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
The best one is the one that's priced best in your region. Frequently that means the SN850X, the P41+, and the KC3000. NM790 is often priced well too...
I've been happy with Samsung SSDs even if they're more expensive. Too much at risk to be trying to save money. I've been using the 500GB 970 Evo as a boot drive for years. That one had DRAM. More recently I got a 2TB 990PRO as my gaming storage drive.
It looks like the Evo line now doesn't have DRAM. If you want DRAM, get the PRO.
Prices look cheaper than Evo at release.
(buy it on aliexpress from the official Fanxiang store… ) cheaper than amazon…
But DRAM-less SSDs should be cheaper than others
Hope the TPU-review will follow soon :)
TBH, I was quoted 1TB Samsung 970 Pros when ordering and the end result was 2TB 980 EVOs. They probably couldn't get stock and did the closest line-item substitution at the distributor they could. It's not an enterprise NAS, rather a rackmount SMB NAS, where prosumer stuff is often used instead of enterprise stuff, primarily because it's unlikely to be mission-critical where lives or jobs are at stake.
970 Pro with MLC would have been perfect, and much cheaper than the P4511 datacenter SSDs, but I warrantied the two 980 EVOs and threw their replacements in my own PCs so it was worth the effort for 4TB of free 980 EVO at home.
Is Samsung real about those callous prices??
Don't get me wrong, the MSRP on this 990EVO isn't appealing, but even for the best-case, synthetic benchmark numbers, "double" the performance of this drive doesn't actually exist yet which is why I'm bringing it up, and the closest thing we have to "double" the performance is horrendous value in terms of cost/TB.
In the real world application and OS performance, the fastest money-no-object SSD available isn't even 50% faster than than the cheapest available, low-end DRAMless QLC garbage (MP700Pro is TPU's highest scoring drive vs Crucial P1 which is TPU's lowest-scoring NVMe drive)
QD32 is irrelevant even for pro users, even in the enterprise you're rarely -if ever- going to see QD32 at the individual drive level.
why aren't they listing the QD1 values as those are the imporant ones?, IOPS, throughput and response time at QD1