Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB Review

1. Introduction2. Samsung 970 EVO Plus 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. 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

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s. We are using v6.0. to test NVMe drives.

The SSD970 EVO Plus seems to struggle with the 4K QD32 test of CrystalDiskMark, falling way behind the original SSD970 EVO for both reads and writes.

However, shallowing the QD to 1 saw the drive climb above the SSD970 EVO with its read performance, although the write performance still lagged behind the older drive.

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