Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

Samsung
84 Overall Score
vs
SanDisk 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280

SanDisk 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280

SanDisk
92 Overall Score

Scores

Budget
Samsung
84
SanDisk
94
Console
Samsung
78
SanDisk
93
Gaming
Samsung
81
SanDisk
93
Workstation
Samsung
77
SanDisk
92
Laptop
Samsung
88
SanDisk
80
Portable
Samsung
21
SanDisk
25

Specifications

Samsung 990 EVO PlusSanDisk 4TB SSD
Drive
Capacity
1,000
4,000
Form FactorM.2 2280M.2 2280
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x4PCIe 4.0
ProtocolNVMeNVMe
PCIe Generation44
External✗✗
Performance
Sequential Read (MB/s)
7,150
7,300
Sequential Write (MB/s)
6,300
6,600
Random Read (IOPS)
850,000
1,200,000
Random Write (IOPS)
1,350,000
1,100,000
Hardware
NANDTLCTLC
DRAM Cache✗✓★
ControllerSamsung in-house Controller—
Reliability
Endurance (TBW)
600
2,400
MTBF (hours)
1,500,000
1,750,000
Warranty (years)5★3
Features
Heatsink✗✓★
Hardware Encryption✓★—

Pros & Cons

Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 2280

  • Strong social proof (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Strong random (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Strong endurance (86th percentile)86th %ile
  • Strong speed (84th percentile)84th %ile

SanDisk 4TB SSD PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 2280

  • Strong random (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Strong social proof (95th percentile)95th %ile
  • Strong feature (94th percentile)94th %ile
  • Strong capacity (93rd percentile)93rd %ile

Verdict

★ Winner: SanDisk 4TB SSD

Scores 92 overall, wins 5 of 6 usage categories and 8 of 18 specs.

Samsung 990 EVO Plus Better at:

Laptop

SanDisk 4TB SSD Better at:

BudgetGamingConsolePortableWorkstation