Thursday, January 12th 2023
Samsung Electronics Unveils High-Performance PC SSD That Raises Everyday Computing and Gaming to a New Level
Samsung Electronics today announced production readiness of a high-performance PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, the PM9C1a. Integrated with a new controller based on Samsung's cutting-edge 5-nanometer (nm) process and the company's seventh-generation V-NAND technology, the PM9C1a will provide elevated computing and gaming performance in PCs and laptops.
"Our new PM9C1a SSD will deliver a robust combination of superior performance, greater power efficiency and increased security, which are the qualities that matter most to PC users," said Yong Ho Song, Executive Vice President of Memory Solution Product & Development at Samsung Electronics. "We are committed to creating storage that satisfies the diverse and changing market requirements as we continue to advance innovation in the PC SSD space."
With top-tier speeds, the PM9C1a SSD is ideal for everyday use as well as for more demanding computing and gaming applications. Leveraging the PCIe 4.0 interface, Samsung's PM9C1a boasts a 1.6x faster sequential read speed and a 1.8x faster sequential write speed than its previous storage offering (PM9B1), reaching 6,000 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 5,600 MB/s, respectively. Additionally, random read and write speeds can support up to 900K input/output operations per second (IOPS) and 1,000K IOPS, respectively.
The PM9C1a also offers up to 70% more power efficiency per watt than its predecessor. This means the new SSD can handle the same amount of tasks using significantly less power. Furthermore, when a notebook PC goes into standby mode, the SSD will use approximately 10% less power.
To address the rising need for stronger security measures, the PM9C1a features powerful security. The SSD supports the Device Identifier Composition Engine (DICE) security standard created by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a global organization that develops open standards for computing security. DICE securely generates cryptographic keys inside the SSD, providing device authentication to protect against supply chain attacks—cyberattacks that target companies through vulnerabilities in their supplier network—as well as attestation to prevent any firmware tampering.
Samsung's PM9C1a SSDs will be available in 256 GB, 512 GB and 1 TB storage capacities in a M.2 form factor (22 mm x 30 mm, 22 mm x 42 mm, 22 mm x 80 mm).
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"Our new PM9C1a SSD will deliver a robust combination of superior performance, greater power efficiency and increased security, which are the qualities that matter most to PC users," said Yong Ho Song, Executive Vice President of Memory Solution Product & Development at Samsung Electronics. "We are committed to creating storage that satisfies the diverse and changing market requirements as we continue to advance innovation in the PC SSD space."
The PM9C1a also offers up to 70% more power efficiency per watt than its predecessor. This means the new SSD can handle the same amount of tasks using significantly less power. Furthermore, when a notebook PC goes into standby mode, the SSD will use approximately 10% less power.
To address the rising need for stronger security measures, the PM9C1a features powerful security. The SSD supports the Device Identifier Composition Engine (DICE) security standard created by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), a global organization that develops open standards for computing security. DICE securely generates cryptographic keys inside the SSD, providing device authentication to protect against supply chain attacks—cyberattacks that target companies through vulnerabilities in their supplier network—as well as attestation to prevent any firmware tampering.
Samsung's PM9C1a SSDs will be available in 256 GB, 512 GB and 1 TB storage capacities in a M.2 form factor (22 mm x 30 mm, 22 mm x 42 mm, 22 mm x 80 mm).
34 Comments on Samsung Electronics Unveils High-Performance PC SSD That Raises Everyday Computing and Gaming to a New Level
Probably an OEM part for ultra-portables.
Storage performance hasn't been the problem for at least a decade now; It's down to software developers to fix the bottlenecks in the OS and applications,
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there are a lot of software inefficiency to get rid of. But "improve the queueing" is not the miracle solution here.
Admittedly, 256GB is a tad low. But both my OS drives are 512GB and they work just fine.
Likely it's pulling something off the web, waiting for a web response or searching the registry for something that could have been checked prior. Either that or it's stuck waiting for a timeout before continuing, a timeout that's necessary because services/drivers that it depends on are needlessly sluggish and incapable of being run alongside other threads in parallel.
It's unbelievably rare that any consumer OS or applications reach the sequential Q1T1 IOPS limit of a modern SSD. Even bad SATA drives from a decade ago can reach 4K IOPS and that's plenty to expose the dumb, unoptimised way the software and the OS are written as the weak links.
4TB SSD will simple fix my issues, but look at some of the upcoming games, 100GB+ due-to more users moving to 4K.
I've also been watching a number of LIVE game-play on Youtube RTX 4090 owners @8K. ..Very impressed 8K max settings around 60FPS.
Funny thing is, many games are fine on a HDD anyway. HDDs are also pretty good at sequential reads. I mean, they don't touch NVMe, but they will pretty much use everything SATA/AHCI offers.
As for HDD, some of my games are backed up on these, but most back-ups are on 2TB Portable USB SSD.