Samsung has started the manufacturing of his new SSD Samsung PM9C1a with M.2 NVMe 1.4 interface based on its new controller at 5 nanometers and 3D V-NAND memories with which they manage to reach up to 6,000 MB/s sequential read speed and 5,600 MB/s sequential write speed.
These SSDs stay in the standard NVMe 1.4, Therefore, they have PCI Express 4.0 x4 connectivity and do not make the leap to PCIe 5.0, being limited in bandwidth compared to the new solutions that are beginning to appear on the market. In any case, Samsung has achieved up to 1.8x more speed than the previous generation of SSDs aimed at laptops and pre-assembled computers.
The Korean company also boasts a 70% improvement in performance per Watt, in addition to a 10% reduction in consumption at rest.
The Samsungs PM9C1a will hit the market with capacities of 256 GB, 512 GB and up to 1 TB of capacity in M.2 formats of different sizes, from the M.2 2230 to the longer M.2 2280, with an intermediate model 2242. For the moment There is no specific price or date of arrival on the market in our country.
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