The high-performance SSD market is a market where you have to be very careful when choosing a quality SSD model! The new PCIe 4.0 makes a big difference compared to the previous version and that is why manufacturers have started to include new SSDs in their catalogs. Maybe a little late? Samsung does the same with its high-end model, which goes to war with the market, but with specifications that may disappoint the most keen.
Is he up to it? How fast is this Samsung 980 Pro SSD?
“Over the years, Samsung has continually challenged the limits of high-speed flash memory storage solutions,” said Mike Mang, vice president of Samsung Electronics' Memory Brand Product Biz and head of hard drives. semiconductor.
“The new SSD 980 PRO reflects our continued commitment to delivering the exceptional products that consumers have come to expect from us as a company”
Samsung 980 Pro, next-level performance
Samsung certainly hopes that this SSD will become the leader among professionals and gamers who work with high transfer rates or large files. Specifically, Samsung is referring to 4K and 8K content, and therefore has serious aspirations to take control of the high-performance PC market.
For this it will have a completely custom Elpis driver, apart from V-NAND and DRAM as one can understand, all designed to extract the best performance from the PCIe 4.0 bus, but does it achieve that?
Largely, as Samsung itself indicates, sequential read and write speeds will reach 7000 MB/s and 5000 MB/s , with IOPS rates reaching 1000K in read and write.
These figures, according to the company, offer twice the performance of PCIe 3.0 and 12.7 times the performance of SSD under SATA 3.0.
Better thermal control, but fewer capacity options
One of the strong points of this Samsung 980 Pro will undoubtedly be its temperature. The vast majority of PCIe 4.0 SSDs come with built-in heatsinks , otherwise they would go into “Throttling” mode within minutes and their performance would plummet.
Most current mid and high-end motherboards have their own heatsink as a cover, so the standard heatsink needs to be replaced by the board, but in the lower range this is not possible.
Samsung does not have this problem with its 980 Pro, as it will arrive without a heatsink and with improved thermal control solutions, where early data indicates that without even a heatsink it will not reach 60 degrees Celsius.
The reason for such a leap in dissipation is due to two key factors such as a nickel coating on your Elpis controller and a heat spreader in the form of a small label on the back of the SSD which improves the thermal efficiency. Add to this the brand's patented Dynamic Thermal Guard technology
Models and prices
Unfortunately, this Samsung 980 Pro will only be offered in three different capacities: 250 GB, 500 GB and 1 TB , where it will be available starting this month. A 2TB model will be available by the end of the year . As for pricing, only the 250GB model has been revealed, at $89.99 , so the 500GB model could cost a little more than double and the 1TB model a little more than triple.
