Samsung EVO 850 vs Intel SSD 520 Series

I decided to do a small upgrade on my older Lenovo T430s by increasing the SSD capacity. Based on reviews I purchased a Samsung EVO 850 256GB SSD to replace the Intel SSD 520 180GB. Small space upgrade the 180GB was not enough for all the programs, tools, images and large PST files.

NOTE: Keep in mind this an older generation Intel SSD 520. Intel SSD 730 would be on the same generation level as the Samsung EVO 850


Intel SSD 520 Series (180GB)

Samsung SSD 850 Pro (265GB)

RAPID Mode
After installing Samsung Magician and enabling RAPID (Real-time Accelerated Processing of I/O Data) mode. It did give a nice boost because uses the systems RAM to cache hot data. This is show during the 4 KB random multi WRITE test as the mutli writes can not be cached it crippled a bit. Nice free RAM drive hot cache tool from Samsung working inside windows only.






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