The Samsung 870 EVO is Samsung's fastest SATA SSD

Source: Geeknetic added 19th Jan 2021

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by Jordi Bercial 1 hour ago

Samsung today launched the new drives Samsung SSD 870 EVO , a new generation of its SATA drives that joins the Samsung 870 QVO, and that it arrives with the highest speed that we can find in a Samsung SATA drive, as we will explain later.

According to the tests carried out by the company , the sequential speeds of your 870 EVO do not receive major improvements, but he has been working in one of the areas where SATA drives can improve today, and that is in the Random reads and writes, especially its latency.

Depending on the company, its new MKX controller, together with its new 1XX layer V-NAND memory , is capable of obtaining latencies a 90% lower QD1 workloads compared to its predecessor, the Samsung 860 EVO, so that we can have a more responsive storage system.

This unit will be available in capacities of 250 GB, 500 GB, 1TB, 2TB and 4TB , with sequential speeds of read and write of 560 and 530 MB / s for all drives . For now, the price of these versions with TLC memory is unknown, at the same time that it is also unknown if there will be a PRO version of this unit with MLC memories.

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Jordi Bercial

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