Samsung Announces TLC-Based 840 EVO SSD

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Samsung has a hot new SSD in its stable.

Samsung is taking the wraps off of a new desktop-oriented SSD. Dubbed the 840 EVO, it joins the 840 Pro and vanilla 840 in Samsung's SATA-based retail family. According to the company, the EVO will slot in under its 840 Pro as a mainstream offering, but will eventually replace the TLC-based 840. Samsung intends to keep the 840 EVO's pricing the same as its predecessor's for bare drive packaging. Desktop and laptop installation kits will be available as well, including a SATA-to-USB 3.0 adapter.

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  • smeezekitty
    Unless they can make TLC deal with as many write cycles as MLC, then it would be good to stick with MLC.
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  • falchard
    Wait, why would you want 3 bit blocks? All data is in 8 bit blocks, so a power of 2 block makes the most sense.
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  • eklipz330
    Yawwnn... Another ssd that will be marginally faster in some areas and probably slower in others.... The ssd market is so saturated, and since the hdd has pretty much recovered, we're not seeing those ssd price drops that we got used to last year. Ssd market is just standing water right now. All ssd's are basically the same, so the only thing that will set it aside is warranty and company support... At least for most standard consumers.

    Something needs to change.
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  • Marcus52
    This is pretty cool news, and I think we'll see more of this kind of thing as evidenced by the higher-end SanDisk Extreme II (which uses SLC "caching" while primarily using MLC).

    The most important part of this is that Samsung is not raising the price; the 840 in its EVO version will remain one of the least expensive modern SSDs on the market, driving prices down for all of us, while making a drive that is overall no slouch even better. It isn't changing the performance level today for those interested only in the top end, but the technology applied to the higher-end devices could mean even better performance in the devices we are more likely to use. It also may boost performance consistency, which is the weak point of the 840 Pro and most other top-end consumer SSDs today (and can still be much improved even in the best of them).

    The life span of MLC drives hasn't been proven, but even its comparatively low numbers on paper means most consumers will have no problems with the drive losing capability in a build's lifetime.
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  • cj_online
    Aw man... and I JUST bought my 840 regular.

    PS: Those claiming TLC isn't reliable need to read that article where they tested the life span of MLC specifically the 840 MLC.. and it lasted at minimum 10+ years with heavy usage.
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  • __-_-_-__
    I've a samsung 840 SSD with TLC for about a year. not a single problem. always get +500mb/s read +300mb/s write. I've written 2.2TB on the drive.
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  • jn77
    So performance wise and MTBF how is this comparable to the 840 Pro series? and which one would be the choice for laptops in Raid 0?
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  • jn77
    So performance wise and MTBF how is this comparable to the 840 Pro series? and which one would be the choice for laptops in Raid 0?
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  • danwat1234
    11180583 said:
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    The life span of MLC drives hasn't been proven, but even its comparatively low numbers on paper means most consumers will have no problems with the drive losing capability in a build's lifetime.

    Actually it has been proven. At least 34nm and 25nm class MLC SSDs.
    http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SSD-Write-Endurance-25nm-Vs-34nm/page169
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  • JPNpower
    I'd love to see this take on the upcoming Plextor m6.
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