Samsung, the leading brand in all things memory and flash storage has announced the newest update (the first since 2016) to their mainstream SSD line up. The Samsung 970 Pro and 970 Evo make up the third generation of the most well recognized and best selling consumer SSDs on the market.

Samsung 970 Evo, The Best Mainstream SSD on the Market Announced Along With The Enthusiast Samsung 970 Pro

While not being the top of the line they do remain incredibly high performing with up to 3,500 MB/s reads, 2,500 MB/s writes, 500K IOPS random read and 480K random writes, it is no slouch and can keep up with pretty much any SSD on the market today. The EVO uses TLC memory and both the Evo and Pro use Samsung's new Phoenix controller which is Nickel coated.

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The Samsung 970 PRO and EVO are designed based on the M.2 form factor standard and with the latest PCIe Gen 3×4 lane interface. The 970 series maximizes the potential of NVMe bandwidth, delivering unparalleled performance for processing large volumes of data, including 3D, 4K graphics work, high-end games, and data analytics.

"Samsung has led the NVMe SSD industry since its inception, and the company continues to define the latest standards of consumer storage with unprecedented performance of the 970 PRO and EVO SSDs, the 970 series sets a new bar in all aspects for the NVMe SSD market with groundbreaking performance, superior reliability and best-in-class capacity."