Samsung 990 Pro 2TB
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SPECS
Size: 2TB Type: M.2 2280 Controller: Samsung Pascal
Mem: Samsung seventh-gen TLC VNAND
PCIe: v4.0 x4 Spec: 7450MB/s read, 6,900MB/s write
IOPS: 1.2M read, 1.55M write
DRAM cache: 2GB DDR4
SLC cache: 226GB dynamic
Endurance: 1,200TB
Warranty: Five years
With AMD recently joining the PCI Express 5.0 party with W its Ryzen 7000 CPUs, you might expect Samsung to roll out its first Gen 5 M.2 drives to suit. But no. The new Samsung 990 Pro remains a Gen 4 SSD.
If you think about the current situation, a revised Gen 4 drive does at least make sense. While you may now be able to buy PCIe Gen 5 capable PCs from both Intel and AMD, the number of such systems out there in the wild is tiny.