Coming built with 48-layer 3D V-NAND flash memory chips, an ultra-high speed controller, firmware, and a 2GB DRAM chip, the SSD can is the latest and most advanced of its SSD product line up. The rollout is to consolidate its leadership in the global SSD market.
SSDs are a concentration of NAND flash memory chip and a controller on a tiny circuit board that is rapidly replacing HDDs in PCs and servers, boasting faster data read and write speed.
Designed to keep up with growing demand for smaller and faster storage solutions, the SSDs deliver higher bandwidth and lower latency, enabling users to enjoy better gaming experience, faster 4K video rendering, large file transfers, and data analytics on their ultra-thin devices.
Both the 960 PRO and 960 EVO use Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, or PCIe Gen.3 x4 data interface technology and are compliant with NVMe specifications to realize effective use of the high-speed PCIe bus and optimize both hardware and software configurations to take advantage of the NVMe SSD technology.
The SSDs feature Samsung Dynamic Thermal Guard technology to manage performance during extreme workloads
For example, the 980 Pro sequentially read 3500MB of data per second, 6 times as fast as SATA SSDs. It can also write data at a sequential speed of 2100MB/S, or 4 times faster.
The write and read speed represents a whopping 30 times leapfrog over that of HDDs, allowing it to write a movie film of 3.7GB in a matter of 2 seconds.
The random read and write speed hit a peak of 440,000 IOPS (Input Output Per Second) and 360,000 IOPS, respectively, 3 times faster than that of consumer NVMe SSDs. It translates into faster boot-up and fast execution of applications program and games across PCS and servers.
Power consumption and durability has improved, too. As it adopts ultra-power saving standard L1.2, it has greatly improved energy efficiency just consuming 5mW in the power saving mode. It guarantees its performance for up to 5 years, or a write capability of up to 1,200TBW, or total bytes written, which means writing up 1,200 terabytes during its lifetime.
The ‘960 Pro’ is scheduled to go for sale in 50 countries starting from Oct., including Korea, the U.S., China and Germany.
Built with Samsung Intelligent TurboWrite technology, the 960 EVO reads data sequentially at 3,200MB/s and writes them at 1900MB/s.
The 960 EVO’s random read speed reaches up to 380,000 IOPS and random write speed up to 360,000 IOPS.
(The 960 EVO comes with a three-year limited warranty and up to 400 terabytes written (TBW), whichever occurs first, for the 1TB capacity version.)
The 960 PRO and 960 EVO SSDs will be available worldwide starting October 2016, with retail prices starting at US$329.99 and US$129.99 respectively.
With the two SSDs, Samsung also has introduced latest version of its ‘Magician software’ which the users can modify SSD settings such as firmware updates.