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Samsung 980 SSD Spotted at retailers, has a DRAMless design

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/05/2021 10:02 AM | source: tomshardware | 26 comment(s)
Samsung 980 SSD Spotted at retailers, has a DRAMless design

A few etailers show an entry for a new NVME SSD from Samsung, not PRO or EBVO, no the  Samsung 980 SSD Spotted. When you read up on it, you'll learn it is a DRAM-less design SSD. That means it makes use of HMB and uses a chunk of your system memory.

By doing so this would be a more mainstream SSD, it seated into PCIe 3.0 x4 and is listed in 250GB, 500GB, and 1TB versions. NAND is 136-layer TLC V-NAND. Performance listed is an up to 3,500 MB/s sequential read speed as well as an up to 3,000 MB/s sequential write speed. As for random performance, advanced versions of the Samsung 980 are claimed to be capable of up to 500,000 random reads (4KB, QD32) as well as up to 480,000 IOPS random writes (4KB, QD1).

Early listing priced indicate the 250GB drive costs €70, the 500GB version is priced at €90, and the 1TB model carries a €150 price tag. That's steep, as  Samsung's 970 Evo Plus 250GB can be obtained for €54, the 500GB flavor is available for €74, whereas the 1TB version can be bought for €144.



Samsung 980 SSD Spotted at retailers, has a DRAMless design




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kapu
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#5892641 Posted on: 03/05/2021 09:32 AM
Good there is soo much competition on ssd market so no one has to buy these.

hamltnblue
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#5892682 Posted on: 03/05/2021 01:02 PM
Yeah, NVME Drives are no longer the sexy up and coming thing. Samsung isn't putting in the energy they used to.

rl66
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#5892683 Posted on: 03/05/2021 01:03 PM
The not PRO or EVO version already existed in asia.
By luck SSD's price have just get a bit up... And are in stock (and in march sale in a few).
(No Intel aviability, no GPU either and few APU from AMD have restricted the SSD sales and so it doesn't get stratospheric price, like a GTX 3090 that reached 3000 Euro and even more stupid was sold lol)

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#5892727 Posted on: 03/05/2021 03:30 PM
So what's the point of this? It appears to be worse then a 970 but costs more? Huh?

I don't get it :-/

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#5892887 Posted on: 03/06/2021 04:04 AM
So what's the point of this? It appears to be worse then a 970 but costs more? Huh?

I don't get it :-/

The point is by adding a +10 to the model number it allows em to make more profit selling a cheaper product at a higher price!

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