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March 2013
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204 Reviews
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More Next-Generation drives like the Samsung Pro 840 will be arriving shortly and that should have Samsung looking over their shoulder. For now at least, when Samsung is looking forward they have nothing in front of them because they are in the perform...
Abstract: Installing an SSD in your PC, be it a laptop or a desktop, is one of the easiest and most effective ways to boost the machine's overall performance. The change won't be merely noticeable—it will startle you. Your system will boot more quickly, windows and...
The SSD market is extremely close, with the similarity of controllers and NAND Flash chips on all the drives meaning that, within certain obvious limitations, the sticker on the cover is the majority of the difference. Thanks to the ever reliable Moore's...
Samsung’s 840 Pro is everything it’s been cracked up to be, even by RWL’s standards. The 840 Pro marks a new level of MLC based performance exactly where it matters most and that’s with data on the drive. It will be interesting to see how a pair of the...
Although it had a somewhat complicated birth, the Samsung 840 Pro Series is a very fast SSD. Unlike its 840 Series sibling, the Pro offers strong write performance to go along with its wicked-fast read speeds. The drive performs well with both random and...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Outstanding sequential reading performance, even at very low queue depths, Outstanding 4K random reading performance at low and high queue depths, Excellent writing performance, SATA 6Gbps support, TRIM suppo
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Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Outstanding sequential reading performance, even at very low queue depths.Outstanding 4K random reading performance at low and high queu...
Where there is some confusion regarding the Pro and non Pro version of the 840 series let us clearly state again, the regular 840 uses TLC NAND, the Pro version as tested today used MLC NAND flash memory. TLC NAND flash will be hint slower and will have ...
The Samsung 840 Pro is a revolutionary SSD in terms of steady state performance, beating out the competition easily in our trace based testing. The low latency and high sequential speeds are among the best we have recorded. Providing software that simplif...
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Published: 2012-11-12, Author: Patrick , review by: servethehome.com
First off, thanks to John4200 on getting the community some real world numbers. The Samsung 840 Pro SSD shows a lot of promise. Performance is extremely good but the aspect that will make or break this drive is firmware stability. Some other vendors have ...
