Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Linux Performance

With the application start-up time test of various applications while having a lot of reads being carried out concurrently in the background, the Samsung 980 PRO drives were the fastest of the set of consumer drives tested. All of the PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs were much faster than the older PCIe 3.0 drives for comparison.

But when running the startup-time test profile with a mix of reads and writes in the background, the Samsung 980 PRO series were less competitive with the Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB now being the fastest followed by the Corsair Force MP600 series. The 980 PRO series was still a big upgrade over the 970 EVO Plus and Crucial P2.

The Samsung 980 PRO series is still painfully slow on EXT4 with Linux for database workloads like SQLite.