Samsung 970 EVO Plus now official

Samsung introduced their latest NVMe SSD, the 970 EVO Plus, with four storage variants (250GB, 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB).

The 970 EVO Plus comes in an M.2 form factor and uses PCIe Gen3 x4 interface. It is powered by Samsung‘s V-NAND chips with optimized firmware and features a reading speed of up to 3,500 MB/s and writing speed of 3,000 MB/s. It also comes with a random reading speed of up to 620,000 IOPS and up to 560,000 IOPS for writing.

Samsung 970 EVO Plus specs

• PCIe Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
• Samsung 9x-layer V-NAND 3-bit MLC
• M.2 (2280)
• 250GB / 500GB / 1TB / 2TB
• 512MB LPDDR4 DRAM (250/500GB variants)
• 1GB LPDDR4 DRAM (1TB variant)
• 2GB LPDDR4 DRAM (2TB variant)
• Up to 3,500 reading
• Up to 3,300 MB/s writing
• Up to 620,000/560,000 IOPS
• Class 0 (AES 256)
• TCG/Opal v2.0
• MS eDrive (IEEE1667)
• Samsung Magician Software

The 970 EVO Plus will be available in the Philippines by end March 2019 with a five-year limited warranty. Pricing for capacity options is as follows:

• 250GB – PHP 5,659.00USD 96INR 8,175EUR 92CNY 702
• 500GB – PHP 8,499USD 145INR 12,278EUR 138CNY 1,055
• 1TB – PHP 15,899USD 271INR 22,968EUR 258CNY 1,973
• 2TB – PHP 48,999USD 835INR 70,784EUR 795CNY 6,081