Testseek.com have collected 88 expert reviews of the Samsung 2.5 inch 870 QVO Series SATA600 and the average rating is 76%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung 2.5 inch 870 QVO Series SATA600.
February 2021
(76%)
88 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(96%)
1460 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
76010088
The editors liked
Decent performance for SATA III
Excellent performance with RAPID mode enabled
Higher capacities up to 8TB available
Easy to use data migration and drive monitoring software
Fairly reasonably priced compared to the competition
Good synthetic test results
Low cost per GB
2 TB
4 TB
And 8 TB variants available
Equipped with 4-bit MLC V-NAND technology
Available in 1TB
2TB
4TB and 8TB capacities
Good sequential read and write speeds under most conditions
Good random read and write performance
Features Intelligent TurboWrite technology
Large DRAM cache
Su
Up to 8TB of capacity
Aesthetics & build quality
Higher-than-average QLC flash endurance ratings
AES 256-bit encryption
Improved read performance
Software suite
Excellent price-to-performance ratio for a SATA-based SSD
Very fast 4K read and write speeds
Feature-rich Magician management software
8TB version coming soon
Great everyday performance
Up to a stupendous 8TB of capacity
I usually use 500GB drives
So a 4TB drive was a novelty. As you can imaging shooting on an A73 at 4K 30fps
There was no need to swap out the drive and over two hours of footage were stored
The final test was as a working storage drive
Popped inside a
Great sequential performance
Available up to 8TB
Capacious TurboWrite cache
QLC NAND flash
Faster drives available for similar price
The editors didn't like
Pretty limited TBW for lower capacities
8TB is pricey
Very low real-life performance
Way too expensive
Horrible write rates when SLC cache is exhausted
Inconsistent performance
Small SLC cache
3-year Warranty
Competitors Offer 5-year
Write speed drops considerably when SLC cache is full
Lower endurance than many TLC NAND-based SSDs
High price-per-GB for QLC
Slow write performance after SLC cache is full
Write endurance is lower than TLC flash
Three-year warranty
Warranty is only three years
QLC's modest durability ratings make it less suited to heavy write duty
150MBps writing after running out of SLC cache
Slower than NVMe
Price
SLC cache gets exhausted quickly
Very low write performance once SLC cache is exhausted
