To test real life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.
100GB data file.
60GB iso image.
60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of .png, raw and .jpeg images).
10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).
5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
During our real life testing, the drive produced much better read performance than writes particularly when dealing with the large file sizes in the Movie, Photo and Audio folders. As with many drives the worst performance came when writing the contents of the 60GB Steam and 50GB file folders.
This is a very nice 850 Evo/Pro competitor, but it’ll come down to price and benchmarks.