The fastest possible SSD

Samsung has introduced its latest line of solid state memory NVMe, the 990 Pro series. The company claims that this new series of SSDs will achieve the highest speeds theoretically possible with the PCIe 4.0 interface (PCI 5.0 SSDs will be much faster). Samsung hopes this will provide greater performance for PC and console games, 4K and 8K content, and other data-intensive use cases.

The 990 Pro boasts sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,450 MB/s and 6,900 MB/s respectively, while the 980 Pro offers read and write speeds of up to 7,000 MB/s and 5,100 MB/s. The random read and write speed of the 990 Pro is said to be up to 1,400,000 and 1,550,000 I/O operations per second respectively, which is 55 percent better than the 980 Pro.

Thanks to a newly designed nickel-plated controller and a special heat dissipation plate, the 990 Pro is said to be up to 50 percent more efficient than the previous series, and Samsung's Dynamic Thermal Guard technology will help keep the disc temperature in the optimal range.

Samsung should start selling the 990 Pro series in October. The prices of SSD disks are said to be around €180 for a model with a capacity of 1 TB and around €310 for a version with a capacity of 2 TB, and a version with a capacity of 4 TB is also expected to be offered next year.

Source: Samsung

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