Samsung 860 QVO Solid State Drive

Great Value SSD with Reliable Performance I’ve been using the Samsung 860 QVO 1TB as a secondary drive, and it has turned out to be a solid upgrade for extra storage space. Setup was straightforward—SATA drives are basically plug-and-play, and Samsung includes migration software if you want to clone an existing drive. In day-to-day use, the drive feels quick and responsive. Boot times, file transfers, and launching applications are all noticeably faster compared to a traditional hard drive. The 1TB capacity is generous enough for large game libraries, photos, or project files without constantly worrying about space. I also appreciate Samsung’s reputation for reliability and the fact that their drives come with decent warranty coverage. One thing to note is that since this is a SATA SSD, it won’t match the speeds of NVMe drives. For most everyday tasks—office work, browsing, and even light gaming—the difference isn’t huge, but if you’re building a high-end rig that demands the fastest possible storage, NVMe may be a better choice. Bottom line: A dependable, affordable SSD that delivers great performance for the price. Perfect for breathing new life into an older system or expanding storage without breaking the bank.

The Samsung 860 QVO 1TB SSD has exceeded all my expectations! As someone who needed more storage without sacrificing speed, this drive was the perfect solution. With SATA 6Gb/s and V-NAND technology, the performance is excellent—my boot times and file transfers are lightning fast compared to my old HDD. The 1TB capacity offers plenty of space for my games, media files, and work applications, and the read/write speeds (up to 550/520 MB/s) are consistent across the board. Whether I'm gaming, editing large video files, or running virtual machines, this SSD handles it all effortlessly. What makes this even better is the price. Samsung has optimized the QVO series for value, and you get a high-quality drive without breaking the bank. Installation was simple, and Samsung’s Magician software makes monitoring performance and health a breeze. If you're looking for a reliable, fast, and affordable storage upgrade, the Samsung 860 QVO is an outstanding choice. It's been running flawlessly for months, and I highly recommend it!

My primary SSD in my system is Samsung's 860 EVO 500GB drive. I use this 860 QVO 2TB and a Crucial BX500 960GB as my secondary SSDs to store my PC game files downloaded from Steam and other content delivery services. So here's my experience with the drive after six months of use: 1. It's fast for my needs: Gaming being the major factor. Never really had a hiccup (as long as I trim/optimize the drive every two or three days). Moving Steam games between this and my BX500 is quick. Just be advised that NAND Flash is capable of much faster speeds than advertised. The limit is the SATA III connection (capped at 6Gbps). (Placing this drive into an external enclosure yields similar results.) 2. I'd highly recommend (as with any SSD) to enable over-provisioning (10% is ideal). What this does is basically take that percentage of the drive and disable user access to it. This increases performance and extends the lifespan of the SSD. 3. The 2TB version is rated at 720TBW. Unless the user is doing large file transfers on a daily basis, this drive can last for years. At the time of this review, there is a newer version of Samsung's QVO SSDs: the 870 series, which the 2TB is also rated the same amount. And both have the same 3-year warranty or rated TBW. 4. I bought this at Amazon for $230 (+tax) at the time, which is a good value considering it's a QVO drive. So QVOs are QLC (or quad-level cell) drives, which means they store 4 bits of data per cell (compared to the TLC EVO drives which store 3-bits of data per cell). Having more bits means higher capacities and reduced costs. The newer 870 QVOs can have up to 8TB of storage (this 860 QVO maxed out at 4TB). The talk that QLC drives have shorter life expectancy compared to SLC, MLC, or TLC drives shouldn't worry anyone. Sure they have fewer program/erase cycles, but as long as the user enables over-provisioning and not doing too many heavy workloads the drive should last for years. The whole point of QLC (and future SSD tech) is to maximize capacity and reduced costs per GB. Overall, this is a good drive and there will always be newer tech around the corner. For my six months of use, it's so far been reliable and no issues. Things may be different after I post this review, but I will update this review if something does happen.

Purchased this to upgrade my new PS4 PRO.....to both a faster SSD over its slow 5400 Seagate 1 TB hard drive plus get 2x the storage that was needed. I benchmarked it on my iMac using the Blackmagic speed test app I always use for new internal and external drives. Read and write speed was very good at 220 mbps write and 245 mbps read. I have faster SSDs I use here that tested about 300 mbps...but, given this SSD was priced on sale during the holiday at under $180, and its performance is still excellent over a spinning, slow conventional hard drive, it is still certainly worthy of purchasing to achieve a substantial performance and capacity gain over a slow conventional hard drive. After installation and setup on my new PS4 PRO, performance at boot/turning on plus general accessing during use is clearly improved. Boot time when turning on my PS4 PRO is reduced by about about 50%, and it just behaves faster all around after boot, including especially, loading/installing new games to the drive. My PS4 PRO runs very warm when gaming. An SSD will produce very minimal heat output over a spinning drive which will produce more heat by nature of its design and its spinning disks. Bottom line, if you're looking to increase performance as your first priority and also want more capacity, this 2 TB drive will do the job for sure. If you want better performance and are fine at a lower cost capacity, than consider the 1 TB version instead.

This is a great product. Easy to install, pretty easy to use as a main drive and transfer current hard drive over. Youtube has tons of videos to help. Performance is great, gets into windows in just over 20 seconds, loads all of my start up programs such as steam, epic games launcher, discord, battle.net etc all in about another 10 seconds. Game load times are greatly improved as well. Bang for your buck, well well worth and can save the money that an nvme would cost for simlar performance and put it towards something else like a better vid card. I will go this route next time I need another hard drive. Worth every penny.

Works as expected, replaced my old smaller ssd, no detectable differences in speed, maybe write speed a wee bit faster

Received as advertised, it would be great if Data cable is included.

Fast delivery and quality product, my only gripe would be the packaging but that's usually the cost of an ultra fast delivery.

Si alguien está pensando si debería o no de comprarse alguna SSD, déje de hacerlo y hágalo si tiene la posibilidad. La SSD de Samsung ofrece un software completamente grauito (viene en la caja del paquete la dirección) el cual hace posible la clonación de la información, para no perder aboslutamente nada. Estoy lo que sigue de feliz con esta compra :) !