Samsung currently has a flash deal on its ultra-popular SSD units, with up to 20% off the Samsung 870 EVO and 980 models.
Samsung is cream of the crop when it comes to SSDs and both these drives feature in our top SSDs reviewed by the team.
You can check out our in-depth review of the Samsung 870 EVO, but in short if you're looking for a SATA drive with great speeds, solid durability and a standard five-year warranty, then look no further.
| Category | Spec |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 500GB |
| Interface | SATA 6GB/s |
| Sequential Read | Up to 560 MB/s |
| Sequential Write | Up to 530 MB/s |
| Random Read | Up to 98,000 IOPS |
| Random Write | Up to 88,000 IOPS |
| NAND | Samsung V-NAND 3-bit MLC (TLC) |
| Cache Memory | 512MB LPDDR4 |
| Warranty | Five years |
| Endurance | 300TBW |
The Samsung 870 EVO SATA SSD will offer fast and reliable performance for your everyday computing tasks, and while not the newest and fastest on the market, it's still one of the best for its price, especially at $39.99.
Another option included in the flash sale is the 980 PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD 1TB.
Another great performing SSD drive from Samsung, without DRAM and using the PCIe interface rather than SATA. The removal of DRAM brings down the cost of this unit considerably but thankfully doesn't impact its performance one jot. Using Host Memory Buffer (HMB) tech, Samsung pulled off one of the first DRAM-free designs that can still perform as well as the 970 EVO Plus.
| Category | Spec |
|---|---|
| Capacity | 1TB |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 x 4 NVMe 1.4 |
| Sequential read | Up to 3,500 MB/s |
| Sequential write | Up to 3,000 MB/s |
| Random read | Up to 500K IOPS |
| Random write | Up to 480K IOPS |
| NAND | 6th Generation Samsung |
| Warranty | Five years |
| Endurance | 600 TBW |
Whether you're in need of a SATA or PCIe SSD, both of the above deals are amazingly light on the budget, and you can't go wrong with Samsung who consistently deliver quality products. With the added comfort of the 5-year warranty of both these items, we think these are a couple of solid-state-deals.
