When Samsung launched its 990 Professional household of SSDs for retail market final 12 months, it solely launched 1 TB and a pair of TB fashions, surprisingly omitting premium high-capacity 4 TB model. Now, the corporate is about to appropriate this incorrect by launching 4 TB model this fall, the world’s largest SSD provider revealed in an X publish.
You needed it so badly, we had no selection however to ship. The 4TB 990 PRO by #SamsungSSD is coming. Identical blazing-fast storage with double the max capability for gaming, video, 3D enhancing, and extra. Keep tuned for extra particulars. pic.twitter.com/B3iRso9Q3p
— Samsung Semiconductor (@SamsungDSGlobal) August 24, 2023
“You needed it so badly, we had no selection however to ship,” the corporate’s post reads. “The 4TB 990 PRO by #SamsungSSD is coming. Identical blazing-fast storage with double the max capability for gaming, video, 3D enhancing, and extra. Keep tuned for extra particulars.”
From efficiency viewpoint, Samsung’s 990 Professional 4 TB drive provide an as much as 7,450 MB/s sequential learn velocity and an as much as 6,900 MB/s sequential write velocity, which is in keeping with what 1 TB and a pair of TB fashions provide. As for random operations, the SSD achieves 1,400,000 IOPS for reads and 1,550,000 IOPS for writes, which is corresponding to the efficiency of different flagship SSDs.
Since Samsung’s 990 Professional is a household of SSDs with a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface, the 4 TB drive might not entice consideration of homeowners of shiny new methods based mostly on AMD Ryzen 7000-series or Intel Core 12000 and 13000-series processors. Nonetheless, there are a great deal of PCs with M.2 slots that includes a PCIe 4.0 interface simply ready for an improve and 4 TB SSD makes plenty of sense nowadays given low costs of 3D TLC NAND.
In accordance with Samsung’s spec sheets, the corporate intends to supply two variations of 990 Professional 4 TB SSDs: one with a simplistic graphene warmth spreader to maximise compatibility with laptops, one other with a bigger aluminum heatsink to make sure constant efficiency beneath excessive masses.
Samsung has not formally disclosed MSRP of its Samsung 990 Professional 4 TB SSD, although anticipate it to be priced in keeping with market realities. The drive is roofed with a five-year restricted guarantee with an endurance score of 2400 terabytes written (TBW).
