Model: Samsung SSD Pro Series 840 512 GB Solid State Drive
Manufacturer: Samsung Electronics
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Samsung Electronics is a leader in the electronics industry for more than 30 years. Since the introduction of their first television in 1970, this Korean company has grown to become one of the leading electronics manufacturers around the world, offering everything from small appliances semiconductors. Samsung is no stranger to storage sector either. Along with an assortment of DVD and Blu-ray Disc Drive, the company offers both hard drives and flash-based memory solutions for the markets of laptops and desktops
Like many other manufacturers, Samsung has set his sights on the growing market for solid state drive (SSD). Last fall, the company introduced two new drives, SSD and SSD Pro 840 840. Designed and built entirely in-house, these two ultrathin SSDS are supplied by MDX triple-core controller of Samsung has a specially designed interface SATA 6 GB/s, wear levelling and garbage collection algorithms, and up to 512 MB of cache. From here, however, the similarities end. Where the SSD 840 addresses the conscious consumer, the 840 Pro high-performance SSD is equipped with NAND flash memory DDR2 Samsung Toggle to supply up to 540 cost/s reading and writing speed 520 MB/s as well as up to 100,000 IOPS.
For this review, we purchased the 512 GB SSD version Pro 840. This unit is equipped with 512 MB of onboard cache and is able to deliver sequential read 540 MB/s, 520 MB/s sequential write speeds as well as up to 90,000 100,000 random read and write IOPS random.
Samsung 840512 Pro series GB SSD Solid State DriveGeneral specificationsPerformance
Reliability
Energy consumption
Environment
Dimensions and weight
Other features form factor ultra-slim 7 mm
Wear levelling and Garbage Collection algorithms
Supports TRIM, SMART and NCQ
Includes software SSD Wizard and user state migration tool
AES encryption at 256-bit full disk
Five years warrantyNeedless mean, this is just a taste of what the SSD 840 Pro has to offer. To give you an idea of what to expect, there will be a closer look at the new Samsung SSD and then see how well it performs. The SSD 840 Pro has what it takes? Can provide the performance and features that we have come to expect from Samsung? Continue reading as we find.
