Samsung 970 EVO M.2 MZ-V7E500BW 500 GB

High-performance 500 GB consumer SSD from the popular EVO line, which combines high-performance and reliable drives from the Korean giant Samsung. It is positioned as a product of the upper part of the middle price category. Made in a compact form factor M.2 2280, designed for installation in gaming computers and consoles, laptops, ultrabooks and desktop workstations. The hardware basis of this model is a high-performance multi-channel Samsung Phoenix controller with a 1024 MB DRAM buffer based on LPDDR4 memory.

64-layer proprietary 3D TLC V-NAND flash memory features enhanced reliability and decent I/O performance. Together with the PCI-E 3.0 bus and support for the NVMe protocol, the drive provides sequential read and write speeds up to 3400 MB/s. In fact, this is the ceiling of this bus, only drives with a PCI-E 4.0 interface can work faster. In addition to high linear speeds, high efficiency 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 simultaneous high loads, for example, copying a huge number of small files at a time.

In addition, the drive supports high-speed SLC caching technology, which provides excellent performance of the drive as a system drive. All these factors make the Samsung 970 EVO an interesting option for a fast system storage, fast archive or game library. A high level of reliability is confirmed by a 5-year official warranty and a decent guaranteed write resource (TBW) of 300 TB.