[SOLVED] Samsung 970 Evo vs 970 Evo Plus vs 970 Pro

[a_w2020]

I'm looking at Samsung's offerings for m.2 SSDs, and they seem to have three tiers for their 970 series. What is the performance/durability difference between the 970 Evo, 970 Evo Plus, and the 970 Pro? Is the price difference between these models justifiable? Thanks!

 

[4745454b]

All of that info is easy to find online. What exactly are you worried about? Or, not quite meaning to be rude, are you too lazy to look anything up?

You asked if the price difference is worth it. I know that for most the 970evo is just fine. The pro has a higher write endurance but home users will probably not care about that. For general home users I suggest the evo if they are going Samsung.

 

[a_w2020]

All of that info is easy to find online. What exactly are you worried about? Or, not quite meaning to be rude, are you too lazy to look anything up?

You asked if the price difference is worth it. I know that for most the 970evo is just fine. The pro has a higher write endurance but home users will probably not care about that. For general home users I suggest the evo if they are going Samsung.

Thank you. I actually did look it up before asking and saw marginal differences in the read/write speeds, but the prices are different so I wanted to know what the other differences are.

 

[4745454b]

As I asked, what about those differences confused you? Your question was really open ended and I personally don't want to write a novel about all of them if you only had questions about two of them. If you want to ask about a few of them then please do so.

Pure difference in read/write speeds between them all are next to nothing. The biggest difference is in SLC cache vs buffer, and IOPS. Pro doesn't use an SLC from what I read, and has the larger IOPS so it doesn't slow down as much executing info. As I said in the first post many people use the EVO quite happily. I don't think you'll notice anything.

 

[Calibur]

I'm looking at Samsung's offerings for m.2 SSDs, and they seem to have three tiers for their 970 series. What is the performance/durability difference between the 970 Evo, 970 Evo Plus, and the 970 Pro? Is the price difference between these models justifiable? Thanks!

I just sent my EVO PRO back to the supplier for a refund. Spent 4 days trying to get it to work with the mobo and eventually gave up. No idea if it was the drive or the motherboard but there are some major incompatibilities with asus motherboards and samsung NVMe drives. My motherboard was the asus a320 and the drive was a samsung 970 pro evo - NVMe

 

[4745454b]

What was the issue?

 

[Calibur]

What was the issue?

Windows would not install properly - catch up on my EPIC post for more details.