Final Words & Conclusion

Final Words & Conclusion

If your compare the 850 EVO to the 750 EVO purely based on performance, you'll have a hard time spotting a difference. It's the hardware inside that matters, and in specific the NAND type used. While planar NAND (in this case 16 nm TLC) has a bit of a negative cloud hovering over it, you also need to realize that the industry needs cheap to fab NAND in order to put price competitive products out there. Honestly I wasn't expecting the 750 EVO to be this fast, it easily can match the 850 EVO and even PRO series in relative performance. The 850 however will have a bit more endurance in terms of TBW and warranty. Fact is that both the 850 and 750 series kick that proverbial azz and now they kick ass with some more capacity.

The 500 GB 750 is guarranteed at 100 TBW, and that really is a low estimate. But before you have written 100 TB on that SSD, you will need to have done crazy stuff. Say you plan to use this SSD a good eight years (which in technology land is a LOOOONG time). That means on average you could write 12.5 TB per year. Devide that by 12 months and multiply it with 1,000 (GB) and you could write 1,041 GB per month, which is almost 35 GB per day. And again, I find the 100 TB written a rather conservative estimate. 

What Samsung is doing with the 750 EVO thus far is impressive. The 750 EVO also is very fast as it was able to stay on top of pretty much all tests we fired at it from our benchmark suite. This is in the top 5 tested SSD performance wise and to see high-end performance with such consistency which shows that the SSD is done right. Next to that we just have to touch on the topic of power consumption. The power consumption of the Samsung SSD is low as well with an IDLE rating of 50 mW, and roughly 3 Watts when in use!

Performance

Overall this SSD shines at many factors and on all levels really, IOPS performance is very good. This SSD writes and reads serious amounts of tiny files in a very fast fashion. We did notice a drop-off point once the caches really run out of stamina, but you will need to have written many GBs before that happens, and even then you are still looking at a "slow" 335 GB/sec. We stated it before though, IOPS is not something you as a consumer should worry about too much unless you are doing a lot of database related work or create similar workloads on your PC, but this SSD certainly ranks high within this aspect. Trace testing - we think by far the best test in our entire benchmark suite is PCMark Vantage 64-bit. This is a trace test and can emulate what you guys do on your PC but then multiplied by factor 100, this test puts more focus on read performance opposed to writing though. The outcome of the results with the Samsung EVO are good. Sustained read / write performance, again excellent. Zoom in at both IOPS and trace performance and you'll notice that the SSD can manage serious workloads without breaking so much as a drop of sweat. So whether you write lots of small files, copy big MKV movies or do it all together, the 750 EVO remains a top dog on all fronts.

Overall

Right, an SSD is enjoyable. Very much so. If you put a drive like this into your SATA 3 compatible laptop or SATA 3 compatible PC, you'll have no idea what is about to hit you. We very much enjoy the grand sustained performance of this SSD series. Make no mistake, replacing an HDD with an SSD in your desktop PC or laptop eliminates the random access lag of the HDD head, it is no longer mechanical. That, combined with the performance SATA 3 offers these days, is simply a massive difference and probably the best upgrade you can make for your computer anno 2016.

Controller

Some overall recommendations then. Should you be in the market for a SATA 3 SSD then we have a couple of hints. First and foremost if you have a SATA 2 controller only on your motherboard, then you'll be limited at roughly 270 MB/sec read and writes. SATA 3 (6Gbps) will free you up from that allowing the SSD to perform in the 500 MB/sec range. It is however important that you connect your SSD to the proper controller. We absolutely prefer the performance of the Intel Series 6 and 7 (H67/P67/Z68/Z77/H77/Z87/X79/H97/Z97/X99/H170/Z170) integrated SATA 6G controller over anything else available in the market. If you run the SSD from a 3^rd party controller like say, a Marvell 6G controller, you will see lower performance. The new AMD 85X and 900 chipsets also offer fantastic performance. The more recent Asmedia controllers we spotted lately on motherboards also offer good performance, albeit still 20% ~ 25% slower than Intel's controllers. Also make sure you run your drive in AHCI mode, it does make such a difference in performance, a big difference.

Price point

Fabbing your own controller, your own PCB, your own cache chips and own NAND flash memory does have advantages as Samsung is able to keep the prices very competitive as this product is made 99% in-house, yeah I think they outsourced the resitors :)

• 500 GB costs € 149  / € 0.30 per GB

Concluding

The Samsung 750 series is all about value and enthusiast class performance, which is interesting as this should be the budget model. Read performance throughout the test session is comparable and up-to snuff with the competition in the 500 MB/sec range, writes are plenty fast up-to the point where you need to write huge and massively sized multi-GB files for long periods. If that remains to be an issue for you, you will need to spend more money on an SSD with another NAND flash type, that is the compromise for a somewhat value SSD. The SSD (based on NL EURO prices) costs 30 cents per GB, a lot of the competition already is at 25 cents per GB for their 500/512 GB models. So yes, at roughly 25 cents per GB it would be an awesome SSD with decent storage. But clearly the tested 500 GB model is very competitive in performance. For the Samsung 750 EVO 500GB model, the volume size with 100 TBW and three years guaranteed under warranty feels pretty good, but also is a little shy. The warranty plan itself is fine really, simple carry-in. We have seen SSDs in the same volume / class and even cheaper price range rated at 300 TBW. But we also understandthat the 750 is partly competing with the 850 EVO and PRO models, which have high rated TBW values.

Concluding, if your workload lines up towards gaming or regular usage on an internet PC, then we have to admit, this is looking to be a great SSD to work with. Any SATA3 these days however is getting that SATA3 bottleneck (hence I LOVE the new NVMe developments). But if all SATA3 SSDs roughly perform similar, then my advise to you is that you need to focus on quality of NAND, TBW and warranty. Trust me you are not going to notice the difference in-between an SSD reading at 475 MB or 560 MB/sec. It just doesn't work like that as we need many more orders of magnitude for that to become noticeable.

It's a lovely SSD, and comes recommended by Guru3D.com, I would really like to see a 1TB unit at 25 cents/GB rather sooner then later though, as that's the next challenge getting the volume size upwards in the mainstream segment.

** small update: we confirmed that Samsung Magician update revision 4.9.7 does support Rapid mode (RAM caching) with the EVO 750.

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