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Rank 67 out of 68 Summarized in this category Rankings based on: • Pros-to-cons ratio • Number of reviews • Category average

Samsung

980 Pro

Name: 980 Pro
Brand: Samsung

around $110

All prices are estimates and may vary from actual prices.

133 Pros

61%
20 reviews (3h 25m)

86 Cons

The Samsung 980 Pro is a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD offering blazing-fast speeds, ideal for demanding tasks like content creation, gaming, and data analysis. Boasting sequential read speeds up to 7,000 MB/s, it can significantly reduce load times and improve overall system responsiveness. Especially appealing to PS5 and Xbox Series X users, the 980 Pro mat...

Summary of pros and cons from human reviewers, put together by AI

65%

64 vs 34

Performance

79%

19 vs 5

Features

64%

14 vs 8

Compatibility

52%

11 vs 10

Price

29%

4 vs 10

Durability

Reviewer verdict

Across 20 YouTube reviews, the Samsung 980 Pro earns an Index score of 3.4/5, ranking #67 among SSDs. Reviewers most often praise its performance, features, compatibility, while the most common criticisms concern performance, software.

The Samsung 980 Pro is widely praised by reviewers for top-tier performance, with 64 mentions noting it as one of the fastest consumer NVMe drives and delivering very high sequential and random read/write speeds close to manufacturer targets. Many reviewers highlighted Gen4-level throughput (multiple examples of ~6.4–7.0 GB/s reads and strong write numbers) and excellent real-world file-transfer and workstation responsiveness, especially for content creation and gaming workloads. Other commonly noted positives (19 mentions) include useful features like a larger SLC cache on higher capacities, onboard DRAM, Samsung Magician software, and thermal management touches (nickel coating/heat spreader label), while compatibility and value (14 and 11 mentions respectively) were also frequently cited as favorable. Overall, reviewers largely agree the drive delivers class-leading speed and practical features for high-performance PC and console use.

Criticisms cluster around inconsistent real-world performance and firmware/cache behavior, with 34 mentions describing lower-than-advertised sustained speeds once SLC cache fills, variable reported peak results, occasional thermal throttling, and some models (especially smaller capacities) showing pronounced drops. Software and firmware issues (13 mentions) were another recurring concern, including inconvenient firmware update requirements, reports of problematic firmware builds, and the need for Samsung Magician on PC to achieve certain performance claims. Additional worries raised by multiple reviewers include value versus some competing Gen4 drives (price/value mentioned 10 times) and reported reliability problems and rarer catastrophic failures discussed under durability (10 mentions).

Analysis based on 20 YouTube reviews (3h 25m of video) with 133 pros and 86 cons extracted.

Pros (133)

Performance (64)

