Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB Review

1. Introduction2. Samsung SSD980 PRO 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. 128KB Sequential Performance9. 4K Random Read v QD Performance10. 4K Random Write v QD Performance11. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance12. Throughput13. Performance Stability14. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark15. Real Life File Testing16. Closing Thoughts17. View All Pages

With our own Sequential tests, we could confirm the official up to 7,000MB/s read and 5,000MB/s write figures with the drive producing a peak read figure of 7,140.08MB/s (QD32) with writes peaking at 5,254.57MB/s (QD16).

128KB Sequential Read Performance v QD Compared

The SSD980 PRO tops our result charts at all the tested queue depths and by quite some margin especially at QD's 4 and 32.

128KB Sequential Write Performance v QD Compared

At a QD of 1, the SSD980 PRO languishes at the bottom of the chart. By QD2 it's at the top of the chart and stays there for the rest of the tested queue depths.

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