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Read the full Samsung 980 Pro 500GB review. It would seem that for this generation, Samsung is content to pass the banner to Western Digital for the best SSD money can buy. Samsung has recently released the 2TB version of this drive, which at $430 represents better value for money ($0.22/GB), and while the writes are notably better, they still lag behind the SN850 and Rocket 4 Plus. AS SSD produced peak sequential reads of 5,495MB/s, which are great, and writes of 3,805MB/s, limited by the number of channels used in the 500GB model Samsung sent for review. It's much faster than the first generation drives in every synthetic test, although the improvements in the real world can be marginal. That said, this is still an impressive drive, and if you don't mind spending slightly over the odds for a second-generation PCIe 4.0 drive, you'll be rewarded with a speedy chunk of storage.
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It has also seen its performance lead destroyed by the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus and the WD Black SN850, pushing it into third place in most tests. It managed to top the synthetic performance charts at release but didn't impress quite so much in the real-world tests and was too expensive. Samsung has been the go-to brand for plenty of generations of SSD storage, so its first PCIe 4.0 offering was hotly anticipated. Unexciting 300TBW endurance -Not quite the fastest around Read the full Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus 2TB review.
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This drive also runs cooler than the SN850, which may be a factor if you're looking for a drive for a cramped case. The performance is so close that it makes the Sabrent SSD the sensible choice if you don't need the absolute best performance around. Impressive stuff.Īn important factor here is that the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is the cheapest of these second-generation drives. Even so, you're looking at AS SSD hitting 5,868MB/s for reads and 5,630MB/s for writes. Real-world performance didn't always tell the same story, although the differences between these top three drives can be slight. In testing, this performance was born out too, with the faster write performance dominating Samsung's drive in the write tests. Offering peak reads of 7,100MB/s and writes of 6,600MB/s, it's not only a major step up from the first generation of PCIe 4.0 drives but a notable improvement over the Samsung 980 Pro, especially in terms of write performance. The Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus is the first drive in the lab to use the new Phison E18 controller, which is the follow-up to the immensely popular Phison E16 controller found in basically every first-gen PCIe 4.0 drive.