Samsung vs WD

[bobertthethird]

I'm considering both the Samsung 970 Evo and the Western Digital Black 1TB M2 drives. Reviews seem to hr mixed on them, suggestions? Or am looking and the wrong SSDs altogether?

 

[Hellfire13]

970 should be the better choice... https://www.fullexposure.photography/samsung-970-pro-review/

 

[bobertthethird]

Well that's interesting. Unless I'm misreading those tests. WD throttled the 970 Evo in nearly every aspect (except when the data write was smaller than the turbo write capacity) and yet the article still recommended the Evo over the WD for the budget option (despite them having the same price, and I believe Samsung was actually more expensive when the article was written) The 970 Pro still managed to pull ahead (barely) So I'm wondering why the article recommended the Evo

 

[Hellfire13]

The recommendations have been made keeping in mind several factors liske life span and value per dollar performance, but you should go by your workload.
These are all winners and you cant go wrong with either.