![]() ![]() ![]() It remains a PCIe Gen 4 drive with rated read and write speeds of 7GB/s and 5GB/s respectively, and it also comes with claimed 4K random performance of fully one million IOPs. And it’s also still a very well specced and quick SSD by any sane standard. For starters, it’s actually quite competitively priced now, especially compared to those Phison-based drives. However, don’t go thinking that makes the Samsung 980 Pro irrelevant. In other words, what was once one of if not the most advanced M.2 SSDs has now been overtaken, both by the army of drives based on the Phison E18 controller, such as the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus, the PNY XLR8 CS3140, the Kingston Fury Renegade and latterly the Seagate Firecuda 530 and by the likes of the WD Black SN850. That aside, there’s little to nothing new about the 980 Pro. Available in 1TB and 2TB configurations, it’s the former we’re testing here. It’s also worth noting that many PC motherboards have M.2 cooling solutions that are only compatible with bare drives, which makes the slight price increase of this version of the 980 Pro rather redundant.įor the record, Samsung says the heatsink has been optimised using data centre technology to dissipate heat efficiently from its in-house controller chip, which is nickel coated. As with other standard M.2 2280 SSDs, the Samsung 980 Pro with Heatsink is not compatible with the Microsoft Xbox Series X. It increases the 980 Pro’s thickness to 8.5mm overall and is designed specifically to be compatible with the Sony PS5’s M.2 SSD slot. ![]()
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