Samsung SSD 980 500 GB review: fast and affordable

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I recently installed a 500 GB NVMe M2 SSD from my home PC. So I said it's a good opportunity to test it a little bit. The performance is not to be denied at all, and the price is affordable.

And just for fun, I did a speed test on the SSD, also Samsung, on the SATA I have. The differences are huge (but it was to be expected in the SATA vs NVMe scenario), only when I got the SSD on SATA it cost twice as much as an M2 now.

This is because the 500 GB Samsung SSD 980 can be found for around 360 lei. It's a VERY GOOD price!

But let's also look at the speed tests. I ran in AS SSD Benchmark, CrystalDiskMark and Samsung Magician, the tool from Samsung. And for comparison, I also tested in Samsung Magician and Samsung SSD 860 SATA. The results are below.