[US] [Many retailers] Samsung 1TB 980 PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 Internal SSD

[Omar.B]

This 1 TB NVME SSD is on sale it was 140$ Now its 110$ it might not be huge deal but its Samsung PCPP 

sequential read speeds of up to 3500 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 3000 MB/s

[Chris Pratt]

For what capacity?

[Omar.B]

Just now, Chris Pratt said:

For what capacity?

1 TB 

 

[Chris Pratt]

1 minute ago, Omar.B said:

1 TB 

 

That's okay, I suppose. It's not groundbreaking, but still a deal. It was already kind of overpriced for what it is. Something like an WD Black SN750 is better and you can get that from Best Buy right now for $130.

[Omar.B]

3 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

That's okay, I suppose. It's not groundbreaking, but still a deal. It was already kind of overpriced for what it is. Something like an WD Black SN750 is better and you can get that from Best Buy right now for $130.

It is better but does it keep the speeds like the Samsung? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

5 minutes ago, Omar.B said:

It is better but does it keep the speeds like the Samsung? 

What do you mean by keep the speeds? The 980 is a drlamless ssd so it can have some not great performance charastics. Its not awful, but Id personally save a bit more and get a sn550.

[Omar.B]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What do you mean by keep the speeds? The 980 is a drlamless ssd so it can have some not great performance charastics. Its not awful, but Id personally save a bit more and get a sn550.

I mean the speeds under load will maintain near 3000 unlike some other ssds it can drop easily 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Omar.B said:

I mean the speeds under load will maintain near 3000 unlike some other ssds it can drop easily 

I wouldn't say say. There are massive speed drop offs due to it not having dram. 

 

Looks like average read speed is about 1800 mB/s, and random io is even worse. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16504/the-samsung-ssd-980-500gb-1tb-review/3

 

And writes aren't maintained either, it drops to about 450 mB/s at the end of the drive

 

[Omar.B]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

I wouldn't say say. There are massive speed drop offs due to it not having dram. 

 

Looks like average read speed is about 1800 mB/s, and random io is even worse. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16504/the-samsung-ssd-980-500gb-1tb-review/3

 

And writes aren't maintained either, it drops to about 450 mB/s at the end of the drive

 

Yeah you are right ty for info

[Chris Pratt]

20 minutes ago, Omar.B said:

It is better but does it keep the speeds like the Samsung? 

Yeah. The 980 can only address 64GB at once anyways, because it relies on HMB instead of dedicated DRAM. Speeds fall through the floor after that, so it's only fast with light workloads.