M.2 & PCIe SSD Charts: 13 SSDs - Samsung 970EVO 250GB
Category : SSD
Published by Marc Büchel on 19.06.18
If you looking for a new M.2 or PCIe SSD this article helps you in getting an overview. So far we've tested 13 different drives and the list will grow whenever a new and relevant drive is released.




Test Setup




Motherboard
  • ASUS Maximus VIII Hero
  • ASUS ROG Zenith Extreme
CPU
  • Intel Core i7-6700K @ Default (Turbo On / HT On)
  • AMD Threadripper 1950X
Memory
  • Klevv CRAS 2 x 8GB DDR4-3000
  • Corsair Vengeance LPX 4 x 8GB DDR4-2133
M.2 SSDs
  • ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 PCIe add-in-card + 4x Samsung 960PRO - 1TB RAID0
  • Corsair Neutron NX500 - 400GB
  • Intel SSD 600p M2 NVMe - 256GB
  • Intel SSD 750 - 1.2TB
  • Kingston HyperX Predator - 480GB
  • Patriot Hellfire M2 - 480GB
  • Plextor M6e - 256GB
  • Samsung 950PRO - 512GB
  • Samsung 960EVO - 500GB
  • Samsung 970EVO - 250GB
  • Samsung 960PRO - 1TB
  • Toshiba OCZ RD400 - 512GB
  • Western Digital WD Blue - 250GB
OS
  • Windows 10 x64
Benchmarks

Benchmarks

  • iometer - QD1 (1 worker)
    • Seq. Write
    • Seq. Read
    • Rand. Write
    • Rand. Read
  • iometer - QD4 (4 workers)
    • Seq. Write
    • Seq. Read
    • Rand. Write
    • Rand. Read
  • iometer - QD8 (4 workers)
    • Seq. Write
    • Seq. Read
    • Rand. Write
    • Rand. Read
  • iometer - QD16 (4 workers)
    • Seq. Write
    • Seq. Read
    • Rand. Write
    • Rand. Read
  • iometer - QD32 (4 workers)
    • Seq. Write
    • Seq. Read
    • Rand. Write
    • Rand. Read
  • iometer - QD64 (4 workers)
    • Seq. Write
    • Seq. Read
    • Rand. Write
    • Rand. Read
System Drive
PSU
  • Seasonic Platinum SS-1000XP / 1000 Watts


Page 1 - Test Setup
Page 2 - Iometer QD1 MB/s & QD4 MB/s
Page 3 - Iometer QD8 MB/s & QD16 MB/s
Page 4 - Iometer QD32 MB/s & QD64 IOPS
Page 5 - Price


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Queue Depth 1

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Queue Depth 4

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Page 1 - Test Setup
Page 2 - Iometer QD1 MB/s & QD4 MB/s
Page 3 - Iometer QD8 MB/s & QD16 MB/s
Page 4 - Iometer QD32 MB/s & QD64 IOPS
Page 5 - Price
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Queue Depth 8

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Queue Depth 16



Page 1 - Test Setup
Page 2 - Iometer QD1 MB/s & QD4 MB/s
Page 3 - Iometer QD8 MB/s & QD16 MB/s
Page 4 - Iometer QD32 MB/s & QD64 IOPS
Page 5 - Price
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Queue Depth 32

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Queue Depth 64

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Page 1 - Test Setup
Page 2 - Iometer QD1 MB/s & QD4 MB/s
Page 3 - Iometer QD8 MB/s & QD16 MB/s
Page 4 - Iometer QD32 MB/s & QD64 IOPS
Page 5 - Price
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Price



ASUS Hyper M.2 x16 PCIe add-in-card
Corsair Neutron NX500 - 400GB
Intel SSD 600p M2 NVMe - 256GB
Intel SSD 750 - 1.2TB
Kingston HyperX Predator - 480GB
Patriot Hellfire M2 - 480GB
Plextor M6e - 256GB
Samsung 950PRO - 512GB
Samsung 960EVO - 500GB
Samsung 970EVO - 250GB
Samsung 960PRO - 1TB
Toshiba OCZ RD400 - 512GB
Western Digital WD Blue - 250GB


Page 1 - Test Setup
Page 2 - Iometer QD1 MB/s & QD4 MB/s
Page 3 - Iometer QD8 MB/s & QD16 MB/s
Page 4 - Iometer QD32 MB/s & QD64 IOPS
Page 5 - Price