Samsung 870 QVO 8TB - All The BYTES
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
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The QVO lineup may be confusing but it really comes down to capacity and price. Objectively, the 870 EVO drives are slightly better on paper with a better endurance and warranty but are only available in 1 - 4 TB capacities. All these drives are limited for the most part by the SATA III interface. The turbowrite limitation applies to both the EVO and QVO lineup so the only reason to pick up a 870 QVO is if you need a 8TB drive. If not, pick up whatever's cheaper IMO.
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I can tell you why I bought this. I bought it to use as cold storage for my Series X. Before this I was using two 2TB portable/external SSDs from Samsung, the T5 and T7 (both of which top out at 2TB). Those combined with the internal NVMe drive on the Series X gives you ~5TB to work with. However as we know, games continue to swell in size thanks to 4K textures, HDR, more expansive environments, etc. As such, I had around ~530GB available across all connected storage devices. Instead of continuing to opt for interim solutions such as buying yet another drive-which I would likely fill up within the next year or two-I decided instead to spring for the 8TB QVO to give myself plenty of headroom for years to come. It was a way of 'future-proofing' my setup so I could stop worrying about storage limitations for the foreseeable future.
And again, I'm using the QVO strictly as cold storage, since I always play games directly off the internal NVMe drive of the Series consoles.
I'll tell you who it's for, someone who needs the space and absolutely hates mechanical drives lol
Exactly!
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These are also useful for desktops, since PCIe lanes are limited in consumer systems (plus bifurcation is rare, so cards like the one you showed wouldn't work for multiple drives). SATA ports are plentiful in almost all desktop machines
True, most high end PCs today can't do PCIe bifurcation properly. You'd need a managed raid card with it's own CPU so it can do raid in hardware. Those start at around $600. SATA is much easier to implement.
Just picked one of these up, I think I got a pretty good deal at ~$67 per 1TB!.
It's used not new tho, but I will primarily use it as storage for my PC, larger games and other files
I want to get this 8TB model to replace my 4TB external 3.5 HDD which is requiring external power as well. At least I won't have any moving parts and read speeds should still be better than on a 3.5 HDD. It will also improve portability and I can take it with me alongside my Mini PC and a portable monitor.
2 year old video. It was $800. I just snagged one on sale for 345$ with tax and shipping. What a deal
It's not that niche'. Where I live this drive is the most cost effective SSD per terabyte. I have limited Nvme slots and I need a lot of drive space with fast reading speeds for music production. Write speed is not important, just capacity, read speed, and price. There's no better option than this.
Ideal backup and/or storage drive..!!
I am considering this as an option for a Roon Nucleus One
Its made for data hoarders who want a large ssd cache to go with their humongous video library when streaming.
Great review and insight. Getting it for large but infreqently accessed files. I'm willing to pay the price premium to avoid any more hdd spindles and their associated noise.
Lol, how old are your HDDs? My 12TB WD RED drives are silent
If you can get it at a good price certainly worth it
This is amazing for synology 620 slim were we are have 1gbt lan port
I use a bunch of these in a server with 6 drive hot swap bays per 5.25 external bay. I use it for a NAS. It's probably a stupid option but I like the reliability and longevity of SSDs.
I'm actually looking to set my new synology with a few of these. I'm wondering why you say stupid idea, how do you mean? thanks
I want to speed up Premiere Pro and get lots of storage. Both my 10 TB HDDs are full, and my PCIe EVO is only 500GB. I'm alarmed that this drive is so slow.
It's use case specific. So here is my rationale to justify this device...
I keep an archive of software for my job which is currently sitting at about 4.5TB. I keep two copies, both on 2.5" 5TB portable drives: one is kept attached to my always on machine and the other is in my bag that I carry with me to clients. I sync them every few days.
1. There are no 2.5" hard drives on sale that are over 5TB;
2. An SSD is far more mechanically sound than a hard drive particularly on the road (I've been there, it's not fun);
3. In an always on system, the energy requirements of a QVO SSD is far less than a 2.5" hard drive;
4. There are no "spin up" times for an SSD.
Just ordered one
MacMini Fileserver with Cloud Backup (OneDrive x 6 Family accounts), old folks moving to iOS devices + iCloud so only really photos, docs and music collection (Traditional Irish Music ripped from CDs)
so after initial dump from everyone's mac mini / laptop infrequent (at least few files >80GB) writes and mostly reads (photo albums, itunes)
Looks amazing and would love to throw this into my older Mac Mini that I use for downloaded Apple TV Library. Wonder if this would work with my 2012 Mac Mini. Have a 250 Samsung SSD in there already.
Another use case:
Minimum moving components with the added benefit of improved read speeds at a nominal cost.
