Samsung 980

Expert review by : Jon L. Jacobi (pcworld.com)

Samsung 980 NVMe SSD review: Low-ball pricing, light-duty performance

The Samsung 980 NVMe SSD is fine for light-duty tasks, but because it relies on system DRAM for its cache, it performs disappointingly in more intensive jobs.

Good sustained read/write performance ; Very affordable

Reliance on Host Memory Buffer slows down random file performance

I appreciate Samsung’s leveraging of a rarely used NVMe feature (HMB) to reduce costs and save everyone money. The 980 does that, and you might be perfectly happy with it if you single-task with light stuff like web surfing, email, word processing,...