Thursday, December 3rd 2020
2 TB Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Listed at Retailer
Samsung's latest 980 Pro SSD is not unlike the hypercar of solid state storage: ridiculously fast, ludicrously expensive. The company had announced that a 2 TB version would be available sometime near these holidays, and Scan.co.uk has just listed one such 2 TB part. If you want one of the best PCIe 4.0 SSDs money can buy, and one of the only ones based on TLC (Triple Layer Cell) technology, then you might be in luck.
The reseller is listing the 2 TB version of the 980 Pro for a cool £443 (including tax), which translates to about $590. That's more than double the pricing of some very interesting PCIe 4.0 solutions. Considering the 1 TB version ticks at read speeds up to 7,000 MB/s and write speeds at up to 5,000 MB/s with an endurance of 600 TBW, expect the 2 TB version to be even faster and more consistent. Maybe improve your storage subsystem while we are faced with the current gaming hardware shortages? Consider, however, that delivery is estimated for early January 2021.
Sources:
Tom's Hardware, Scan.co.uk
The reseller is listing the 2 TB version of the 980 Pro for a cool £443 (including tax), which translates to about $590. That's more than double the pricing of some very interesting PCIe 4.0 solutions. Considering the 1 TB version ticks at read speeds up to 7,000 MB/s and write speeds at up to 5,000 MB/s with an endurance of 600 TBW, expect the 2 TB version to be even faster and more consistent. Maybe improve your storage subsystem while we are faced with the current gaming hardware shortages? Consider, however, that delivery is estimated for early January 2021.
26 Comments on 2 TB Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Listed at Retailer
The stuff that has been released so far are test drives and prototypes.
And not only will the E18 drives be faster they will have better endurance.
Basicly Phison has the advantage of being the only one who has a high end 2nd gen PCIe 4.0 controller. Everyone else is using their 1st gen controller. Some of these just released. Shows how much ahead Phison is at the moment.
Also keep in mind PCIe 5.0 is around the corner for next fall so investing this much now is kinda foolish unless you want the top of the top at present time for present systems.
Not to mention that 5.0 travels even shorter distance meaning we will need even stronger (or more) redrivers on motherboards that will drive up board costs.
Just because PCIe 5.0 is going to be released next year doesn't mean you will see it in Consumer products right away.
PCie 4.0 was released on June 8, 2017 , however we didn't see drives and products using it for many years.
The group that will see immediate benefit are Servers and that is where you will see products first. PCIe 5.0 will require more expensive motherboards etc.
When is someone going to review Sabrent's new Rocket 4 plus PCIe 4.0 drive which allegedly has 7100MBs reads and 6600 MB/s writes?Sabrent has the Rocket 4 Plus which is faster and available in 4TB
Not sure sammy has even made a new driver yet for the 980 lol
I would probably go with this over the 980 Pro also.
www.tweaktown.com/reviews/9692/sabrent-rocket-4-plus-2tb-nvme-2-ssd/index.html
Pass.
Have you seen the prices of Optane :-)
Optane should be expensive.
Pci-e 4 is getting really close and frankly read 2600mb/ write 2200mb for optane on 905p for example is not all that impressive considering it's price tag for just 380gb is 500.us
There are more factors but I will list three that most buyers of optane drivers are looking for.
- Latency
- Endurance
- heavy writes
If I'm going to run a SQL database from a drive I would choose an Optane drive over a flash based one all day every day.