Samsung 980 SSD Spotted at retailers, has a DRAMless design
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kapu
Good there is soo much competition on ssd market so no one has to buy these.
hamltnblue
Yeah, NVME Drives are no longer the sexy up and coming thing. Samsung isn't putting in the energy they used to.
rl66
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)
RealNC
So what's the point of this? It appears to be worse then a 970 but costs more? Huh?
I don't get it :-/
Venix
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!
tsunami231
150 for 1TB and 3.0 at that? Not the 970 evo plus prices are much better
The prices on NMVe need to come down not go up
Mufflore
Money grab that will only harm their brand.
Stupid.
I bought the Sabrent Rocket 1TB for £96 inc 20% VAT a few weeks ago.
Waaaay better performance and value
tsunami231
which one cause the one that 7000mb is 200$ assuming you mean the 3000mb ?
I think the Cost of NVMe are money grab to begin with and there keep high far as long as they can just like the keep trying for SSD (sata) use to me Sata drive are SSD and And these drive are NVMe even though to they call them SSD too
RealNC
NVMEs are SSDs.
tsunami231
As i stated i call them NVMe not SSD cause there not same as far as i concerned 🙄
Strictly call SSD cause has no mechanically parts is missleading , by that term the storage in smartphones/tablets and ipad etc are SSD to but there storage speed any thing but SSD speeds
RealNC
So how do you call an M.2 SSD that uses SATA? 😛
tsunami231
again just my imo and how I refer to them. I will never call NVMe storage a SSD and when I refer people to SSD they see me as talking to about Sata SSD 960 evo and such
Mufflore
Like for like, this drive is PCIE-3.0 as well.
RealNC
To be fair though, with PCIe-3 NVMEs being capable of over 3GB/s speeds, it's very hard to imagine why you'd need more than that in a consumer product. Most people can't even see a speed difference in practice between a SATA SSD (which usually top out at 600MB/s) and an NVMe.
So I can't fault this product for that. The actual fault seems to be that this looks like a budget-oriented product, yet it costs more than the models with the better specs. Unless there's something in the specs we're missing here. Like expected life span for example. If this came with something like "50% longer life span than the 970 Evo", then it would be worth it for sure.
Mufflore
I'm not sure why you singled me out to say that, I agree in the first place.
See my first comment in post 8.
Chrysalis
The whole 980 series is a downgrade from 970, 980 PRO is TLC instead of MLC e.g.
rl66
There is 3 main type of SSD's interface (there is more but obsolete now or for future gen).
-SATA: usefull for big volume as lot less expensive for these volume, slower.
-NVMe: the fastest one but PCIe lane eater
-U2: combine the volume size with the NVMe speed, mainly for entreprise and pro segment, but more and more on regular market, expensive.
rl66
The problem with MLC is that it can't reach big volume with a good price... But yes i prefer SLC and MLC over TLC for the security.
But when you see other pro brand that choose QLC (!!!...) ... Samsung is still better.
tsunami231
Does not change the fact there ridiculously expensive, and anything but mainstream other then maybe Sata ones Which again are the only ones "I" will call SSD I call NVMe ~ NVMe and M2 ~ M2 etc etco_O
There is only one type of HDD and there all called that but there calling no less then 3 types of drive SSD which just confusing to Consumer imo. Which another thing i got tried of explain to people when I was ask.
Sorta how the WIFI people renamed there names cause A/B/N/AC/AX wifi was confusing to people.
Again my opinions on what I will call SSD
rl66
To add confusion :
-M2 can be SATA or NVMe
-2,5 and 3,5 can be SATA or U2
-PCIe card can be SATA or NVMe or U2
But yes compared to HDD they are really expensive, but do most people really need PCIe 4.0 for everyday use?
I don't think so then they could get NVMe PCIe 3.0 SSD that are really faster than SATA and cost nearly the same and wait that the NVMe PCIe 4.0 get better price.
