#SAMSUNG SSD GENUINE CHECK PRO#
Where the 980 Pro tops out at around 200MB/s, the WD BLACK SN850 is good for over 300MB/s. If that’s not the sort of performance data you’re ever going to feel in the real world, the 980 Pro is further behind when it comes to 4K random access, particularly writes. In our testing, it tops out at around 6.7GB/s read and 4.9GB/’s writes in CystalDiskMark 7 were the fastest 1TB drives, including the WD Black SN850 and PNY XLR8 CS3140 can hit 7GB/s and 5.2GB/s, respectively. That means it’s a very quick SSD, but not as fast as the very latest PCIe 4.0 M.2 drives. This new variant of the Samsung 980 Pro inevitably differs little from the original in most aspects of performance. This 1TB model's 600TB write endurance rating is also now looking off the pace, even if it’s likely to be much more than enough for most users.
That’s a lot less than many competing 1TB drives, which often allocate up to 300GB for SLC mode. Speaking of cache, one of the 980 Pro’s less impressive aspects in comparison to newer drives is the maximum 144GB of space allocated to operate in speedy SLC mode. You also get 1GB of DDR4 cache, a five-year warranty, and, of course, Samsung’s own high-quality TLC NAND memory. It remains a PCIe Gen 4 drive with rated read and write speeds of 7GB/s and 5GB/s respectively, and it also comes with claimed 4K random performance of fully one million IOPs. And it’s also still a very well specced and quick SSD by any sane standard. For starters, it’s actually quite competitively priced now, especially compared to those Phison-based drives. However, don’t go thinking that makes the Samsung 980 Pro irrelevant. In other words, what was once one of if not the most advanced M.2 SSDs has now been overtaken, both by the army of drives based on the Phison E18 controller, such as the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus, the PNY XLR8 CS3140, the Kingston Fury Renegade and latterly the Seagate Firecuda 530 and by the likes of the WD Black SN850. That aside, there’s little to nothing new about the 980 Pro. Available in 1TB and 2TB configurations, it’s the former we’re testing here.
#SAMSUNG SSD GENUINE CHECK PC#
It’s also worth noting that many PC motherboards have M.2 cooling solutions that are only compatible with bare drives, which makes the slight price increase of this version of the 980 Pro rather redundant.įor the record, Samsung says the heatsink has been optimised using data centre technology to dissipate heat efficiently from its in-house controller chip, which is nickel coated.
#SAMSUNG SSD GENUINE CHECK SERIES#
As with other standard M.2 2280 SSDs, the Samsung 980 Pro with Heatsink is not compatible with the Microsoft Xbox Series X. It increases the 980 Pro’s thickness to 8.5mm overall and is designed specifically to be compatible with the Sony PS5’s M.2 SSD slot.
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