Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB Review: Burly, Speedy NVMe Storage

Name: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus
Brand: Samsung

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 26, 2019, 12:20 PM EDT

Performance Summary: The 2TB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus SSD we tested offered strong performance across the board. As was the case with the first wave of drives we initially evaluated, the 2TB SSD 970 EVO Plus is among the fastest solid state drives currently on the market in terms of sequential transfers, especially sequential reads, which were among the best we've seen. Sequential writes are also strong, so long as the transfer size doesn’t exceed the capacity of the Turbowrite cache. Once the Turbowrite cache is exhausted, write performance tapers, but this shouldn't be an issue for the vast majority of consumer workloads. Latency was also very good, as was performance in the trace-based tests, and at low queue depth transfers.

Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus - Find Them At Amazon Starting At $89.99

The 2TB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus is available now and can be found for street prices hovering around $490. At that number, the cost per gigabyte works out to about $0.24, which makes the 2TB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus one of the more expensive consumer-class solid state drives currently on the market. As the numbers have shown, however, these drives are also among the best all-around performers, and they offer a long 5-year warranty and good endurance ratings, so the price premium can be justified.

If you're shopping for a high-capacity, high-performance solid state drive, and have the budget for a 2TB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus, we can easily recommend this SSD. There are more affordable solutions out there, but that can't match the strong all-around performance characteristics of the 2TB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus.


Strong Performance High Endurance Long 5 Year Warranty Low Latency	Slight Price Premium Long, Sustained Writes Saturate Cache

Tags: Samsung, SSD, Storage, nvme, m.2, 970 evo plus

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com