Sunday, January 3rd 2021
Samsung Readies 870 EVO SATA SSD to Soak Up Your Swelling Game Libraries
Samsung is reportedly readying the 870 EVO line of SATA SSDs, with the drives succeeding the 860 EVO series. While there's no word on the type of NAND flash chips used with these drives, it's very likely that they feature a new generation 3D TLC (3 bits per cell) NAND flash memory, as QLC (4 bits per cell) has been marketed by Samsung under the 870 QVO series, which the company launched back in July 2020. The new-gen 3D TLC NAND could enable the 870 EVO drives to reach capacities as high as 4 TB, and offer slightly higher sequential transfer rates, with WinFuture.de reporting up to 560 MB/s sequential reads, and up to 530 MB/s writes, compared to 550/520 MB/s for the 860 EVO series. Being based on TLC (3 bpc) should also give these drives higher write endurance than the 870 QVO series.
Source:
WinFuture.de
16 Comments on Samsung Readies 870 EVO SATA SSD to Soak Up Your Swelling Game Libraries
Basicly without tampering the PHY S-ata cannot be upgraded to even a faster speed or interface. 6 GB/s is pretty much the ceiling. However for games you wont notice alot compared to a NVME since it's more random reads.
4TB is sooooo 2019-ish, hehehe :)
4TB and 8TB need to be the norm until 10TB is an option.
I think I'll stick to the HDD with an SSD cache.