Samsung 840 Pro SSD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Samsung 840 Pro Series SSD so moving
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right along to what makes the 840 Pro special Three core MDX controller now
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this okay so this is a part of what makes Samsung special on a bigger level
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is the fact that Samsung is the only one
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who actually designs and manufactures their own s SD I was about to say STDs
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they design and manufacture STDs no they don't do that um they own ssds from top
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to bottom everything from the controller
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they design and manufacture it to the RAM they design and manufacture it to
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the flash which they design and manufacture to the firmware which they
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design and code and replicate
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manufacture um everyone else is relying
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on someone else on a hardware level or on a software level
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next thing here is they're using toggle ddr2 Nan flashmemory toggle DDR 2.0 Nan
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flash memory okay lpddr2 SD RAM cach
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memory AES 256bit encryption is built in
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which basically means that they take whatever password that you've created for your SSD Reiger it 14 times and make
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it pretty darn difficult to crack so you can set that up on a BIOS level to make
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sure that whoever gets your computer is not actually going to be able to access
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any of your data they'll still be able to format the drive but they won't able
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to actually read anything on there without some pretty serious hacking
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tools next up we've got their magician software which is basically a toolkit of
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software that allows you to do performance optimization so you can
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manually trim the drive you can uh do
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like a simple Benchmark you can secure erase it you can still good because ssds
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are shock resistant um you can do firmware updates so all that stuff that
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you'd expect from an SSD toolkit this particular drive has a 5-year warranty
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so the pro drive is positioned above the regular 840 it does use mlc Flash which
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is basically two bits per cell compared to uh three bits per cell on the regular
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840 they do use the same controller technology however so the main
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difference is in the flash being used and that's another one of the reasons why Samsung gives this one a 5year
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warranty versus the three-year warranty on the 840 because they are expecting
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that mlc flash to put up with an Enthusiast level usage pattern for well
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at at least 5 years and my typical observation is that when a manufacturer
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gives you a three-year warranty they are expecting it to last more like six to
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eight years when they give you a 5-year warranty they are expecting it to last
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longer than that because I mean I can tell you guys right now based on how
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much margin there is and something like flash and RAM and controllers and
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everything that's in here they cannot afford to 5 years from now be replacing
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all of them it doesn't work that way they can afford to be replacing a very
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very very small percentage of them one of the other luxuries that Samsung
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enjoys because they manufacture everything that goes in the drive is
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that they can kind of save the best for themselves so Samsung sells flash
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Samsung sells RAM to other guys to manufacture ssds but it's all about
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binning so if you guys understand the binning process you know that what
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Samsung's doing is they're manufacturing like a butt ton of Flash and then
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they're going to go okay well this is the grade A stuff this is the Grade B
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stuff grade C and that stuff's going to go in like USB thumb drives or whatever
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else like that um and this is the like
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other stuff that we're just going to put over here and then put that in our own
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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
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covers it the 840 Pro if you have missed any of it that I said so far is about as
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fast as it gets for an SSD today SAA 36 gbit per second it has a super fast
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controller it's capable of something ridiculous like it's a 100,000 iops um
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on yeah reads up to 100,000 iops and writes up to 90,000 iops so those are
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random um has a 5year warranty did I say that
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