Samsung Launching 2.5-inch 6Gb SATA 840 SSD Series

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Samsung Electronics released the third model brand 2.5-inch 7mm-high SSD 840 series to be available in October.

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There will be two models, the 840 Pro and the 840.

840 Pro 512GB has a speed to 90,000 IOPS random write, about three times faster than the 830 SSD, capacities being 128GB, 256GB and 512GB. It uses 6Gb SATA interface.

Sequential read is 520MB/s for all units, sequential write being 400MB/s for the 830 512GB, 330MB/s for the 840 500GB and 520MB/s for the 840 Pro 512GB.

MTBF is 1.5 million hours, warranty is five years.

Th Pro version supports 256-bit AES encryption.

The two models use proprietary Samsung MDX controllers based on three ARM cores of Cortex type at 300MHz rather than A9 type at 220MHz for the 830.

The 840 devices for laptops with 20nm-class 64Gb DDR2.0 Toggle NAND flash.

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