Samsung has an odd release schedule for new products. We're just days away from CES, and expect to see some new technology at the show, but nothing from Samsung's SSD division. The company holds an ...

Whether you're a regular user or even an enthusiast, the Samsung 840 EVO (500GB) has the best price/performance ratio of any internal solid-state drive (SSD) you can buy today. Costs just over 50 ...

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During its 2013 Samsung SSD Global Summit in Korea, Samsung unveiled a new addition to its solid-state drive lineup, the new Samsung SSD 840 Evo. Based on an updated Samsung MEX controller as well as ...

I have a 1TB Samsung 840 EVO SSD mostly used for audio production and streaming of instrument samples that I bought about 6 months ago. I thought I'd noticed some read speed degradation but thought ...

If you’re a laptop user who’s skipped the SSD experience because of the breed’s lack of capacity, your drive has arrived—or it will in the first week of August. Samsung’s new 840 EVO family of drives ...

Samsung's 840 Evo series reportedly suffers from a significant bug that dampens write performance on old data, but the company says it's already working on a solution. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

TurboWrite, as the name suggests, is a means of increasing the drive's write performance. To achieve the desired effect, the 840 EVO configures a portion of its onboard NAND in a single-level-cell ...

As reported several weeks ago, a number of users (including yours truly) were experiencing slow read performance issues with their Samsung 840 EVO SSD. At the time, the issue was just discovered by ...

Several months ago at the 2013 Samsung Global SSD Summit, Samsung unveiled their latest and greatest SSD, the Samsung 840 EVO. Based off a brand new MEX controller and Samsung’s latest 19nm TLC Toggle ...

Samsung's 840 Evo series reportedly suffers from a significant bug that dampens write performance on old data, but the company says it's already working on a solution. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

A few months back, we took a look at Samsung’s SSD 840 EVO series of solid state drives. At the time, we found their performance to be quite good, and the drives were competitively priced too. Shortly ...