Samsung 980 1TB SSD
A strange drive for stranger times, says a perfectly normal Alan Dexter.
SPECS
Model: MZ-V8V1T0BW
Capacity: 1TB Interface: M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4
Controller: Samsung Pablo
NAND: Samsung 6th-gen V-NAND
Seq.
read: 3,500MB/s
Seq.
write: 3,000MB/s
Endurance: 600TBW
Warranty: Five years
The Samsung 980 is the latest M.2 NVMe SSD to hit the virtual shelves. Unlike the Samsung 980 Pro version that came before it, this is a PCIe 3.0 drive, but keep reading. This means the sequential read and write speeds top out a lot lower than its predecessor – half for the reads in fact, and not far off that for the writes as well. The good news is the price has dropped in line with this spec as well, and at £120 for this 1TB model, you’re looking at £0.12/GB.