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Hardware.Info tests lifespan of Samsung SSD 840 250GB TLC SSD
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 Samsung’s Series 840 SSDs offer great value for your money, but they use the relatively new TLC type of memory chips. These have a shorter lifespan than the more commonly used MLC chips, but how much shorter exactly? Samsung of course has full confidence in the longevity of their Series 840 SSDs, but there really is only one way to find out just how long buyers can expect a TLC-equipped drive to function: by testing the hell out of it.
That is exactly what Hardware.Info will be doing for the next week(s): however long it takes, we will find out how many times you can write to an SSD 840 before it calls it a day. We took two Samsung SSD 840 250GB SSDs, filled them to half capacity in order to mimick real-life use, and started writing to them more than two weeks ago. This writing test will continue without interruption until both SSDs fail. Anyone can check out the progress using our live video stream to see how the drives are holding up.
We just posted our second big update, follow the link below to see how the SSDs are doing so far. Spoiler: it’s going really well!
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ASUS RAIDR PCIe SSD 240 GB - First Benchmarks @ Ocaholic
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Yesterday, we`ve published the first pictures from ASUS` brandnew and first ever PCI Express SSD. The RAIDR is a highly anticipated PCI Express Drive, where great performance is expected. At this point we want to give a brief overview how quick this drive really is."
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Crucial M500 960GB SSD Review
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The Tera-Era has begun! Crucial leverages its 20nm NAND flash to achieve a major milestone, the first consumer 2.5 SSD to reach 1TB. Since parent company Micron owns the flash fab, the price is much better than you might expect."
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OCZ Vertex 3.20 120 GB Review @ Ocaholic
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With the Vertex 3.20 OCZ officially launches their first product that features 20 nanometer NAND from the Intel/Micron joint venture. This step is quite a critical one for OCZ since it means that have to do a balancing act between endurance and price. There are quite a few manufacturers out there in the market that already offer TLC based SSD with significantly lower prices. At this point we just want to tell you, that OCZ does not got for TLC NAND, they stick to MCL chips and we think it`s a good compromise between not only price and endurance but also performance."
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SSD News: Samsung PM841 512GB mSATA SSD Review - Performance and Capacity in a Client SSD
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On the TSSDR Test Bench today is the Samsung PM 841 mSATA SATA 3 SSD, this particular sample being the highest capacity mSATA SSD that we have tested to date at 512 GB. Unlike the Mushkin Atlas 480GB mSATA SSD that we have reviewed previously, the PM841 is the first to be offered in a single PCB design and housing only four modules of memory, each being 128GB in size."
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QNAP TS-569 Pro @ techPowerUp
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Today, we get to fully evaluate another high-end SMB NAS server from QNAP. The TS-569 Pro can accommodate up to five HDDs for a total of 20TB storage with 4TB drives. This NAS is also compatible with QNAP`s new feature, the HD Station, which transforms it into a fully capable media player."
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News: Crucials M500 SSD reviewed
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Crucial`s long-awaited replacement for the m4 SSD breaks new ground by using 128Gb NAND chips. We take a closer look at how that decision affects the performance of the 240 and 480GB models."
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Seagate Constellation ES.3 4TB Hard Drive Review @ Hardware Canucks
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Seagate`s new ES.3 series is their latest salvo in the enterprise hard drive market. With a capacity of up to 4TB, incredible performance, increased longevity over standard drives and a five year comprehensive warranty, it sets a new high water mark in this increasingly critical storage segment."
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Seagate 500GB SSHD Thin Hybrid Drive Review @ Legit Reviews
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Hard drives with solid state cache storage, also known as hybrid drives, have been around for awhile. They are popular with laptop users but until now, those that have equipment designed to work only with 7mm high drives have been out of luck. Seagate`s latest SSHD has been redesigned to a smaller, 7mm form factor as well as improved performance. See how it compares to the previous generation Momentus XT drive."
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Samsung 840 Series 120GB Solid State Drive Review @ ThinkComputers.org
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Samsung is a very large player in the solid state drive market, but you may not have known. This is because they sell their drives in bulk to companies like Apple to use in their products. That is why they are not an known in the consumer or enthusiast market. In fact Samsung is the largest producer of flash memory in the world. One thing that is great about Samsung solid state drives is that everything inside is made by Samsung, the NAND, controller and DRAM cache. This makes it very easy for Samsung to correct issues or fix problems because everything is done in-house. We saw this on Samsungs 830 Series solid state drive and the big difference between the 830 and 840 is that the 840 Series uses TLC NAND chips instead of MLC. We will get to the difference in just a bit. The controller on the 840 Series has also been updated. The 120GB version we are testing today has read and write speeds of 530MB/s and 130MB/s respectively so it sort of fits into the entry-level segment. Lets take a look"
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