Samsung accidentally leaks details of its upcoming 980 Pro NVMe SSD

Enlarge / The 980 Pro offers up to 7,000 MB/sec throughput, on the right workloads-but you'll need a PCIe 4.0 motherboard, a very fast CPU, and good system cooling to take advantage of it. (credit: Samsung)

Everybody makes mistakes sometimes, and it looks like Samsung made one yesterday: the product page for its upcoming 980 Pro NVMe SSD went briefly online before being discovered by TechPowerUp and then getting yanked offline again.

The 980 Pro is a particularly interesting product, since it shakes up Samsung's lineup in several ways. We've known since CES 2020 that it would be the company's first consumer-available PCIe 4.0 SSD.

The higher-bandwidth PCIe4 bus allows for a blistering throughput increase; the 980 Pro is rated by Samsung for up to 7000MB/sec of throughput, compared to the PCIe3 970 Pro's 3500MB/sec. Unfortunately, the 980 Pro's sharp increase in throughput comes with an equally sharp decrease in warranteed write endurance.

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