I’m going up to now myself acknowledging that I used to observe Star Trek as a toddler however can safely say that I used to be by no means a Star Trek fanatic. Nonetheless, after testing this new Samsung 990 Professional 4TB NVMe M.2 SSD over the past week, Star Trek and much too many ‘warp pace’ quotes got here to thoughts. The 990 Professional is without doubt one of the meanest SSDs we’ve ever had the pleasure of ripping aside (meant in a great way in fact) and we expect this report can simply as simply persuade you of that as properly.
It’s truly slightly bittersweet seeing Samsung soar to this 4TB capability as, traditionally, they’ve at all times sat within the weeds with increased capacities and relied on what they knew would promote proper then and there. There have been many boardroom conferences between us in all around the globe over time the place I’ve at all times harassed that Samsung want to guide the pack in all areas; pace, guarantee, worth and most positively capability. So right here we’re… Samsung stepping out with a 4TB SSD that has already been constructed on the success of the 990 Professional identify.
The 990 Professional is a PCIe 4.0 4 lane (x4) M.2 SSD of the 2280 (22mm vast by 80mm lengthy) type issue and it makes use of the most recent NVMe 1.4 protocol. This SSD lists efficiency at 7450MB/s learn and 6900MB/s write with as much as 1550K IOPS and has AES 256-bit full disk encryption, TCG/Opal 2.0 and Encrypted Drive (IEEE1667) knowledge safety. A particular profit with this SSD is that it’s obtainable in 1,2 or 4TB capacities and efficiency is identical for all.
The Samsung 990 professional is single sided. Not solely that, it runs cool as an SSD ought to which suggests it’s most likely the primary alternative in SSDs at the moment to get thrown into an ultrabook, laptop computer, and even PS5.
ON the entrance of this SSD, we see the Samsung ‘Pascal’ PCIe 4.0 NVMe 8nm controller together with a 4GB LPDDR4 reminiscence buffer, 1TB buffer for the 1TB capability and 2GB for the 2TB. Wait a minute! Have we seen a DRAM cache chip on a single sided SSD earlier than?
This additionally signifies that every of these eighth Gen 236-layer 1024Gbit V-NAND flash chips is 2TB in capability. We might simply bump this to an 8TB dual-sided drive Samsung. And for pace, the 4TB is operating at 2400MT, one thing many simply dreamed of not so way back.
Pricing. The 4TB model has a MSRP of $345 which we’re going to guess is just a protected worth to start out with. It positively isn’t indicative of the pricing we’re seeing on the decrease capacities with the 1TB obtainable now for $69.99 and the 2TB at $134.99. Examine Amazon pricing.
Now let’s check out some metrics.
