No, it's unlikely anyone would notice the difference between the Pro and EVO outside of benchmarks. I use both - I just put a 500GB 850 Evo in my new Broadwell-based laptop. I do still put the Pro in systems where performance trumps all, but I can't make a compelling justification for doing so beyond "just because."
Modern SSDs are superior in every possible performance dimension. Simultaneous reads and writes, small reads or writes, large reads or writes...even today's cheapie SSDs wipe the floor with the best magnetics at any spindle speed. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 12:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [H] Greg Samsung EVO vrs PRO Do you really notice a difference between EVO and PRO. I can see a benchmark difference, and while I am sure it would matter if you had multiple simultaneous hits on a PRO .. like from multiple users...but do you really think the average laptop user is going to experience a difference? Things you would expect a fast SSD to make a huge difference on .... like video editing, surprisingly it doesn't make a difference. In fact, it turns out the SSDs are not really suited for video editing because of the constant small read writes...or so I have read. However, it has also been my own experience. While I have a huge RAM drive to edit from when editing big HD files I find things are easier to work with using a Raptor... odd but true.
