Samsung 970 EVO 2TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Samsung 970 EVO 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMeter8. 128KB Sequential Performance9. 4K Random Read Performance10. 4K Random Write Performance11. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance12. Throughput13. PCMark 8 - Storage Consistency14. PCMark 8 - Individual Test Suites15. PCMark 8 Storage Test - Individual Test Suites16. Performance Stability17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

PCMark 8’s Consistency test provides a huge amount of performance data, so here we’ve looked a little closer at how the Samsung 970 EVO 2TB drive performs in each of the benchmarks test suites.

Adobe Creative Cloud

As usual the Adobe Photoshop Heavy test trace stresses the drive the most, but it does recover well during this particular test run. Somewhat unusual is the drop in performance during the Steady State phases of the Indesign test, but once again the performance picks up in the recovery phases.

Microsoft Office

In the Microsoft Office tests it's the Word trace that suffers most during the test run, with the bandwidth dropping noticeably between the first and fourth Steady State phases – from 535MB/s down to 478MB/s. All three traces show a very gradual improvement during the recovery phases.

Casual Gaming

During both casual gaming tests, the drive shows pretty good consistency throughout the test phases.

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