Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500 GB (MZ-V7S500BW)

The Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500 GB SSD (MZ-V7S500BW) features an M.2 (2280) form factor and connects to the motherboard through a PCIe Gen 3.0 x 4 slot, NVMe 1.3. The drive offers 500 GB capacity and uses Samsung V-NAND 3-bit MLC memory. Read and write speeds reach up to 3500 MB/s and 3200 MB/s respectively. The drive has a mean time between failures of 1500000 hours. It supports TRIM and SMART technologies, automatic garbage collection, 256-bit AES encryption (Class 0) with TCG/Opal IEEE1667 for encrypted drive functionality, and WWN.