welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Samsung 840 Pro Series SSD so moving
right along to what makes the 840 Pro special Three core MDX controller now
this okay so this is a part of what makes Samsung special on a bigger level
is the fact that Samsung is the only one
who actually designs and manufactures their own s SD I was about to say STDs
they design and manufacture STDs no they don't do that um they own ssds from top
to bottom everything from the controller
they design and manufacture it to the RAM they design and manufacture it to
the flash which they design and manufacture to the firmware which they
design and code and replicate
manufacture um everyone else is relying
on someone else on a hardware level or on a software level
next thing here is they're using toggle ddr2 Nan flashmemory toggle DDR 2.0 Nan
flash memory okay lpddr2 SD RAM cach
memory AES 256bit encryption is built in
which basically means that they take whatever password that you've created for your SSD Reiger it 14 times and make
it pretty darn difficult to crack so you can set that up on a BIOS level to make
sure that whoever gets your computer is not actually going to be able to access
any of your data they'll still be able to format the drive but they won't able
to actually read anything on there without some pretty serious hacking
tools next up we've got their magician software which is basically a toolkit of
software that allows you to do performance optimization so you can
manually trim the drive you can uh do
like a simple Benchmark you can secure erase it you can still good because ssds
are shock resistant um you can do firmware updates so all that stuff that
you'd expect from an SSD toolkit this particular drive has a 5-year warranty
so the pro drive is positioned above the regular 840 it does use mlc Flash which
is basically two bits per cell compared to uh three bits per cell on the regular
840 they do use the same controller technology however so the main
difference is in the flash being used and that's another one of the reasons why Samsung gives this one a 5year
warranty versus the three-year warranty on the 840 because they are expecting
that mlc flash to put up with an Enthusiast level usage pattern for well
at at least 5 years and my typical observation is that when a manufacturer
gives you a three-year warranty they are expecting it to last more like six to
eight years when they give you a 5-year warranty they are expecting it to last
longer than that because I mean I can tell you guys right now based on how
much margin there is and something like flash and RAM and controllers and
everything that's in here they cannot afford to 5 years from now be replacing
all of them it doesn't work that way they can afford to be replacing a very
very very small percentage of them one of the other luxuries that Samsung
enjoys because they manufacture everything that goes in the drive is
that they can kind of save the best for themselves so Samsung sells flash
Samsung sells RAM to other guys to manufacture ssds but it's all about
binning so if you guys understand the binning process you know that what
Samsung's doing is they're manufacturing like a butt ton of Flash and then
they're going to go okay well this is the grade A stuff this is the Grade B
stuff grade C and that stuff's going to go in like USB thumb drives or whatever
else like that um and this is the like
other stuff that we're just going to put over here and then put that in our own
products don't worry about it don't worry about it customers we got this we got this one so I think that pretty much
covers it the 840 Pro if you have missed any of it that I said so far is about as
fast as it gets for an SSD today SAA 36 gbit per second it has a super fast
controller it's capable of something ridiculous like it's a 100,000 iops um
on yeah reads up to 100,000 iops and writes up to 90,000 iops so those are
random um has a 5year warranty did I say that
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