You save ~25% over TLC at a comparable capacity, trading lifespan (Likely negligible assuming tech obsolescence) and write performance. As a data drive, this is a worthwhile trade.
If you want to negate the speed disadvantage, you can even RAID three or more QLC drives (increasing failure rate, albeit, again, negligible in the grand scheme of things).
2022 looking to upgrade my SSD, I move a LOT.. so I have 2 laptops, switching this RTX laptop SSD1TB to my older one and getting a 4 or 8TB for this laptop since I am not thinking of upgrading till the 6 series RTX... so need all the memory I can get in this age where games are 80-200GB nowadays.
I'm going to be dragging my steam library onto it not going to be fast anyways I just like its 8TB of storage don't need an hdd now for the 1st time ever in my pc life.
planning to buy it to store ripped BD/4k and this goes into the zappiti reference player. will need a 2.5" to 3.5" icy dock enclosure.
For some reason the price of this drive has really jumped in price lately.
I work cross country and would love to get this for my laptop. I have lots of storage data and use external hard drives but they aren't reliable compare to ssds. i had 3 external hard drives fail on me. I have ssds/m2 in my ps3, ps4, laptop, including external drives. I haven't seen a ssd fail on me yet.
yes - I was using RAID0 and mechanical drives for large backup but now with cloud storage and ssd reliability I think that's adequate I'm still try to use the old mechanical drives I'm replacing with newer ssds to have a third copy (esp something precious like photos)
Hi Stan Can I use Samsung 870 QVO 8TB in USB 3.0 Enclosure?
The 8TB version 870QVO power consumption is higher than 860 EVO, I notice in the spec is 5.5W when compare to 860 EVO(4W)
Can I put 870 QVO 8TB into a USB 3.0 SATA enclosure and used it without issues? (like eject unexpectedly due to high power consumption, or much lower speed, when doing read and write at the same time?)
because normal USB 3.0 just 5V 1A, 5W， can you please test thanks a lot
Just use external HDD dude , this SSD is not made to be used via usb 3 port
I was thinking same but if you unplug it too soon your copy won't be complete... It is pretty slow for large transfers
u dont have to worry about power or usb 3.0 speed, only thing u have to worry is how long u have to wait to unplug it after file transfer.
@@ryanllts HOLD ON, man.
I wanna use this 8TB SSD in an external case to backup my laptop. You wanna tell me there's an issue with this type of drive, that even if I see the file transfer had finished - I still need to keep the drive plugged in for another X amount of ( unknown ) minutes - in order to make sure the transfer was complete indeed? What..?!
@@eladbari click remove device on taskbar if u wanna unplug it the safe way. also ssd is no good for cold storage, hdd is better.
do you Need a Power Cord to use it ??? or Just the USB Plug or Both ???
good backup/torrent drive
I don't have much of a choice amd i don't write ginormous amount of data all the time so i shouldn't have any slowdowns. This seems good for windows and and gaming. As i said my laptop has m.2 slot but it doesn't support nvme. Maybe it does,i'll need to check it out.
Is the qvo brand good if you're just using it for storage or playback of HD and 4k video for like a home server app?
Is this ssd support in this laptop...fx506li-hn222ts
Yes as long as your laptop has a 2.5 slot
i literally bought this just to store anime and movies so i think this drive is quite overkill for that, replaced it with my hGST 14TB HDD because it got quite noisy at times.
So what if Amazon accidentally gave me this instead of the 1tb version
(It happened)
@@nicolasbrown9575 Dont say shit, Keep it
Yup!@@S4_QUATTROPOWER
i HAVE A 4TB HARD DRIVE for steam games and its full and I am tired of uninstalling games back an forth so I am going with 8 TB hard drive lol.
Exactly how much space is left after you format the drive to your pc?
@Adam yeah i purchased it already and it was 7.27tb. thank you though
@@user_Z- You should look up the difference between TiB and TB. Windows lies to you and says TB when they actually mean TiB. After formatting the drive is exactly 8TB which equals 7.27TiB.
I need a fast SSD for videography for a documentary everything comes up to 4.56 tb will this drive be good for that
I found it 400$
Is it good in 2023??
Would you recoment this for time machine o. Macbook pro m2 max?
can you believe the starfield devs say it's "your fault" that you don't own an sdd to play their buggy unoptimized game. ugh, but that's why im here. 900GB SDDs aren't enough for todays gaming climate
ive already got a 1TB Samsung 970 evo NVMe, thinking of using this 8TB to store 146 games on, seems video games need SSD to run on these days is this the drive for me?
AFAIK this drive doesn't slow down by consecutive reads, only writes. So it should be perfect for games.
Hey Stan, I have a Seagate Barracuda 8 T HD and been wanting to add a SSD to my desktop but I don't want to reload anything because I used 6 T so far, I mainly use my desktop for gaming and everyday use. Would I be able to clone my drive onto this and would it be better then what I have?
