Samsung 970 Pro NVMe SSDs are ready to take a licking
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Along with the 970 EVO drives we reviewed this morning, Samsung is updating its professional-grade NVMe gumsticks. The new 970 Pro series of SSDs offers Samsung's latest 64-layer V-NAND in an MLC configuration for an extra dose of performance potential and endurance. That flash memory takes orders from the higher-clocked and nickel-capped Phoenix controller that we got to examine in depth on the 970 EVO 1 TB.
Samsung claims sequential read performance of up to 3500 MB/s and sequential write performance of up to 2700 MB/s from the 970 Pro. For comparison, the drive's claimed sequential read performance is the same as that of the 970 EVO, while its ...