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interesting that it's a review for a "consumer" drive and contains purely synthetic results and no real world discussion whatsoever. just shut up and buy it kids! does it make any perceptible difference in your life at all? well you can tell the kids with 970s that youre cooler than them

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Anandtech’s reviews are usually better and include at least a few compilation benchmarks (Linux, Chrome, etc). Maybe they’ll post one soon?

They have: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16087/the-samsung-980-pro-pci...

from their conclusion,

"the fundamental problem facing the 980 PRO and other high-end NVMe drives is... very few real-world consumer workloads... make good use of its full performance potential... 1M IOPS... sounds impressive, but that's only possible in fairly unrealistic conditions... the peak... performance of the drive simply does not matter to consumers today.

raid it up yo.

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