Wednesday, September 25th 2024
Samsung Launches the 990 EVO Plus SSD, Comes in Sizes up to 4 TB
Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced the release of the 990 EVO Plus, adding to its lineup of leading SSD products. With PCIe 4.0 support and latest NAND technology, the 990 EVO Plus is an ideal solution for consumers seeking enhanced performance and power efficiency on their PCs. Optimized for gaming, business and creative endeavors.
"Our daily lives are increasingly demanding more data with the images we share on social media and high-quality video streaming," said Hangu Sohn, Vice President of Memory Brand Product Biz Team at Samsung Electronics. "The 990 EVO Plus is built for laptop and desktop PC users seeking faster processing speeds and expanded storage capacity."
Enhanced Performance and Power Efficiency
The 990 EVO Plus is built on decades of Samsung's pioneering semiconductor technology with proven reliability. Sequential read speeds come up to 7250 megabytes-per-second (MB/s) and write speeds up to 6300 MB/s, an enhancement of up to 50% over the previous 990 EVO. The performance boost is thanks to Samsung's latest 8th generation V-NAND technology and 5-nanometer (nm) controller, while an innovative nickel-coated heat shield minimizes overheating, allowing 73% higher power efficiency than its predecessor.
The 4 TB model has an industry-leading random read speed of 1,050K IOPS and 1,400K input/output operations per second (IOPS) for random write. This remarkable performance nearly rivals that of SSD products with DRAM, despite not using DRAM cache, making it an optimal solution for gaming and AI tasks that require high performance.
Expanded Storage Capacity
The ever-increasing demand for high-capacity storage devices is driven by managing large-sized files, high-quality video editing and next-generation gaming. To meet today's growing storage requirements, the 990 EVO Plus offers ample capacity with a 4 TB model, exceeding the storage limits of the 990 EVO. The 990 EVO Plus is equipped with Samsung's intelligent TurboWrite 2.0, revamped for maximized performance, offering rapid file transfer speeds and reduced lag.
Samsung Magician Software Support
Samsung Magician software presents a suite of optimization tools for enhanced functionality for all Samsung SSDs, including the 990 EVO Plus. Users can streamline the data migration process for SSD upgrades effortlessly and securely. In addition, Samsung Magician protects valuable data, monitors drive health and offers customized performance optimization.
The 990 EVO Plus will be available to consumers worldwide at a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $109.99 for the 1 TB model, $184.99 for the 2 TB model, and $344.99 for the 4 TB model.
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"Our daily lives are increasingly demanding more data with the images we share on social media and high-quality video streaming," said Hangu Sohn, Vice President of Memory Brand Product Biz Team at Samsung Electronics. "The 990 EVO Plus is built for laptop and desktop PC users seeking faster processing speeds and expanded storage capacity."
The 990 EVO Plus is built on decades of Samsung's pioneering semiconductor technology with proven reliability. Sequential read speeds come up to 7250 megabytes-per-second (MB/s) and write speeds up to 6300 MB/s, an enhancement of up to 50% over the previous 990 EVO. The performance boost is thanks to Samsung's latest 8th generation V-NAND technology and 5-nanometer (nm) controller, while an innovative nickel-coated heat shield minimizes overheating, allowing 73% higher power efficiency than its predecessor.
The 4 TB model has an industry-leading random read speed of 1,050K IOPS and 1,400K input/output operations per second (IOPS) for random write. This remarkable performance nearly rivals that of SSD products with DRAM, despite not using DRAM cache, making it an optimal solution for gaming and AI tasks that require high performance.
Expanded Storage Capacity
The ever-increasing demand for high-capacity storage devices is driven by managing large-sized files, high-quality video editing and next-generation gaming. To meet today's growing storage requirements, the 990 EVO Plus offers ample capacity with a 4 TB model, exceeding the storage limits of the 990 EVO. The 990 EVO Plus is equipped with Samsung's intelligent TurboWrite 2.0, revamped for maximized performance, offering rapid file transfer speeds and reduced lag.
Samsung Magician Software Support
Samsung Magician software presents a suite of optimization tools for enhanced functionality for all Samsung SSDs, including the 990 EVO Plus. Users can streamline the data migration process for SSD upgrades effortlessly and securely. In addition, Samsung Magician protects valuable data, monitors drive health and offers customized performance optimization.
