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Samsung's new 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSD lineup offers better performance at a lower price

Samsung's 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSDs offers up to 53% faster performance.

January 24, 2019 / 16:14 IST
Samsung EVO Plus NVMe SSD

Samsung recently announced the launch of their new 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSDs in the Indian market, and their cheaper than previous versions of Samsung's NVMe SSDs. The 970 EVO Plus is the first commercially released NVMe SSD to feature the new 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory. The new EVO Plus sets a new standard in high-performance storage. It is designed to aid gamers and IT professionals in seamlessly handling intense multitasking workloads on a PC or workstation.

Why a traditional SATA SSD is no match for an NVMe SSD?

The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) that’s present in standard SATA SSDs will probably be able to handle single tasks at a time, really fast, but throw multiple tasks at it, simultaneously, and the bottlenecked performance will become evident.

Enter Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe). NVMe allows you to take advantage of the SSD's ability to read and write multiple tasks at once by parallelising instructions, similar to how a multi-core processor can split specific workloads over multiple cores to get things done faster, giving NVMe SSDs a significant performance improvement over traditional SATA SSDs.

Why the Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe SSD?

Samsung continues to push the barriers of technology in the SSD storage arena, ever since the first NVMe SSD was introduced in 2015. The new Samsung 970 EVO Plus leverages the company’s fight-generation V-NAND technology to deliver unrivalled performance in 4K content editing, 3D modelling, simulation and intense gaming, all while offering improved power efficiency.
• 53% faster performance than its predecessor
• Five-year limited warranty or up to 1,200 terabytes written
• Nickel-coated controller and heat spreader enable superior heat dissipation
• Up to 2TB storage capacity onto the compact M.2 (2280) form factor

                                     Samsung  970 EVO Plus Vs 970 Plus

SKU970 EVO PLUS970 PLUS
InterfacePCIe Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3PCIe Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
Form FactorM.2 (2280)M.2 (2280)
Storage MemorySamsung 9x-layer V-NAND 3-bit MLCSamsung 64-layer V-NAND 3-bit MLC
ControllerSamsung Phoenix ControllerSamsung Phoenix Controller
Sequential Read/Write SpeedUp to 3,500/3,300 MB/sUp to 3,500/2,500 MB/s
Random Read/Write Speed (QD32)Up to 620,000/560,000 IOPSUp to 500,000/480,000 IOPS
Management SoftwareSamsung Magician SoftwareSamsung Magician Software

The Samsung EVO Plus will be commercially released in April 2019 and will feature four different storage options:
Storage Capacity Price (INR)
250 GB 6,479
 500 GB 9,359
 1 TB 17,999
2 TB 35,999

 
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Carlsen Martin
first published: Jan 24, 2019 04:14 pm

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