Benchmark #134746 - pibenchmarks.com

Brand: Samsung PM981a M.2 NVMe Series
SSD (M.2 NVMe)
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Overview
2026-08-01 00:07:30
#134,746
53,355
+11,388 (+21.34%)
Triton3-66H01
Triton3 NVMe SSD 250G

Storage Details
Samsung PM981a M.2 NVMe Series
SSD (M.2 NVMe)
238G
SSD
Samsung
PM981NVMeSED256GB
None

System Board Details
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Raspberry Pi 5B 1.0
Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0
Raspberry Pi Foundation
N/A
4
2,400
910 (+10)
2,133

Operating System

Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
aarch64

Benchmark Results
599 MB/s
782.15 MB/s
786.22 MB/s
90,619 IOPS
211,134 IOPS
362,477 KB/s
844,536 KB/s
252,924 KB/s
188,952 KB/s
68,497 KB/s
225,555 KB/s

inxi Results
System: Kernel: 6.12.87+rpt-rpi-2712 arch: aarch64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A clocksource: arch_sys_counter parameters: reboot=w coherent_pool=1M 8250.nr_uarts=1 pci=pcie_bus_safe cgroup_disable=memory numa_policy=interleave nvme.max_host_mem_size_mb=0 numa=fake=8 system_heap.max_order=0 iommu_dma_numa_policy=interleave smsc95xx.macaddr=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX vc_mem.mem_base=0x3fc00000 vc_mem.mem_size=0x40000000 console=ttyAMA10,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=e94d2e6e-02 rootfstype=ext4 fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles cfg80211.ieee80211_regdom=JP Console: tty 1 DM: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) Machine: Type: ARM System: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0 details: N/A rev: d04170 Battery: Message: No system battery data found. Is one present? Memory: System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.87 GiB used: 719.6 MiB (8.9%) igpu: 4 MiB RAM Report: smbios: No SMBIOS data for dmidecode to process PCI Slots: Message: No ARM data found for this feature. CPU: Info: model: N/A variant: cortex-a76 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: ARMv8 family: 8 model-id: 4 stepping: 1 Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: cache: L1: 512 KiB desc: d-4x64 KiB! i-4x64 KiB L2: 2 MiB desc: 4x512 KiB L3: 2 MiB desc: 1x2 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2400 min/max: 1500/2400 scaling: driver: cpufreq-dt governor: ondemand cores: 1: 2400 2: 2400 3: 2400 4: 2400 bogomips: 432 Features: aes asimd asimddp asimdhp asimdrdm atomics cpuid crc32 dcpop evtstrm fp fphp lrcpc pmull sha1 sha2 Vulnerabilities: Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected Type: l1tf status: Not affected Type: mds status: Not affected Type: meltdown status: Not affected Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected Type: retbleed status: Not affected Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: __user pointer sanitization Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: CSV2, BHB Type: srbds status: Not affected Type: tsa status: Not affected Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected Type: vmscape status: Not affected Graphics: Device-1: bcm2712-hdmi0 driver: vc4_hdmi v: N/A bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107c701400 class-ID: hdmi Device-2: bcm2712-hdmi1 driver: vc4_hdmi v: N/A bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107c706400 class-ID: hdmi Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.X.X with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: LabWC driver: N/A tty: 80x40 API: Vulkan v: 1.3.239 layers: 2 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: V3D 7.1.X.X driver: mesa v3dv v: 24.2.8-1~bpo12+rpt5 device-ID: 14e4:55701c33 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 128 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 24.2.8-1~bpo12+rpt5 (LLVM 15.