Samsung, Seagate, Hynix, Kingston NVMe SSDs may be suffering up to 53% performance loss

[silversurfer]

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While SSD shoppers have had a great time recently due to some of the super-enticing prices and deals, there has been plenty of negative news surrounding them. Most of the heat has been on Samsung as two of its most premium tier products, the 980 Pro and the newer 990 Pro, have been under fire lately due to some pretty serious issues.
However, more bad news could be heading its way as a new test by PCPartPicker finds that the 970 Evo Plus suffers an alarming 64% slowdown in sequential read performance test. Some of the other tested Samsung drives weren't as terrible as the 990 Pro showed a 48% drop while the 980 Pro exhibited a 38% dip. However, Samsung SSDs aren't the only one showing these kinds of symptoms as other vendor's products were also showing similar performance degradation issues. Only the WD SN850X was unaffected as it showed just a 7% fall. In total, eight 1TB drives were tested. Here are the full results:

• Samsung 970 Evo Plus (64% Drop)
• Seagate Firecuda 530 (53% Drop)
• Samsung 990 Pro (48% Drop)
• SK Hynix Platinum P41 (48% Drop)
• Kingston KC3000 (43% Drop)
• Samsung 980 Pro (38% Drop)
• Crucial P5 Plus (25% Drop)
• Western Digital Black SN850X (7% Drop)

Samsung, Seagate, Hynix, Kingston NVMe SSDs may be suffering up to 53% performance loss

After the two mega-fiascos Samsung recently had with its 990 Pro and 980 Pro SSDs, more bad news could be hitting the industry as several popular models seem to be suffering from performance loss.

www.neowin.net

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Samsung, Seagate, Hynix, Kingston NVMe SSDs may be suffering up to 53% performance loss

After the two mega-fiascos Samsung recently had with its 990 Pro and 980 Pro SSDs, more bad news could be hitting the industry as several popular models seem to be suffering from performance loss.

www.neowin.net

It is noteworthy here that TRIM wasn't enabled in the tests which has led some of the users on Reddit to speculate on the credibility of all the numbers produced. For those who don't know, the TRIM command tells the SSD that specific areas in an SSD contain data that is no longer in use which means they can be wiped. Hence, some believe the use of TRIM could have produced more accurate results that could have been vastly different from the ones we have here. Essentially, it means we may need further testing to verify these findings.

 

[Vasudev]

Just bought SN570 1TB and 970 evo plus,p5, firecuda 530 and kc3000 was lot expensive and went with SN570.

 

[ForgottenSeer 98186]

Numbers that appear terrible on paper, but illustrate no negative affect whatsoever on the user experience. Any extrapolation or conclusions drawn from the data about how the numbers degrade the user experience is pure conjecture.