Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB and 250GB Review

By Nathan Kirsch

PCMark 8 Storage Test

PCMark 8 is the latest version in Futuremark’s series of industry standard PC benchmarking tools. With PCMark 8 you can test the performance of all types of PC, from tablets to desktops. With five separate benchmark tests plus battery life testing, PCMark 8 helps you find the devices that offer the perfect combination of efficiency and performance. PCMark 8 is the complete PC benchmark for home and business. We ran the storage benchmark test suite on the Samsung SSD 750 EVO SATA III SSDs.

Samsung SSD 750 EVO 120GB:

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Samsung SSD 750 EVO 250GB:

pcmark8-250gb

Benchmark Results: When it comes to PCMark 8 performance you are looking at an overall score of 4,978 on the Samsung 750 EVO 120GB SSD versus 4,984 on the Samsung 750 EVO 250GB. The storage bandwidth on the Samsung 750 EVO 120GB drive was 268.06 MB/s versus 276.86 MB/s on the 750 EVO 250GB drive. It is pretty clear from all the standard benchmarks that the Samsung SSD 750 EVO 250GB drive is slightly faster, but not by much and we couldn’t tell a difference in daily use.