Samsung has announced availability of the next generation of its popular line of M.2 SSDs: the Samsung 970 Pro and 970 Evo will be available worldwide starting May 7.
Samsung impressed users with its V-NAND technology in the 950 Pro back in 2015. That SSD ditched SATA in favor of M.2 2280 and PCIe 3x4. That was a big change, given that the 850 Evo was already hugely popular as it was. A year later, Samsung shipped the 960 Evo and Pro, which offered significantly better read and write speeds and a then-new five-core controller. When we reviewed the Samsung 960 Pro, we found that it was by far the fastest consumer SSD available at that time—such that we even questioned whether very many users even needed that kind of speed.
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