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console, glxinfo missing. Audio: Device-1: bcm2712-hdmi0 driver: vc4_hdmi bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107c701400 class-ID: hdmi Device-2: bcm2712-hdmi1 driver: vc4_hdmi bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107c706400 class-ID: hdmi API: ALSA v: k6.12.87+rpt-rpi-2712 status: kernel-api tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: n/a (root, process) with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (using pipewire-pulse) tools: pacat,pactl Network: Device-1: Raspberry Pi RP1 PCIe 2.0 South Bridge driver: rp1 v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 0002:01:00.0 chip-ID: 1de4:0001 class-ID: 0200 IF: wlan0 state: down mac: IF-ID-1: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: IP v4: type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: IP v6: type: dynamic mngtmpaddr scope: global IP v6: scope: link WAN IP: Bluetooth: Device-1: bcm7271-uart driver: bcm7271_uart bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107d50c000 class-ID: serial Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: Info: acl-mtu: 1021:8 sco-mtu: 64:1 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept Device-2: bcm7271-uart driver: ctrl bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:n/a class-ID: serial Logical: Message: No logical block device data found. RAID: Message: No RAID data found. Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 9.51 GiB (4.0%) ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: PM981 NVMe SED 256GB size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD fw-rev: EXD71D2Q temp: 38.9 C scheme: MBR SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 9d 0h cycles: 95 read-units: 1,686,850 [863 GB] written-units: 6,504,641 [3.33 TB] Message: No optical or floppy data found. Partition: ID-1: / raw-size: 237.97 GiB size: 233.18 GiB (97.99%) used: 9.44 GiB (4.1%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: rootfs uuid: a36be96c-66be-4487-a7a6-0481bca99d89 ID-2: /boot/firmware raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 69.3 MiB (13.6%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: bootfs uuid: 5DC7-F115 Swap: Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /var/swap Unmounted: Message: No unmounted partitions found. USB: Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 Sensors: Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 54.9 C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 4029 Repos: Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1730 libs: 933 tools: apt,apt-get Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 1: deb http: //deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware 2: deb http: //deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware 3: deb http: //deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list 1: deb http: //archive.raspberrypi.com/debian/ bookworm main Processes: CPU top: 5 of 231 1: cpu: 0.1% command: bash pid: 131812 mem: 3.17 MiB (0.0%) 2: cpu: 0.0% command: systemd pid: 1 mem: 12.8 MiB (0.1%) 3: cpu: 0.0% command: [kthreadd] pid: 2 mem: 0.00 MiB (0.0%) 4: cpu: 0.0% command: [pool_workqueue_release] pid: 3 mem: 0.00 MiB (0.0%) 5: cpu: 0.0% command: [kworker/r-kvfree_rcu_reclaim] pid: 4 mem: 0.00 MiB (0.0%) Memory top: 5 of 231 1: mem: 96.5 MiB (1.1%) command: labwc pid: 891 cpu: 0.0% 2: mem: 91.2 MiB (1.1%) command: wayvnc pid: 122141 cpu: 0.0% 3: mem: 86.0 MiB (1.0%) command: wayvnc pid: 794 cpu: 0.0% 4: mem: 79.8 MiB (0.9%) command: xwayland pid: 1283 cpu: 0.0% 5: mem: 76.8 MiB (0.9%) command: pcmanfm pid: 1166 cpu: 0.0% Info: Processes: 231 Uptime: 58d 13h 6m Init: systemd v: 252 target: graphical (5) default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.31

