News Samsung 990 Pro Is the Center of a PCIe Mystery

[Admin]

New evidence surrounding Samsung's 990 Pro SSD suggest it will be either a PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 drive.

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[saunupe1911]

All I know is that I will only buy Samsung drives from now on...primarily the Pro series.

My Sabrent 4.0 just flat out died last month...and I actually bought 2 of them a few years back for my 5900X + Aorus Master build. Meanwhile I've got four 850s in other builds that have been going strong for years!!!!

Then I just recently bought a 2TB 980 pro (when they went on sale) for my Razer 14 and the thing is a super efficient, low heat powerhouse due to enabling power save mode via Samsung Magician.

 

[thedillyo]

All I know is I would love to have a PCIe 5.0 Samsung 1080Ti M.2 NVMe SSD in my next rig!

 

[SkyNetRising]

All I know is I would love to have a PCIe 5.0 Samsung 1080Ti M.2 NVMe SSD in my next rig!

1080Ti is Nvidia trademark. Samsung can't use it for their products.

 

[Giroro]

1080Ti is Nvidia trademark. Samsung can't use it for their products.

Then they'll have to call it a 1080 Super - which I don't think Nvidia actually bothered to trademark.

 

[cyrusfox]

All I know is that I will only buy Samsung drives from now on...primarily the Pro series.

My Sabrent 4.0 just flat out died last month...and I actually bought 2 of them a few years back

I have no experience with Sabrent, when I needed a cheap drive I picked Intel 660p/670p. I currently only buy WD, Hynix, or Intel(also now Hynix...). The problem with Sabrent is they are a 3rd party ssd supplier ( like Kingston and every other 3rd party brand). They buy NAND in bulk and add an off the shelf controller resulting in middle of road performance and poor reliability/warranty support compared to the vertical integrated 1st party. First party has the benefit of in house NAND and custom controllers which usually are miles ahead. I would suggest broadening your horizon and checking out the latest Micron, Hynix, Kioxia have before you grab your next Samsung SSD.

 

[thedillyo]

1080Ti is Nvidia trademark. Samsung can't use it for their products.

We all know that. Just being funny.

In all seriousness though, the next gen model should be 1080 (being one up from the 980). Not sure how 990 got into the mix.

 

[AgentBirdnest]

But, Samsung could outsource to Silicon Motion for a viable PCIe 5.0 M.2 solution for its 990 Pro.

Genuine curiosity: when (if ever) was the last time Samsung used a controller that wasn't their own?

edit: Just a thought - maybe the 990 Pro will be an MLC drive.

 

[gg83]

Genuine curiosity: when (if ever) was the last time Samsung used a controller that wasn't their own?

edit: Just a thought - maybe the 990 Pro will be an MLC drive.

It would be so fast! The data would go back in time

 

[kal326]

Not sure how 990 got into the mix.

Yeah, crazy random number schemes they have there, right? Would be great if they just did something consistent like 950 Pro, 960 Pro, 970 Pro, 980 Pro…

 

[WrongRookie]

Samsung should do wonders for this SSD. Can't expect it to be mlc like pro 970 but it should definitely be worth getting.

Honestly i should have bought 970 evo instead of Kingston A2000...oh well. Atleast I'm loving my 870 evo so far

 

[jackt]

All I care is that the power consumption stop rising ! Storage speed is important but the latest ssd are eating too much ! Look like pcie3 overclocked...

And the price of course...

 

[Geef]

1080Ti is Nvidia trademark. Samsung can't use it for their products.

We know it was a joke but Samsung could always just redo the name a little. Call it GEN 10, MODEL 80 or whatever.

 

[Darkbreeze]

We absolutely, kind of, sort of, well, a little bit, I mean there IS at least a shred of credibility in what we are saying because (And we swear) we've read it someplace else, but, for sure, we know this to be true. But just in case it isn't, fine print. (Cue the music. Dumb, da, dumb, dumb, dumb.)

 

[highly_erratic]

When I was working for a not-Samsung SSD manufacturer pre pcie4 release, when we enabled the pcie4 IP block on our controller it just blew through our power and thermal budgets like it thought it was an Intel CPU.

In the end we had to disable it and sell it as a pcie3 device while we waited for the block to be fettled into shape for our gen2 chip. Maybe something similar happened here. These fast busses are power hungry.

 

[wifiburger]

There's no way I'm buying Samsung NVMe in the future.
Have a few brand here and the 1TB 970Pro I got recently for my spare system is so crap .

It register transfer speed / IO just fine on benchmark but it's the slowest vs WD, Sabrenet,HP when installing apps with small files or read/write small files. Steam takes x3 the time to start on this thing.

It drops 1Mb/s even KB/s with small files. Even my SATA HDD is faster here.

 

[stuff and nonesense]

There's no way I'm buying Samsung NVMe in the future.
Have a few brand here and the 1TB 970Pro I got recently for my spare system is so crap .

It register transfer speed / IO just fine on benchmark but it's the slowest vs WD, Sabrenet,HP when installing apps with small files or read/write small files. Steam takes x3 the time to start on this thing.

It drops 1Mb/s even KB/s with small files. Even my SATA HDD is faster here.

If the 970pro is going spare send it to me… happy to have 2bit MLC … 980 series with TLC (even though Samsung advertise it as MLC) is a downgrade even if it’s quicker.

 

[DingusDog]

With those speeds does it really matter if it's 4.0 or 5.0?