Testseek.com have collected 169 expert reviews of the Samsung M.2 980 Pro Series NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 89%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung M.2 980 Pro Series NVMe PCIe.
September 2020
(89%)
169 Reviews
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1028 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Pros
Exceptionally speedy performance
PCI Express 4.0 bus support
Five-year warranty
Built-in hardware encryption
The editors didn't like
Cons
High cost per gigabyte
Lower write-durability rating than previous SSD 970 Pro
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Published: 2020-09-22, Author: Sebastian , review by: pcper.com
Samsung's new 980 PRO offers transfer speeds far beyond existing PCIe Gen4 drives, pushing sequential transfer speeds very close to the rated 7000 MB/s (6900 MB/s for this 500GB variant). And while this represents a major leap over the ~5000 MB/s of Phiso...
Are you looking for the best? Look no further. With the fastest performance we have seen from a NAND SSD yet, Samsung's 980 Pro makes other NVMe SSDs look slow...
Published: 2020-09-22, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
It's been quite a month for us here at OC3D. We've only just got over the shock of the game-changing performance from the new Nvidia RTX 3080 and Samsung turn up with a drive which is similarly epoch-making.For a long time we've said that PCI Express 3.0...
PCIe 4.0 x4 interface with NVMe protocol, Available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, Equipped with Samsung's latest 3-bit MLC V-NAND technology, Excellent sequential and random read and write speeds, Small M.2 2280 form factor, Features Intelligen
Lower endurance than 970 PRO, Write speed drops considerably when SLC cache is full, Pricey
With the 980 PRO, Samsung has raised the bar yet again, delivering one of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the market today. Completely designed in-house to unleash the full potential of PCIe 4.0, this M.2 form factor SSD is powered by Samsung's next-gen...
We've waited years for the SSD 980 PRO series to arrive, but Samsung has finally delivered their first PCIe 4.0 SSD. The Samsung SSD 980 PRO series raises the performance bar for the NVMe SSD and that doesn't happen too often. The new Samsung Elpis contro...
The Samsung 980 PRO series is an impressive drive, however, it managed to impress me less than the release of the 970 PRO. The focus for Samsung has been clear, reach a peak read speed of ~7 GB/sec and ~5 GB/for writes. You'll only hit these numbers in ve...
Published: 2020-09-22, Author: Billy , review by: anandtech.com
Abstract: It may be a bit later than originally planned, but Samsung's first consumer SSD to support PCIe 4.0 is here. The Samsung 980 PRO was first previewed at CES in January, but we didn't hear anything further until leaks started appearing towards the end of su...
Abstract: We got our first glimpse of Samsung's new 980 Pro SSD back at CES 2020, and at the time, it was promising big performance thanks to its shift from the PCIe 3.0 interface to PCIe 4.0. We were initially told that the 980 Pro would top out with blistering s...
Published: 2021-10-29, Author: Jon , review by: tweaktown.com
Samsung has done with the 980 PRO with Heatsink what Samsung always seems to do when they set out to do something; they do it right. Our testing shows Samsung's exquisitely designed PS5 compatible heat sink to be highly effective. Despite its compact size...
Published: 2021-03-04, Author: Jon , review by: tweaktown.com
The 2TB 980 Pro is Samsung at its finest. The drive is an exquisite piece of hardware that will deliver everything you could want along with the capacity you need. It excels at read operations, and that's exactly where we like to see performance delivered...
