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Samsung Evo vs Samsung Pro SSD?
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950 Pro NVMe... If you can do PCIe.
For SATA 3, I went the cheap route and just bought two of these. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M8ABHVQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
Hopefully, I won't be making a mistake there. But $199 for 1TB SSD seemed like a good deal, so I'm running two in RAID-0.
For SATA 3, I went the cheap route and just bought two of these. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M8ABHVQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00
Hopefully, I won't be making a mistake there. But $199 for 1TB SSD seemed like a good deal, so I'm running two in RAID-0.
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I'd like to do PCIe but how would that work? Can I use this with the thunderbolt 2 connection? Curious - am not a tech expert.
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Nope, sadly you can only leverage it on pre-2013 Mac Pros... 
Then again, you do now get PCIe SSDs in most of the new Macs, but there's no option to expand or upgrade it later. I don't know much about external NVMe options, but going RAID 0 SSDs with a TB3 external might be nice? I have no experience doing this, but perhaps others on the forum may have?
Then again, you do now get PCIe SSDs in most of the new Macs, but there's no option to expand or upgrade it later. I don't know much about external NVMe options, but going RAID 0 SSDs with a TB3 external might be nice? I have no experience doing this, but perhaps others on the forum may have?
I read somewhere that the EVO is guaranteed up to 75 TB read/writes while the PRO is guaranteed up to 150 TB R/W?
That's correct, the warranty on the Pro covers more writes and the warranty is a few years longer.
Nope... at the 1TB size you are looking at they are rated the same.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8747/samsung-ssd-850-evo-review
I'm with the others comments.... go with the EVO.
thanks all for your thoughts. I'm impressed how unanimous the support is for the EVO. At least according to this site http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-850-Pro-1TB-vs-Samsung-850-Evo-1TB/m15466vsm18900, it seems the Pro is on average 14% faster?
Also, this site (not sure how trustworthy) concludes that the Pro is the better buy:
http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-850-pro-2tb-ssd-vs-samsung-850-evo-2tb-ssd_167612/13
Also, this site (not sure how trustworthy) concludes that the Pro is the better buy:
http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-850-pro-2tb-ssd-vs-samsung-850-evo-2tb-ssd_167612/13
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If you had said which is the better drive, I would have said the Pro, but you asked which is the better deal and I still think that is the EVO. Unless you are sitting there timing things with a stopwatch or a benchmark program, you will never be able to tell the difference. I see no reason to spend over more 20% for something you won't likely even notice.
Thanks, I'm in agreement with that logic and have already ordered an EVO from amazon
To ask another question, and I hope I'm not being too annoying:
Which might be faster, the Samsung SSD T1 or a Samsung EVO 850 connected with a SATAIII to USB3 connector? I don't care too much for portability.
I have not used the T1, but from looking at the specs it looks like just a pretty USB3 case from Samsung. From the specs, the EVO is faster. The key to getting a fast external USB3 setup is buying an enclosure that supports UASP so you get top speeds. Some cheaper enclosures are not UASP. I use this one with an SSD over USB3 and it works really well.
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You're awesome, that's super helpful.
I did read this review here http://techreport.com/review/27690/samsung-portable-ssd-t1-reviewed/2 where the conclusion is that the t1 is certainly slower than an internal SATA connect but marginally better than a 840 EVO connected via a USB enclosure. However I wonder what would happen if they used the one you recommended. thanks.
They did also mention that USB connections are not as good for random-access I/O heavy workloads. Not sure I understand what that means in real-world implications, but the differences look pretty significant.
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It looks like that USB dock they used does support UASB, so that test is probably fairly representative of what you can expect to see. That T1 does still use a USB connection, so I'm not quite sure what they mean by their comment unless they are comparing it to a SATA internal connection I suppose.
Thanks! Again, that helps a lot. I think they were comparing it to the SATA Internal connection.
So the Samsung Pro will last longer? But is it worth the increase in price (in your opinion)?
Thanks again.
Do you think the Samsung 850 (whether pro/evo) is the best on the market?
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I think for consumer level drives those and the newer Crucial drives like the MX200 are the best bang for the buck. If money is no object there are enterprise class drives that are faster and have NAND chips rated for longer lifetimes, but I just think that is a waste of money in a consumer computer.
With newer SSDs, I think you very quickly reach a point of rapidly diminishing returns as you start to spend more money.
I think the top player in SSD for Mac is Samsung and Crucial. I chose Crucial because it was cheaper and I can update the firmware within OSX. Although Samsung is faster than Crucial but I doubt there is any real difference in real usage. Now that I have Crucial for 3 years.... I've only updated the firmware once (can't be bother)... so my next purchase will be Samsung.