Samsung’s latest and greatest V-Nand SSD, theĀ 970 Pro, is now available in the Philippines. Although, it seems like only the 512GB storage variant reached our shores, for now at least.
The Samsung 970 Pro has max sequential read speeds of up to 3,500 MB/s and max sequential write speeds of up to 2,700 MB/s. It is considered to be one of, if not, the fastest NVMe M.2 SSDs out in the market. We’ve already reviewed the 1TB version of the SSD here. It’ll have close to the performance of the 1TB version.
Samsung 970 Pro 512GB M.2 NVMe SSDĀ specifications
- Form Factor: M.2 (2280)
- Interface: PCIe Gen 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.3
- Storage Memory: Samsung V-NAND 2-bit MLC
- Sequential Read: Up to 3,500 MB/s
- Sequential Write: 1,024 GB: Up to 2,700 MB/s
- Controller: Samsung Phoenix Controller
- Encryption Support: AES 256-bit Encryption (Class 0), TCG/Opal, IEEE1667 (Encrypted drive)
- Dimensions: 80.15 X 22.15 X 2.38 (mm)
- Weight: 8.0g
The Samsung 970 Pro is priced atĀ Php 17,488 and is now available at Villman. Availability of other storage variants are yet to be announced.
Still great news but if you know someone or even yourself visiting US soon i suggest to hold off for a while, Samsung SSD 970 PRO NVMe 512GB are going $229 USD or even More Less. But Still for those you really need the Heavy user who use their Unit as a Tool to earn money.