Samsung 850 EVO M.2 and mSATA SSD review

Posted on: 04/17/2015 04:37 PM

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Msata and M2 Sata are designed to go into Laptop so why cover them, it adds to cost and wont help thermals.

Posted on: 04/17/2015 04:42 PM

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Would this ssd fit well with the m.2 slot on http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/Fatal1ty%20990FX%20Killer/ ?

Posted on: 04/17/2015 05:12 PM

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m2 is slower than Msata

Posted on: 04/17/2015 05:40 PM

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Yes, that M.2 port can be used with SATA M.2 drives and PCI-E M.2 drives:



With this particular Samsung drives, the M.2 and mSATA versions has different specs, with lower max writes in M.2, but better IOPs.

However, the best option for that ASRock's M.2 port is to use a PCI-E M.2 SSD, but they are still pretty expensive.

Posted on: 04/17/2015 06:30 PM

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Great review!...

I'll be making the SSD plunge soon, and for the first time, and it will be my boot drive. I'm going to go with a 250GB+ size initially now that pricing is approaching a threshold that I can live with, but I had a couple of quick questions that some kind soul might condescend to help me with...

*How are these drives formatted, and what about cluster sizes? I'm guessing that as with platter drives, that < 4k, NTFS cluster sizes, while more efficiently using disk space would also add disproportionately to the overhead of the drive and tend to lower performance, but I'm not clear on that, actually.

*What about paging files? I can't see how maintaining a page file on the SSD could be anything except beneficial, but I just thought I'd ask...

*What is it about the Samsung EVO SSDs that makes them so popular? I've noticed that the 840 is listed as Amazon's best-selling SSD. Just curious.

*Would you recommend an 850 over an 840?

Thanks!