New Price drop 21%
Samsung 256GB SSD PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280
Capacity 256GB
Form Factor M.2 2280
Interface PCIe 4.0 x4
Read Speed 5,600 MB/s
NAND TLC
42 Overall Score
Price CA$131
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong affordability (79th percentile) 79th
- Strong speed (78th percentile) 78th
Cons
- Below average endurance (15th percentile)
- Below average capacity (18th percentile)
- Below average social proof (26th percentile)
The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Drive
| Capacity | 256 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 |
| Protocol | NVMe |
| PCIe Generation | 4 |
| External | No |
Performance
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | 5600 |
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | 6000 |
Hardware
| NAND | TLC |
vs Competition
| Spec | Samsung 256GB SSD | Crucial T500 | Western Digital WD_BLACK SN7100 | Lexar Professional NM1090 PRO | Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SFYR2S/1T0 | Micron T710 CT1000T710SSD5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 256GB | 2TB | 2TB | 2TB | 1TB | 1TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 5.0 |
| Seq Read | 5,600 MB/s | 7,400 MB/s | 7,250 MB/s | 14,000 MB/s | 14,200 MB/s | 14,900 MB/s |
| Nand Type | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC |
| Dram Cache | - | true | false | true | true | true |
| Endurance | - | 1200 TBW | 1200 TBW | 1400 TBW | 1000 TBW | 600 TBW |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Speed | Random | Feature | Capacity | Endurance | Social Proof | Affordability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung 256GB SSD | 77.5 | 61.4 | 53.6 | 17.5 | 14.7 | 25.6 | 79.3 |
| Crucial T500 Compare | 93.8 | 96.5 | 98.9 | 78.3 | 82.8 | 95.2 | 20.1 |
| Western Digital WD_BLACK SN7100 Compare | 91.4 | 95.9 | 53.6 | 78.3 | 88 | 99.6 | 37.6 |
| Lexar Professional NM1090 PRO Compare | 97.9 | 98.2 | 97.3 | 78.3 | 91 | 52.5 | 24.7 |
| Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SFYR2S/1T0 Compare | 97.1 | 98.7 | 90.5 | 54.9 | 92.3 | 86.9 | 25.4 |
| Micron T710 CT1000T710SSD5 Compare | 99.3 | 98.9 | 97.3 | 54.9 | 85.9 | 77.4 | 26.7 |
Price
Value & Pricing
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