Samsung SSD 840 EVO, 1TB With 10nm 128Gb NAND

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. held the 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit at the Westin Chosun Seoul, Korea, in celebration of the launch of its SSD, the SSD 840 EVO.

                        SSD 840 EVO

Along with the announcement of its latest SSD under the theme of ‘SSDs for everyone’, the Samsung SSD Global Summit also explored the future of the global SSD market, which is quickly replacing the HDD market.

"After accelerating the growth of the SSD market by last year’s launch of entry-level, high-performance SSDs we are introducing a much faster SSDs with up to 1TB capacities offering consumers a wider range of choices," said Young-Hyun Jun, EVP, memory sales and marketing, Samsung Electronics. "Samsung continues to enhance its SSD brand image by delivering the industry’s highest quality solutions and continuously increasing its SSD market share by expanding the adoption of higher density SSDs especially in client PC segments."

At this year’s event, Samsung unveiled new high-performance, high-density SSDs that offer over 1TB memory storage. Among the highlights were the 840 EVO, a consumer-oriented entry-level, high-performance SATA based SSD offering up to 1TB, and the XS1715, a fast NVMe SSD for enterprise storage use offering up to 1.6TB.

As part of its strategy to expand into the consumer market and further popularize SSDs, Samsung plans to initially introduce the Samsung SSD 840 EVO to major global markets in early August. It will expand into additional markets at a later date.

The SSD 840 EVO line-up makes use of the 10nm 128Gb high-performance NAND flash memory, which Samsung began mass producing in April. With these chips and proprietary multi-core controller, it achieves value for performance with improved sequential read and write speeds.

In addition, Samsung has developed the XS1715, a 2.5-inch NVMe SSD line-up. This device will expand market base for enterprise SSDs, and the company will make them available in the second half of this year.

       
SSD XS1715

The SSD XS1715 delivers random read performance that is over 10 times faster than Samsung’s former high-end enterprise storage SSD. It utilizes both the PCIe 3.0 interface, which is approximately two times faster than the PCIe 2.0 interface, and NVM express technology which accelerates overall speed.

Samsung created the first SATA-based SSDs for ultra-slim notebook PCs and enterprise servers. Now, it continues to improve on this development, providing SATA, SAS, PCIe and NVMe SSD line-ups which complete its large line-up of SSD products and solutions for enterprise use. This will lead to faster replacement of HDDs.

At this year’s Samsung SSD Global Summit, approximately 150 global business press, consumer media and power bloggers from twelve countries were invited, allowing Samsung to introduce high efficiency SSDs to global consumers and show participants how simple it is to install and utilize SSDs in their notebooks.

Consumer-Oriented High-Performance
Entry-Level SSD 840 EVO Line-up Launch (up to 1TB)
Samsung has released the entry-level SSD 840 EVO line-up with higher sequential write performance. Utilizing the 10nm-class 128Gb high-performance NAND, proprietary controller and Turbo Write drive, it boasts performance. It also has flexible product supply capacity.

Compared with the 250GB 840 Series SSD, the highest selling capacity of the 840 lineup, the 250GB 840 EVO now delivers 520MB/s sequential write speed – making it more than 2 times faster than last generation. In the case of 120GB model, the 840 EVO achieves 410MB/s sequential write speed, which is approximately three times as fast as that of the 120GB 840 Series SSD.

For the 1TB 840 EVO SSD, the sequential R/W performance has reached 540MB/s and 520MB/s. Furthermore, both the random read and write performance is reaching 98,000 IO/s and 90,000 IO/s, respectively. This enhances the user’s real-world computing experience, especially when he or she is dealing with large data files.

The 840 EVO line-up is available in five capacities: 120GB, 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB, supporting a range of computing environments and IT applications. It has also narrowed the capacity-induced differences in performance, which gives consumers a broader spectrum of devices to choose from.

First to Develop 2.5" NVMe SSD XS1715
for Enterprise Storage
Samsung has developed the 2.5-inch (SFF-8639) NVM Express PCIe SSD, to open up the enterprise storage market.

The newly developed high-speed 1.6TB NVMe SSD provides a sequential read speed at 3,000MB/s, which allows it to process 500GB of data (equivalent to 100 Full HD movies 5GB in length) in less than 3mn. When compared to other products with similar specifications, this new SSD is 14 times faster than a high-end enterprise HDD for server use, and six times faster than Samsung’s former high-end enterprise SSD storage.

The XS1715’s random read performance reaches up to 740,000 IO/s , which is more than 10 times as fast as existing high-end SSD storage options.

The NVMe SSD XS1715 comes in 400GB, 800GB and 1.6TB versions. It can also be found on the NVMe Integrators List (IL), which makes it an easy-to-manage and reliable solution for data center and server storage customers. System performance can be improved by upgrading to the NVMe SSD XS1715 from a 2.5-inch HDD or a 2.5-inch SATA SSD.

Over the next several years, Samsung expects to continue to develop a variety of NVMe SSD products with increasingly performance levels.