Samsung SSD 860 QVO 1TB, 2.5" / SATA 6Gb/s

Zugegeben, die Musik spielt im SSD-Markt aktuell klar im PCIe-SSD-Bereich, jedoch zeigen wir euch, warum die neue Samsung SSD 860 QVO SATA-SSD trotzdem ein nächster Meilenstein für die SSD-Technologie ist.

High capacity SSDs are nothing new for Samsung. The company was one of the first to introduce a 1TB model and has continued to push the envelope ever since. Unfortunately, even with the 860 EVO and its 3-bit MLC V-NAND, the price of these high capacity drives has put them out of reach for most consumers. As a result, many people use a low-capacity SSD for booting and a high-capacity hard drive for data storage. Samsung is looking to change this with the 860 QVO. Built on the company's new 4-bit MLC V-NAND, the 860 QVO delivers both high capacity and performance in a single, affordable drive. While 4-bit MLC (QLC) does let you store more data in the same physical space, this sometimes causes diminished performance. To offset this, Samsung has equipped the 860 QVO with its Intelligent TurboWrite technology. In everyday PC usage environments, the drive's performance is much like that of the 860 EVO. In our tests, the 1TB version of the 860 QVO was able to read at speeds as high as 560 MB/s and write at speeds in excess of 511 MB/s. It also had no problems holding its own in our random write tests, but, for whatever reason, lagged behind many of the other drives when doing random reads. Of course, high capacity and performance aren't the only things the 860 QVO has to offer. Along with support for technologies like RAPID and Intelligent TurboWrite, the drive features AES 256-bit full disk encryption and is compatible with both the TCG Opal 2.0 and IEEE 1667 specifications. The drive also supports the SATA Device Sleep (DEVSLP) standard which extends the battery life of a device by reducing the drive's power consumption when it's not in use. Last, but not least, the 860 QVO is covered by a 3 year warranty with an endurance rating of up to 1,440 terabytes written (TBW) for the 4TB model. The 860 QVO will be available on December 16, 2018, with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) starting at $149.99 for the 1TB model.

In summary, the 860 QVO can boot Windows and load applications with SSD swiftness, but it seems unable to marshal its caching tricks well enough to yield consistently snappy file transfer speeds. At the price Samsung wants for it, the QVO is a tough pill to swallow. Instead, we'd suggest buying cheap TLC drives while the holiday sales bonanzas are yet running. Give QLC some more time to bake before you open up that particular oven.