Samsung Announces PCIe 4.0 NMVe M.2 980 Pro SSD

South Korean technology giant Samsung introduced its new upper segment NVMe 2280-sized M.2 drive 980 ProHe announced. The company will offer models of the drive with three different storage areas this month: 250 GB, 500 GB and 1 TB. The prices of these SSDs are respectively $89.99, $149.99 and $229.99 will be. The 2 TB model of SSD will also be released this year, but price information has not been shared yet.

According to the news in The Verge, the outstanding feature of this drive is that it is compatible with M.2 slots on the PCIe 4.0 interface. Samsung recommends that the drive be used with a compatible motherboard. reading speed 7,000 MB/sindicates that the write speed will be 5,000 MB/s.

13x faster than SATA SSDs

According to the South Korean technology giant's claim, the new 980 Pro is twice as fast as PCIe 3.0 SSDs in terms of performance and better than SATA SSDs with a more affordable price tag. 13 times faster. Of course, to get the best performance from this drive, a motherboard compatible with PCIe 4.0 M.2 must be used.

Samsung states that if the M.2 slot is used with PCIe 3.0, the reading speed of the 1 TB model of the 980 Pro will be 3,500 MB/s and the writing speed will be 3,450 MB/s. The read speed of the drive decreases as the storage space becomes smaller. even if it does not undergo any change The writing speed drops to 3,400 MB/s in the 500 GB model and to 2,700 MB/s in the 250 GB model.

The reason why write speed decreases as storage space decreases is shown to be fewer NAND channels in small-space drives. In addition, even if the 980 Pro is not installed on a high-end motherboard Offers faster write speed than 970 Pro. The reading and writing speeds of the 970 Pro are 3,500 MB/sec and 2,700 MB/sec, respectively.