Samsung's 8TB 870 QVO SSD has appeared on Amazon

[WYP]

Is this the new king of mass storage?



Read more about Samsung's 8TB 870 QVO SSD.

 

[RobM]

wow that is impressive

 

[Avet]

wow that is impressive

Actually not so much. QVO drives are very slow for an SSD. I would see this to be a nice drive for Atomos Ninja V recorder if you do some 4K RAW or 444 recordings, but sadly the drive isn't fast enough for that.

On the other hand, it is an excellent drive to replace your spinning rust HDD and go full SSD.

 

[WYP]

Actually not so much. QVO drives are very slow for an SSD. I would see this to be a nice drive for Atomos Ninja V recorder if you do some 4K RAW or 444 recordings, but sadly the drive isn't fast enough for that.

On the other hand, it is an excellent drive to replace your spinning rust HDD and go full SSD.

It's ideal for workloads without heavy writes. Great as a consumer-oriented drive for games etc, but heavy writes could be a problem. Once the SLC cache fills this thing will slow way down. That said, the cache could be around 2TB for an empty 8TB drive.