Is the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB SSD a good choice ?

[Aki]

Hi all

I've been meaning to get an SSD for quite a while now and picked up a 980 Pro today. The 970 Evo Plus 1TB was 100, the 980 Pro 1TB was 130. I figured the price gap was so small, I might aswell go for the 980 Pro. Was this a good choice, or should I return it and get the 970 Evo Plus ? It's not really about the 30 bucks I'd be saving, and more about me worrying the 980 Pro might be somehow worse despite being the newer option.

[just.kamk /idle]

It will work, just with pci3 speed. Meaning 970 Evo plus speed more or less.

[Aki]

kamk /idle님이 먼저 게시:

It will work, just with pci3 speed. Meaning 970 Evo plus speed more or less.

Alright, thank you.

[Illusion of Progress]

I wouldn't worry. SSDs are one thing with a Samsung label that you can still but and not worry there may be something wrong about it (TVs or appliances, on the other hand...).

Yes, it will work in a PCI Express 3.0 system, although at reduced speeds, so the 970 Evo Plus may have served you about as well.

Speaking of speed, it's worth mentioning too the peak sequential throughput it always presented front and center, but it's not representative of general performance for most people/most uses. If you're not going to be creating/moving/copying very large files back and forth a lot, you probably won't even tell the difference between that and a SATA SSD, let alone the two drives you're comparing (especially in that system where the faster one has it's top throughput speed limited). So the lost performance likely isn't an issue at all, but you could have therefore arguably saved $30. On the other hand, it's $30, and when you ever move to a newer system, the drive will be "faster" (whether or not your uses take advantage of it is why I quote it).

So arguably, maybe not the best choice if you want to dissect every little thing, but still not a bad choice at all. Definitely nothing to worry about.

[plat]

Well, being curious, I re-ran the Crystal Disk Mark on both drives. The 970 EVO Plus is about 3 years old but is seldom used and has 100% remaining life. It has a somewhat higher temp because I don't put the heatsink on it. (makes a great case for putting nvme under one of those, it lowers the temp significantly) The capacity is not a significant factor.

You can see the reads are about the same but the 970 EVO +'s writes are signif. lower. This correlates with my perceived performance differences and why the 980 Pro is my daily driver/Windows 10. The machine boots about 5 seconds faster in W10 and shuts down about 2 sec. faster. May be negligible for some but I prefer the 980 Pro any day on my ASUS Z-390 board (PCIe v.3). OP doesn't have PCIe v. 4 it seems; otherwise, the choice would be clear--in favor of the 980 Pro which can do up to 7000 mb/s reads alone. Of course, one's performance may vary from these results--this is an example only.

970 EVO +
https://i.imgur.com/fSFREP5.png

980 Pro
https://i.imgur.com/QWz5OO2.png

[Illusion of Progress]

Your drives are both different capacities than the 1 TB drives OP was looking at which doesn't make them directly comparable. Peak sequential results aren't necessarily the best way to judge a drive anyway (more so when the advantages of the one is cut into by not having a PCI Express 4.0 capable system, but even if it were).

[🍃🪻🪷Sylvie🩵🍸🍵]

2TB model is better choice.

[Chelle]

Like someone above my post wrote the larger versions are perhaps a better choice if affordable.
And yep they're great.

[Aki]

Sylvia🍃님이 먼저 게시:

2TB model is better choice.

It's also double the price, and I don't see myself using 2TB honestly. I'm just using this to run a couple of games faster. By the time the drive fills up, I can already uninstall old games I've stopped playing.

[Aki]

Illusion of Progress님이 먼저 게시:

I wouldn't worry. SSDs are one thing with a Samsung label that you can still but and not worry there may be something wrong about it (TVs or appliances, on the other hand...).

Yes, it will work in a PCI Express 3.0 system, although at reduced speeds, so the 970 Evo Plus may have served you about as well.

Speaking of speed, it's worth mentioning too the peak sequential throughput it always presented front and center, but it's not representative of general performance for most people/most uses. If you're not going to be creating/moving/copying very large files back and forth a lot, you probably won't even tell the difference between that and a SATA SSD, let alone the two drives you're comparing (especially in that system where the faster one has it's top throughput speed limited). So the lost performance likely isn't an issue at all, but you could have therefore arguably saved $30. On the other hand, it's $30, and when you ever move to a newer system, the drive will be "faster" (whether or not your uses take advantage of it is why I quote it).

So arguably, maybe not the best choice if you want to dissect every little thing, but still not a bad choice at all. Definitely nothing to worry about.

Thanks for your input aswell! My SSD is now snuggly seated on my motherboard.

[🦜Cloud Boy🦜]

980 Pro needs PCI Gen 4 supported motherboard, otherwise you won't get the rated speed.

Obviously 980 Pro is better, it's newer and uses more advanced technology.

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I have the samsung 980 pro 1tb nvme 4.0 pcie and it's a real good ssd I highly recommend it.

[☎need4naiim☎]

Compare them in TBW stat. This endurance rating can be found in Samsung's official site for those products.

I recommend you to buy the one having higher TBW rating.

Both of them are quite fast for you already, so speed (at that level) is not a game changer.