Samsung MZVLB1T0HALR

PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB

PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB
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Release date ≈ Q4 2017.

512GB 1TB

Effective Speed +139% Effective Speed 139%Average User Bench +163% Read 250%, Write 284%, 4K Read 51%, 4K Write 23%, Mixed 219%, 4K Mixed 49%, SusWrite 268%Peak Lab Bench +199% Read 342%, Write 370%, 4K Read 50%, 4K Write 21%, Mixed 299%, 4K Mixed 50%, SusWrite 263%Value & Sentiment -318%User Rating -65%, Market Share -571%Nice To Haves +225% DQ Read 307%, DQ Write 251%, DQ Mixed 303%, ADQ Read 173%, ADQ Write 135%, ADQ Mixed 191%, Age 189%, AS-SSD Total 250%

Market Leaders

Average Bench: 239% (30^th of 992)

Based on 2,806 user benchmarks. Models: PM981 NVMe Samsung 1024GB, NVMe SAMSUNG MZVLB1T0, SAMSUNG MZVLB1T0HALR-00000, SAMSUNG MZVLB1T0HALR-000L7, SAMSUNG MZVLB1T0HALR-000L2

Poor: 146%Average: 239% Great: 315%

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Outstanding average bench

The Samsung PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB averaged 139.4% higher than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This is an excellent result which ranks the Samsung PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB near the top of the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 797MB/s

Avg. Sequential Write Speed 1,608MB/s

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Terrible consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Samsung PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB is 169%. This is a particularly wide range which indicates that the Samsung PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB performs inconsistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 113MB/s

Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 51MB/s

Average Bench

(Based on 2,806 samples)

Rank 30239%

Min	Avg	Max
646	Read 1,618	2,241
696	Write 1,608	2,282
599	Mixed 1,136	1,613
659	SusWrite 1,139	1,472
309% 1,375 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
33	4K Read 51	62.2
57.3	4K Write 113	153
38.8	4K Mixed 67.7	85.2
224% 77.2 MB/s

Min	Avg	Max
72.6	DQ Read 885	1,492
177	DQ Write 710	1,246
94.6	DQ Mixed 797	1,320
597% 797 MB/s

User Benchmarks

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The fastest SSD (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%

TUR-User, 4 hrs ago.

677GB free (System drive)

Firmware: EXA7101Q Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s

SusWrite @10s intervals: 2370 1971 1160 1160 1153 1157 MB/s

349% Outstanding

Write 2,311

Mixed 1,701

SusWrite 1,495

437% 1,946 MB/s

4K Read 68.3

4K Write 190

4K Mixed 96.2

327% 118 MB/s

DQ Read 1,570

DQ Write 1,379

DQ Mixed 1,448

1,093% 1,466 MB/s

USA-User, 3 hrs ago.

301GB free (System drive)

Firmware: 2L1QEXA7 Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s

SusWrite @10s intervals: 1054 1035 1017 993 1003 969 MB/s

203% Outstanding

Write 1,587

Mixed 1,099

SusWrite 1,012

282% 1,251 MB/s

4K Read 45

4K Write 85.3

4K Mixed 58

188% 62.8 MB/s

DQ Read 702

DQ Write 678

DQ Mixed 737

540% 705 MB/s

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Typical PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB Builds (Compare 6,392 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 18%

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Desktop 103%

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Workstation 73%

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System: Dell XPS 15 9570

CPU
Core i7-8750HIntelBench 84%, 79,733 samples	5,174x
Core i9-8950HKIntelBench 91%, 2,721 samples	853x
Core i5-8300HIntelBench 74%, 26,079 samples	364x

GPU
UHD Graphics 630IntelBench 8%, 56,460 samples	4,158x
GTX 1050-Ti (Mobile Max-Q)NvidiaBench 34%, 2,603 samples	2,062x
GTX 1050 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 29%, 46,785 samples	78x

SSD
PM981 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsungBench 239%, 2,806 samples	1x

RAM
HMA81GS6CJR8N-VK 2x8GBUnknownBench 77%, 4,899 samples	1,586x
8ATF1G64HZ-2G6E1 2x8GBUnknownBench 77%, 3,039 samples	1,107x
16ATF2G64HZ-2G6E1 2x16GBUnknownBench 82%, 1,498 samples	826x

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5 months ago.

I have 2o of them all very fast.

GreyGoose

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Terrible

11 months ago.

IMHO best M.2 NVMe SSD in Q1 2018, but since it's an OEM drive Samsung offers literately no drivers if you buy one of them aftermarket (which I tried), so gotta wait for the "980 evo" or whatever they'll call the non OEM version...

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $370	Nvidia GTX 1070 $370	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $75
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $122	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $230	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $105
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HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $43	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $105	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $43
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $716	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $48
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $43	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $110	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12