What is difference between Samsung 860 QVO and Samsung 860 EVO?

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basiccTV Sep 22, 2019 @ 10:26am

title, Literally is there any difference between those 2 in gaming loading times? i tried to google QVO vs EVO but could not really find anything.

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Originally posted by r.linder:

Originally posted by HistoriiaChill:
Okay but is there difference in gaming loading speeds?

Virtually none. The only difference is that EVO is higher quality and lasts longer than QVO models. QVO is Samsung's "budget" line, though they're still a bit expensive compared to other brands like Crucial, ADATA, Kingston, etc.

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p.b. Sep 22, 2019 @ 10:33am

Originally posted by HistoriiaChill:
title, Literally is there any difference between those 2 in gaming loading times? i tried to google QVO vs EVO but could not really find anything.

When you send a large file for the Samsung QVO (ex: 30GB) after a minute or 2 the transfer speed drops significantly and the EVO keeps the transfer speed troughout.

Omega Sep 22, 2019 @ 10:37am

The 860 QVO and EVO are pretty much the same in read performance.

The QVO uses QLC flash memory. This mean it has a significantly lower max terrabytes written, it will slow down a lot when writing huge amount of data to it without TRIMing in between but it is also a lot cheaper.

The EVO is slightly faster, can write a lot more data before it breaks but it's more expensive.