Samsung announces 970 Pro and Evo NVMe SSDs

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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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