Samsung has introduced a new SSD drives 970 PRO и 970 EVO|Accessories

This is the third generation of high-end SSD storage devices from Samsung. In the case of series 970 PRO и 970 EVO, the user can rely on the high performance, as well as a long operation.

Samsung introduced a range of free announcements carriers 970 PRO и 970 EVO - his best drives under M.2 NVMe, SSD will replace the previous model 960 PRO и SSD 960 EVO. The company claims, the new series were created for gamers and professionals, who expect their computer maximum performance.

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For the most demanding customers are provided a series of models 970 PRO, versions capacity 512 GB i 1 TB. Of course, here we are dealing with a fully author's project, were inside:

Controller Samsung Phoenix;
memory Samsung MLC V-NAND;
512 MB or 1 GB cache LPDDR4.

On what kind of performance users can expect? Производитель заявляет о скорости 3500 MB / s for reading data and 2700 MB / s write. Количество операций ввода-вывода доходят до 500 000 IOPS when reading and writing.

Slightly less productive series 970 EVO, which includes four capacitive version:

250 GB;
500 GB;
1 TB;
2 TB.

As in the case of SSD series 970 PRO, the manufacturer has applied to it a controller Samsung Phoenix. The difference is in the memory cells, Here we find the Samsung TLC V-NAND, and 512 MB, 1 GB or 2 GB cache LPDDR4.

In addition, a series of 970 EVO имеет интелектуальную технологию TurboWrite, which is due to the additional buffer (volume 78 GB) increases the recording speed. In spite of this, Her performance slightly lower than 970 PRO. reading speed is 3500 MB / sec, and records 2500 MB / sec. In turn, the number of operations / IO comes to 500 000 IOPS when reading and 480 000 IOPS at records.

An additional benefit of the new disks should be Dynamic Thermal Guard technology, which protects it from overheating by automatically monitoring and maintaining optimum operating temperatures.

Features Samsung drives 970 PRO и 970 EVO

Model	Samsung 970 PRO	Samsung 970 EVO
Capacity	512 GB, 1 TB	250 GB, 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB
Type of	M.2 2280	M.2 2280
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4/NVMe 1.3	PCIe 3.0 x4/NVMe 1.3
Controller	Samsung Phoenix	Samsung Phoenix
memory cell	Samsung 64L MLC V-NAND	Samsung 64L TLC V-NAND
Cache	512 GB – 512 MB LPDDR4 1 TB – 1 GB LPDDR4	250 GB – 512 MB LPDDR4 500 GB – 512 MB LPDDR4 1 TB – 1 GB LPDDR4 2 TB – 2 GB LPDDR4
Speed (Read / Write)	to 3500/2700 MB / sec	to 3500/2500 MB / sec
I / O (Read / Write)	to 500 000/500 000 IOPS	to 500 000/480 000 IOPS
indicator TBW	512 GB – 600 TB 1 TB – 1200 TB	250 GB – 150 TB 500 GB – 300 TB 1 TB – 600 TB 2 TB – 1200 TB
Warranty	5 years old	5 years old