Welcome to Myce's review of the Samsung PM863 Enterprise SSD.The PM863 is available in capacities of 120, 240, 480, 960, 1,920, and 3,840GB. The 960 GB drive is the subject of this review.Logically, the PM863 replaces the 845DC EVO in Samsung's product po...
The SM863 is the first 3D TLC V-NAND SSD for the datacenter, enabling up to 3.84TB in the 2.5" form factor, all with an average price of $0.57/GB.In the world of flash, the writing on the wall is clear — 2D NAND has lost its ability to scale to smaller li...
Now, what does the transition to their new 3D V-NAND entail? Well for starters lower power consumption and much different endurance and performance figures. The PM863 has much greater endurance than the 845DC EVO, at 1.3 DWPD! Also, performance is improve...
Last year we reviewed the Samsung 845DC EVO and the Samsung 845DC PRO , which at the time was two of Samsung's newest SSDs designed for the rapidly growing datacenter/cloud/hyperscale market. At the time, both drives were very special for not only Samsung...
The Samsung PM863 SSD line is the company's latest enterprise SATA drive designed to offer consistent performance for data centers and server data storage use cases. Released alongside the SM863, the PM836 works best for read-intensive applications includ...
High potential capacities (up to 1.9TB and 3.9TB) and a renewed focus on lower queue depth performance.Still limited to a SATA III interface.If you need large SATA III drives, the SM863 and PM863 perform extremely well.Recently we covered the launch of th...
Next to the SM863 Samsung has also launched the PM863 series. This drive is equipped with TLC 3D-V-NAND flash memory chips and therefore it's suitable for read-intensive workloads, preserving precious write cycles. Nevertheless, compared to the predecesso...
Looking to expand their datacenter portfolio, Samsung has introduced two new SATA-based SSDs. The SM863 is aimed at penetrating ~3 DWPD (Drive Write Per Day) mixed workload environments. The PM863 is targeted at read intensive workloads where ~1 DWPD prov...