Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe: 7GB/s Read, 5GB/s Write

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elazz said:

Trumpstyle said:

Hmmm don't the drives need to be faster than 5,5GB/s speed? 980 pro might not meet the requirement as it has 5GB/s write speed.

Why would write speed matter, that's just relevant to copy or install? It can be as low as 1GB/s. As long as the read speed is fast enough and can be sustained.

This drive costs 229USD and will be a good expansion for PS5. I believe the Sony one is a custom Samsung 980 QVO at its core so quite a bit cheaper due to the use of QLC instead of TLC for this one.

I think the 980 QVO or Evo or whatever branding they'll choose will be good for PS5. I think the difference for the 1TB version between the pro and Evo were always around 50 dollars.

Has Sony even provided information on how fast their drives can perform writes? 5.5GBG/s is the read speed, which is always faster than the write speed due to the way reads/writes work with NAND.