Samsung's 980 Pro SSD brings PCIe 4.0 speeds next month

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Samsung’s 980 Pro SSD brings PCIe 4.0 speeds next monthSamsung’s new flagship SSD is here.

Samsung’s new flagship SSD is here.

The Samsung 980 Pro is official. Arriving in early October in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB size capacities (with a larger 2TB model due before the end of the year), Samsung’s new NVMe SSD will be their first drive to support the new, super fast PCIe 4.0 standard, offering sequential read and write speeds up to a massive 7000MB/s and 5000MB/s respectively - provided you’ve got a compatible motherboard, that is.

PCIe 4.0 delivers up to twice the bandwidth of existing PCIe 3.0 SSDs, and is set to become the de facto storage standard for PCs going forward. Both theXbox Series XandPS5consoles are built around the PCIe 4.0 standard, andMicrosoft’s DirectStorage techfor PCs is also going to be leveraging its super fast speeds to cut down on game loading times when it launches next year.

Besides, with prices set to start from £83 in the UK for just the 250GB version, it’s probably best to wait a bit anyway until it all becomes a bit less expensive. Alas, there doesn’t seem to be any sign of an 980 Evo at the moment, so those hankering for a more affordable PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD will need to hang on a little longer until the successor to Samsung’s brilliant970 Evo Plusinevitably makes an appearance.