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If you have a real need for (storage) speed, you can't get any faster than the Samsung SSD 960 Pro ($329 for 512GB). It's not the cheapest internal solid-state drive (SSD) you can buy, but in using the faster NVMe protocol, it improves on the speeds of th...
Improved speed from previous generation makes this the fastest consumer SSD on market, Available in capacities up to 2TB...
Pricey, Has a shorter warranty than Samsung's other high-end drives...
The Samsung SSD 960 Pro is an internal solid-state drive capable of blistering read speeds of up to 3,500MBps. Cheaper drives with similar specs will be on the way, so you may want to wait if price is an issue...
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myce.com Updated:
2016-11-13 02:59:34
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Last October (2015), Samsung unleashed the first true consumer M.2 NVMe SSD on the world in the shape of the Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD. The 950 Pro was more or less unchallenged during most of the past year as far as performance was concerned until Tos...
Silky smooth operation as a system drive, Stunning sequential reading and writing performance, Outstanding 4K random writing performance, Outstanding 4k random reading performance, TRIM support under Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10, Completely s...
There isn't really anything worth mentioning.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Stunning sequential reading and writing performance.Outstanding 4K random writing performance.Outstanding 4k random reading performance...
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Samsung 960 EVO 1 terabyte M.2 NVMe SSD Going from fast to very furiousIn this review we test the new M.2 and extremely fast Samsung 960 PRO Series M.2 SSDs with all new Polaris based controller. These new M.2 units can now be purchased in volume sizes up...
In the end I feel you'll never notice the difference in-between a 950 Pro or 960 Pro. However you could have workloads on your PC that require insanely fast reads or writes, and yes the 960 Pro series just shines light and bright alright. The numbers tha...
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Samsung announced its latest, consumer-class NVMe M.2-based solid state drives a few weeks back, the SSD 960 Pro and SSD 960 EVO , but today marks the official launch of those products. As has been the case for the last couple of generations, the EVO moni...
Excellent Performance, High Endurance, 5 Year Warranty...
Trailed At Lower Queue Depths, Commands A Price Premium...
We should note that we used Samsung's NVMe driver for testing. With the stock Windows 10 driver, performance was still very good, but not quite at good in tests like PCMark and HD Tune. PCMark especially showed much better performance with the Samsung dri...
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pcper.com Updated:
2016-11-13 02:59:34
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Just under a year ago we published our review of the Samsung 950 PRO, their first foray into NVMe SSD territory. Today we have a 960 PRO, which strives to be more revolutionary than evolutionary. There are some neat new features like 16-die packages and a...
Best performing M.2 SSD Tested, Best performing SSD Tested, Highest available capacity in M.2 form factor...
Cost (the upcoming 960 EVO should help with that, though)...
What better way to roll out a new test suite than with a product that dominates across the whole darn thing! The 960 PRO astounded us in nearly every metric - even some brand new metrics that we just implemented! In order to publish on time and with good...
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The performance embargo has just been lifted on Samsung's new 960 PRO and EVO NVMe M.2 SSDs! The Samsung 960 PRO is for prosumer, enthusiasts and high-end users that want the best performance and endurance, while the 960 EVO offers slightly lower performa...
We got the Samsung SSD 960 PRO 2TB drive on Saturday, so we've had it less than 72 hours. In our short time with the drive we are certainly impressed. Samsung has reached a new level of performance for the M.2 PCIe form factor with this drive series as it...
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Size, weight, speed, latency, endurance, power consumption, price, warranty, etc. All these characteristics help to define storage media and are what classify some drives as entry level, others as mainstream, and a for a select few, enthusiast/prosumer. Wha...
If you are constantly moving large files, have heavy workloads, or just want the best consumer SSD out there, the 960 Pro is the answer to your prayers. It has more than enough speed for almost anyone, it has some of the best endurance ratings we have see...
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There have been few hardware items that have seen such rapid development as storage. Sure processors get incrementally faster and have a few more cores now and then, and a graphics card can gain performance through the addition of extra cores and some arc...
Stunning.The Samsung NVMe 960 Pro M.2 SSD is so insanely, mind-blowingly fast that we're in danger of running out of superlatives. We've very quickly gone from being stunned by some great regular SSDs, to being blown away by NVMe ones, to this behemoth.To...
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Back in September, Samsung announced two new NVMe drives. The 960 PRO is targeted to pro users and enthusiasts, and the 960 EVO aims to take the advantages of NVMe and bring it to the everyday consumer. The 960 EVO comes to market with the idea of allowin...
