Our testbed's motherboard was updated with the latest BIOS available at the time of publication. Under each test condition, the SSDs tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a separate drive used for the OS and benchmark installations.
Every one of the Samsung drives we have on hand, including much older SATA-based solutions, are still functioning properly. Anecdotally, in all of the years we have been evaluating Samsung SSDs, we have yet to have one fail.
#SAMSUNG SSD BENCHMARK TOOL PRO#
Samsung warranties the SSD 980 Pro series drives for 5 years, which is in-line with previous-gen offerings. Once the buffer is exhausted, write performance either tapers off or becomes somewhat more erratic on the lower-capacity drives (512GB and below), but on the 1TB and 2TB drives, the SLC cache is flushed fast enough to maintain strong write performance across the entire capacity of the drive. TurboWrite will allow the Samsung SSD 980 Pro drives to perform well in the vast majority of consumer-class workloads, because writes are fastest when the SLC buffer is being utilized.
#SAMSUNG SSD BENCHMARK TOOL PLUS#
The larger TurboWrite buffers in the 980 Pro series give them the ability to maintain maximum write performance up to 92% longer than the 970 EVO Plus series. The 1TB drive’s TurboWrite buffer can scale as large 108GB and the 2TB drive featured here maxes out at 216GB. With the 250GB model, the TurboWrite buffer can be as large as 45GB if the drive has enough unused capacity, which is much larger than the 970 EVO series. With 980 Pro drives, Samsung has tweaked the algorithm and TurboWrite capacities versus older drives, so it’s virtually transparent to end users, at least on the higher capacity drives.Īs was the case with previous-gen drives, the TurboWrite buffer dynamically adjusts in size based on the workload. TurboWrite uses a portion of the drives’ V-NAND as an SLC write buffer, which results in improved write performance, as long as the buffer isn’t exhausted. In somewhat of a twist, Samsung SSD 980 Pro drives feature TurboWrite technology, similar to Samsung EVO-branded drives. Take a gander and we’ll dig in deeper down below. For now, here’s a quick breakdown of the drive’s main features and specifications. We’ll explain exactly how and why that happens when we get to the benchmarks. Due to how the drives function, however, the higher capacity does alter the performance profile a bit. It took a bit of time for Samsung to make the 2TB drive a reality, but nevertheless it is here now, and we’ve got one on hand for some benchmarking and evaluation.Įxcept for its obviously higher capacity, the 2TB Samsung SSD 980 Pro doesn’t differ from the smaller drives that were previously made available. At the time, Samsung SSD 980 Pro PCIe 4 NVMe drives in capacities of 250GB on up to 1TB were made available, but a 2TB drive had been announced and was on the roadmap as well. In September of last year, the initial salvo of Samsung SSD 980 Pro drives was launched.
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