really good for content creation and workstation users ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 7:43
pretty impressive speed ratings ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 1:02
the samsung 980 pro is the fastest single drive that we've ever tested ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 7:11
the 980 pro does have the slight edge in these smaller block sizes ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 4:03
21 seconds to a drive is actually pretty fast ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 11:21
the absolute fastest drive on the market and it is ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 7:33
extremely fast ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 9:09
6700 read/write speed on a 3950x ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 13:01
the 980 pro is basically a no compromises all-out speed demon designed for super fast disk access ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 7:36
7000 megabytes per second read and write speeds ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 3:02
it has a much larger maximum [SLC cache size] than the smaller size ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 0:52
incredibly impressive 6.4 gigabytes per second in reads ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 1:31
it's still one of the fastest drives going offering speeds that can surpass the 7000mb second Mark which is frankly ludicrous but excellent ▶ Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] @ 6:37
going way faster than an external ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 12:19
seven seconds to move [Bomberman] to the drive ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 13:10
slight advantage in the q depth one and thread one workloads and sequential workloads where the 980 pro does have more consistent results ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 4:11
47 seconds to transfer over a 60 gigabyte file, and that's not bad ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 12:48
one terabyte has a larger minimum [SLC cache size] ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 0:47
literally is four times the performance because it's four times the channels [referring to raw TLC performance after SLC cache is full] ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 2:02
The Samsung 980 Pro is one of the fastest SSDs on the market ▶ How to Upgrade your PS5 Storage - SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with @ 0:16
random raid performance...a thousand one terabyte is twice the performance of the 250 and nearly twice the performance on random right ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 1:27
should be quick ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 0:28
usually the fastest ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 0:31
very impressive random read and write speeds ▶ How to Upgrade your PS5 Storage - SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with @ 0:24
very good sequential read speeds ▶ How to Upgrade your PS5 Storage - SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with @ 0:32
pretty good sequential write speeds ▶ How to Upgrade your PS5 Storage - SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with @ 0:32
the overall All-Star sequential rates of up to 7000 megabytes per second read cannot be denied ▶ Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] @ 6:06
quite impressive as when we've run the test on other nvme drives even some gen 4 ones they were getting similar transfer speeds ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 4:29
getting some of the best speeds that pcie gen 3 can offer all at a half decent price ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 6:14
the samsung 980 pro does the job as well, it does a good job ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 11:48
sticking right in there with the averages and it's doing a good job ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 11:50
dominates the field ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 8:41
double the sequential write speed of competitors ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 9:00
a pretty solid drive ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 6:07
lower latency and dramatically higher read performance ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 10:06
decimates competitors in random write performance ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 10:22
sequential speeds of 7000MB/s and 5000MB/s on the 1TB model ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 2:07
actually able to beat them even in crystal disk mark ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 3:25
able to reach the same results for random iops and sequential read speeds ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 3:20
caching issue yes but it came a lot later it came towards six to eight hundred gigabytes of transfer ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 11:59
2000MB/s faster than competitors ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 2:14
400,000 IOPS in 4k random write ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 10:18
two terabytes and speed this one is 7100 ▶ Installing Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD into a @ 1:05
the 980 Pro was um performed better than any sabrant um comparable Drive ▶ SAMSUNG 980 PRO - UNBOXING - REVIEW - BENCHMARK @ 4:51
4962 megabytes per second for our write speeds ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 4:07
4.5GB/s sequential read speed ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 8:45
maximum speed with speeds up to 6 900 megabytes per second ▶ Review of the SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 Internal @ 0:06
the Samsung definitely performed better ▶ SAMSUNG 980 PRO - UNBOXING - REVIEW - BENCHMARK @ 4:12
it hit very close to its Target Samsung says it's rated for seven thousand uh the sequential right came out to 1594 megabytes per second this is literally only six megabytes away from Target ▶ SAMSUNG 980 PRO - UNBOXING - REVIEW - BENCHMARK @ 2:27
really appreciate the performance boost that you get with a drive like this ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 5:36
really quick ▶ Installing Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD into a @ 9:51
high performance bandwidth for heavy duty applications in gaming graphics data analytic and more ▶ Review of the SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 Internal @ 0:12
it's performing exactly where the manufacturers said it should perform ▶ SAMSUNG 980 PRO - UNBOXING - REVIEW - BENCHMARK @ 4:22
read speed advertised up to 7000 megabytes per second ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 0:38
write speeds up to 5 000 megabytes per second ▶ Review of the SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 Internal @ 0:10
over 500 gig and it did it in eight minutes and 19 seconds, pretty impressive ▶ Installing Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD into a @ 15:29
really really close to those results we got six thousand six hundred and thirty three megabytes per second for our read speeds ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 4:02
definitely works as advertised ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 4:36
laptop hard drive has an impressive speed of 7 000 megabytes a second so that's seven gigabytes a second read speed ▶ ** 7GB/s Fast Laptop Hard Drive for Gaming - Samsung 980 Pro @ 0:10
read speeds are up to 7000 megabytes per second ▶ How To Add Storage To Your PS5 EASILY - Samsung 980 Pro + He @ 0:41
pretty fast to move 108 gigabytes ▶ How To Add Storage To Your PS5 EASILY - Samsung 980 Pro + He @ 5:49
109 gigabytes moved in just over a minute super impressive ▶ How To Add Storage To Your PS5 EASILY - Samsung 980 Pro + He @ 6:02
I'm very happy with the Samsung SSD 980 Pro I've been using it for a couple of weeks now no issues and everything is Gucci ▶ ** 7GB/s Fast Laptop Hard Drive for Gaming - Samsung 980 Pro @ 6:21
read speed is 5539 megabytes per second ▶ How To Add Storage To Your PS5 EASILY - Samsung 980 Pro + He @ 4:38

