The Samsung 870 QVO is a solid-state drive in the 2.5" form factor, launched on June 30th, 2020. It is available in capacities ranging from 1 TB to 8 TB. This page reports specifications for the 8 TB variant. With the rest of the system, the Samsung 870 QVO interfaces using a SATA 6 Gbps connection. The SSD controller is the MKX (Metis S4LR059) from Samsung, a DRAM cache chip is available. Samsung has installed 92-layer QLC NAND flash on the 870 QVO, the flash chips are made by Samsung. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are processed more quickly. The cache is sized at 78 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 160 MB/s. The 870 QVO is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 560 MB/s and 530 MB/s write; random IOPS reach up to 98K for reads and 88K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 850 USD. The warranty length is set to three years, which is above average, but shorter than the five years offered by many other vendors. Samsung guarantees an endurance rating of 2880 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.