Samsung 980 PRO 1TB
Samsung gives its premium SSD a PCIe Gen4 upgr ade
SAMSUNG’S SSDs have been the standard by which consumer solid-state storage has been judged for several years now. So the arrival of a new "PRO" model from Samsung is quite the event. Hail the conquering hero, and all that jazz.
The new Samsung 980 PRO is particularly intriguing because this, ladies and gentlemen, is Samsung’s first consumer M.2 NVMe SSD with PCI Express Gen4 support. The benefits of Gen4 are simple enough, namely a doubling of raw bandwidth. A wider interface doesn’t automatically translate into more performance, of course. But on paper, the 980 PRO certainly claims to be making the most of the bandwidth bump.