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Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500GB

The Samsung SSD 970 EVO 500 GB (MZ-V7E500BW) is a lower high end M.2 2280 NVMe SSD for Desktops and Laptops. It uses the Samsung Phoenix (S4LR020) Controller with 512 MB LPDDR4 Cache. Samsung specifies 3400 MB/s read and 1500 MB/s write performance and uses 64 Layer 3DNAND TLC from Samsung as memory chips. At the time of announcement in 2018 it was one of the fastest consumer SSDs on the market. The power consumption of the SSD is rated at 9 W (max.), 5.4W (usage), 0.03W (idle), and 0.005W (sleep).

Compared to the SSD 970 Pro, the Evo uses slower TLC memory and is specified with a slightly higher power consumption.

TypeSSD
SizeM.2 2280
Capacity500 GB
InterfaceNVMe
Announced24.04.2018

Benchmarks

AS SSD - Copy Game
951 MB/s (16%)
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AS SSD - Copy Program
363.4 MB/s (13%)
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AS SSD - Copy ISO
2057 MB/s (8%)
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AS SSD - Score Total
min: 3780     avg: 4382     median: 4666 (29%)     max: 4701 Points
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AS SSD - Score Write
min: 1598     avg: 2012     median: 2200 (31%)     max: 2237 Points
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AS SSD - Score Read
min: 1442     avg: 1572     median: 1612 (26%)     max: 1661 Points
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AS SSD - Access Time Write *
min: 0.029     avg: 0     median: 0 (0%)     max: 0.033 ms
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AS SSD - Access Time Read *
min: 0.041     avg: 0.1     median: 0 (0%)     max: 0.064 ms
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AS SSD - 4K-64 Write
min: 1236     avg: 1655     median: 1836 (31%)     max: 1893 MB/s
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AS SSD - 4K-64 Read
min: 1141     avg: 1258     median: 1294 (25%)     max: 1339 MB/s
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AS SSD - 4K Write
min: 113.4     avg: 123.7     median: 125.8 (25%)     max: 131.9 MB/s
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AS SSD - 4K Read
min: 52.5     avg: 53.9     median: 53.6 (17%)     max: 55.5 MB/s
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AS SSD - Sequential Write
min: 2300     avg: 2328     median: 2325 (21%)     max: 2360 MB/s
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AS SSD - Sequential Read
min: 2488     avg: 2601     median: 2630 (21%)     max: 2685 MB/s
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 - 4K QD32 Write
555 MB/s (52%)
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 - 4K QD32 Read
648 MB/s (50%)
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 - 4K Write
154.1 MB/s (5%)
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 - 4K Read
67.1 MB/s (1%)
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 - 512K Write
1201 MB/s (13%)
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 - 512K Read
862 MB/s (18%)
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 - Sequential Write
1652 MB/s (16%)
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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 - Sequential Read
1910 MB/s (22%)
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Write 4K
min: 100.4     avg: 114.9     median: 113.5 (10%)     max: 130.9 MB/s
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Read 4K
min: 41.6     avg: 43.3     median: 43.5 (1%)     max: 44.66 MB/s
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5 Write Seq
min: 1187     avg: 1353     median: 1407 (8%)     max: 1466 MB/s
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5 Read Seq
min: 1190     avg: 1255     median: 1200 (14%)     max: 1376 MB/s
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Write 4K Q32T1
min: 279.3     avg: 297.4     median: 295.4 (6%)     max: 317.4 MB/s
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Read 4K Q32T1
min: 343.9     avg: 368.9     median: 376.8 (6%)     max: 386.1 MB/s
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Write Seq Q32T1
min: 2442     avg: 2483     median: 2498 (17%)     max: 2510 MB/s
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CrystalDiskMark 5.2 / 6 - CDM 5/6 Read Seq Q32T1
min: 3524     avg: 3544     median: 3549 (19%)     max: 3560 MB/s
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