Samsung's 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD has seen a dramatic price cut

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From over £200 to a little more than £150.



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This is basically a 970 Evo with Gen4.

Samsung doing the dirty by calling it a "Pro" to trick customers into thinking it's a replacement for the 970 Pro when it only has half the endurance due to the switch from MLC to TLC.

 

[WYP]

This is basically a 970 Evo with Gen4.

Samsung doing the dirty by calling it a "Pro" to trick customers into thinking it's a replacement for the 970 Pro when it only has half the endurance due to the switch from MLC to TLC.

So Samsung's new SSD controller, new TLC NAND and more than doubling of sequential read speeds is "just a trick".

While an argument can be made that the drive should be called a 980 Evo, this is not a "970 Evo with Gen4".

What's good in the world of NAND memory changes over time. There was a time where everyone complained that TLC was terrible and now the technology has improved enough for it to now be the standard. Samsung also never claimed that this drive was not using 3-bit NAND.

Samsung is who decides what replaces their 970 Pro, not consumers. While the Pro series was traditionally based on 2-bit MLC NAND, is there an area where the 970 Pro outperforms the 980 Pro? Anything outside of endurance?

Regarding endurance, I will say this. How many people here have ever written enough to their SSD to out-write the NAND before the drive's warranty expired?