Samsung 870 QVO SSD Review - TechteamGB

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Samsung has been the go-to for SSDs for the better part of a decade, but with so much competition is this 870 QVO, a high capacity 2.5” SATA SSD, worth considering?

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Samsung 870 QVO SSD Review - TechteamGB

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[stefangerstberger]

I came form GN and saw some reviews from you and must say: keep up with the good work. Awesome content. Leave an abo. Till next time.

[Knives]

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[pooter]

Just got done with the gamers nexus vid. You have yourself a subscriber. I appreciate your integrity

[TechWithSean]

I use 2 of these in 2TB size for my game storage, but boot from a Samsung nvme drive. They’re good for what they are.

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[Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section]

In the meantime, especially the 2TB variant has dropped significantly in price. It is about 1/4 cheaper than other 2TB SSDs. Which makes it interesting for the following purposes:
In the PC: As a data grave for your personal data and / or as a Steam library.
In the PS4: As a new system drive.

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[ganode]

I always wondered what the difference was between the EVO line and the QVO line. This was informative!

[bakagamingcommentary]

being eyeing the Samsung qvo ssd for my game drive thx for the good review.

[Legitti]

I have 970 Evo Plus NVMe drive as primary on my laptop, this makes great secondary drive for games as it was just 100€.

[TechSway]

Seems like it would be good for archives/cold storage and okay for general builds but I'd prefer having that EVO myself if I had to choose between the two at this moment in time. The QVO reminds me of the old phrase [worm] Write Once Read Many.

[jani]

I just recently purchased a 4 TB 870 QVO to replace my old hdds for bulk storage. The drive works well, I even use it for gaming and it is noticeably faster than the old hdds. My system is older (7 years) with Haswell i5 in it and with no NVMe connection (although I know about PCIe conversion kits for older systems like mine), This drive makes sense only in the 4 and 8 TB range and it is not a performance drive. The 1 TB version is the worst of all (as I have read in other reviews), but I never experienced such drastic slowdowns with mine (large files are usually moved at a minimum of 250 MB/s). Fun fact: the 120 GB Kingston SSDnow UV400 I use as a system drive and which I originally purchased for my setup back in 2014 is much slower than the QVO and it is still enough. My gaming laptop is a newer one with a Nvme Plextor in it and the only difference I see is that my PC boots Win10 in about 8 seconds (with the old Kingston), while the NVMe is like 3 seconds. 5 seconds difference total. I can live with that. The QVO boots games fast and Fallout 4 loads a lot faster and have become a lot more enjoyable. This drive has no competition at 4 TB and above. There is the market niche it fills.

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[dcabral]

I find that the only substantial difference with the QVO drive is that it takes longer to copy files to it than the EVO, but the read and write speeds compared to the EVO are practically the same.

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[LeJimster]

If the price for these would drop down to HDD levels I would buy a few 8TB and build a media NAS for all my backed up media. I'm not sure I would want to swap out one of my EVOs in my main system for one though.

[TheEcorristine]

Great video, wasn't aware of half the stuff you talk about, cheers mate.

[Pheatrix]

I have the previous version of this SSD, the 860 QVO with 4TB.
I don't think this SSD makes any sense below 4TB. There are way better options, but at the 4TB mark or above all the other SSDs (at least 2 months ago when I bought mine) where pretty much double the price.
I'm using this SSD as bulk Storage for my PC, my System SSD is an NVMe drive. And that's probably the only market for this drive. I don't care that much about the write speed, I'm more concerned about the silence (I had an enterprise HDD before. Damn was that a loud drive.), the read speed and the access time. And for that this SSD is perfect.
But please don't buy a QVO SSD with less than 4TB. That's just a waste of money...

[profoundmatter]

I've been using the 870 QVO SSD 4TB version for at least a week or so now. I'm not sure if you got a bad drive, or if the smaller drive sizes perform worse but my write speeds are WAY higher than the ones you showed (1:45) and that's without Rapid mode enabled. With Rapid mode enabled the read and write speeds on the bench mark are very high! They are in at least the thousand plus range. Also the diagram you showed at 3:05 is for the 860 QVO and not the 870 QVO. The 860 is a similar model but it's still different from the 870.