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Samsung SSD

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What is Samsung SSD?

Samsung offers solid state drives.

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Samsung SSDs have been widely used both internally and by customers in various mission-critical datacenter applications, showcasing their …
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They are the best!

10 out of 10
February 23, 2022
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The Samsung SSDs consistently perform at the top of the speed spectrum throughout all types of storage scenarios. We use them to make our …
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SSD Live Demo -- Fust - Servizio e assistenza per il vostro tablet e il vostro computer

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SSD Live Demo -- Fust - Aide et services pour votre tablette et votre ordinateur

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Guild Wars 2 and Samsung SSD demo - CES 2011

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Samsung SSDs have been widely used both internally and by customers in various mission-critical datacenter applications, showcasing their reliability and exceptional performance. Organizations have experienced significant improvements in data access response times and storage consolidation when transitioning from laptops with standard SATA hard drives to newer laptops equipped with Samsung SSD drives. Users have praised the speed, stability, and cost-effectiveness of Samsung SSDs, making them a consistent choice for their storage needs.

By upgrading to Samsung SSDs, users have witnessed significant performance enhancements and functionality upgrades in their older hardware, extending the lifespan of their machines and allowing organizations to maximize cost savings and equipment utilization. Whether employed as a database drive or utilized as primary boot drives for end-user devices, servers, or network appliances, Samsung SSDs consistently deliver top-notch speed performance across various storage scenarios. These SSDs are also highly valued in speeding up various workloads, ranging from system startup/shutdown to noise-sensitive video editing environments. The use of Samsung SSDs has undoubtedly transformed the computing experience, ensuring quick and snappy end-user experiences while enhancing application performance.

Reliability and Durability: Users find the Samsung SSD highly reliable, durable, and long-lasting. It has a low failure rate and can be used for several years without issues. Fast Performance: The Samsung SSD offers incredibly fast response times for quick file access and opening large programs like Photoshop. It performs exceptionally well in handling heavy tasks such as video editing. Good Value for Price: Reviewers appreciate the Samsung SSD's good quality-price balance. It provides better value compared to other brands, with lower-priced models performing on par with higher-priced options. These common pros make the Samsung SSD an attractive choice due to its reliability, fast performance, and good value for storage needs.

Expensive Price: Many users have expressed dissatisfaction with the expensive price of Samsung SSDs, indicating that they find them to be costly compared to other options in the market. Some users have mentioned that the high price makes it difficult for them to justify purchasing Samsung SSDs.

Limited Warranty: Users have suggested that Samsung should increase the warranty for their SSDs, indicating a dissatisfaction with the current warranty terms offered by the company. They would like more protection and reassurance when investing in these drives.

Performance Loss in QVO Models: Several reviewers have pointed out that Samsung's QVO models suffer from performance loss due to the use of QLC NAND. This is seen as a drawback and may impact overall user experience.

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Juan Moreno | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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I have been using Samsung SSD disks in our notebooks for the storage of our information.
  • It's one of the fastest SSD solution in the market.
  • It offers a good quality-price balance.
  • It has a low error rate.
  • It has a long lifespan.
  • Additional capacity options
In my opinion, Samsung SDD solutions are great for storing information in high workload scenarios, their offers fast I/O and low error rate. But maybe if you are looking for something very basic and your workload doesn't require fast read/write operations you can choose other less expensive solutions available in the market.
  • Fast I/O operation
  • Good value-price balance
  • As developers, we improve our productivity with less wasting time booting our notebooks, and also when we finish the compilation of our projects in less time. Overall Samsung's SSD disks offer a better user experience.
Samsung SSD solutions are faster than Western Digital ones.
February 23, 2022

