Samsung 980 PRO PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Linux Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 26 October 2020 at 10:35 AM EDT. Page 3 of 4. 32 Comments.
Samsung 980 PRO Linux NVMe SSD Benchmarks
Samsung 980 PRO Linux NVMe SSD Benchmarks

But outside of SQLite, the Samsung 980 PRO series returned to being very competitive with the Corsair Force MP600 and Sabrent Rocket 4.0 with random reads while the random write performance came up short. In general the random write performance on the Samsung 980 PRO series seems to come up abnormally short under Linux.

Samsung 980 PRO Linux NVMe SSD Benchmarks
Samsung 980 PRO Linux NVMe SSD Benchmarks

For sequential reads and writes with FIO using IO_uring, the Samsung 980 PRO series was the fastest.

Samsung 980 PRO Linux NVMe SSD Benchmarks
Samsung 980 PRO Linux NVMe SSD Benchmarks

The IOR write performance of the Samsung 980 PRO came up well below that of the MP600 and Rocket 4.0 drives while for the read performance with the threaded IOR test returned to being the front-runner. Another test of the Samsung 980 PRO write performance struggling under Linux/EXT4...


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