Samsung launches their 990 PRO SSD - Promises superior power efficiency and perf
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Damn that's going to be expensive. Converted about $182 for the 1TB drive and $384 for 2TB
AlienALX
Well-known member
Yeah it's sad that it seems like there's this solid state carrot that has been dangled in front of people for years now, with every gen saying that they have found a cheaper way to make the NAND etc. Yet they never seem to get cheaper, and they always seem to find a way to keep prices high FFS.
Seriously, I have been on SSDs since 2008. You really would have thought that by now spinning drives would not even exist, aside from in server rooms.
Avet
Active member
This is their flagship consumer product. It will be expensive no matter what. Until windows stops using SSD drives just like a super fast HDD and until we see actual performance gains from DirectStorage any decent NVME with DDR cache is as good as this one.
And if you really want to spend money on a flagship product go and buy Intel 905p. It is, and will be for a long time, the second fastest NVME for mortals. And will blow out of the water all Gen 5 10K+ drives for every single thing you do on your PC.
stereotype
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I really don't understand why they decided to put out a PCIe gen4 product in late 2022.
It's been 2 years since the 980 Pro was released. I really hoped, after this amount of time, with Intel already having a PCIe gen5 capable platform out and AM5 following soon, Samsung's next generation SSD would be PCIe 5.0. But instead they're bringing out this lame duck.
It's been 2 years since the 980 Pro was released. I really hoped, after this amount of time, with Intel already having a PCIe gen5 capable platform out and AM5 following soon, Samsung's next generation SSD would be PCIe 5.0. But instead they're bringing out this lame duck.
Avet
Active member
Because it doesn't matter. None of the apps or games can properly use Gen3 let alone Gen5. Windows and apps treat any SSD only as a super fast HDD. It is up to the SSD controler to optimize NAND function and present the drive as HDD to the system. At the moment, and probably also in the next year or two, you will get very noticable speed boost in every task buy using "slow" 2500 MB Gen3 Intel 905p over any "super, mega, giga, uber fast" 10000+ MB Gen5 drive. Those mega speeds are QD32 sequential which you pretty much never use in any task.
