Samsung 990 EVO M.2 MZ-V9E2T0BW 2 TB

A capacious, high-performance consumer SSD with a capacity of 2000 GB, built on the basis of the Samsung Piccolo control controller. Positioned as an upper mid-range product, the Samsung 990 EVO is a member of the popular EVO product line, which includes fast, modern, technically advanced SSD drives from Samsung. According to the manufacturer, it is the world's first M.2 SSD with a hybrid PCI-E interface, capable of operating in x4 PCIe 4.0 and x2 PCIe 5.0 modes.

And as a basis, it uses 133-layer V6P TLC NAND flash memory of its own production, which is characterized by increased reliability and decent I/O performance. Regardless of the bus used, the speed performance of the device does not change, providing up to 5000/4200 MB/s for sequential read/write. In addition to high linear speeds, it is necessary to note the high efficiency: the IOPS indicators of this model are at the level of 700 - 800 thousand operations per second, which significantly affects the performance of the drive under high-momentary loads, for example, copying a huge number of small files at a time.

Thanks to the use of Host Memory Buffer (HMB) technology for direct connection to the processor's DRAM, the drive does not suffer from speed drops during long-term use, even without using a DRAM buffer. Well, the low heating of the controller and a significant reduction in energy efficiency (approx: 70% lower compared to the previous generation EVO) made it possible to get rid of an external heatsink and minimize battery consumption when used in laptops and ultrabooks.

Belonging to the universal M.2 2280 format allows you to equally successfully use Samsung’s brainchild in powerful work PCs, compact ultrabooks and portable game consoles. All these factors make the Samsung 970 EVO an interesting option for the role of a universal system drive, a high-speed archive or a game library. The high level of reliability is confirmed by a 5-year official warranty and a decent guaranteed recording resource (TBW) of 1200 TB. In addition to the 2 TB version, the manufacturer announced a more affordable version of the Samsung 990 EVO with 1 TB of memory.