Samsung on Monday introduced a new “840” SSD series which reviewers have found is based on TLC flash.
Oddly enough the press release for this product seems only to have been distributed in Korea to reviewers who attended a special introduction of the device. The SSD Guy has not been given the specifications presented at the event, and had to ask Samsung for a copy of the press release.
The press release focuses on the product’s 100,000 read IOPS, that it comes in two versions, the “Pro” model for the enterprise and another model for client applications, and the fact that the controller uses a new design based on three ARM cores. A read IOPS figure of 100,000 is very high performance for a SATA drive! One has to wonder if the client market will be able to distinguish between this level of performance and drives with fewer than 10,000 IOPS.
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