Performance is listed at 540MB/s read and 330MB/s write with up to 95,000 IOPS and the PM841 has on board AES 256-bit encryption with a power draw of.
At the time of this report, the PM841 was available in capacities of 128, 256 and 512GB, the highest capacity being only $449 which is an excellent price.
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This means that, other than through limited Amazon availability, it is not made available by Samsung for retail consumer purchase and might typically be found within pre-configured PC portable systems. The Samsung PM841 is an OEM client level SSD that is manufactured in capacities of 128, 256 and 512GB. Our thanks goes out to Josh Tacey, Director of Technical Operations at MYTHLOGIC, for offering us a sample of their first received PM841 shipment even before Samsung’s own offering of a sample for review. MYTHLOGIC’s goal is to provide the most custom options, achieving the highest level of performance, using the highest of quality parts, at a competitive price. Our sample Samsung PM841 512GB mSATA SSD was accompanied by an introduction to MYTHLOGIC Computers of Ann Arbor, Michigan, a high end gaming PC Company that easily stands above the crowd in SSD selection within configurations of their custom systems. Unlike the Mushkin Atlas 480GB mSATA SSD that we have reviewed previously, the PM841 is the first to be offered in a single PCB design and housing only four modules of memory, each being 128GB in size. On the TSSDR Test Bench today is the Samsung PM 841 mSATA SATA 3 SSD, this particular sample being the highest capacity mSATA SSD that we have tested to date at 512 GB.