Hi stan, i have question for you does the 80gb cap affect the read speed as well or is it only the write speed?
It’s a write cache so just writing.
Hello, would you recommend this ssd for a ps4? I have a 2tb hdd that is always full
its perfect for game drive
Is there a difference in terms of dimensions between 8 TB and 2 TB ? I was thinking of buying 2 TB for my laptop but if 8 TB is similar in size then I would rather buy 8TB ssd.
Both the same form factor
would this last long in a directv 5 tuner genie dvr?
I want higher SSD storage to get rid of HDDs forever. At $400 is tempting for 8TB. But I have bigger data density needs than a mere 8tb. And 2 of those drives would be just too expensive for me.
Then there is the added downside that is QLC nand made by Samsung which has had reliability problems on their pro drives too.
I am just not ready to risk that much money on them for a slow and potentially error prone drive. Too much to risk!
My multiple 12tb HDDs are very cheap density to replace and in a raid they can perform pretty well for writes. So that negates any benefit the expensive, slow and potentially unreliable QLC SSDs would offer.
Is there any concern about quad level flash being more susceptible to data corruption due to leakage currents when the drive is offline? I guess in your mac mini, it's likely to be powered most of the time and the controller can keep the contents refreshed. But if QLC makes its way into large external drives, how long can you leave them unplugged before having to worry?
That's an interesting point. I've never actually heard of QLC being more susceptible to data corruption as cold storage. My guess is it's not bit migration isn't nearly that big of an issue.
Is this disc good for gaming?
Games are "humungus" these days. With a 1TB SSD you can't really fit that many games on them.
Right now I got 4 x 1TB SSD's in a RAID volume just for my games.
I am a dj... Yes it's for me
This this perfect for game storage, cuz using hdd with steam terrible speed
Epic
Can I use this for my ps4 pro?
Yes. The PS3 and 4 both support all drives that use a SATA interface so it should work.
Yes, you can as the ps4 can support up to 8TB in both internal and external storage. No for the ps3 because I haven't seen any users show some proof that the ps3 itself can support 2TB so what I did was I installed a 1.5TB and it works without issues
But it's still better than hard drive
These QVOs are kinda' trash. Definitely don't use them as a primary boot/OS/app drive.
Just about threw my brand new $3k gaming rig off the balcony. The primary drive that came pre-installed stock was a QVO 870 8TB SATA SSD. And the performance was ABSOLUTE TRASH. Worse than working on a mechanical hard disk, IMO.
Basically, it would grind to a halt every 2-3 minutes, and become completely unresponsive [could barely open the task manager or the Windows menu, or switch between firefox tabs]. Utter garbage.
Bought a new Gen4 HP FX900 Pro NVMe 2TB drive. Cloned the QVO 870 over to the HP FX900 Pro, booted tot he NVMe drive, and never looked back.
EVO: perfectly fine. [Had one used on prior desktop, and it was GREAT.]
QVO: complete garbage.
Modern Gen3 or Gen4 NVMe drive: GREAT!
The ONLY reason one would buy a QVO, IMO, is to get the inexpensive higher capacity drives (4TB or 8TB). 'Cause it's certainly **NOT** for performance [which is utterly abysmal / laggy trash].
If you're buying a 2TB or less drive, and must buy a SATA 2.5" drive rather than NVMe, buy an EVO, don't even bother with a QVO. You'll thank me... Seriously. QVO = laggy trash. EVO = pretty decent [for SATA], NVMe SSDs with proper controller and DRAM cache, using TLC or MLC cells = better on nearly every possible level [if your system supports it].
Got scammed by Amazon with the same ssd. When I formatted it for the first time , I was shocked to see only 7.24 tb . So almost 800 gb worth of storage just gone . I know don’t get the whole 8tb. But I was expecting something like 7.60tb or 7.70tb
No you did not.
Harddrives (all of them) are advertised with Giga-/Tera- Bytes.
That is a 10 based multiplication.
1 Terabyte = 1'000 Gigabytes = 1'0000'000 Megabytes = 1'000'000'000 Kilobytes = 1'000'000'000'000 Bytes (10^12).
While your OS does display the space as Gibi-/Tibi- Bytes.
That is a 2 based multiplication.
1 Tebibyte = 1'024 Gibibytes = 1'048'576 Mebibytes = 1'073'741'824 Kibibytes = 1'099'511'627'776 Bytes (2^40).
now do the math:
(10^12 / 2^40) * 8 = 7.2759...
you got "scammed" by 0.024...
This has to win the trophy for the stupidest SSD I’ve come across this year. A SATA cable 😂
You paid $800 for that bruh? 🥲
What if you can get it far below retail?