Features (19)

self-encrypts and all the data is encrypted with aes xts 256 bit encryption with tcg opel 2.0 ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 2:50
the addition of a dedicated heatsink custom made for the system is going to be ideal for anyone preferring the Plug and Play approach as opposed to having to go all DIY too ▶ Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] @ 6:28
what's cool about it ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 1:00
an incredibly cool and incredibly awesome piece of tech ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 13:30
No difference in performance with or without heatsinks. ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 13:05
onboard dram cache is double the size on the one terabyte ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 0:57
history of offering great SSDs ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 0:33
making [their] own controller, own DRAM ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 1:42
vertical integration ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 1:34
no heatsink on the drive ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 1:45
dynamically adds SLC cache ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 5:01
larger SLC cache than 970 Evo Plus (114GB vs 42GB) ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 5:10
7 degree cooler ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 6:38
nickel coating on the controller ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 6:31
heat spreading label ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 6:47
Dynamic Boost 2.0 / TurboWrite 2.0 ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 4:48
samsung embedded a smart thermal solution that uses heat to deliver reliable performance and minimize performance fluctuations during extended usage ▶ Review of the SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 Internal @ 0:30
take advantage of the latest and greatest technology ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 5:30
nickel coating to help manage the controller's heat level and heat spreader label ▶ Review of the SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 Internal @ 0:25

Compatibility (14)

first gen 4 ssd ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 0:09
fully pcie gen 3 capable as well and should also work in pcie gen 3 slots 2 ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 2:04
as fast as the ps5 and the xbox series x as well ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 7:52
Samsung 980 pro, their first pcie gen4 nvme drive ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 0:24
Samsung's first effort in the PCIe Gen 4 category ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 0:17
The 980 Pro uses the NVMe interface which is significantly faster than SATA. ▶ How to Upgrade your PS5 Storage - SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with @ 0:46
the Samsung 980 Pro is still one of the best PS5 ssds on the market ▶ Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] @ 5:49
the Samsung 980 Pro matches the console's internal storage ▶ Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] @ 6:19
this 980 pro works just fine in my playstation 5 ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 6:28
aimed at being more of a mainstream consumer drive that will consequently be compatible with most motherboards ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 0:55
Being a gen 3 drive you also won't have to worry about thermal throttling like you would on a gen 4 drive ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 1:39
no need to worry about gen 4 and if your system supports it at least for the most part it's simply plug and play ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 1:01
pcie 4.0 nvme m.2 ssd ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 0:42
way more than the minimum requirement that sony states ▶ How To Add Storage To Your PS5 EASILY - Samsung 980 Pro + He @ 0:46

Price (11)

Incredibly inexpensive. 1TB for $229, 500GB for $149.99, and 250GB for $89.99 ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 11:00
is usually available substantially cheaper than newer drives on the market ▶ Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] @ 6:24
Cheaper than comparable PCIE Gen 4 drives. ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 11:27
especially considering that the heatsink model is now widely available and frequently discounted too ▶ Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] @ 5:52
the discounts that you can get on these samsung cards ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 4:06
cheaper you can save a little bit of money ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 6:32
180 for a one terabyte samsung 980 pro ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 5:18
359 bucks ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 5:08
they match the price with amazon ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 5:10
helps to keep the cost down ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 2:48
for the price and for what I'm doing which which is primarily game recording and video editing I think this drive is a great deal ▶ SAMSUNG 980 PRO - UNBOXING - REVIEW - BENCHMARK @ 5:34

Software (7)

formatting doesn't take that long ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 9:05
Samsung Magician software ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 11:40
will the 980 pro work for you if you're having writing issues yes format it ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 13:57
firmware update is available now in the Samsung magician software for the PC ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 3:34
updating firmware on SSD these days has been designed to not Flash the nand not format the drive ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 8:16
data on the drive will not have been impacted as this is a light impact firmware update ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 15:26
comes with a free software called samsung magician suite that has friendly tools to help keep your drive up to date while monitoring drive health and boost your performance when needed ▶ Review of the SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 Internal @ 0:39

Durability (4)

the right endurance the warranty ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 1:17
make sure you don't throw a lot of data on there and don't transfer a lot of files simply and that will last ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 14:01
600 terabytes write endurance on the 1TB drive ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 2:42
SSD hard drives the really good ones can last you like eight to ten years ▶ ** 7GB/s Fast Laptop Hard Drive for Gaming - Samsung 980 Pro @ 1:02

Form Factor (4)

single-sided SSD ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 1:23
easier to fit into a motherboard's m.2 slot as most boards these days do have m.2 shields ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 1:48
doesn't have a heatsink on the drive so it will fit under a nice m.2 shield without the fear of kind of dismantling the heatsink ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 6:36
compact m.2 2280 form factor ▶ Review of the SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 Internal @ 0:20

