9 March 2021, 9:17 pm EST By Samsung 980 NVME SSD Ditches DRAM but Offers Encouraging Results Costing Just $129.99 for 1TB ( Screenshot From The Provoked Pawn YouTube )
Samsung has just recently announced its upcoming SSD which would be a follow-up of the previous 970 Evo called the Samsung 980 NVME SSD. The drive is reportedly an NVMe M.2 PCIe 3.0 drive and it is said to be quite affordable. It would reportedly cost a light $129.99 in order to get a hold of the 1TB version and just $49.99 for the smaller 250GB model.
Samsung 980 NVMe SSD
There is also a reason for the lower prices, it is supposedly Samsung s very first DRAM-less NVMe SSD which has a cost-cutting measure that a lot of other storage manufacturers have been dabbling with in order to get different degrees of success. The Samsung 980, however, still lacks a fast dynamic random access m
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Advanced Synthetic Tests: Block Sizes and Cache Size Effects
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Conclusion
The new Samsung SSD 980 is the first retail-ready entry-level NVMe SSD from Samsung. Compared to previous SSDs from Samsung, it lacks any three-letter suffix at the end: it s not a PRO, nor an EVO, or even a QVO drive, because it doesn t fit into the established conventions for those product tiers. The SSD 980 slots into the product stacl at the bottom, but leaves a big enough gap for another, possibly better, model to come in later. Samsung is marketing the SSD 980 as a successor to the 970 EVO.
Samsung 980 NVMe SSD review: Low-ball pricing, light-duty performance
The 980 is by far Samsung s most affordable NVMe SSD yet. Credit: Samsung
The Samsung 980 NVMe SSD may share a naming convention with its cousin, the 980 Pro, but the company may cause some confusion by associating the two. The mighty Samsung 980 Pro is the fastest end-user NVMe SSD we’ve ever tested under just about any kind of load. The 980, while super-affordable, at times resides at the opposite end of the performance spectrum.
The likely reason? The 980 uses your system’s memory as its primary cache, rather than integrating its own DRAM. While it offers decent performance under normal, light use, it suffers major issues with random 4K performance when you bang on it with multiple threads or large amounts of data. If your storage needs are simple this may not be an issue, but we ve tested similarly affordable drives without such limitations, such as the SK Hynix P31 Gold that s currently our f