Fastest performing value-oriented consumer M.2, Up to 1TB of capacity, Outperformed the Pro version in a handful of tests...
Loses some of the top-end steam compared to the Pro model...
The Samsung 960 EVO is the best performing value-oriented M.2 NVMe drive on the market, that is offered in capacities up to 1TB and starts at an affordable price...
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Samsung 960 EVO 1 Terabyte M.2 NVMe SSD More value at with blazing performancePrecisely one month after the 960 Pro release Samsung releases the 960 EVO. The more wallet friendly M.2. SSD promises to be roughly as fast and versatile as the Pro model, a pr...
It remains to be a trivial thing to explain where the actual benefit of a 3GB/s SSD is to be found as honestly, for normal workloads you are not going to notice that difference. See, a regular (modern) SATA3 SSD will already load up stuff in a split seco...
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It's that time of the year, Samsung released its new NVMe SSD line, the 960 Pro. As we are familiar with Samsung's nomenclature, the “PRO” version is MCL based and is equipped with the best components available to the consumer market, whereas the EVO is T...
With a street price at almost $1300, I don't see how to get the return on the investment. Traced back benchmarks show very little improvements, even when compared to SATA III devices. That has nothing to do with Samsung. At this time, Operating Systems an...
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Do you find that today's PCI Express SSDs are just too slow? Of course you, do what am I saying? Sequential read speeds of up to just 2.5 GB/s, write speeds that are even less. Come on guys this is 2016!Thankfully someone has stood up and addressed this b...
As expected Samsung's latest flagship M.2 NVMe SSD is fast, very fast. Performance wise it is a good step forward from the previous 950 Pro series, though most 950 owners won't feel the need to rush out an upgrade just yet as Samsung's last seasons M2 dri...
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We've only just looked at the flagship model in the new Samsung 960 range, the Pro, and found it to be gobsmackingly good.However, we and Samsung both know that not everyone has the deep pockets necessary to fund such a lavish purchase, and so we're also...
Having just had the Samsung 960 Pro through our offices with all its class-leading performance and barely believable benchmarks it would be easy to consider the Evo as a mediocre pudding after an amazing dinner. After all, we've seen what the best possibl...
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When I was testing Samsung's new 960 Pro M.2/NVMe SSD, a coworker looking over my shoulder at the results declared, “That's sick!” High praise in today's parlance, and a direct response to this drive's incredible speed. It's a phrase I continued to voice...
Insanely fast with large files, Up to 2TB capacity...
Just average with small files, Pricey...
and buying advice If your laptop or desktop supports the 960 Pro, then it's the consumer-grade NVMe SSD you want. Assuming the price is competitive, that is. If you find others at substantial savings, you'll be nearly as impressed. Copying 20GB in 11...
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benchmarkreviews.com Updated:
2017-01-12 02:45:17
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However, we're now in the middle of another transition: within the last 18 months or so, standard SATA SSDs have all run up against what used to be the performance province of only the higher-end drives: the bandwidth limitations of the SATA interface. Th...
Fastest. SSD. Ever, 5-year warranty...
Substantial price premium over SATA SSDs, No included migration software...
IMPORTANT: Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure tha...
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With solid-state technology advancing at an ever increasing rate, Samsung has begun to look for ways to push performance beyond the limits of the current SATA specifications. In addition to technologies like RAPID (Real-time Accelerated Processing of I/O...
PCIe 3.0 x4 interface with NVMe protocol, Equipped with V-NAND technology, Available in 512GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, Excellent sequential and random read and write speeds, Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data, Small M.2 2280 f...
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The Samsung 960 PRO is one of, if not the, best consumer NVMe SSDs on the market today. Designed for professionals and enthusiasts, this M.2 form factor SSD is powered by Samsung's new 5-core Polaris controller and is available with up to 2TB of the compa...
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The first consumer SSDs had some serious performance flaws. Once those were hammered out, SSDs began to bump up against the limitations of the SATA interface and AHCI control protocol. Then PCI Express technology removed that bottleneck, and the NVMe prot...
Fantastic specifications, mostly awesome performance, huge capacity...
It's ain't cheap, the performance isn't perfect, Intel's 3D XPoint might be far faster...
Fantastic specifications; mostly awesome performance; huge capacity.It's ain't cheap; the performance isn't perfect; Intel's 3D XPoint might be far faster.back to menu ↑SPECIFICATIONSCapacity 2TBForm Factor M.2Interface PCIe 3.0 x4Memory Type Samsung 48-l...
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