Samsung 860 evo or Samsung 850 evo????

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Get whichever is cheaper. They are both excellent SSDs. The 860 is a very incremental improvement over the 850 and in the real world you will never notice a difference.


I believe Hendrick was talking about the 970. (To the op) -> But we can't really answer your question to the fullest extent. But here is my best shot. The 860 evo is faster than the 850, but the 850 is cheaper than the 860. It really depends on your budget, if your budget will fit an 860, it may be worth it for the extra performance, however as mentioned above the 950 and 960 M.2/NVME drives are much faster and if your board supports M.2 I would recommend a low capacity 950 and a higher capacity 850 with a large HDD to back it all up. Use the M.2 for the OS and files you want to access fast because you use them a lot, the 850 for games and regular tasks and the HDD for mass storage stuff like pictures and videos or other rarely accessed files. If the budget doesn't support a 950 pro an 850 evo and a hdd you can remove the 850 or 950 as you see fit, however the system of 3 drives I stated above should have the optimal performance if it's within the budget.
 


We had this topic alot of times, want me to link them?

on paper the 860 is faster, in real life and a blind test no person can tell the 0..001s diffence.

quality is the same, no worries about that.
 


I believe the 860 has a noticeable difference in write speeds, and the 850 has faster reads, not too sure about that though.
 


can you tell the difference by this : https://i.imgur.com/YBGyjIk.png

https://i.imgur.com/q4VN7Zl.png - dutch review website hardware info
it sais gaming workload transit, even the 850 evo 500gb is tfaster than the 860 on paper, but in real world scenarios you can't tell the differences.

it really doesn't matter .... its all marketing.
 


There is a difference, it doesn't show up much with a single drive, but it shows a difference in RAID solutions with multiple of these SSD's.