Samsung 990 Evo Plus Solid State Drive Review

Samsung 990 Evo Plus Solid State Drive Samsung 990 Evo Plus Solid State Drive

Samsung 990 Evo Plus Drive Information & Testing Procedures

With the 990 Evo Plus installed and formatted we have 1.81 TB of usable space.

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Opening up CrystalDiskInfo we can see that the drive is using NVMe Express 2.0 and supports TRIM.

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For testing the drive we will be using the following benchmarking programs, we have provided links to each so you can run the benchmarks on your drive for comparison.

Sisoftware Sandra Physical Disks Benchmark (download)
ATTO Disk Benchmark (download)
CrystalDiskMark 64bit (download)
AS SSD Benchmark (download)
Anvil Storage Utility Professional (download)
PCMark 10 (download)
3DMark Storage Benchmark (download)
AIDA64 Storage Benchmark (download)

We also made these optimization changes…

– No power saving options in the BIOS
– ACHI enabled in the BIOS

So let’s get into testing!

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