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The Samsung Advantage
Why a Samsung SSD is Best for Business
With the SSD marketplace becoming increasingly crowded, it can be difficult to decide which vendor to trust with your
business' precious data. With 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, a unique, fully-integrated design
approach, and industry-leading performance and reliability, Samsung is the brand to choose for business PC upgrades.
Industry-Leading Longevity & Reliability
Long-lasting, reliable SSDs mean reduced downtime and lower repair costs
Samsung has been a number one player in the semiconductor industry for over 20 years. For 6 of those years, it has
been the largest supplier of SSDs to the preinstalled PC business. Designing an SSD is no trivial task – experience
matters. Samsung's SSD technology has been going through (and passing) the rigorous testing of the world's
most demanding clients for years, and its engineers have been learning each and every step of the way. As a result,
Samsung is known in the industry for its relentless focus on quality, which is directly enabled by one of its most unique
competitive advantages – control.
Unlike most SSD vendors, Samsung designs and manufactures every major SSD component. As a fully integrated
manufacturer that controls its own NAND fabrication lines, Samsung has the luxury of choosing only the best quality,
highest-performing NAND to use in its SSD lineup.
In addition to manufacturing both the NAND and the proprietary MDX SSD controller, Samsung also manufacturers
the DRAM cache that its MDX controller uses as a performance buffer. Furthermore, having full control over the
firmware means Samsung can execute more robust reliability and bug testing. Each and every component that makes
up a Samsung SSD is fully optimized to work seamlessly with its counterparts - a design luxury that produces a product
that not only outperforms, but outlasts, most of the competition.
Very few companies can pull together such vast knowledge and experience across every major SSD component
– and Samsung's expertise is embodied by its Average Failure Rate (AFR), which is among the industry's lowest at
0.05%. Thus, businesses that choose Samsung SSDs benefit from reduced down time and repair costs, fewer data loss
incidents, and increased productivity since fewer employees must deal with inconvenient hardware repairs.
Unrivaled Performance with Business in Mind
Extend hardware lifetime with next-generation performance and reduce IT costs with must-have
maintenance and security features.
Featuring the industry's fastest Random Performance (up to 100,000 IOPS), users can expect up to about 15times
increase in performance over a typical SATA HDD(Based-on traced-based benchmark score comparison). Even older
hardware will benefit from dramatic speed improvements, which means savvy businesses can extend the lifetime of
their existing hardware rather than making an expensive investment in new machines, saving precious IT investment
dollars in a stubbornly volatile economic climate.
With the 840 Series, Samsung has added AES 256-bit Full Disk Encryption (FDE), a feature many business will find a
welcome addition. Simply enabling the Hard Disk Password via the BIOS renders data stored on the drives inaccessible
to anyone without the proper password. And, because this feature is hardware-based encryption implemented at the
controller level, there is no impact on overall drive performance as there is with software-based FDE solutions.
In addition to the performance and security enhancements an 840 Series SSD offers, the 840 was designed to
include special, business-specific features. Worldwide Name (WWN) and LED Status Indicator support enable easier
management of the drives as part of a storage network or RAID array. Samsung's Magician software has been also
enhanced to include superior, easy-to-use disk management and diagnostic features, including simple Usage
Statistics with a graphical indicator of Total Bytes Written (TBW). It is now much simpler for IT managers to monitor