The Samsung 970 Evo SSD is one excellent representative of solid-state drive, but now a more advanced one is launched which is called Samsung 970 Evo Plus. These drives have more powerful and attractive performance. Now, you can read this post to get some related information about this series of drives.
You may know that the Samsung 970 Evo SSD is one of the best SSDs which are used for the computer. The drive is fast with a relatively aggressive price-per-gigabyte. However, Samsung never stops the steps to offer more powerful and useful products. It improves this SSD with Samsung 970 Evo Plus.
Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD
Compared with the Samsung 970 Evo SSD which is using 64 layers, the new Samsung 970 Evo Plus features a 96-layer 3D NAND. What does this mean? It means that this Samsung drive can cram more capacity into a smaller footprint and improve its performance.
However, like the previous generation, the Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD is an M.2 form factor which can be connected with your motherboards NVMe port and then get faster speeds.
Now, we will show you a introduction from Samsung memory marketing boss Dr. Mike Mang as follows:
“Since introducing the first NVMe SSDs to the consumer market in 2015, Samsung has continued to challenge technical barriers in SSD design and performance. The new 970 Evo Plus powered by Samsung’s latest fifth-generation V-NAND technology will now offer unrivaled performance in its class when taking on demanding tasks like 4K content editing, 3D modeling, and simulation as well as heavy gaming.”
You can see that this drive can really make your life and work more convenient.
However, you will say that SSD has excellent performance, and it will also have higher price. Is it true? In the next part, we will talk about the price of SSD.
Storage Prices Continue to Fall
If you concern about the data storage price, you can note that the price continue to fall. The SSDs prices are falling all the time and they become affordable than ever. And according to the forecast, the prices will continue to decline.
When the Samsung 970 Evo Plus was first released, the price of 500GB drive is $130 and 1TB option is $250. This keeps it right in line with the Samsung 970 Evo drive which retails at the same prices with the same storage capacities.
The money you pay for these drives are lower, but you can get something which is much closer to the premium Samsung 970 Pro drives: you need to spend $170 on 500GB drive and $400 on 1TB option.
Thus, you can consider this drive is the latest SSD which low down the price of the data storage devices. On the other hand, 96-layer NAND is more cost efficient to produce, thus, there is still room for Samsung to drop the price even further.
If you plan to upgrade or build a new gaming rig, this is good news: this Samsung 970 Evo Plus is going blaze as a game drive on the modern desktop. Perhaps, it is a bit power consuming if you use it on a laptop, but, you can keep an eye on it especially as the price comes down. As to the 1TB configuration, the cost per gigabyte is 25 cents. If the payment gets closer to 20 cent like the ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro, it will be the time for SSD to beat.
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