The Samsung 750 EVO (120GB & 250GB) SSD Review: A Return To Planar NAND

AnandTech Storage Bench - Light

Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here.

The average data rate scores of the 750 EVOs allow it to blend in to the crowd as a solid performer and the fastest planar TLC drive on the Light test.

The average service time of the 750 EVO again places it as one of the fastest planar TLC drives and a reasonable performer compared to the SATA market overall. The 120GB 750 EVO is also relatively close to the 250GB version, while other 120GB models are considerably slower than their larger counterparts.

The number of latency outliers experienced by the 750 EVO in the Light test is normal for TLC drives but considerably higher than most MLC drives.

Power usage over the course of the Light test separates the drives pretty cleanly into different categories. The 750 EVO clearly requires more power than the 850 EVO, and all the other TLC drives require more power than the 750 EVO. The MLC drives all require less energy than all the TLC drives, except that the 850 Pro sacrifices efficiency to deliver its high performance.