In our Micron M500DC review, we detailed our new power consumption testing. In short, we apply varying workloads to the SSD we'r benchmarking and then measure the current draw using a high-resolution, high-precision industrial power source. Using this hardware, we can achieve millisecond resolution for our power measurements, allowing us to observe even slight changes in consumption.

As you can see from our power profile, Samsung's 845DC EVO does not pull down much power under our workloads. Even during random writes, the maximum power draw we observed was right at 3 W.

If you are looking for a drive that has a low active idle, this probably isn't the drive for you (even though our measurements come in under the 1.5 W specified by Samsung's datasheet).


Overall, the 845DC EVO posts some of the lowest power levels in the field, bested only by its sibling, the SM843. Hopefully this helps make up for higher idle consumption, especially since enterprise-oriented SSDs typically have a much higher duty cycle than consumer SSDs.
- Meet Samsung's Read-Focused 845DC EVO SSD
- Inside Of Samsung's 845DC EVO
- How We Test Samsung's 845DC EVO SSD
- Results: Write Endurance Testing
- Results: 4 KB Random Performance And Latency
- Results: Performance Consistency
- Results: Enterprise Workload Performance
- Results: Sequential Performance
- Results: Enterprise Video Streaming
- Results: Power Consumption
- Samsung Introduces 3-Bit MLC NAND To The Enterprise
Yes, that's a fair analogy. Just like the Xeon E3-1275v3 is an i7-4770K, but with ECC support.
Hopefully the price will go down after launch, and then I see this being the best choice of webhosts.
Cheaper and adequate for that workload.
I'm sure worse things were said about Samsung at WWDC '14 yesterday
Now that you mention it.....
Nuff said.
You'd have to be out your mind to put TLC in a a critical environment.
For another, it's more about VALUE and that's the main point of the article. I assume the top SSD's in this category were MLC not TLC and also more expensive.