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welcome back to tech yes City and here we have the drive here we'll get the gist of this review out of the way first it's a simple 2 terabyte drive there's also other flavors available one terabyte and 500 gigabytes also 250 and 120 and those drives the one we've got here is the two terabyte drives I'm gonna be talking about this today this comes in at just under 800 USD and in Australia just over a thousand AUD so it's a very expensive drive and with that price tag you would expect exceptional performance and it's a good thing that this thing does perform exceptionally well out of the box however the weirdest thing is about this drive is of course consistency the one terabyte a SSD does come very close to the advertised box speeds and in fact it's getting so close to saturating the maximum speeds available on pcie 3.0 x4 going on the read speeds going up to around about 2800 megabytes per second known the right space of two thousand five hundred megabytes per second however this is only with the one gigabyte test over a SSD when we test the 10 gigabyte variant in the tests involved we see that not only did the I ops drop and they were incredible though going near 500,000 they drop to around about 300,000 when you put a 10 gigabyte stress test through it and not only that the speeds on the right side of things do drop significantly too so furthermore I decided to put it through my very hard hitting 100 gigabyte transfer tests with mixed data patterns and this is when I realized something was a little bit off with this Drive after about 44 gigabytes of transfer the right speeds tank to near half that of what they originally were now this is probably due to Samsung introducing what they call turbo right and they do promise up to 72 gigabytes on this variant the two terabyte Evo however after 44 gigabytes as I said in this test in HD tune Pro the scores were actually a lot worse than 17 gigabytes was dropping at 44 gigabytes so the consistency of this drive is a little bit off and now this is actually very important when it comes to an nvme Drive if it was an entry-level SSD for the consumer a very cheap budget drive I wouldn't here so much but this is an nvme solution that people are buying for productivity they're buying in a professional work environment and it needs to have consistent speeds Samsung I would much rather see you drop those initial burst speeds and somehow look for a way to flatline those right speeds so they're consistent all day every day especially if you're someone like me who edits 4k videos and one video project can have easily over a hundred gigabytes of storage to deal with and that's the advantage of using an nvme Drive as a scratch drive it's very fast it's very efficient however that being said the speeds that it throttles to is still well over that of a gigabyte per second so it is very fast to begin with when we compare it to the MP 500 Drive from Corsair it does still score better even when it's throttled keep in mind though the course MP 500 is still a very consistent drive and keep in mind the Corsair P 500 is actually more expensive at current market rate prices on at least on Amazon so it is quite a compelling option the Samsung 970 evo even when it's throttled also with the warranty it is pretty impressive you do get a five-year warranty with the 970 and also one thousand two hundred terabytes written for endurance there's also encryption support as well as their software The Magicians software also the cloning software which in practice does work extremely well especially the cloning side of things from clonic software this does an excellent job if you want to quickly get your old hard drive transferred to the new SSD and enjoy those faster speeds never even go to the temperature test I test with a thermal image camera and also test with the software itself the ida 64 and also the thermal-imaging camera results we're a little bit better when the sticker was pulled off now I have seen heavy stickers being implemented on the MP 500 for example well they do work efficiently well not only for branding but also to dissipate heat this sticker however I believe is just insulating heat so it's not actually optimal to have this sticker on if you want the best performance with your drive but anyway back to the hardware in the package itself when you get this drive it's just in a little simple package it's encased pretty well and then moving on with the hardware they do have their own in-house Fenix controller and they are using 64 layer v9 flash this does enable them to double the storage pasady from previously one terabyte to now two terabytes of storage so it is actually a very small drive packing a big punch but of course they are using TLC memory as opposed to the pro version which does use mlc based flash so if you are to get those consistent speeds then you may wish to step it up to the pro variant of course there are other competitors that are coming into the field that are using mlc flash so it may want to consider those if you want better value for money Samsung have always had that premium speed and that slightly premium price so here we are with the conclusion the Samsung is a very fast drive even before and after throttling of course I don't like throttling if it's something that Samsung needs to work on its getting their consistency right especially on an nvme Drive definitely when it all comes down to it five-year warranty just under $800 for two terabytes of really fast nvme storage really good additional software to boot and also in Australia just over a thousand AUD it is one of those drives that will suit you very well if you need those fast transfer speeds and you also need that peace of mind with the five-year warranty anyway guys hope you enjoyed this review if you didn't show to hit that like button and I look forward to catching you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye