Samsung 980 NVMe M.2 MZ-V8V500BW 500 GB

The Korean giant Samsung has earned a reputation for making exemplary SSD drives that rivals look up to. The Samsung 980 NVMe M.2 sets the benchmark for performance and quality, delivering high performance combined with enhanced reliability. The drive is made in a compact M.2 2280 form factor, so it can be easily installed both in a massive desktop motherboard and inside a compact laptop or ultrabook.

The drive is ideal for building high performance workstations and gaming PCs, and it also performs well as a very fast system drive. The Samsung 980 is powered by the proprietary Samsung Pablo controller, which is designed to work with the PCI-E 3.0 interface. The controller works in conjunction with high-quality and reliable 64-layer TLC 3D NAND flash memory. The use of a high-end controller and support for the NVMe interface allowed Samsung engineers to squeeze all the juice out of the PCI-E 3.0 bus, raising the linear write speed to 2600 MB / s, and the read speed to 3100 MB / s.

In addition to high linear speeds, the high efficiency of the device should be noted: the IOPS of this model is close to 0.5 million operations per second, which significantly affects the performance of the drive under high loads at one time, for example, copying a huge number of small files at a time. Performance has been positively impacted by the built-in buffer with an advanced caching system, which provides excellent drive performance as a system disk, minimizing speed drops when copying and writing especially large archives. The manufacturer declares a guaranteed recording resource of 300 TB and gives a proprietary five-year warranty.