There can be no conclusion other than the fact the new Samsung 860 EVO shows green lights everywhere, and checks all the right boxes. It is getting rather saturated in the SATA3 arena and the performance difference is becoming more marginal at best.

If you've got an NVMe PCI M.2 port on your system you'll probably want Samsung's 970 Evo Plus in that form factor, but for everyone else the SATA model is an excellent option.

The Samsung 850 Evo has been a favourite SATA SSD for some time, smartly combining excellent performance with a great price. Now, Samsung is back with an updated version, the 860 Evo, which improves on the original and bumps up maximum storage to a whopping 4TB.

Huge choice of capacity; Well priced; Good all-round performance; Excellent endurance

Not that much faster than previous drive

My desktop PC never booted and responded so fast. The M2 module was extremely easy to install and was immediately recognized by the system. Installing Windows 10 on it, as well as all other software was a breeze.

Lightweight; easy to install

Turns your's old laptop into a super laptop. That's all I can say.

Super fast, pure bliss to change from ordinary SSD, free Far Cry 5 just blow my mind and running it from SSD works like a charm

Best of all, the 860 Evo isn't some overpriced luxury: the cost per gigabyte is perfectly reasonable for a 2.5in SSD of this calibre, at 32.8p for 250GB, 30.4p for 500GB, 29.6p for 1TB, 30.8p for 2TB and 31.3p for 4TB.

Exceptionally fast; Long lifespan; Reasonable price

Modest sequential write speed increase

Please SAMSUNG, review your documentation as it's stated in your docs that 860 EVO is 3bit MLC.................................................. I think there is something wrong !

Samsung has replaced the longtime reigning champion of the mainstream SSD market. We test out the 860 EVO to see whether doubling V-NAND layers doubles...

ASK SAMSUNG TO MAKE IT GO FASTER !!!

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