Samsung SSD 980 1TB Review

To test the real-life performance of a drive we use a mix of folder/file types and by using the FastCopy utility (which gives a time as well as MB/s result) we record the performance of drive reading from & writing to a 256GB Samsung SSD850 PRO.

We use the following folder/file types:

• 100GB data file.
• 60GB iso image.
• 60GB Steam folder – 29,521 files.
• 50GB File folder – 28,523 files.
• 21GB 8K Movie demos.
• 12GB Movie folder – 24 files (mix of Blu-ray and 4K files).
• 11GB 4K Raw Movie Clips (8 MP4V files).
• 10GB Photo folder – 621 files (mix of png, raw and jpeg images).
• 10GB Audio folder – 1,483 files (mix of mp3 and .flac files).
• 5GB (1.5bn pixel) photo.
• Blu-ray movie.

The Samsung SSD 980 dealt with our real-life file transfers without any problems, showing good consistency of performance for reads when dealing with the larger file sizes, although as usual it's the small files in the Audio, Steam and File folders that cause the drive to slow down.

To get a measure of how much faster PCIe NVMe drives are than standard SATA SSD's we use the same files but transfer to and from a 512GB Toshiba OCZ RD400.

Switching over to the NVMe drive to transfer data to and from the SSD 980 saw transfer speeds for the large file transfers rocket and times taken drop dramatically. Seven of the transfers topped well over 2GB/s when writing to the drive.

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