inxi Results

System:
  Kernel: 6.12.87+rpt-rpi-2712 arch: aarch64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A clocksource: arch_sys_counter
    parameters: reboot=w coherent_pool=1M 8250.nr_uarts=1 pci=pcie_bus_safe cgroup_disable=memory
    numa_policy=interleave nvme.max_host_mem_size_mb=0 numa=fake=8 system_heap.max_order=0
    iommu_dma_numa_policy=interleave smsc95xx.macaddr=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX vc_mem.mem_base=0x3fc00000
    vc_mem.mem_size=0x40000000 console=ttyAMA10,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=e94d2e6e-02
    rootfstype=ext4 fsck.repair=yes rootwait quiet splash plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles
    cfg80211.ieee80211_regdom=JP
  Console: tty 1 DM: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: ARM System: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0 details: N/A rev: d04170 Battery:
  Message: No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.87 GiB used: 719.6 MiB (8.9%) igpu: 4 MiB
  RAM Report: smbios: No SMBIOS data for dmidecode to process
PCI Slots:
  Message: No ARM data found for this feature.
CPU:
  Info: model: N/A variant: cortex-a76 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: ARMv8 family: 8 model-id: 4
    stepping: 1
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt:  cache: L1: 512 KiB desc: d-4x64 KiB! i-4x64 KiB
    L2: 2 MiB desc: 4x512 KiB L3: 2 MiB desc: 1x2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2400 min/max: 1500/2400 scaling: driver: cpufreq-dt governor: ondemand cores:
    1: 2400 2: 2400 3: 2400 4: 2400 bogomips: 432
  Features: aes asimd asimddp asimdhp asimdrdm atomics cpuid crc32 dcpop evtstrm fp fphp lrcpc
    pmull sha1 sha2
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: CSV2, BHB
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsa status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
  Type: vmscape status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: bcm2712-hdmi0 driver: vc4_hdmi v: N/A bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107c701400
    class-ID: hdmi
  Device-2: bcm2712-hdmi1 driver: vc4_hdmi v: N/A bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107c706400
    class-ID: hdmi
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.X.X with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: LabWC
    driver: N/A tty: 80x40
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.239 layers: 2 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: V3D 7.1.X.X
    driver: mesa v3dv v: 24.2.8-1~bpo12+rpt5 device-ID: 14e4:55701c33 surfaces: N/A device: 1
    type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 128 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 24.2.8-1~bpo12+rpt5
    (LLVM 15.0.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
  API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console, glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: bcm2712-hdmi0 driver: vc4_hdmi bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107c701400 class-ID: hdmi
  Device-2: bcm2712-hdmi1 driver: vc4_hdmi bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107c706400 class-ID: hdmi
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.87+rpt-rpi-2712 status: kernel-api tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: n/a (root, process) with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active tools: pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
  Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (using pipewire-pulse) tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
  Device-1: Raspberry Pi RP1 PCIe 2.0 South Bridge driver: rp1 v: kernel port: N/A
    bus-ID: 0002:01:00.0 chip-ID: 1de4:0001 class-ID: 0200
  IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 
  IF-ID-1: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 
  IP v4:  type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: 
  IP v6:  type: dynamic mngtmpaddr scope: global
  IP v6:  scope: link
  WAN IP: 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: bcm7271-uart driver: bcm7271_uart bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:107d50c000 class-ID: serial
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block:
    hardware: no software: yes address: 
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:8 sco-mtu: 64:1 link-policy: rswitch sniff link-mode: peripheral accept
  Device-2: bcm7271-uart driver: ctrl bus-ID: N/A chip-ID: brcm:n/a class-ID: serial
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 9.51 GiB (4.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: PM981 NVMe SED 256GB size: 238.47 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD fw-rev: EXD71D2Q temp: 38.9 C scheme: MBR
  SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 9d 0h cycles: 95 read-units: 1,686,850 [863 GB]
    written-units: 6,504,641 [3.33 TB]
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 237.97 GiB size: 233.18 GiB (97.99%) used: 9.44 GiB (4.1%) fs: ext4
    block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: rootfs
    uuid: a36be96c-66be-4487-a7a6-0481bca99d89
  ID-2: /boot/firmware raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 69.3 MiB (13.6%) fs: vfat
    block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: bootfs uuid: 5DC7-F115
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 512 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /var/swap
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1
    mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
    lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1
    mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 54.9 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 4029
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 1730 libs: 933 tools: apt,apt-get
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    1: deb http: //deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http: //deb.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    3: deb http: //deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list
    1: deb http: //archive.raspberrypi.com/debian/ bookworm main
Processes:
  CPU top: 5 of 231
  1: cpu: 0.1% command: bash pid: 131812 mem: 3.17 MiB (0.0%)
  2: cpu: 0.0% command: systemd pid: 1 mem: 12.8 MiB (0.1%)
  3: cpu: 0.0% command: [kthreadd] pid: 2 mem: 0.00 MiB (0.0%)
  4: cpu: 0.0% command: [pool_workqueue_release] pid: 3 mem: 0.00 MiB (0.0%)
  5: cpu: 0.0% command: [kworker/r-kvfree_rcu_reclaim] pid: 4 mem: 0.00 MiB (0.0%)
  Memory top: 5 of 231
  1: mem: 96.5 MiB (1.1%) command: labwc pid: 891 cpu: 0.0%
  2: mem: 91.2 MiB (1.1%) command: wayvnc pid: 122141 cpu: 0.0%
  3: mem: 86.0 MiB (1.0%) command: wayvnc pid: 794 cpu: 0.0%
  4: mem: 79.8 MiB (0.9%) command: xwayland pid: 1283 cpu: 0.0%
  5: mem: 76.8 MiB (0.9%) command: pcmanfm pid: 1166 cpu: 0.0%
Info:
  Processes: 231 Uptime: 58d 13h 6m Init: systemd v: 252 target: graphical (5) default: graphical
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12 Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release
  inxi: 3.3.31

Benchmark #134746 - Brand: Samsung PM981a M.2 NVMe Series