Warranty (3)

comes with a 5 year warranty with around 600 terabytes written and should give you around 1.5 million hours of use before any types of failure ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 2:11
backed by a five-year warranty and a 600 terabyte written endurance ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 2:50
5-year warranty ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 2:37

Power Consumption (3)

your card's not going to get as hot if it's running at a lower speed ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 5:52
D-ramless which means less power draw a simpler controller ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 2:44
optimal power efficiency ▶ Review of the SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 Internal @ 0:22

Availability (2)

go into my local best buy and grab this one right off the shelf ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 5:04
the availability of these cards ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 4:12

Capacity (2)

1.01 terabyte ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 9:50
the average person won't even get to that ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 12:04

Cons (86)

Performance (34)

you're looking at about three to four hundred megs a second slower with sequential reads ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 1:09
bested by sabran's rocket four plus in almost every regard ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 0:18
250 gig model which i would argue is probably too small for a gen 4 drive anyway drops a lot of performance. you still get incredibly impressive 6.4 gigabytes per second in reads but the rights are just 2.7 gigabytes per second which is almost half that of the one terabyte and 500 gig drives ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 1:23
samsung are making use of src or single level cell caching to help get the drive to these incredibly impressive speeds. the problem is that the size of the cache by default is only four gigabytes for the 500 gig drive... meaning once you write 94 gigs of data all in one go mines to the drive it drops off its performance dramatically ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 5:17
this drive actually does thermal throttle a bit ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 1:05
not quite as mind-blowing as i guess i hoped it would be ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 0:13
while Gen 4 drives running the likes of the Faison E18 controller are going to offer more consistent and faster overall random performance ▶ Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] @ 6:10
the drive hit 74 degrees celsius at its peak which is only one degree celsius lower than the smart thermal throttling temperature meaning that if it hits 75 it starts cutting performance to try and keep the controller cool. now i deliberately didn't run it with a heatsink here because there isn't one included in the box ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 6:44
the rocket 4 plus beats it in pretty much every regard ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 3:39
this is only 500 megabytes per [referring to raw TLC performance if slc cache is full on 250gb model] ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 2:07
there's been reports out there people getting as low as 5500 megabytes a second all the way up to you know the advertised you know speed on these on these cards ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 1:16
there's there's something a little a little fishy about that ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 2:31
read speeds at 5582 which samsung promotes 7 000 read speed so it's a little bit less ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 9:13
a quoted five gigabytes per second and reads but one gigabyte per second in right and bear in mind that's down from five you're getting a fifth of the speed once you've written that much data ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 5:45
not getting the 7000 ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 12:32
even a 3950x couldn't get 7000MB/s speeds ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 5:19
took 34 seconds to move it from the drive back to the playstation. It took seven seconds to move it to the drive and 34 seconds to move it back to the playstation, which is a big difference, that is like five times difference and five times speed difference ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 13:21
if you look at the attu numbers that's not quite as impressive it maxes out at 4.5 gigabytes per second and writes in 6.3 gigabytes per second and reads with a q depth of four which isn't quite as good as they claimed it to be ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 2:51
sequential write speed on the slc cache is only 2700 megabytes per second on the small drive ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 1:51
that says seven thousand megabytes a second you know and i kind of was like a little worried about that ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 0:52
it's kind of the luck of the draw ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 1:24
too many reports about them not getting 7 600 megabytes ▶ Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD @ 5:34
at 25 and 50 we lost about 200 megabytes a second and at 75 it was closer to a 300 megabytes a second loss ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 5:00
the samsung was up in the numbers of like 6 700 before i saw any issues ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 3:52
samsung had some caching issues as well ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 3:17
did it have the caching issue yes ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 11:56
write speeds aren't far behind at 3 000 megabytes a second again slightly behind the 970 evo plus ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 2:05
weren't far off from the advertised speeds and came in i guess ever so slightly lower ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 3:31
towards the end of the file transfer it did drop down to between 380 and 400 megabytes a second with some drops actually as low as 330 ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 4:25
if you're having writing issues ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 13:57
diminished performance with our assd benchmark so our read score is showing 4938 megabytes per second and our right score is showing 3760 megabytes per second ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 4:13
samsung lies in their marketing because apparently that drive is capable of 7 100 uh reads but you have to be on a pc with some special samsung magician software installed so on the ps5 what you're going to get is what i get which is like 57 5800 which is fine for the ps5 ▶ Installing Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD into a @ 17:04
honestly there's not a huge difference in speed ▶ Samsung 980 PRO SSD Unboxing & Quick Review @ 2:41
wasn't a huge uh step up from the 970 pro ▶ Samsung 980 PRO SSD Unboxing & Quick Review @ 3:41

