Samsung launches flagship 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD that can hit a blistering 7,000 MB/s

[jpuroila]

The endurance doesn't matter, if a competing drive is half price, you buy twice as much and voila you have the same endurance. That is why MLC is redundant. Buy a cheaper but twice as large drive. TLC and QLC is here to stay.

The issue is that the competing drive won't be half the price. In case you hadn't noticed, TLC drives certainly aren't half as expensive as MLC drives, and QLC drives are barely cheaper at all. The savings all go directly to the manufacturer without being passed to the consumers.

 

[Markoni35]

Grandchildren of Top 500 richest people cannot wait for it to hit the shelves.

 

[Starscream07]

SO is this better or worse than the PS5 SSD? I mean, are we getting everything they promised on the ps5?

 

[RobMonteforte]

People will buy them as boot drives without checking to see if the random 4k read/write is any higher then previous generations. I'd bet good money that its about the same as previous SSDs.

I'd be much more interested in a sabarent 4TB or 8TB rocket drive and eliminate sata SSDs entirely from my system.

The Sabrent 4 Rocket Plus beats the Samsung 980 on writes (and I'll bet on price when it is released)

 

[Athlonite]

All I can say is it must be some pretty crap nand the Scamsung are using to only get 600TBW on an 1TB ssd even my last gen Adata SX8200 Pro 1TB has better TBW

 

[131dbl]

Now when the competition is going from 2TB toward 4TB and even 8TB M.2 drives, Samsung has decided to bring 250GB-1TB versions, priced at a high premium. Not sure who they are going to lure into this. The speed advantage is nice, but it's not gonna cut it. They are completely behind the curve now.

I doubt most people buy these to be scratch drives or storage for data, but instead use them for boot drives. In which case their 500GB drive is fine, unless you're going to store a bunch of games on your system. Then you'd need other NVMe ports or SATA SSD if you don't want to pay the premium for their 1 TB model.

Also, when you say companies are moving to 4 and 8TB NVMe drives. Yeah sure. Go look at the prices. It's not something most PC users are going to ever consider, so they're for HEDTs or part of a storage system that people use for work systems.

However, if you're creating something like a ZFS RAID, then these 1TB models fit in quite nicely to give extremely fast writes. You pair that with cheaper SSDs.

As a boot drive you buy one, and it lasts for as long as you expect them to, no matter what the warranty is. Used as a boot drive I'm guessing that's close to 10 years.


But if you want to talk about speed advantage, it's quite monstrous. This is the new NVMe Sabrent Rocket PCIe gen4:

"The Sabrent 1TB Rocket Q4 NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal SSD delivers all the advantages of flash disk technology with PCIe Gen4.0 x4 interface.

Based on QLC NAND Flash memory, its performance speeds can reach up to 4700 MB/s (read) and 1800 MB/s (write) when using a PCIe Gen4 motherboard."


The thing that helps it the most is the small segment of faster speed storage. If you do a long write op to it or are constantly writing to it, you'll get into the slower speeds for it depending on where you're writing from. I've experienced that with gen3 Rockets.

On the other hand this Samsung memory is quite fast. I mean you can read the specs for yourself. The write speeds are almost 3X the newer Sabrent drives. I'd call that complete domination. AND it uses more expensive memory.


Lastly for those people who build HEDTs and need very fast write space, they can afford the 1TB models, and since many systems that use NVMe in this way (work space, building files, etc...) don't use the drive for PERMANENT storage of files they're creating, it makes no difference that you'd use either the 500GB or 1TB model.

In other words, they're not really intended for permanent storage, unless you're dealing with a boot drive. So, the fact that they only go up to 1TB doesn't make any difference. You buy other drives for larger capacities, including Samsung EVO drives. Even for game storage, people don't need this incredibly fast storage.