Samsung EVO 850 500GB m.2 SSD Review

Test Bed & Testing Methodology

To review the Samsung EVO 850 we are going to be using our Intel Skylake test bed for this test. While it won’t provide the raw throughput of an Extreme Edition CPU, it will do a great job of providing some real world usage data.

• CPU: Intel 6700K (Skylake)
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170x Gaming 7 Motherboard
• Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4-3333mhz @ 16-18-18-38-1T
• GPU: EVGA 980Ti 6GB Superclocked ACX2.0+
• HDD: 500GB Samsung EVO 650 M.2
• Power Supply: Seasonic P-Series 1000W Fully Modular

Testing Methodology

Rather than drill through lots of benchmarks (I will still use a few), I wanted to provide you with some real world usage statistics such as copying large files in Windows, game load times, application load times and more. After all its these things you will do on a regular basis.

• All tests will be completed three times with results being recorded each time
• For game load times a stop watch will be used due to no reliable tools being available, please allow a small margin for human error.

Let’s put Samsung’s EVO 850 500GB m.2 SSD through its paces and see what it’s capable of achieving!

• 1. Intro
• 2. Test Bed & Testing Methodology
• 3. Performance Testing
• 4. Conclusion