Samsung 990 Evo – New M.2 NVMe Hybrid PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0 SSD for Laptops and Desktops Available in France – LaptopSpirit

Samsung markets its new Samsung 990 Evo, a hybrid PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0 M.2 NVMe SSD aimed at integrating laptops and desktop PCs.

The Samsung 990 Evo is one New SSD Which turns out to be the fact that it can work either way PCIe 4.0 is in x4 PCIe 5.0 x2.

Operated by an in-house controller Samsung S4LY022 Piccolo 5nm, this SSD is based on Samsung V-NAND 3D 7th generation 176L TLC (triple-level cell, 3 bits) memory.

Gives a solution for that SLC cache (Single-level cell, 1 bit): It uses part of TLC memory as SLC memory to speed up throughput.

Here are the specifications of the Samsung 990 Evo M.2 NVMe SSD Format 2280 :

– 1 TB : 5000 MB/s Read (680,000 IOPS), 4200 MB/s In writing (800,000 IOPS), endurance 600 TB written data

– 2 TB : 5000 MB/s reading (700,000 IOPS), 4200 MB/s writing (800,000 IOPS), endurance 1200 TB written data

A hybrid interface such as this SSD offers is of little interest to laptop PCs.

None offer an M.2 NVMe PCIe 5.0 slot for the moment, which makes sense since SSDs embrace this standard significantly more than their PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 4.0 counterparts.

The new Samsung 990 Evo SSD is in any case Now marketing in France Less than 110 euros in the 1 TB version and less than 195 euros for the 2 TB.