Samsung’s fastest SSD comes with a heatsink and RGB lights

Samsung has announced today Its new series of high-end SSD drives, designed for gaming, 3D rendering, 4K video editing, and data analysis, among other challenging tasks.

The The new Samsung 990 PRO arrives with lights and shadows, considering it maintains the PCIe 4.0 interface instead of making the leap to PCIe 5.0, as rumors have assumed. With a write speed of 7450 MB/s, it is undoubtedly the fastest SSD available on the PCIe 4.0 interface, but it’s lower than newer PCIe 5.0 options like the AORUS Gen5 10000, which is 12500 MB/s.

The Samsung 990 PRO uses Samsung’s latest 3-bit TLC V-NAND memories, and stands out in new capacity options between 1 and 4 TB, as well as a larger number of Integrated DRAM and improve performance Read and write rate is up to 55% randomly compared to its predecessor 980 Pro.

With a new private driverthe new Samsung 990 PRO also improves up to 50% energy efficiency for the 980 PRO. The Standard Edition has a nickel plating on the console and a mark to spread heat on the unit, but Samsung announced What’s more version with heat sink Come with RGB lights (Because, well, This is it SSD for gamers).

Compatible with NVMe 2.0Samsung’s new SSD may be the winning choice both for Gaming PC with PCIe 4.0 motherboard as one Next generation console. According to the company, in games like sincere The map loads in one second (compared to four seconds for a SATA SSD and 28 seconds for a file traditional hard disk).

Characteristic

• user interface PCIe Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 2.0
• form factor M.2 (2280)
• Storage Samsung V-NAND 3-bit TLC
• Samsung Driver Redesign
• capacity 1 TB / 2 TB / 4 TB
• dirhams 1 GB LPDDR4 / 2 GB LPDDR4 / 4 GB LPDDR4
• Fifthreading speed and sequential writing for hUp to 7450 MB/s and Up to 6900MB/s
• reading speed and Random write (QD32) of the watchUp to 1,400,000 IOPs and up to 1,550,000 IOPS
• AES 256-bit full disk encryption, TCG / Opal V2.0

Availability and pricing

New Samsung 990 PRO will be available worldwide from October at prices €211.99 For 1TB model, €387.99 A capacity of 2 terabytes. Model 4 TB will be available starting next year.