Review on Sleek and Powerful: Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD - Boost Your Device's Performance! by Stanislaw Kesicki ᠌

Taken for 9 Transferred system from HDD WD Green 1.5TB. Booting the system (Win7x64) and opening 1C accelerated, subjectively, by 5 times. Linear reading increased by 3 times, judging by CristalDisk (see picture). And according to HDDTune - from 110-70 (in various parts of the HDD) to 170 MB / s on the SSD. Motherboard Asus P7P55D-E. added: The speed turned out to be low due to the fact that the screw was plugged into SATA2. Thank you for bringing this to your attention. Switching to SATA3 did not work immediately. Because on this motherboard, the controller is not intel - you need to enable io_levelup in the BIOS. Result - see 3rd screenshot. On the 4th screen, the motherboard GigaByte GA-X79-UD3, i7, the situation with SATA3 is also not clear. Connectors in 3 different colors. Perhaps, again, not through the fastest controller connected. Although it's definitely SATA3.