
QVO is supposed to be a cheap budget version to the EVO. But what are you giving up in order to have that lower price? Are they important to you? Let have a look.
TLC and QLC
A multi-level cell (MLC) is a memory element capable of storing more than a single Bit of information.
Triple-level cells (TLC) and quad-level cells (QLC) are versions of MLC memory, which can store 3 and 4 bits per cell, respectively.
Samsung 860 QVO use QLC, Samsung 860 EVO use TLC.

QVO - EVO Comparison
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- Samsung 860 QVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD MZ-76Q1T0BW
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$169.00$134.00 - Add to cart
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- Samsung 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD MZ-76E1T0BW
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$219.00$169.00 - Add to cart
- QVO is cheaper than EVO
- QVO is slightly slower than EVO by 2%
- QVO has 3 years warranty instead of 5 years for EVO
- QVO becomes almost as slow as a HDD when it runs out of Cache Memory. It can happen when you copy 80GB file.
If you need big storage, but you don’t usually work with very large file; If you don’t mind cutting off 2 years warranty to save some extra dollars, we suggest you should buy the QVO instead of EVO, because the speed is almost identical.