Samsung 970 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe SSD review

"  Samsung releases the new 970 EVO and PRO models M.2. SSDs, these offer even faster than the 960 series and come with increased TBW values as well. The new M.2 EVO units will be the most popular ones for the desktop end-users, and can be purchased in volume sizes up-to 2TB. NVMe Storage technology is advancing with extremely fast paces and steps. Oh my, NVMe Storage technology has been with extremely fast paces and steps as we now already reach the 970 series from Samsung. Armed with 64-layer (3-bit per cell) NAND flash memory, DRAM caching the new 970 series are based on the Samsung Phoenix controller, which have been introduced in there OEM PM981 already. Phoenix really is the Samsung Polaris Gen 2 controller now delivering up-to 3,500 MB/s sequential read speeds on even the smaller 500 GB and 1 TB versions, with up-to 2,500 MB/s sequential writes for the EVO series. For a little more shock and awe, Random 4KB numbers run up to 500,000 IOPS read and 480,000 IOPS write, which is pretty crazy.  "

Samsung 970 EVO M.2 500GB NVMe SSD review @ Guru3D