Conclusion
Fast, reliable and with excellent endurance credentials to boot, made possible by 3D V-NAND, the Samsung 845DC PRO is a high-quality datacentre-centric drive that's easy to recommend.Samsung has pulled off a neat trick with the 845DC PRO SSD. It has found a way of circumventing the performance-related problems that occur in flash technology when moving to smaller-geometry processes, which is ordinarily needed to keep costs and energy consumption down.
The company's 3D V-NAND uses a larger process but is able to keep die area to a minimum by stacking cell arrays on top of one another. Endurance and speed are further enhanced by using charge-trap technology inside the transistors, leading to NAND that is faster, more energy-efficient and more reliable than planar- and floating-gate-based flash available today.
With the first-generation 3D V-NAND at the helm and endurance greatly improved by significant overprovisioning, the 800GB 845DC PRO is a prime candidate for use in environments where sustained steady-state performance matters.
Our benchmarks show that performance remains consistent and impressive even when purposely degraded. We can't comment on the value metric without pricing information, which Samsung will provide shortly, but the drive ticks many of the boxes required for use in workstations and servers.
Fast, reliable and with excellent endurance credentials to boot, made possible by 3D V-NAND, the Samsung 845DC PRO is a high-quality datacentre-centric drive that's easy to recommend.
The Good
3D V-NAND
Excellent steady-state performance
Very good consistency
Improves with queue depthThe Bad
Price, potentially?
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