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Samsung 980
Capacity 500GB
Form Factor M.2 2280
Interface PCIe 3.0 x4
Read Speed 3,100 MB/s
NAND TLC
Endurance 300 TBW
69 Overall Score
No current retailer price
Snapshot
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Strong social proof (96th percentile) 96th
- Strong random (84th percentile) 84th
- Strong feature (79th percentile) 79th
- Strong user sentiment (78th percentile) 78th
Cons
- Below average capacity (26th percentile)
What owners think
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88/100Our AI sentiment read
The proof
Performance
Specifications
Full Specifications
Drive
| Capacity | 500 |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 |
| Protocol | NVMe |
| PCIe Generation | 3 |
| External | No |
Performance
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | 3100 |
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | 2600 |
| Random Read (IOPS) | 400000 |
| Random Write (IOPS) | 470000 |
Hardware
| NAND | TLC |
| DRAM Cache | No |
| Controller | Pablo |
Reliability
| Endurance (TBW) | 300 |
| MTBF (hours) | 1500000 |
Features
| Hardware Encryption | Yes |
vs Competition
| Spec | Samsung 980 | Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X | Crucial T710 | Kingston Fury Renegade SFYRDK/2000G | Seagate FireCuda 530R | SanDisk Optimus GX PRO 8100 8100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 500GB | 4TB | 4TB | 2TB | 4TB | 8TB |
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 5.0 x4 |
| Seq Read | 3,100 MB/s | 7,300 MB/s | 14,500 MB/s | 7,300 MB/s | 7,400 MB/s | 14,900 MB/s |
| Nand Type | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC | TLC |
| Dram Cache | false | true | false | true | false | false |
| Endurance | 300 TBW | 2400 TBW | 2400 TBW | 2000 TBW | 5050 TBW | 4800 TBW |
| Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
| Product | Speed | Random | Feature | Capacity | User Sentiment | Endurance | Social Proof |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samsung 980 | 56.5 | 84 | 78.5 | 26 | 78.2 | 69.6 | 96.3 |
| Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X Compare | 87.9 | 94.8 | 93.7 | 92.9 | 94.7 | 80.9 | 96.3 |
| Crucial T710 Compare | 98.7 | 98.8 | 85.4 | 92.9 | 0 | 86 | 82.3 |
| Kingston Fury Renegade SFYRDK/2000G Compare | 92.6 | 93.4 | 93.7 | 78.6 | 65.9 | 94.1 | 96.3 |
| Seagate FireCuda 530R Compare | 92.2 | 96.2 | 53.4 | 92.9 | 64.1 | 95.7 | 90.1 |
| SanDisk Optimus GX PRO 8100 8100 Compare | 98.7 | 99.1 | 88.8 | 98.2 | 0 | 87.9 | 51.7 |
Usage Scores
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