Monday, July 6th 2015
Samsung Intros 2 TB Variants of 850 Pro and 850 EVO SSDs
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a market leader in advanced memory technology and an innovator in consumer electronics, today introduced the 2-terabyte (TB) 850 PRO and 850 EVO solid state drives (SSDs). Samsung's 3D Vertical NAND (V-NAND) based retail SSD lineup now features 20 different products with a wide range of capacity options from 120 gigabyte (GB) to 2TB. Available in 50 countries, the launch of the 2TB drives addresses the ever-increasing consumer demand for high-performance and high-capacity memory solutions.
"Samsung experienced a surge in demand for 500 gigabyte (GB) and higher capacity SSDs with the introduction of our V-NAND SSDs. The release of the 2TB SSD is a strong driver into the era of multi-terabyte SSD solutions," said Un-Soo Kim, Senior Vice President of Branded Product Marketing, Memory Business at Samsung Electronics. "We will continue to expand our ultra-high performance and large density SSD product portfolio and provide a new computing experience to users around the globe."
The new 2TB 850 SSD PRO and EVO drives remain in the same 7-millimeter, 2.5-inch aluminum case as their predecessors did. Equipped with Samsung's advanced chip solutions, including 128 individual Samsung 32-layer 128Gb 3D V-NAND flash chips, an upgraded high-performance MHX controller that supports 2TB capacity, and four 20nm-class process technology-based 4Gb LPDDR3 DRAM chips, the 2TB 850 family provides industry-leading performance and power efficiency. With added capacity, professionals and consumers can experience a smoother computing environment prepared for the intense demands of rich content such as 4K UHD video editing and viewing.
Samsung guarantees the 2TB 850 PRO for 10 years or 300 terabytes written (TBW), and the 2TB 850 EVO for five years or 150 TBW.
Following the launch of the 2TB 850 drives, Samsung will expand high capacity 3D V-NAND SSD lineups to include mSATA and M.2 form factors to address the gaming PC, laptop PC and high performance SSD markets.
"Samsung experienced a surge in demand for 500 gigabyte (GB) and higher capacity SSDs with the introduction of our V-NAND SSDs. The release of the 2TB SSD is a strong driver into the era of multi-terabyte SSD solutions," said Un-Soo Kim, Senior Vice President of Branded Product Marketing, Memory Business at Samsung Electronics. "We will continue to expand our ultra-high performance and large density SSD product portfolio and provide a new computing experience to users around the globe."
Samsung guarantees the 2TB 850 PRO for 10 years or 300 terabytes written (TBW), and the 2TB 850 EVO for five years or 150 TBW.
Following the launch of the 2TB 850 drives, Samsung will expand high capacity 3D V-NAND SSD lineups to include mSATA and M.2 form factors to address the gaming PC, laptop PC and high performance SSD markets.
23 Comments on Samsung Intros 2 TB Variants of 850 Pro and 850 EVO SSDs
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Also not many "consumers" need 2TB at those read/writes... a HDD does just fine for backups and high volume storage. I can stream 1080p movies without lag from my Green drives... 4k might be a different story
These are consumer level drives, so who needs them? Rich people with too much money, but I'm not one of those.
You know, I'd gladly take a 3.5" drive with more older/cheaper/slower chips for storage SSDs of this size. If they could bring out a $250 2TB SSD using the slower older tech, even if it only had 250MB/s read/write, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat and never buy HDDs again. They'd still have the next to 0ms latencies, which is what really makes an SSD seem fast. I know they'd need to make the PCB bigger, which means a 3.5" drive, but I don't care. It is going in a desktop or my server anyway, so it just means I won't need to buy a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter.
Once the price gets to <$.30/GB, I'll reevaluate.
Timescapes movie is in 4K and has bitrate of 900 Mbps but that movie is actually made using time-lapse and that means that it is made using individual photos from professional photo camera and pieced together. So this is not your usual, consumer 4K movie bitrate.
Most excuses revolved around the supply and demand, so what will it be now eh? l will say this, there are just too many people with more money than common sense these days and this is why the price has remained as such.
Unless the prices for SSD's come down drastically, I will never ever purchase one, sure I will wait a minute or so longer for boot up and longer load screens in-game but on general principal, I will not buy one.
The price is high, and will probably fall .