Samsung 980 1TB NVMe SSD review
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cucaulay malkin
uncompelling
there's better dramless budget drives like HP ex series
ex900 is 95eur
140eur for a dramless drive is too much

Noisiv
my 850 PRO 256 GB is
7 years old
4.3 years Power ON
47 TB written
91% Health
Warranty: 10 years warranty, or 150 TBW, whichever comes first.
My warranty will expire 3 years from now having written 45% of 150 TB.
So it looks to me that warranty-wise 'years' is more important than 'TB written', because it will expire sooner. I would need 22 years to write 150 TB at current rate.

rl66

cucaulay malkin
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/endurance-test-of-samsung-850-pro-comes-to-an-end-after-9100tb-of-writes.html
https://i.imgur.com/ErFmgMe.jpg
Im never selling mine either.those disks don't die under normal conditions.

RealNC

Robbo9999
Another decent performing NVMe 3.0 drive, with the most impressive function being it's large pSLC cache that means almost no write holes unless you write a silly huge chunk to the drive.......but otherwise I think you just choose based on capacity & price, the lack of write holes is the stand out feature of this drive though.

cucaulay malkin

Corrupt^

UZ7
I'll stick to my 970 EVO 2TB a little bit longer 😀

Margalus
So this can be had for $129 vs $143 for 970 evo in 1TB flavor. Just barely cheaper at this point, but it is cheaper.

Robbo9999

kakiharaFRS
I never realized smaller drives had lower TBW warranties until Noisiv post
https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/support/warranty/

Prince Valiant

RealNC

Chrysalis
Not sure how any samsung 980 series drive can be recommended, the 970 series is better value for money.

barbacot
I would recommend this SSD only to my enemies...
I don't know what Samsung was thinking - maybe fool some people into buying but why??? - there are better propositions from Samsung itself - not to talk about competition...

Mundosold
If I pay the premium for nvme I want dram cache. That said its a pretty low MSRP and far better performance than a 3.5 without the durability issues of QLC. I would pick one of these up if they are ever on sale for like $50 for 500GB. However the 970 EVO is $75 right now on sale and i would rather pay the extra $5.
Another good cheap option is to buy OEM Samsung nvmes off eBay which is my goto for 256GB which is enough for most standard usages, usually you can find them as low as $30.