Last week we wrote about the upcoming Samsung PM981 / 980 NVMe SSDs with a first look at the drive in 512GB and 1TB capacity sizes. While the PM 98x series should belong to the high-end market, the upcoming PM971 series should be more for entry-level market. The PM971 NVMe SSD should be the new Samsung 970 SSD.


The PM971 was first introduced with a 22mm x 16mm x 1.5mm multichip package that includes the Samsung Proton controller, LPDDR4 DRAM and V-NAND flash into a single chip. The drive should deliver up to 1'500MB/s sequential read and up to 900MB/s sequential write speeds. According to Samsung, the driver should hit a random performance up to 190'000 IOPS read and 170'000 IOPS write.

The PM971-NVMe BGA drive would ship in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacity sizes. Since this product will be based on TLC memory, it could be used to aggressively enter the consumer entry-level NVMe segment where the Intel 600p currently owns the majority of the marketshare. Usually BGA SSDs aren't sold to consumers as standalone components because they are embedded parts (for example inside laptop, NUC and other small systems), however Samsung might install the BGA package on an M.2 card.



Source: Techpowerup