The 990 EVO Plus will be available to consumers worldwide at a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $109.99 for the 1 TB model, $184.99 for the 2 TB model, and $344.99 for the 4 TB model.
43 Comments on Samsung Launches the 990 EVO Plus SSD, Comes in Sizes up to 4 TB
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This is price movement of Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB. For the majority of time since it's release in autumn 2022 it has been more expensive than at release.
You"d need a crystal ball to predict price movements now. The fact is, storage makers don't even need PC enthusiast market, that's very small portion of their income.
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Everyone is price gouging these days. What annoys me the most is:
HDD's are much more expensive to manufacture. Moving parts, magnets, read heads, platters, PCB, screws, casing, heavier to ship, takes more space to ship etc. etc. etc.
Yet here we are, it's all so tiresome. Can we just get an honorable business that doesn't price gouge?
This graph was produced on Reddit, and it's again showing price parity in about 5 years. It is of course using cheapest price per TB available, so it of course looks at cheaper, older drives and lower capacity. I guess if you made it for maximum available capacity the SSD line would practically flatline for the last 4 years - which wasn't the case before 2020, arrival of M.2 and total stagnation of maximum available capacity.
It also looks at best value with one data point per year, so even if it would be up to date (it's one year old), it wouldn't even show the terrible price gouging we had from last autumn until recently, when SSD prices finally fell to nearly pre-price hike levels. So it would take price levels for 2023 from pre-price hike, and for 2024 after it, maybe from some limited deals (Black Friday, end of year sales etc.). Right now the cheapest price per TB is still at 47.50 EUR, 53 USD - more than 50% higher than last year's entry.
I paid 165 EUR for my Super Talent Ultradrive ME 64GB SSD in 2009, and in the next 10 years the available size really exploded to 8TB! And now we are at more than 5 years of same available capacity - and that capacity still hasn't become widely available or affordable, and everyone acts like this is completely normal...
Imagine, from 64 GB to 8.000 GB in 10 years, that's 62% growth every year, we could be at:
2020: 13TB
2021: 21TB
2022: 34TB
2023: 55TB
2024: 89TB
2025: 144TB
You think we could get 1/10 of that in the next year, please?
Also, should we start building a time machine to tell SSD makers from 2009 to 2019 they're breaking laws? :p
It's also interesting to project "Jensen's Law", when he proclaimed Moore's Law dead and defended the 50% price increase with 50% performance increase, to SSD storage.
By that logic, from a 64 GB 165 EUR drive a 62% yearly capacity increase does bring you 8 TB in 2019, but it would cost nearly 13.000 EUR (12.679 EUR).
:p
And people don't see a problem in that.
Shame on SAMSUNG to sell a less qualifying product on the proper brand tag "SAMSUNG EVO".
The lack of 16TB NVMe drives is another point.
@Bwaze using geizhals.at or DE or UK or PL counterparts is not really valid. The sellers, e.g. nbb.com, pay geizhals to get listed there. Sometimes parts are cheaper and not listed there. Sometimes you can subtract 10-20 percent average from the price.
So much for the "European Common Market".
Samsung's consumer SSDs have not been competitively priced in the UK in years - frequently 20-50% more expensive than the equivalent performance/tier TLC+DRAM offerings like SN850X, P41+, or KC3000.
KC3000 might be an older drive, but it's £118 right now for 2TB whilst Samsung's 980 non-Pro, and EVO models don't even use DRAM and they're more expensive. The cheapest DRAM drive is the ancient Gen3 970 EVO Plus and that's selling for £159 from retailers, you can find it for £152 from marketplace sellers which simply isn't appealing against the faster/better/newer KC3000 at over £40 less...
You can't have a DRAMless drive and call it "premium" by any stretch of the imagination no matter how much marketing gymnastics you pull, that is simply not premium, it's lipstick on a pig.
The prices presented i would expect for a DRAM drive, i'm not going to pay above 100USD/TB for a dramless drive when other much better compelling alternatives exists.
Hell, i can find older enterprise drives either m2 or u2 for that same 2TB price