Enlarge / The 980 Professional affords as much as 7,000 MB/sec throughput, on the precise workloads—however you will want a PCIe 4.zero motherboard, a really quick CPU, and good system cooling to benefit from it. (credit score: Samsung)
All people makes errors typically, and it appears like Samsung made one yesterday: the product web page for its upcoming 980 Professional NVMe SSD went briefly on-line earlier than being found by TechPowerUp after which getting yanked offline once more.
The 980 Professional is a very attention-grabbing product, because it shakes up Samsung’s lineup in a number of methods. We have recognized since CES 2020 that it will be the corporate’s first—and certain the retail world’s first—PCIe 4.zero SSD.
The upper-bandwidth PCIe4 bus permits for a blistering throughput enhance; the 980 Professional is rated by Samsung for as much as 7000MB/sec of throughput, in comparison with the PCIe3 970 Professional’s 3500MB/sec. Sadly, the 980 Professional’s sharp enhance in throughput comes with an equally sharp lower in warranted write endurance.
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