. But one of the names missing the Gen 5 x4 wave is Samsung. We're yet to see a true replacement for the
The listed performance capabilities of the drive are all over the place. In one of the pictures of the drive, a text overlay shows sequential read and write speeds of up to 15,800 MB/s and 14,500MB/s respectively. That's quite impossible for a drive marked as Gen 4 SSD. Probably just a typo, right? The 'official' spec shows a read speed of up to 14,000 MB/s while another so called spec for the 4TB drive shows 7,450 MB/s and 6,950 MB/s read and write speeds.
The results show the '1080 Pro' is absolute garbage as expected. Many of the fake drive's test results fall under 10% of the performance of a real Samsung 980 Pro, but the sustained performance tests are much, much worse than that. For example, a 100GB single file transfer took 1,815 seconds on the fake drive, compared to just 33 for the real 980 Pro.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.