Software (13)

have to install it physically in a system ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 4:41
one that starts with the three is the one that basically your drive was guaranteed to have a one-way ticket to failure town ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 4:14
sitting on the firmware starting with a three and might even have some Red Blocks showing up ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 11:27
tried doing this on a card reader an nvme card reader, the problem is the card reader is just a translator that turns the nvme into a USB device now it can't write to the drive firmwares ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 4:44
have people notice have people complain about it yes ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 12:11
if you don't have a PC with an available M2 nvme slot that allows you to install one of these inside you're not going to be able to update the firmware ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 6:23
when you finally see that cache fill up for some reason just format it again ▶ Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for Yo @ 14:05
about the speed thing i saw a video where someone pointed out that the 980 pro comes with a little brochure that talks about this software called the samsung magician that you're supposed to download for your pc to make it to it's i forget the words but it's like to enable its true speed. so basically to get the 7100 read speed you apparently have to have this software running to do something to the draw to do something to the ssd ▶ Installing Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD into a @ 12:54
particular firmware on the 980 Pro that was actually corrupting portions of the drive ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 2:02
problem is with the firmware itself ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 1:46
you can't update firmware without going directly into pcie connection via the BIOS there on the motherboard mobile there ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 6:48
you can't use an external docking station ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 6:42
you can't even use a standard even higher end fender about one that still doesn't work ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 7:02

Price (10)

don't buy this... because there are already better drives on the market ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 10:04
around 15 to 20 dollars more expensive than the fireq 520 and the rocket ▶ Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? @ 8:42
samsung is basically just late to the party ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 9:05
it is more expensive than other SSDs ▶ How to Upgrade your PS5 Storage - SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with @ 0:16
30 cents a gig for the 5 [hundred GB] 36 cents a gig for the 256 [GB] ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 1:07
one terabyte... that's a lot of money ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 0:14
not as good value for your money ▶ How to Upgrade your PS5 Storage - SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with @ 0:39
with our pny xlr8 we got our crystal disk benchmark score of 6965 megabytes per second for our read and we got 5244 megabytes per second for our right so it is a little bit faster ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 4:54
my favorite drive is still the pny xlr8 and with that drive we do still best this samsung drive ▶ Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review @ 4:46
samsung does sell this drive with a heatsink already applied for more money ▶ How To Add Storage To Your PS5 EASILY - Samsung 980 Pro + He @ 6:08

Durability (10)

once it goes into that com that right or that read state only that's it your drive is toast ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 11:35
2 terabyte nvme failures ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 0:06
once your drive goes into that failure State there's no getting it back ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 3:11
research showed as many as 9000 errors on a drive that is very young and very high health ▶ Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happeni @ 3:28
if this happens your drive goes into a read-only state which again if it's an OS drive or a priority Drive is going to be hugely problematic even when there's background Dynamic data generation ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 4:18
reliability and the apparent slow death of a number of Samsung ssds ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 0:23
smart testing in a zero e or zero three value that is a media error ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 2:09
kind of out of nowhere failures on their drives just out of the blue ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 1:15
indicates a number of errors on the control detecting unrecoverable data Integrity errors these are basically bad blocks or dead zones on the disk ▶ Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails @ 11:26
lesser uh reliability ▶ Samsung 980 PRO SSD Unboxing & Quick Review @ 3:45

Compatibility (8)

requires a very beefy CPU to get full speeds ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 3:26
this drive May no longer be the absolute fastest gen 4.0 unit that you can slot into your Sony system ▶ Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] @ 5:59
a little ahead of its time ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 3:59
can't copy to a m2 ssd ▶ Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat @ 11:40
Limited compatibility (AMD platforms only initially) ▶ Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) @ 11:00
that did not sit well with me and there is no such software for the ps5 ▶ Installing Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD into a @ 13:29
don't expect much if you're getting a 980 pro on pci gen 3 ▶ Samsung 980 PRO SSD Unboxing & Quick Review @ 4:12
because of the fact that it's not running on a gen 4 uh pci express e slot ▶ Samsung 980 PRO SSD Unboxing & Quick Review @ 2:46

Features (5)

this is going to be a preview this is not going to be a review ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 0:41
for the first time it is not actually an mlc drive it is a tlc drive ▶ One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung @ 2:38
Uses 3-bit mlc v-nand and while it's not as fast as the likes of slc it is faster than tlc ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 1:31
the samsung does not come with a heat sink ▶ Installing Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD into a @ 1:31
using a different kind of nand flash uh lower grade one like the 970 evo ▶ Samsung 980 PRO SSD Unboxing & Quick Review @ 3:48

