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Crucial M500 vs. Samsung SSD 840 EVO - Battle of the Mainstream SSDs

By Kenny Yeo - 10 Feb 2014

Results - CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 Results

CrystalDiskMark is an easy-to-run and quick utility to use to gauge a drive’s performance. It measures sequential read and write performance and random read and write speeds of random 4KB, 4KB (queue depth 32) and 512KB data.

The Samsung SSD 840 EVO began brightly, racking up very fast sequential, 512K and 4K read and write speeds that could easily match the top tier drives. Sequential and 512K write speeds were especially impressive when compared to the Crucial M500. However, we noticed that write performance took a significant dip when it came to the intensive 4K, 32 queue depth workload, which suggests that at this point, the TurboWrite cache is insufficient to boost its performance to rival the top tier SSD drives.

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