Samsung 860 EVO: Further proof that TLC-NAND SSD can be fast and affordable
Mar 06, 2018
3 minutes
BY JON L. JACOBI
The Samsung 860 EVO has convinced us: It is now safe to equate TLC (Triple-Level-Cell) SSDs with top-notch SATA performance. TLC-NAND SSDs used to be more about affordability, but the 860 EVO is the third TLC-NAND drive we’ve tested that doesn’t bog down on long sustained transfers. (The other drives are the identical-except-for-the-label WD Blue 3D and Sandisk Ultra 3D.)
We even quadrupled our normal 20GB copies, and the 860 EVO easily maintained the pace. In fact,.
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