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Samsung has at closing debuted the 4TB model of its Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSD — and, sadly, you’ll pay for it. However there’s true news on that entrance, too.
Samsung’s 990 Pro earned itself an Editors’ Different award in our 2022 overview of its 1TB and 2TB drives. Be aware, these are PCIe 4.0 SSDs, so they don’t descend into the class of the quickest SSDs available in the market in our roundup of the supreme SSDs.
The 990 Pro 4TB SSDs pause characteristic sequential be taught speeds of 7,450MBps and write speeds of 6,900MBps, alternatively, with random be taught and write speeds of 1,600K and 1,550K IO’s per 2nd, respectively. Total bytes written are up to 2,400 terabytes.
The topic? Samsung is additionally charging customers a barely penny: $344.Ninety nine for a model without a heatsink and $354.Ninety nine for a model with a heatsink installed. They journey on sale in October.
However, there’s hope. Samsung debuted the 1TB and 2TB objects for $169.Ninety nine and $239.Ninety nine, respectively. On the present time, at press time, Amazon has slashed the worth of the 1TB 990 Pro to correct $74.Ninety nine, or 56 percent off, and the 2TB model is correct $134.Ninety nine — that’s fifty three percent off the same outdated designate. Versions with the heatsinks hooked up aren’t grand extra.
All which methodology is that, sure, costs for 4TB will come down. As consistently, you’ll correct deserve to wait a runt.
Author: Designate Hachman, Senior Editor
As PCWorld’s senior editor, Designate focuses on Microsoft news and chip technology, amongst other beats. He has formerly written for PCMag, BYTE, Slashdot, eWEEK, and ReadWrite.
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