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Samsung 980 Pro SSD - new video editing king?
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    Specs

    • Quite low capacity- 250Gb, 500Gb and 1TB only
    • 980 Pro moved to much cheaper 3D TLC like budget drives a Samsung management want to hike profits
    • TBW dropped to 600 for 1TB model (one of the lowest among flagman SSDs)
    • New Samsung Elis controller
    • Read speeds up to 7000Mb/sec
    • Write speeds up to 5000Mb/sec
    • Random read/write IOPS - up to 1000K
    • NVMe 1.3c
    • PCIe 4.0
    • Samsung will set new record margin - around 400%, but can't reach Apple margins on SSDs (>700%)
    • Price and availability not yet announced

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    • 7000 MB/s read speed confirmed
    • 5000 MB/s write speed is only to small portion of SLC cache
    • 2000 MB/s real TLC write speed for 1TB model
    • Thermal throttling in writing due to 8.9 W consumption thanks to PCIe controller

    New information is that all other models will be actually only on QLC NAN memory now and will offer around 200-400MB/s sustained write speeds contrary to 1700Ms.sec for previous cheap Evo model.

    Price with move to QLC memory won't change according to Samsung plans (profits will rise around 40%).

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  • Official specs

    • 250Gb model
      • Static SLC cache - 4GB
      • Dynamic SLC cache - up to 45GB
      • Max sequential write - 500MB/sec
      • Max sequential write to SLC cache - 2700MB/sec
    • 500Gb model
      • Static SLC cache - 4GB
      • Dynamic SLC cache - up to 90GB
      • Max sequential write - 1000MB/sec
      • Max sequential write to SLC cache - 5000MB/sec
    • 1TB model
      • Static SLC cache - 4GB
      • Dynamic SLC cache - up to 108GB
      • Max sequential write - 2000MB/sec
      • Max sequential write to SLC cache - 5000MB/sec
    • Interface - PCIe 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3c
    • Form Factor - M.2 (2280)
    • Storage Memory - Samsung 1xx-layer V-NAND 3-bit TLC
    • Controller - Samsung Elpis Controller
    • DRAM - 1GB LPDDR4 (1TB), 512MB LPDDR4 (500GB, 250GB)
    • Sequential Read - Up to 7,000 MB/s
    • Data Encryption - AES 256-bit Full Disk Encryption, TCG/Opal V2.0, Encrypted Drive (IEEE1667)
    • Total Bytes Written - 600TB (1TB), 300TB (500GB), 150TB (250GB)
    • Warranty - Five-year Limited Warranty

    Testing data (for fastest 1Tb model)

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