They are the best!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Samsung SSDs consistently perform at the top of the speed spectrum throughout all types of storage scenarios. We use them to make our end-user experiences quick and snappy.
  • Speed. Whether it's tiny files while running an OS or larger bulk files, Samsung SSDs consistently perform at the top.
  • Reliability. In the 10 years I've been using/deploying Samsung SSDs, I've yet to have one die.
  • Cost. They have models across the price spectrum, and their lower-priced models consistently perform at the level of higher-priced brands.
  • The QVO models of their drives suffer performance loss. Now, that is just inherent to the use of QLC NAND, but they could offset this by adding more fast cache to those drives.
  • I would love to see Samsung bring enterprise-style hot-swappable 2.5" PCIe drives to a more mainstream market. One of my biggest reasons for not going with NVMe drives in my latest production storage server was the cost-prohibitive nature of enterprise-grade hot-swappable NVMe drives.
  • I have been sitting here for 15 minutes trying to think of a 3rd improvement I'd like to see Samsung make to their SSDs. I cannot think of anything realistic to add. It was hard enough to come up with the first two. They are just really good all-around.
They are well suited in any area of computing storage needs that require speed, reliability, ease of management (with their Magician software), and good pricing is desired (i.e. day-to-day end-user desktop computer usage to HA, always-on SAN storage). Your end-users particularly will thank you for a Samsung SSD upgrade, especially if their machine is running off a hard drive, currently.
  • They are fast throughout the speed spectrum of SSDs. All the way from processing tiny file sizes up to bulk files.
  • For laptops, they have an added benefit of being very power efficient and can help with battery life.
  • They stay fast and cool for continuous high performance operation whether it be in a desktop, laptop, or always-on server.
  • By implementing Samsung SSDs in our end-user machines, the time it takes for our desktop support technicians to troubleshoot problems and resolve issues gets cut down in time drastically because of how fast they are.
  • They are very affordable, which makes their payoff very quick from a cost perspective in regards to how much time they save us.
  • Because of their speed, the end users have many less complaints about the performance of their devices, whether it be desktops or laptops.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Primary boot drive for end-user, server, and network appliance devices usage through various interfaces including SATA, M.2 and NVMe Speeding up various workloads, from system startup/shutdown to video editing environments where noise needs to be minimized.
  • Reliability - have not seen a failure (yet)
  • Performance, especially NVMe, excellent for heavy tasks like video editing
  • Space-savings - M.2 drives perfect for small-form-factor network appliances or mini PCs
  • More expensive than the competition
Samsung SSDs are perfect for use cases where reliability & performance are paramount. The only downside is that they are slightly pricey, usually even more expensive than other SSD brands, and the smaller format drives (M.2 specifically) are limited in capacity compared to SATA drives, though that's to be expected sometimes.
  • Performance
  • Reliability & Warranty
  • Form factor
  • Employees are happier and work faster when their computer is faster.
  • Downtime is less likely due to increased reliability.
  • Allows for smaller form factor use cases / higher density computing, reducing cost on additional space.
Samsung SSDs are definitely one of the leaders if not the main leader in reliability and performance (arguably Intel is similar, depending on use case). There's virtually no downsides compared to other SSDs, except that they are more expensive. I haven't seen a failure of a Samsung SSD yet, but I've used enough of them that even if I saw a random failure I would still have a great deal of confidence in them.
February 18, 2022

Solid choice for Flash

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We regularly use and deploy Samsung enterprise and consumer SSD internally and for our customers. They are rock solid, fast, and durable as advertised. We have full confidence in Samsung SSD's for mission critical datacenter applications and use them in almost all our projects. We have used both NVME and conventional SSD's from Samsung and have been very pleased.
  • Reliable
  • Fast
  • Durable
  • As Advertised
  • lower cost :)
If you need reliable, robust fast flash storage Samsung has you covered. It's well suited to any business of all sizes as they have a product for each market segment and requirement. We have used their low end and cutting edge NVME and their marketing material is consistent with product performance.
  • Reliability
  • Speed
  • Durability
  • Accuracy of marketing to real world performance
  • Switching to Samsung NVME and other flash has increased our performance across our data centres immensely
  • Lower tech rolls to DC to replace drives
WIth a one vendor solution you are most likely getting Samsung SSD's (unless its intel or Kioxia or Micron), but from a performance and reliability standpoint we have seen very good results with Samsung ssd's.
Justin Graves | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Samsung SSD's to breathe new life into older machine. A simple SSD upgrade radically improves performance and functionality of older hardware. They are easy to install and easy to configure.

We're able to extend the life of special use machines past their normal lifecycle to save money and get the most out of equipment.
  • Fast
  • Easy to install
  • Stretch hardware
  • Cost
  • Update tools
  • Mounting brackets
Very well suited for end user computers. They can replace existing spindle drives or smaller drives. They are easy to install and well suited for daily driver computer or special user computers.

I find these SSD's slightly less appropriate for server use. Normally I find these SSD's better suited for end user computer applications.
  • Speed
  • Cost
  • Storage
  • Stretching Hardware life
  • Easy to install
  • Easy procurement
Samsung normally performs better. While slightly more expensive, they do seem to perform faster and last longer.
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