Testseek.com have collected 141 expert reviews of the Samsung 2.5 inch 840 Basic Series SATA600 and the average rating is 77%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung 2.5 inch 840 Basic Series SATA600.
March 2013
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141 Reviews
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The Samsung 840 Series requires users to know their workload before making the jump. This SSD should be fine for the casual user, but for those with heavy write workloads there will be penalties in overall speed and endurance. Samsung is looking to shake...
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Published: 2012-11-21, Author: Joe , review by: legitreviews.com
Samsung changes things up a bit with the 840 Series as the world's very first consumer TLC NAND based SSD that offers up surprisingly good performance. This is a product that may herald the inevitable attrition of the smaller players in the SSD arena...
1,000 P/E cycles may not sound much but when it's put into perspective, it's still plenty. Client workloads rarely exceed 10GiB of writes per day on average and write amplification should stay within reasonable magnitudes as well:SSD Lifetime EstimationNA...
Those expecting the Samsung 840 Series to be a true successor to the 830 Series will no doubt be disappointed. The new drive is slower than its predecessor overall and quite sluggish with both sequential and random writes. Samsung's use of TLC memory is a...
Those expecting the Samsung 840 Series to be a true successor to the 830 Series will no doubt be disappointed. The new drive is slower than its predecessor overall and quite sluggish with both sequential and random writes. Samsung's use of TLC memory is ...
As is often the case with SSD reviews, what we have here is a mixed bag of results, so now it’s time to sift through them to try and better understand where each SSD stands in terms of performance. Breaking down the file copy tests, if we combine the ...
The Samsung 840 series solid-state drive (SSD) is affordable, good-looking, and offers very good performance
The Samsung 840 comes with just three, not five years of warranty coverage and is likely to have shorter lifespan than others of the same capacity
The Samsung 840 series is an excellent entry-level solid-state drive for budget and general users, but not really a good buy for advanced or professional users.
I have to say I was very skeptical when I first heard that the 840 will use TLC NAND. Samsung kept the TLC/MLC divide between the 840 and 840 Pro quiet until it took the stage at the SSD Summit for good reason. Prior to the 840's launch TLC NAND was mostl...
Superb (read) IOPS performance, Reduced cost/GB (as compared to 840 Pro), Low power consumption,
Relatively poor mixed readwrite performance, 3year warranty might be a negative for some.
The biggest consideration you have to make when judging the 840 is that it's a budget version of a Pro-level SSD. Triple Level Cell flash is slower to write and provides less endurance as compared to MLC units, and while the 840 does perform quite wel...
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Published: 2012-10-01, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
I remember speaking to a manufacturer of TLC SSD potential not so long ago and being told that there needed to be an appreciable difference between the pricing of TLC NAND and MLC NAND for this to have any chance of success. In that conversation, we also...
