Unless of course, those power savings are negated by increased power draw by the system DRAM being used for primary cache. Samsung also claims about half the power draw of the 970 EVO, which could be of major benefit to laptops. Samsung’s SSD 980 shares that number with the 980 Pro, but little else. But it does say that there’s 40 percent more capacity than with its older 90+ TLC (everyone else’s 96 layers), so this TLC sports considerably more than 100 layers. Samsung tends to be very, well let’s just say shy, about sharing hard facts concerning its technologies. The controller is an in-house Samsung design, and the NAND is what the company refers to as 100+ layer TLC. That makes it quite suitable for upgrading thinner laptops that might not accommodate a double-sided drive. The 980 uses the common 2280 (22mm wide, 80mm long) form factor, and is single-sided. But with Intel finally on board the 4.0 train, and AMD two generations in, 3.x-only leaves potential future performance gains on the table. The vast majority of computers are still using PCIe 3.x. Samsung also saves money by skipping support for PCIe 4.0.
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