Samsung Electronics Co. introduced on Thursday that it’s set to launch a 4-terabyte (TB) SSD in its high-performance 990 Professional sequence.
The SSD is designed to fulfill the wants of avid gamers and artistic professionals who require substantial, high-quality cupboard space.
The launch of the 4TB SSD comes on the heels of Samsung’s launch of 1TB and 2TB variations in Oct. final yr. The corporate now goals to launch this high-capacity 4TB mannequin in Oct. this yr, providing extra storage options for avid gamers, creators, and tech specialists.
There might be two fashions of the 4TB SSD: the usual 990 Professional 4TB and an enhanced model, the 990 Professional with Heatsink 4TB, which comes with extra cooling options.
The 4TB 990 Professional is engineered for near-maximal efficiency on a PCIe 4.0 interface. It options spectacular sequential learn and write speeds of as much as 7,450 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 6,900 MB/s, respectively.
The SSD additionally helps boosted random learn and write speeds of as much as 1,600K and 1,550K enter/output operations per second (IOPS), positioning it because the quickest SSD amongst shopper merchandise using a PCIe 4.0 interface. This leads to minimized in-game stalls and sooner loading of high-resolution movies, enhancing the consumer’s gaming and multimedia expertise.
In comparison with the earlier 980 Professional sequence, the brand new 4TB SSD provides a 50% enchancment in energy effectivity.
It incorporates a nickel-coated controller and includes a heat-spreader label for constant temperature administration. An accompanying heatsink additional improves thermal efficiency, making the SSD appropriate for high-demand computing and gaming functions.
The 4TB 990 Professional advantages from Samsung’s Eighth-generation V-NAND know-how and 1TB high-density NAND reminiscence stacking. That is the primary time Samsung has included Eighth-generation V-NAND into its shopper SSDs.
The introduction of Eighth-generation V-NAND know-how in shopper SSDs by Samsung has considerably accelerated the event of the Eighth-generation V-NAND SSD market, trade watchers mentioned.
In line with market analysis agency Omdia, Samsung Electronics holds a 39.1% share of the consumer SSD market as of the primary quarter of this yr and has maintained its world management place within the shopper SSD market since 2013.
Write to Jeong-Soo Hwang at hjs@hankyung.com
