Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus Review: Optimized For Speed
Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus - Performance Summary And Verdict
Performance Summary: The Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus drives we tested put up strong numbers across the board. They are among the fastest solid state drives we’ve tested, in terms of sequential transfers, especially sequential reads, where the drives compete across the board. Sequential writes are also good, so long as the transfer size doesn’t exceed the capacity of the Turbowrite cache. When the Turbowrite cache is exhausted, write performance drops off considerably -- this shouldn't be a problem for the vast majority of consumer workloads, however. Access times were also good with the 970 EVO Plus drives, they were among the best performers in the trace-based tests, and at low queue depths read performance is competitive, but they offer particularly strong writes.

Among the enthusiast-class drives on the market however, the SSD 970 EVO Plus is easily among the best options available, especially at its higher capacities. And while they carry a clear premium based on their strong all-around performance, they are not prohibitively more expensive either. If you’ve been shopping for a high-end SSD and want a drive that offers strong performance for the vast majority of consumer-class workloads, the Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus should definitely be on your short list.

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