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Samsung puts a monstrous 8TB SSD up for sale


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8TB of storage on a 2.5-inch SATA SSD. The latest from Samsung is a monstrous flash drive that would make hard drives obsolete if it weren’t for their price.

The new SSD Nokia 870 WHICH hits 8TB for the first time thanks to second-generation QLC architecture, capable of storing four bits per cell in a drive that achieves the highest speeds in its class for a 6Gbps SATA interface: up to 560MB / s read sequential and 530 MB / s sequential write.

The 870 QVO is the successor to the 860 QVO that was released in late 2018. According to Samsung, it is 13% faster in random read and uses Intelligent TurboWrite technology with a large variable SLC buffer to run at full speed for longer. weather. Additionally, the 8TB model is capable of transferring up to 2,880TB of data over its lifetime.

El SSD Samsung 870 QVO will go on sale today in three storage options: 1TB for $ 130, 2TB for $ 250, and 4TB for $ 500. The 8TB model has no official price, but a Amazon leak He values ​​it at $ 900 and has forecast the launch for next August 24.

The units SATA interface SSDs are not as fasts like thes M.2, but a commercial version of 8 TB It allows install all those games and programs that until now only fit on conventional hard drives.

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