Samsung's 840 SSD series released

Hilbert Hagedoorn

Samsung announced its new lineup of high-performance SSDs designed for use in personal computers. The new series supporting SATA 6.0 gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) interface comes in two tracks; one for ge...

Samsung's 840 SSD series released

Anarion · 09-24-2012, 10:00 | posts: 9,183 | Location: Finland

Samsung 830 is awesome SSD already, if they can improve it even further, well that's awesome.

Ven0m · 09-24-2012, 11:49 | posts: 1,036 | Location: Warsaw, Poland

I hope they'll provide more reliable power consumption data this time.

Napster · 09-24-2012, 12:05 | posts: 415 | Location: Australia

Man, i just got 2x Sammy 830 128GB haha. Look forward to the review.

Dillinger · 09-24-2012, 12:36 | posts: 255

I'm satisfied with my Samsung 830 128GB so far.

My PC starts in 16 seconds / shuts down in 3 seconds without any special tweaks.

sverek · 09-24-2012, 12:41 | posts: 1,036 | Location: Japan, Soka

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cpt.K'nuckles

I'm satisfied with my Samsung 830 128GB so far.

My PC starts in 16 seconds / shuts down in 3 seconds without any special tweaks.

Can't image how fast the 840 will be.

Not by much, since Sata3 cap is 6 Gbit/s. And most current SSDs aleady nearby it.

You'll need Raid0 for further performance boost.

PhazeDelta1 · 09-24-2012, 14:23 | posts: 9,356 | Location: 90° N

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anarion

Samsung 830 is awesome SSD already, if they can improve it even further, well that's awesome.

Samsung 830

Random Read Performance is up to 80K IOPS depending on size
Random Write Performance is up to 36K IOPS depeding on size

Samsung 840

Random Read Performance is up to 100k IOPS depending on size
Random Write Performance is up to 90k IOPS depeding on size

So yeah, definite performance increase.

DesGaizu · 09-24-2012, 14:42 | posts: 1,908 | Location: UK

Very nice I love my sammy ssd, 256 is a nice nice but I'm tempted to go 512 next.

Anarion · *Last edited by Anarion; 09-24-2012 at 15:32.*

Just read the first reviews, It's really awesome drive and uses even less power than before. I think it's pretty safe to say that is the best SATA SSD on market.

chispy · 09-24-2012, 16:51 | posts: 6,410 | Location: Puerto Rico

Woow look at that performance , i think i have found my next SSDs to play with. Thank you for the Info and article Hilbert. I think i can have back my pcmar05 and PCmark vantage WRs at hwbot with this SSDs , looking forward to get a few of them.

tsunami231 · 09-24-2012, 19:00 | posts: 2,289 | Location: USA

my 830 128 is rather nice step from HDD to bad shortly after I bought it for 189$ they became about 100$ or less wasnt worth the 189$ i bought it for but for 100$ it is more worth imo, for same price I payed for the 128gb I can get 256gb now.

Though if price is right I might buy another one 840/830 And have 1 SSD for OS 1 for Games and 1 500gb HDD for Storage and mp3 and what not.

MAD-OGRE · 09-24-2012, 22:14 | posts: 2,839 | Location: Alabama

Yea the 830 has been great, this should drive the price down a bit and ill pick up another.

Chillin · 09-24-2012, 22:26 | posts: 5,902 | Location: Chilling

All hail the new champion!

NiColaoS · *Last edited by NiColaoS; 09-26-2012 at 04:36.*

One Samsung 840 128GB and one 512GB would be more than enough for me and the perfect setup ( without mechanical HDD ).

Otherwise, one 64GB ( OS/Drivers/Browser ) and one 256GB ( games ) I could settle. In that case, I'd need my WD Black for Movies/Music and other crap. I'll seriously think about. I still have my old X-25M 80GB and works perfectly. Now I'd easily go with Samsung only -none else.

The only thing I mostly care is the responsiveness and less, the power consumption and of course the fact that all SDDs are silent.