Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD 8TB 2.5-inch

The Samsung 870 EVO is a 2.5-inch SATA III solid-state drive built on Samsung's proprietary 3-bit MLC (TLC) V-NAND technology, combined with the MKX controller and Samsung's LPDDR4 DRAM cache. The 870 EVO succeeds the 860 EVO with improvements in sustained sequential performance and endurance, delivering sequential read speeds up to 560 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530 MB/s — values that represent the ceiling of the SATA 6 Gb/s interface. The integrated DRAM buffer and advanced algorithm-based Samsung Magician software enable consistent, low-latency access patterns suitable for read-intensive and mixed-workload environments.

At the 8TB capacity point, the 870 EVO provides one of the highest SATA-interface storage densities available in the 2.5-inch form factor, making it particularly relevant for infrastructure upgrades where existing SATA backplanes must be retained. The drive operates within a 2W to 4W active power envelope and includes AES 256-bit hardware encryption support, aligning with security mandates common across enterprise, government, and regulated-industry deployments. Error correction is handled via Samsung's proprietary ECC engine, and the drive supports DevSleep power states to minimize idle consumption in always-on server and workstation environments.

The 870 EVO is positioned for secondary-tier enterprise storage, edge computing nodes, content delivery infrastructure, and high-capacity read-intensive workloads where NVMe bandwidth is not the primary constraint. Its 2,400 TBW (terabytes written) endurance rating at the 8TB capacity reflects Samsung's confidence in the longevity of its V-NAND stack under sustained enterprise duty cycles. Organizations standardized on SATA ecosystems across UAE, GCC, EMEA, and APAC regions can integrate the 870 EVO without controller or backplane changes, lowering infrastructure transition complexity.

Ideal for

• High-capacity read-intensive file and object storage tiers in on-premises data centers retaining SATA infrastructure
• Edge computing nodes and regional caching servers requiring dense, low-power storage in space-constrained enclosures
• AI training data staging pools where large datasets must be held on fast secondary storage before NVMe-based processing
• Content delivery and media asset repositories demanding high sequential read throughput at scale
• Workstation and rendering farm local scratch storage for VFX, broadcast, and digital media production environments
• Encrypted at-rest data storage for regulated industries (finance, healthcare, government) leveraging the drive's AES 256-bit hardware encryption

Technical specifications

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