Question Samsung: 970 EVO Plus vs 960 PRO

[Manuel Jordan]

Hello friends

I have an "ASUS ZenBook Pro UX501VW-DS71T" laptop

The SSD is practically this Samsung at Amazon It because the P/N is the same as "MZVPV512HDGL-00000". Therefore about its specs is indicated as follows:

• M.2 Interface: PCIe 3.0 x4 lanes, up to 32Gb/s
• 256MB LPDDR2 DRAM Buffer Memory
• 3 Year Warranty, Supports Standard NVMe driver, APM and L1.2 Power Saving Mode, End-to-End Data Protection, Support TRIM Command, RoHS Compliant, Halogen-Free Compliance
• Sequential Read: 2150MB/s, Sequential Write: 1500 MB/s, Random Read (QD=4): 300K IOPS, Random Write (QD=4): 100K IOPS
• Works with most motherboards and notebooks with a compatible M.2 PCIe interface slot. Includes Z97/X99/Z120 motherboards. Not compatible with the MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or Mac Pro (see description for details)

Sadly Amazon does not sell anymore that item.

About Samsung I found these two:

• Samsung MZ-V7S500B/AM 500GB 970 EVO Plus M.2 (2280)
• Samsung 960 PRO NVMe M.2 512GB SSD (MZ-V6P512BW)

Even when the numbers are clearly different I am assuming that perhaps EVO Plus vs PRO would have an important difference to be considered. Thus if the budget is not a serious problem

*Question*

• What of them is suggested and Why?

I did do a research on YouTube about NAND and exists the SLC, MLC, TLC and QLC types. But I did do realize that these 2 SSD of Samsung has the "V-NAND" term. Thus either vertical or 3d. Just in case for this old laptop

*Extra question*

• Is safe for the Mobo install any of these SSD being V-NAND?

If you have a best suggestion than them, being Samsung and keeping the Gen3 x4 consideration, pls share the model.

Thanks for your understanding

 

[USAFRet]

For the singular dive in your laptop, you would not be able to tell any difference regarding "performance".

Given that, the 970, simply because it is "newer".

 

[Bob.B]

Hello friends

I have an "ASUS ZenBook Pro UX501VW-DS71T" laptop

The SSD is practically this Samsung at Amazon It because the P/N is the same as "MZVPV512HDGL-00000". Therefore about its specs is indicated as follows:

• M.2 Interface: PCIe 3.0 x4 lanes, up to 32Gb/s
• 256MB LPDDR2 DRAM Buffer Memory
• 3 Year Warranty, Supports Standard NVMe driver, APM and L1.2 Power Saving Mode, End-to-End Data Protection, Support TRIM Command, RoHS Compliant, Halogen-Free Compliance
• Sequential Read: 2150MB/s, Sequential Write: 1500 MB/s, Random Read (QD=4): 300K IOPS, Random Write (QD=4): 100K IOPS
• Works with most motherboards and notebooks with a compatible M.2 PCIe interface slot. Includes Z97/X99/Z120 motherboards. Not compatible with the MacBook, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, or Mac Pro (see description for details)

Sadly Amazon does not sell anymore that item.

About Samsung I found these two:

• Samsung MZ-V7S500B/AM 500GB 970 EVO Plus M.2 (2280)
• Samsung 960 PRO NVMe M.2 512GB SSD (MZ-V6P512BW)

Even when the numbers are clearly different I am assuming that perhaps EVO Plus vs PRO would have an important difference to be considered. Thus if the budget is not a serious problem

*Question*

• What of them is suggested and Why?

I did do a research on YouTube about NAND and exists the SLC, MLC, TLC and QLC types. But I did do realize that these 2 SSD of Samsung has the "V-NAND" term. Thus either vertical or 3d. Just in case for this old laptop

*Extra question*

• Is safe for the Mobo install any of these SSD being V-NAND?

If you have a best suggestion than them, being Samsung and keeping the Gen3 x4 consideration, pls share the model.

Thanks for your understanding

Get the 970 and keep the extra 60 bucks in your wallet.

 

[Manuel Jordan]

Thanks for the replies

For the singular dive in your laptop, you would not be able to tell any difference regarding "performance".

Just being curious: According with your knowledge

1. In what kind of laptop about specs the "performance" would be notable?
2. In what kind of apps the "performance" would be notable too?

Given that, the 970, simply because it is "newer".

Understood

Get the 970 and keep the extra 60 bucks in your wallet.

Understood

Thank You

 

[USAFRet]

Just being curious: According with your knowledge

1. In what kind of laptop about specs the "performance" would be notable?
2. In what kind of apps the "performance" would be notable too?

Having multiple types of SSD in my current main system....given a singular storage drive....I defy anyone to tell the difference.
SATA III, PCIe 3.0, 4.0, 5.0.

Solid state drives main benefit vs HDD is the near zero access time. This is across ALL SSD types.

Where you would see a gain is if you were copying large blocks of sequential data between two really fast drives.
ex: A single ISO file of 5GB.

 

[Manuel Jordan]

Huge thanks for the feedback.