“Does this drive have the good Phoenix controller or the gimpy Samsung "in-house" controller?”
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Thank you for your question. After a little more of a deep drive on my part, reading what I could initially find on this topic, I pulled the M2 drive and checked under the sticker (Hiding something?) The labeling on the chip shows PHOENIX. I have the 2TB and the P/N ends in HALB. Most of the documentation I am finding says PHOENIX controller, BUT looking at the PASSMARK performance numbers, being significantly lower 19,026 than the original numbers for the drive at 25,158, I am suspicious, now. I have two of these drives (2TB) and one was manufactured 2021.06 and the other 2021.07. Based on the news story dates, I suspect it might be the "in-house" controller (Unless they still use the Phoenix in the 2TB model, and the 'in-house' in the 1TB and below) - BUT I'M NOT 100% SURE at this point. This will require additional digging... if this is true - I will be a little disappointed. I might start looking at other manufacturers that don't feel a need to mislead. Sad, because Samsung has been SOLID for a long time. Caveat emptor.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Newer 970 EVO Plus releases come equipped with the same Elpis controller as the 980 PRO SSD instead of the PCIe Gen 3.0 Phoenix controller. Yes, Elpis is a PCIe Gen 4.0 controller, but it’s backward compatible with the PCIe Gen 3.0 platform. The old 970 EVO Plus SSD has the MZVLB1T0HBLR PSID on the label, and Samsung customers can identify the new Elpis revision by PSID: MZVL21T0HBLU.
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