Samsung MZ-V7S2T0B/AM 2 TB 970 EVO Plus PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 2280 Client / Consumer Solid State Drive

General

Brand	Samsung
Model	970 EVO Plus
Capacity	2 TB
Usage Class	Client / Consumer

Interface

Host Interface	PCIe Gen3 x4
Total Interface Bandwidth	8 Gb/s

Physical Dimension

Form Factor	M.2 2280

Flash & Endurance

NAND Flash	Samsung V-NAND 3-bit MLC
Drive Writes Per Day	0.33
Total Bytes Written	1200 TBW

Performance

Sequential Read	3500 MB/s
Sequential Write	3300 MB/s
Random Read IOPS	620000
Random Write IOPS	560000
Average Latency	30 μs

Reliability

Mean Time Between Failures	1.5 Million Hours
Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate	1.0×10⁻¹⁷
Power Loss Protection	No

Part Number

MPN	MZ-V7S2T0BW

Engineer's Note

Compared with the earlier MZ-V7S2T0BW ordering code, the MZ-V7S2T0B/AM is the streamlined channel refresh that preserves the same proven 2 TB 970 EVO Plus platform while giving integrators a cleaner drop-in replacement path with no trade-off in performance or endurance. With PCIe Gen3 x4 throughput up to 3,500/3,300 MB/s, 620K/560K IOPS, and 1,200 TBW from Samsung V-NAND 3-bit MLC, it remains a stronger client NVMe choice than typical same-class drives for high-intensity workstation boot, content creation scratch space, and mixed read/write application loads.

Endurance & Reliability

With an endurance rating of 1200 TBW and 0.33 DWPD, this SSD can sustain very substantial write volume over its service life, making it more than sufficient for typical OS boot, application, and general business workloads. In practical terms, for read-heavy or mixed everyday use, procurement teams can view it as a dependable system drive that can operate for many years without endurance becoming a concern. Its UBER specification of 1.0E-15 indicates a low uncorrectable bit error rate, which supports strong day-to-day data integrity and aligns with the reliability level commonly expected from quality client SSDs. This model does not include power-loss protection (PLP), so while it is well suited for standard PCs and workstations, it is not the best fit for environments where protection against in-flight write loss during sudden power failure is a hard requirement.

Technical Specs & Insights

1. The PCIe Gen3 x4 interface provides enough host bandwidth to keep virtualization clusters, OLTP databases, and analytics nodes fed without the storage bus becoming the bottleneck.
2. Its sequential read performance enables much faster large-file access, reducing backup restore windows, speeding up dataset loading, and improving media or archive retrieval efficiency.
3. The strong random read capability supports dense VM farms and read-heavy transactional workloads by sustaining responsive access under highly fragmented, multi-queue I/O patterns.
4. With modest write endurance, this drive is best aligned with read-centric enterprise roles such as boot volumes, content delivery, reference data stores, and analytics tiers rather than heavy rewrite logging workloads.
5. Samsung V-NAND 3-bit MLC paired with very low typical latency delivers a balanced mix of flash density, consistent response time, and predictable application performance for latency-sensitive services.

Capacity Sweet

Lower capacity reference: 1 TB (MZ-V7S1T0B/AM) Higher capacity reference: None in the same series; 2 TB (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM) is the largest standard capacity point in the 970 EVO Plus family. At 2 TB, the MZ-V7S2T0B/AM sits at the sweet spot of the 970 EVO Plus lineup. Compared with the 1 TB model, it gives much better headroom for OS images, active project data, cache, and growth without changing the platform or performance class. At the same time, it avoids the budget jump and migration complexity that usually come with moving to a larger drive family outside the series. This makes 2 TB ideal for a mid-scale virtualization host, such as supporting about 35 to 50 light-duty virtual desktops or mixed application instances.

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