Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 SSD: 1TB capacity, 7GB/sec read speeds (!!!) – TweakTown

The business is utilizing a brand-new nickel-coated thermal heat sink on the SSD controller, while a thin copper movie is placed on the front and backs of the PCB. Samsung likewise uses its Dynamic Thermal Guard technology make sure that the 980 PRO SSD is performing at its optimum thermals.

Samsung has finally unveiled its next-gen 980 PRO SSDs that are now sliding into motherboards on PCIe 4.0 user interfaces, providing some ludicrous speeds.

Samsung is using its own in-house, next-gen Elpis controller– while Sabrent deals superior speeds and up to 2TB capabilities with its just-announced Rocket 4 Plus SSDs, with the Phison E18 controller. Both of the drives get unbelievably hot, so business are having to re-think their cooling strategies.

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The new Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 SSDs come in 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB capacities– providing to a huge 7000MB/sec (7GB/sec) consecutive read speeds, while composes are at 5000MB/sec (5GB/sec) on the 1TB design. The smaller sized sizes have reduced speeds.
Samsungs new 980 PRO SSD 500GB design has 6900MB/sec (6.9 GB/sec) checks out, while composes are at 5000MB/sec (5GB/sec) and then the 250GB design is slower again with 6400MB/sec checks out (6.4 GB/sec) while writes drop– however theyre still an absurd 2700MB/sec (2.7 GB/sec).