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Samsung debuts the 990 Pro Series SSD with big speed and efficiency improvements

<p>Samsung (https://www.engadget.com/tag/samsung/) has unveiled its latest lineup of NVMe solid state drives, the 990 Pro series. The company claims the SSD (https://www.engadget.com/tag/ssd/) will reach almost the highest speeds that are theoretically possible from the PCIe 4.0 interface (PCI 5.0 SSDs will be much faster (https://www.engadget.com/samsung-teases-pci-50-ssd-that-can-hit-13000-m-bs-read-speeds-070308575.html)). Samsung hopes to deliver better performance for PC (https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-directstorage-windows-pc-113503431.html) and console games, 4K and 8K content and other heavy data use cases.</p><p>The 990 Pro boasts sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,450 MB/s and 6,900 MB/s. The 980 Pro offers up to 7,000 MB/s and 5,100 MB/s read and write speeds. The 990 Pro's random read and write speeds are up to 1,400K and 1,550K input/output operations per second, according to Samsung. The company says that marks up to a 55 percent improvement over the 980 Pro's performance.</p><span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>Moreover, the company says the 990 Pro will be more power efficient than the previous lineup by up to 50 percent. The latest SSDs have a newly designed controller with a nickel coating, as well as a heat spreader label for reliable thermal management. The 990 Pro also employs Samsung’s Dynamic Thermal Guard tech to help keep the drive’s temperature in the optimal range. There's a version with a heatsink that offers extra thermal control, as well as RGB lights for some reason, which will be super necessary if you plan to plug the 990 Pro into a PlayStation 5 (https://www.engadget.com/best-ps5-ssd-expansion-upgrade-150052315.html).</p><p>The 980 Pro is one of our favorite SSDs (I've had zero complaints with the one in my PS5 (https://www.engadget.com/tag/ps5/)). So, here's hoping the 990 Pro is even better thanks to the zippier speeds and greater power efficiency. Samsung will start selling the 990 Pro series in October. The SSDs <a data-i13n="elm:affiliate_link;elmt:skimlinks;pdid:start at $179;" href="https://go.skimresources.com/?id=72705X1521812&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.samsung.com%2Fus%2Fmemory-storage%2F">start at $179[/url] for a 1TB model and $309 for a 2TB version. The company plans to offer a 4TB variant next year too.</p>

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