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Top M.2 SSDs Performance Rankings

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Welcome to our M.2 SSDs Performance Rankings! Here, we’ll add every M.2 SSD we test in our reviews so you can easily choose the best one when upgrading your computer. The SSDs are divided according to their capacity and sorted by Max sequential read speed.

You can buy the SSDs by clicking on their price.

You can check what type of M.2 SSD is supported by your laptop in our Laptop M.2 (NGFF) SSD Compatibility List page.

120 - 128GB M.2 SSDs

# M.2 SSD Model Max Seq.
Read/Write		 IOPS 4K
Read/Write		 Latency
Read/Write		 Price
1
LiteOn CV1-8B128
 0.56 / 0.18 GBps - / - 0.086 / - ms N/A
2
Intel SSD Pro 5450s / SSDSCKKF128G8 (SATA)
 0.55 / 0.15 GBps 7872 / 17239 0.088 / 0.061 ms N/A
3
Samsung CM871
 0.51 / 0.13 GBps 4375 / 7724 0.096 / 0.129 ms N/A

240 - 256GB M.2 SSDs

# M.2 SSD Model Max Seq.
Read/Write		 IOPS 4K
Read/Write		 Latency
Read/Write		 Price
1
SK hynix SC300 HFS256GD9MNE-6200A (NVMe)
 3.19 / 0.92 GBps 11000 / 26180 0.060 / 0.053 ms N/A
2
Samsung PM961 (NVMe)
 3.16 / 1.21 GBps 13944 / 34826 0.042 / 0.027 ms N/A
3
SK Hynix PC401 (NVMe)
 2.63 / 0.82 GBps 9363 / 20733 0.037 / 0.050 ms N/A
4
Toshiba XG3 THNSN5256GPU7 TO (NVMe)
 2.58 / 1.21 GBps 9521 / 27646 0.050 / 0.037 ms N/A
5
LiteOn CA1 8D256 (NVMe)
 2.48 / 0.98 GBps 9666 / 18057 0.051 / 0.061 ms N/A
6
Intel SSD 760p / PEKKW256G8L (NVMe)
 2.35 / 1.03 GBps 13340 / 24671 0.047 / 0.048 ms N/A
7
Samsung SM951 (NVMe)
 2.24 / 1.29 GBps 11320 / 28450 0.057 / 0.034 ms N/A
8
Samsung PM951 MZVLV2560 (NVMe)
 1.58 / 0.31 GBps - / - 0.121 / 0.035 ms N/A
9
Samsung CM871a (SATA III)
 0.53 / 0.50 GBps 10881 / 31265 0.033 / 0.043 ms N/A
10
Samsung 850 EVO (SATA)
 0.51 / 0.47 GBps 11600 / 30683 0.033 / 0.028 ms N/A

480 - 512GB M.2 SSDs

# M.2 SSD Model Max Seq.
Read/Write		 IOPS 4K
Read/Write		 Latency
Read/Write		 Price
1
Lite-On CA3 8D512-Q11
 3.18 / 1.66 GBps 9864 / 25136 0.171 / 0.041 ms N/A
2
Toshiba XG5 KXG50ZNV512G (NVMe)
 3.13 / 0.46 GBps 8425 / 29661 0.055 / 0.046 ms N/A
3
Intel Pro 6000p
 1.83 / 0.59 GBps 7792 / 28266 0.075 / 0.033 ms N/A
4
Intel 600p (NVMe)
 1.63 / 0.55 GBps 8480 / 34960 0.050 / 0.027 ms N/A
5
SK Hynix SC308 (SATA)
 0.50 / 0.45 GBps 5468 / 18852 0.053 / 0.199 ms N/A
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