Samsung's newest QVO series of enterprise-class SATA hard drives brings great performance and enhanced reliability to a wide range of consumer applications. With the powerful optimized design, the drive allows for better performance while providing greater endurance than its predecessors. With an industry standard of reliability and performance, the drives are among the most durable and resistant in the market. Consumers enjoy extreme performance gains from their drives and get efficient time-to-time expansion. They also offer consumers great value for their money.
Offering the highest SATA interface speed of 530/529 MB/s, the eight consumer grade SATA hard drives from Samsung offer improved sequential speeds and increased random read and write speeds as compared to the original eight 600GB Samsung SATA products. Intelligent TurboWrite maximizes write speeds and maintains sustained high performance even with a larger over-probe buffer. The eight 700GB Samsung SATA products offer capacities up to and beyond the original drive capacities. Each individual drive is based on the same architecture with support for TRIM and NCQ. The drives are available with two unique performance chips depending on the workload.
The eight new drives from Samsung are based on the previously released Samsung Galaxy Tab S. The differences between these drives and the earlier generation products are the array of features available. The most notable among them are the NVMe interface and the TRIM support. Both these technologies have made significant advances to increase the performance of these hard drives. Samsung has first introduced the NVMe technology and it is now using TRIM for NAND Flash. The older generations of SATA drives had TRIM built-in which is a huge advantage for enterprise applications.
The new devices from Samsung contain the same architecture as the older models but include the NVMe interface. This technology is available through the new drives, which have doubled the performance of the existing SATA devices. It is capable of achieving up to 4GB per second read and write speeds. In addition, the new devices in Samsung 870 QVR SATA are capable of performing the same task as the older model. They can also withstand extreme shock and temperatures.
Samsung has reduced the size of the main frame which enables it to utilize compact motherboards with quad core processors. Samsung has further designed its chips utilizing the latest transfer technology known as MLC. The company claims that this chip has ten times the bandwidth of the previous generation's SATA devices and can handle all of the heavy work that is put on the processor. Samsung has reduced the total number of transistors that are present in its SATA drives to improve performance and efficiency.
Another advancement that is being made by Samsung is the implementation of its SADA interface in its 870Qvo SATA III internal sSD. What makes this significant is that SADA is an advanced specification which is used for virtualization. Virtualization enables software to be executed on different operating systems without installing any hardware. This allows for greater efficiency when running applications and tasks on a system.
Samsung has implemented the VSI in its drives but it is still unknown whether it will be incorporated in the new drives or not. Other specification such as the LSI pads and slot loading latches still remain to be seen. Currently, there are three models of Samsung SATA devices, which are the Optima, Supermicro and the UTStar pro series. All of them have similar physical sizes, which include the eight inch and ten inch drives, two SATA interfaces and two expansion slots.
Recently, Samsung has already introduced its new SATA III devices, which includes its new flagship model - the 870Qvo. Unlike the older models, the new one does not have a traditional hard disk or a hard drive in it. Instead, it has an in built SATA card that is used to connect to a secondary computer server or to a PC. Although the primary drive of this drive does not have a name, it is called the "solid state drive" (SSD). The SSD stores all the data in RAM and hence, no moving parts make it redundant compared to a traditional hard drive or a platter drive.