SSD real world performance

[Kasun]

Hey guys,

I want to upgrade my laptop with an 250GB SSD. I'm considering to buy Either Samsung 850 Evo 250 or Intel 535 240. But before buying I want to know how these SSDs perform in real world scenarios. 

When these drivers in use I will have to fill these drivers nearly upto 200Gig. MS office,
Photoshop,illustrator,Visual Studio & some other softwares will install in these drive. Also there will be an important documents & videos. Will these drives be slow in this situation? 

Thank you in advance!

[Wingfan]

my 850 Pro...not real world but had to post

[don_svetlio]

10 minutes ago, Kasun said:

Hey guys,

I want to upgrade my laptop with an 250GB SSD. I'm considering to buy Either Samsung 850 Evo 250 or Intel 535 240. But before buying I want to know how these SSDs perform in real world scenarios. 

When these drivers in use I will have to fill these drivers nearly upto 200Gig. MS office,
Photoshop,illustrator,Visual Studio & some other softwares will install in these drive. Also there will be an important documents & videos. Will these drives be slow in this situation? 

Thank you in advance!

The 850 EVO is a higher end product and thus is a better built piece of hardware. The Intel 535 is entry-level drive, nothing spectacular.

[Mark77]

If you're planning for loading 200gb, I'd highly advise you go with a 480/500gb model.  After all, do a few updates, and have a little bit of growth, and wham, you're right at full capacity on a 240/250gb model. 

 

As far as performance, there's really not a lot of difference in SATA SSDs these days.  Sure, one might benchmark a little better than another.  But seat-of-the-pants "feel" is pretty much the same across the board.  Reliability and reputation should be of more interest.

[Mark77]

5 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

The 850 EVO is a higher end product and thus is a better built piece of hardware. The Intel 535 is entry-level drive, nothing spectacular.

The 850 Evo is Samsung's entry-level product.  The 535, well, is a derivative of a fairly mature Intel/Sandforce design.  I wouldn't agree with your conclusion at all.  Sometimes with SSDs, boring is actually better. 

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Mark77 said:

The 850 Evo is Samsung's entry-level product.  The 535, well, is a derivative of a fairly mature Intel/Sandforce design.  I wouldn't agree with your conclusion at all.  Sometimes with SSDs, boring is actually better. 

Thing is, the 850 EVO is able to compete with Crucial and Sandisk's higher end offerings even though it's entry-level. 535 is just meh.

[Mark77]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Thing is, the 850 EVO is able to compete with Crucial and Sandisk's higher end offerings even though it's entry-level. 535 is just meh.

But it uses TLC NAND.  Albeit 3D NAND, for which the jury is still out whether its really that much better than the disaster that came with the 840 / 840 Evo series' planar TLC.

 

 

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, Mark77 said:

But it uses TLC NAND.  Albeit 3D NAND, for which the jury is still out whether its really that much better than the disaster that came with the 840 / 840 Evo series' planar TLC.

 

 

Check out reviews - the TLC-based 850 EVO 500GB is offering results close to those of MLC-based 500GB drives from competitors. It's a very solid product with a 150TB write durability rating but in the real tests they can withstand much more.