Capacity (3)

why the 250 and the 500 exist is freaking beyond me these are the dumbest thing ever [referring to lower capacity options of the 980 pro] ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 1:02
only comes in at 250 gig 500 gig and one terabyte sizes ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 1:11
would have liked to have seen a slightly larger maybe two terabyte capacity ▶ Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? @ 1:16

Warranty (1)

the 980 pro offers a five year warranty as does the saber drive but... the samsung 980 pro's case the one terabyte model comes with a 600 terabyte written warranty... but the thing is that on the server drive of the same capacity it's 700 terabytes ▶ Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB @ 7:37

Power Consumption (1)

uses a tiny bit more power ▶ Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thou @ 1:41

Form Factor (1)

the 980 Pro doesn't come with an m.2 mounting screw ▶ SAMSUNG 980 PRO - UNBOXING - REVIEW - BENCHMARK @ 0:52

Review sources

Samsung SSD 980 PRO Review (PCIe Gen4) by StorageReview — 24 pros, 1 cons
Samsung SSD 980 Review - Fast But Affordable? by eTeknix — 14 pros, 7 cons
Samsung 980 PRO Review - DON’T BUY! - TechteamGB by TechteamGB — 5 pros, 11 cons
Review Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for Playstation 5 Storage SSD by FrogboyX1Gaming — 9 pros, 5 cons
One of the fastest consumer NVMe SSDs on the planet! Samsung 980 PRO SSD Hands on w/ Benchmarks by Robeytech Live — 8 pros, 5 cons
Samsung 980 Pro — PCI-E Gen 4 NVMe — Worth It? — Tech's Thoughts... by Byte Size Tech — 6 pros, 6 cons
Buying a Gen 4 SSD? Why the WD Black SN850 is the ONE for You by Nikos Rentas — 6 pros, 6 cons
Samsung SSDs Dying! 980 Pro, 990, 970 EVO PLUS, PM9A1 Fails - Everything We Know So Far! by NASCompares — 3 pros, 9 cons
Samsung 980 Pro: Was It Worth The Wait? by Gear Seekers — 8 pros, 3 cons
Upgrading PS5 Installing Samsung 980 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD + Heat Sink With Speed Test by Jakwon — 7 pros, 4 cons
Samsung 980 Pro NVMe Failure and how to stop it from happening! by JayzTwoCents — 0 pros, 10 cons
Samsung 980 Pro SSD Review by Digital David — 7 pros, 3 cons
Best SSD for PS5 2025 [don’t buy one before watching this] by Valid Consumer — 7 pros, 2 cons
Review of the SAMSUNG 980 PRO 500GB PCIe NVMe Gen4 Internal Gaming SSD M.2 (MZ-V8P500B) by Faser15 — 8 pros, 0 cons
How to Upgrade your PS5 Storage - SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with Heatsink 2TB SSD Review by Elden Reviews — 5 pros, 2 cons
Installing Samsung 980 PRO 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD into a Playstation 5 (7000 MB/s is a LIE) by Dr Wiggo — 3 pros, 4 cons
SAMSUNG 980 PRO - UNBOXING - REVIEW - BENCHMARK by The Spaceman — 5 pros, 1 cons
How To Add Storage To Your PS5 EASILY - Samsung 980 Pro + Heat Sink by Dem Crumblies Tech — 5 pros, 1 cons
Samsung 980 PRO SSD Unboxing & Quick Review by Lou's WRX — 0 pros, 6 cons
** 7GB/s Fast Laptop Hard Drive for Gaming - Samsung 980 Pro Review - PCIv4 2TB SSD Hard Drive by UnboxArmyChannel — 3 pros, 0 cons

Frequently asked questions

Is the Samsung 980 Pro worth buying?

Based on 20 independent YouTube reviews, the Samsung 980 Pro scores 3.4/5 with 133 positive and 86 negative points mentioned by reviewers, placing it #67 in the SSDs category.

What do reviewers like most about the Samsung 980 Pro?

The most praised aspects are performance, features, compatibility — Performance (64 mentions), Features (19 mentions), Compatibility (14 mentions).

What are the most common complaints about the Samsung 980 Pro?

Reviewers most frequently criticize performance, software — Performance (34 mentions), Software (13 mentions).

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