2TB version Samsung 980 Pro with 136 Layer (V-NAND v6) surfaces in webshops

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 01/24/2021 10:46 AM | source: | 30 comment(s)

Samsung released its Samsung 980 Pro series in September last year, however only up to 1TB. Now a 2TB version has been spotted in etail.

Samsungs PCIe 4.0 SSDs dubbed the 980 Pro, are on that PCIe Gen 4.0 link, it achieves read speeds of up to 7 GB/s; as mentioned, the connection interface supports PCIe 4.0 x4, and the sequential access speed reaches up to 7,000 MB/s for reading and 5,000 MB/s for writing. IOPS are listed at 4K read/Write 1000k/1000k. The controller used is the Samsung Elpis (S4LV003) that utilizes 8 channels, next to a pSLC cache the unit has 2 GB of LPDDR4 DRAM. NAND is written as TLC and is based on the latest 136 Layer (V-NAND v6).

The new 2Tb version holds SKU code MZ-V8P2T0BW but is not yet listing at Samsung itself. The SSD should have a TBW value of at least 1,200 TB. Prices are indicating the 2TB version to cost anywhere from 400 to 500 EUR.

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#5880811 Posted on: 01/24/2021 10:26 PM

Not big enough for me

Then buy more ssd's and put them in raid-0

This is how I'm getting larger ssd arrays. I don't care about the higher sequential read and write, only the larger space.

Looks like 980pro isn't very PRO compared to WD Black Sn850

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#5880820 Posted on: 01/24/2021 10:45 PM

I don't trust RAID-0.

Too bad for you, because all ssd's is pretty much raid-0 arrays of nand memory. So if you don't trust Raid-0, you are doomed to use something else than ssd's

Userfailure is real, and a thing you should being worried about

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#5880824 Posted on: 01/24/2021 10:51 PM

Well I only have 1 nVME slot, so I can't RAID-0 it.

I don't trust users with only one nVME slot :p So maybe you don't even need 4TB ssd anyway

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#5880826 Posted on: 01/24/2021 10:53 PM

But I have a 4TB nVME right now from Sabrent!

Mayby you have the wrong motherboard? :p

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#5880828 Posted on: 01/24/2021 10:54 PM

If you have got a lot of extra cash, it's not pointless at all. It should be a jolly good SSD. It's not like you'd be held back by extra performance in PC tech. Who knows, some fancy IO heavy game ported from the new consoles could put it to good use. I also doubt this kind of SSD would be bought by a person with some underwhelming 4-core CPU.

The bigger problem would be PCIe 4.0 SSDs not getting any cheaper in general in the near future. They are still quite expensive, partially because Intel systems didn't support them. Soon, however, both Intel folks and console users might buy them in larger numbers, which could affect manufacturers' interest in offering new, cheaper models.
It is exactly as I wrote. That fancy game does not exist, yet. And it will take quite a few CPU cores to actually saturate decompression.
Or Direct I/O. Paying just in case is pointless.

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