Best Samsung 870EVO SATA SSD Review

These might not be the most exciting thing right now because we've pretty much reached the limits on the SATA connection years ago. 

And then the much faster and the media says these have become affordable in the last few years, or at least if you look at capacities, up to two terabytes.  

But keep in mind, two terabytes is also not that much nowadays and if you want a larger SSD, or you reach the limit of the under two slots on your motherboard seat as these would be the logical step today.

Best Samsung 870-EVO SATA SSD

Today Samsung is releasing their latest and supposedly their greatest SATA SSD thus far. 

The 870 EVO, which is a successor of their very popular 860, evolve, we all know and love. 

Now they will launch five different capacities starting at 250 gigabytes and going up to four terabytes. And these are the recommended prices that Samsung gave me. 

But these are these always end up a lot cheaper in shops and I do expect them to pretty much replace the 860 EVO at similar prices over the coming weeks. But first, let's see how they perform and what should we expect from these drives. Let's go.

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Overview of the new 870 EVO

Samsung 870EVO SATA SSD 6 different capacities or model;

1. 250GB 
2. 500 GB,
3. 1 TB,
4. 2TB ,
5. 4TB,
6. 8TB

And if you look at these drives you cannot tell the difference between the new 870 EVO, and the older, a 60 series, you will have to read the sticker on the back to know which one you're holding.

They kept the same black metal case with the same design, which I love because in some cases they will be visible and a clean and sleek looking SSD.

It is just so much nicer to have on the inside the 870 EVO, which is the same as its predecessor, so it has three-bit MLC memory. 

Some Drams cache with larger capacities having more cash, and it's using SLC caching to boost performance. 

As long as you have a bit of free space on your drive. Now I know that some of you were worried that evil drives would move to four bits of memory since they move their 980 Pro from two to three beds.

But thankfully Samsung did not take that step they start storing more bits of data in the same cell, thus saving costs, but hurts both performance and durability, so it is considered a downgrade. 

Now, if we look at the specification table. The only thing Samsung upgraded is the controller, and most of the other specs are still the same. It has the same support for hardware encryption. 

The same five year warranty and the same total bytes written warranty, which is the total amount of data that you can write to it before the warranty expires. 

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Samsung Magician Software

Now just like all other Samsung drives. This one uses the additional software as well. And with this software, you can easily update the firmware you can check the health of your drive.

Or you can migrate your current installation to your new Samsung drive. 

And as far as the software suites go I do think that this is one of the better and more polished ones.

Test Setup Overview

Let's move on to the most exciting part of the review, the performance of these drives. 

Now for my test rig, I use the Asus Rog corsair eight hero motherboard with a ryzen 9 5950x CPU and 60 all in one cooler 32 gigs of 3600 megahertz Corsair Dominator Platinum memory. 150 watt

Power supply from suzani, and an RTX 3080 graphics card. Now I use the latest version of windows seven pro, all data is fresh, which is important because Windows Updates do affect SSD performance. 

Now I'm mostly going to focus on the one terabyte model because I want to see the difference between the new model and its predecessor.

Unfortunately, I only have the 860 EVO in that capacity, but keep in mind, the larger capacities usually performed better than the lower capacities, and even though I'll just focus on the one terabyte model. 

The rest will be also highlighted in the graph so you can keep an eye on them. 

Sequential

So, looking at sequential performance, there is very little difference between the 860 EVO and the 870 evil. 

The 870 manages to squeeze a couple of extra megabytes in, but a less than 1% difference is far from significant, and obviously, that was to be expected as this feed in both cases is just limited by that data connection.

Even in Samsung's documentation, they do suggest that you, probably you know one, find much of a difference between the two. 

Unless you're looking at small blocks of data at low q depth.  

ATTO, low QD

However, even when looking at the Autodesk benchmark with a queue depth of one. The difference between the 860 and the 870 EVO is pretty much irrelevant. 

And even if we look at larger amounts of small blocks of 16 gigabytes of them with a queue depth of four, both SSDs are showing the same performance. 

But to get a better sense of the real-world performance.

Real World Light Use

I use the PCMark 10 benchmarks which have a bunch of different tests that replicate actual use cases.

And in my opinion. PCMark is just a more reliable and more meaningful way to look at an SSD. Now starting with PC Mark 10, quick, which is a very light test because most of what we do throughout the day is not that heavy on your SSD. 

So most everyday tasks are largely handled by the cachet of the drive that its main capacity, and how well a driver can use its cache, is a large part of what this quick benchmark test does and shows. 

Now here we can see that the new Evo drives are performing a lot better than the old ones. Thanks to this new controller, the more recent and much cheaper 870 Cabot was outperforming the old Evo model. And now the new 870 EVO has a new controller as well. It ended up ahead of the 870 cubits yet again 

Extreme Use/Consistency

Now moving on to the full PC marketing suite, which is a much more intense test that is meant to replicate a drive that's been used consistently. 

In my opinion, this will be one of the most important benchmarks for a high-end drive and the best indication of how well a drive will do as an operating system drive so a drive that you will install your windows on. 

The 870 EVO outperforming the older model by quite a margin, being well ahead of the budget SATA drives like the BX 500 and challenging some of the Affordable NVMe drives like the coarser mt 400, or the Sabre and rocket Q. 

Now as expected to larger four terabytes, 870 EVO does pull ahead a bit more from the one terabyte model. Due to its larger DRAM cache and the larger SLC caching pool. 

But what's interesting here is that the smallest capacities perform well as well. 

Now usually they're harder to recommend you to a higher price per gigabyte ratio, and much lower performance, but both the 250 and a 500 gig version show pretty good numbers here as well. 

The PCMark 10 also includes a really heavy consistency test that shows how an SSD will handle an extreme scenario. 

So distresses the SSD non-strong for hours and hours, and sometimes it takes multiple days to complete. 

So you know this is not a task that you should worry about as a gamer, or as a creative professional, but it should be relevant if you're doing some, you know heavy-duty server work. 

Now I still do think that in such a competitive market like this one, it does help to know that an SSD will hold up well, when stressed, and this 870 EVO does. 

Now even the smaller capacities which always perform a bit worse seem to hold up nicely. While some other drives in the list for you know clearly showing some signs of struggle, and the four terabyte model here, even challenges, some of the fastest NVMe drives in the market, which I think is pretty impressive for a SATA drive. 

Final Thoughts

To be honest, I wasn't sure what to expect from these drives. 

Now of course the limitations of the SATA ports were always going to be an issue, but they still kind of managed to improve the performance in you know some of those relevant benchmarks that matter the most.

At the end of the day, and considering that the 860 was already considered to be one of the fastest and most popular SATA drives, Samsung reinforced that position with this new 870 people. 

Now keep in mind a slightly faster SSD. In the best case, the scenario will only save you about a second or two of a game loading time or your system boot. Never enough to notice the difference. 

Now if you're moving from a mechanical drive the difference will be huge.

But if you're already used to at least a mid-range SSD from the last few years, the new status is d won't be a noticeable improvement. Starting today, the 870 EVO should be considered to go to sate SSD on the market, if the price is right because the MSRP provided by Samsung right now is just not competitive. 

I don't see a reason to spend $140 on one terabyte 870, but an 860, or even a mid-range NVMe drive like a Kingston a 2000 or Western Digital blue sn 550 would cost you around $100, but as I said at the start the MSRP is usually higher at the start and the price will be in the shops.

And I do expect this drive to be competitive in terms of price as well. Over the next few weeks. 

Now that's it for today I hope you enjoyed this content and that it was at least a bit helpful. 

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