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Samsung 970 EVO Plus - 1TB - M.2 NVMe - V-NAND SSD

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Second time buying: March 26, 2022

I purchased this drive for my wife’s new PC. Check out the full build with parts list here: PC Build - Wifes New Alder Lake Gaming System.

The main reasons I picked this drive for this build are:

It doesn’t hurt that I had already picked the exact same model 2 years before this.

You can pick it up HERE on Amazon.

First time buying: August 22, 2020

I had actually first purchased this drive back in 2020 and it was great. This is the NVMe x4 drive that I’ve ordered for my Linux workstation.

It is the Samsung (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) 970 EVO Plus SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology. This was a replacement for my Samsung 860 EVO. I still have both connected to my system so that I could dual boot if needed. I’ll still have access to my older files until I copy them over.

This works great with Linux ( and Windows ). I have installed Ubuntu 20.04 on it and it is terrific.

Samsung Ultra M.2 NVMe SSD for Linux and Windows

This is an NVMe M.2 drive so it uses PCIe instead of SATA. It uses 4 PCIe lanes for higher speeds. It could be reffered to as “Ultra M.2”. I’m using this with my ROG Strix Z390-E Gaming LGA 1151 ATX Intel Motherboard. The system board has two M.2 slots that should both work with this drive.

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Samsung 970 EVO Plus - Details Table

Product Samsung 970 EVO Plus 250GB Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus 2TB
Capacity (User / Raw) 250GB / 256GB 500GB / 512GB 1000GB / 1024GB 2000GB / 2048GB
Interface / Protocol PCIe 3.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3 PCIe 3.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3 PCIe 3.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3 PCIe 3.0 x4 / NVMe 1.3
Form Factor M.2 2280 Single-Sided M.2 2280 Single-Sided M.2 2280 Single-Sided M.2 2280 Single-Sided
Endurance 150 TBW 300 TBW 600 TBW 1,200 TBW
Random Read 250,000 IOPS 480,000 IOPS 600,000 IOPS 620,000 IOPS
Random Write 550,000 IOPS 550,000 IOPS 550,000 IOPS 560,000 IOPS
Sequential Read 3,500 MB/s 3,500 MB/s 3,500 MB/s 3,500 MB/s
Sequential Write 2,300 MB/s 3,200 MB/s 3,300 MB/s 3,300 MB/s
Memory Samsung 9x-layer V-NAND TLC Samsung 9x-layer V-NAND TLC Samsung 9x-layer V-NAND TLC Samsung 9x-layer V-NAND TLC
DRAM 512MB Samsung LPDDR4 512MB Samsung LPDDR4 1GB Samsung LPDDR4 2GB Samsung LPDDR4
Controller Samsung Phoenix Samsung Phoenix Samsung Phoenix Samsung Phoenix
Encryption Class 0 (256-bit FDE), TCG Opal 2.0, Microsoft eDrive Class 0 (256-bit FDE), TCG Opal 2.0, Microsoft eDrive Class 0 (256-bit FDE), TCG Opal 2.0, Microsoft eDrive Class 0 (256-bit FDE), TCG Opal 2.0, Microsoft eDrive
Part Number MZ-V7S250 MZ-V7S500 MZ-V7S1T0 MZ-V7S2T0

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