Benchmarks: File Copy Test

Our start custom file transfer test uses a single large compressed file and has been dominated by the Samsung SSD 840 Pro with a throughput of 330MB/s. The new Evo 840 drives did nothing to change this with their offer of 200MB/s -- roughly 40% slower than the SSD 840 Pro. In fact, the performance of the SSD 840 EVO drives was comparable to that of the OCZ Vertex 4, Octane and the much older Samsung SSD 830 series.

With RAPID enabled, the Evo's performance improved significantly, with the 250GB model seeing a nineteen% heave from 196.8MB/due south to 233.4MB/s and the 1TB version jumping 32%. We honestly didn't expect RAPID to have much of an bear upon on these file transfer tests, but the results speak for themselves.

The Evo drives performed much ameliorate in our plan copy test, which is comprised of many small not-compressed files (6104 files totaling two.75GB). At 183MB/s, the 250GB and 1TB drives delivered performance on par with the OCZ Vector and Intel SSD 335. This fourth dimension, however, RAPID only allowed for a minor 5% operation bump, which however left the Evo 5% behind the SSD 840 Pro.

The game copy evaluation is a mixture of small and large, compressed and non-compressed files (1336 files totaling 2.70GB). Although the SSD 840 Pro excelled in the previous transfer tests, the Evo drives were the fastest SSDs we've tested, with the 250GB model reaching 266.6MB/s and the 1TB model hit 277MB/due south. Enabling RAPID only increased functioning past iii% for the 250GB model and 9% for the 1TB drive.