Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB Review: Burly, Speedy NVMe Storage
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB - Test Setup, IOMeter, And Compression Tests
Our Test Methods: Under each test condition, the SSDs tested here were installed as secondary volumes in our testbed, with a separate drive used for the OS and benchmark installations. Out testbed's motherboard was updated with the latest BIOS available at the time of publication and AHCI mode was enabled for the host drive.
The SSDs were secure erased prior to testing (when applicable), and left blank without partitions for some tests, while others required them to be partitioned and formatted, as is the case with the ATTO, PCMark, and CrystalDiskMark tests. Windows firewall, automatic updates, and screen savers were all disabled before testing and Windows 10 Quiet Hours were enabled. In all test runs, we rebooted the system, ensured all temp and prefetch data was purged, waited several minutes for drive activity to settle, and for the system to reach an idle state before invoking a test. All of the drives featured here were tested with their own NVMe drivers installed where possible / available, the default Windows 10 NVMe driver was used when a proprietary driver was unavailable.Also note, we have completely revamped our test bed, so the numbers shown in this review aren’t comparable to previous articles. All of the drives here have also been updated to their latest firmware and drivers where applicable.
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Processor - Motherboard - Video Card - Memory - Audio - Storage - |
Intel Core i9-9900K Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master (Z390 Chipset, AHCI Enabled) Intel HD 630 16GB G.SKILL DDR4-2666 Integrated on board Corsair Force GT (OS Drive) Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus (2TB) Samsung SSD 970 EVO (1TB) Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus (1TB) WD Black SN750 Heatsink (1TB) Adata XPG SX8200 Pro (512GB) Asura Genesis Extreme (1TB) |
OS - Chipset Drivers - DirectX - Benchmarks - |
Windows 10 Pro x64 (1809) Intel 10.1.17.86, iRST 17.0.0.1072 DirectX 12 IOMeter 1.1 HD Tune v5.70 ATTO v4.00.0f2 AS SSD CrystalDiskMark v6.0.2 x64 PCMark Storage Bench 2.0 SiSoftware SANDRA |
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In the following tables, we're showing two sets of access patterns; a custom Workstation pattern, with an 8K transfer size, consisting of 80% reads (20% writes) and 80% random (20% sequential) access and a 4K access pattern with a 4K transfer size, comprised of 67% reads (33% writes) and 100% random access. Queue depths from 1 to 32 were tested, though keep in mind, most consumer workloads usually reside at low queue depths...
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