbers we could confirm with the ATTO benchmark. The tested drive produced 551MB/s read and 527MB/s write. When it came to Random 4K performance, the tested drive didn't quite hit the official 98,000 IOPS for reads and 88,000 IOPS for writes – hitting 97,482 IOPS read and 82,787 IOPS writes.

Samsung's SSD management tool ‘Magician' is a very useful download and the company update it at regular intervals. With this software, you can update the drive's firmware, setup the Over Provisioning and enable security features. The only thing really missing is a built-in data migration tool, but at least that is available as a separate download.

We found the Samsung SSD750 EVO 500GB on sale for £119.99 at Overclockers HERE

Pros

• Overall performance.
• Well priced.
• Data encryption.

Cons

• Not 3D NAND

Kitguru says: The SSD750 EVO range neatly fills a gap in the companies drive portfolio forsaking the technically advanced 3D NAND used in other Samsung consumer drives for much more cost effective 2D Planar NAND.

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