Samsung is launching the 990 EVO Plus with PCIe 4.0 support and the latest NAND technology, adding to its line-up of SSD products optimised for gaming, business, and creative tasks.
The 990 EVO Plus is built for laptop and desktop PC users seeking faster processing speeds and expanded storage capacity, according to Samsung Electronics Australia senior director of professional display and memory solutions, Phil Gaut.
“As console games continue to integrate video streaming, the inclusion of PCIe 4.0 will see the 990 EVO Plus provide Australians with a tangibly smoother experience, while backwards compatibility futureproofs the SSD for PC and gaming advancements in the pipeline,” he said.
The 990 EVO Plus is built on decades of Samsung’s pioneering semiconductor technology. Sequential read speeds come up to 7,250 megabytes-per-second (MB/s) and write speeds up to 6,300MB/s, an enhancement of up to 45% over the previous 990 EVO.
The performance boost is thanks to Samsung’s latest 8th generation V-NAND technology and 5-nanometer (nm) controller, while an innovative nickel-coated heat shield minimises overheating, allowing 73% higher power efficiency than its predecessor.
The 4TB model has a read speed of 1,050K IOPS and 1,400K input/output operations per second (IOPS) for random write. This performance nearly rivals that of SSD products with DRAM, despite not using DRAM cache, making it optimal for gaming and AI tasks. The 990 EVO Plus is also equipped with Samsung’s intelligent TurboWrite 2.0, offering rapid file transfer speeds and reduced lag.
Samsung Magician software delivers a suite of optimisation tools for enhanced functionality for all Samsung SSDs, including the 990 EVO Plus. Australians can streamline the data migration process for SSD upgrades effortlessly and securely. In addition, Samsung Magician protects data, monitors drive health and offers customised performance optimisation.
“At a glance, Samsung Magician gives you real-time performance and optimisation metrics such as speeds, temperature performance, firmware upgrades and authenticity checks, with the ability to detect potential failures before they happen. It’s simply another out-of-the-box value-add that enables Australians to get the most out of Samsung memory solutions, hassle-free,” Gaut said.
The 990 EVO Plus is now available via select resellers and the Samsung Australia website with RRPs ranging from $195 for the 1TB model to RRP $629 for the 4TB variant.