Samsung Finally Bringing The 980 Pro PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD To Market

Just under a month ago Samsung officially listed its next-generation PCIe 4.0 based 980 Pro NVMe drive on their website, now they've appear the launch window and some reviews have already gone live. To cutting to the chase the Samsung 980 Pro SSD will exist available worldwide 'this month', so assuming before the stop of September 2020.

Samsung 980 Pro PCIe Gen 4.0 For Gamers and Creative Professionals

Samsung is targeting its 980 Pro Series squarely at the gamer and artistic professionals who are working with graphics-heavy games and large 4K and 8K content. This is a bit of a strange move to pair gamers and content creators together in this way considering it'southward typically been the EVO Series that gamers accept gravitated towards and content creators lean to the Pro Series, but perhaps nosotros'll see a merge in the coming generations.

"Over the years, Samsung has continuously challenged the limits of loftier-speed flash memory storage solutions," said Dr. Mike Mang, vice president of Retentiveness Brand Product Biz at Samsung Electronics. "The new 980 PRO SSD reflects our continuing commitment to delivering exceptional products consumers have come up to await from Samsung."

The Samsung 980 Pro comes packed with a custom Elpis controller, Five-Nand, and DRAM, all completely designed in-house by Samsung rather than relying on the Phison based controllers like most all other PCIe Gen 4.0 drives do so far. The claims past Samsung for the 980 Pro is that we'll run into sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,000 MB/s and 5,000MB/south respectively too as random read and write speeds of upwardly to 1,000K IOPS.

Samsung is changing things upward when it comes to thermal capacities here and avoiding the pre-attached heatsink method by making use of a nickel coating on the controller as well as a heat spreader label on the dorsum of the SSD forth with their Dynamic Thermal Baby-sit engineering science. This keeps the drive in the typical form factor assuasive for deployment in many scenarios, including TigerLake powered laptops that tin take reward of PCIe Gen 4.0 drives.

Sasmung 980 PRO SSD Series

Drive Name	Samsung 980 PRO SSD i TB	Samsung 980 PRO SSD 500 GB	Samsung 980 PRO SSD 250 GB
Drive Model	MZ-V8P1T0BW	MZ-V8P500BW	MZ-V8P250BW
Capacity	1 TB	500 GB	250 GB
Sequential Read	7,000 MB/due south	6,900 MB/southward	6,400 MB/due south
Sequential Write	5,000 MB/southward	5,000 MB/s	2,700 MB/s
Sequential Write (TLC)	2,000 MB/s	1,100 MB/s	500 MB/s
Random Read	1000K IOPS	800K IOPS	500K IOPS
Random Write	1000K IOPS	1000K IOPS	600K IOPS
Power Consumption (Boilerplate)	six.2W (eight.9W Outburst)	five.9W (vii.4W Burst)	5.0W (seven.0W Burst)
TBW	600 TB	300 TB	150 tb

Equally previously mentioned reviews have started rolling out of the Samsung 980 Pro PCIe Gen 4.0 NVMe SSD, one of the first I saw was past Sebastian over at PCPer, I urge you to go cheque it out if you're interested.

Pricing and Availability

The Samsung SSD 980 PRO comes in 1TB, 500GB, and 250GB models, and will be bachelor worldwide starting this calendar month, while the 2TB capacity model will be bachelor by the end of this twelvemonth. The 980 PRO's manufacturer's suggested retail prices start at $89.99 for the 250GB drive, $149.99 for the 500GB drive, and $229.99 for the 1TB drive.