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Samsung 960 PRO M.2 1TB NVMe SSD review




In 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-to 2TB and use the nvm express (NVME) 1.2 protocol which is even faster anno 2016. Storage technology is advancing with hyper fast paces while remaining competitive in pricing. Does Samsung have yet another NAND success at hand?
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Hilbert Hagedoorn
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Posted on: 10/19/2016 08:56 AM
Ah indeed! Fixed thanks.
Ah indeed! Fixed thanks.
Fyew-jit-tiv
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Posted on: 10/19/2016 08:57 AM
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 2TB - MZ-V6P2T0BW costs 329 USD (63 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 1TB - MZ-V6P1T0BW costs 629 USD (61 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB - MZ-V6P512BW costs 1299 USD (64 cents per GB)
I think you've got the sizes/models mismatched with the prices there, chief! 8D
Or Samsung burning to rip people off at the wrong end... AGAIN!
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 2TB - MZ-V6P2T0BW costs 329 USD (63 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 1TB - MZ-V6P1T0BW costs 629 USD (61 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB - MZ-V6P512BW costs 1299 USD (64 cents per GB)
I think you've got the sizes/models mismatched with the prices there, chief! 8D
Or Samsung burning to rip people off at the wrong end... AGAIN!
JonasBeckman
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Posted on: 10/19/2016 11:33 AM
Interesting thermal image and info, wonder if sticking some heat-sink type device on the controller might help along with some paste or pad for it, I don't really have any knowledge about cooling a SSD though but I assume it's similar to RAM cooling in principle?
(IE heat sink or fan to get the heat / hot air off the memory chips and in this case also the controller chip.)
~70 degrees seems pretty hot to me after all so there's probably some room for improvement though how that's best done I wouldn't know.
(SSD water cooling? Overkill??)
(Five core controller chip though so that probably explains some of the heat, five cores seem a bit odd but I assume there's a reason for that too.)
Interesting thermal image and info, wonder if sticking some heat-sink type device on the controller might help along with some paste or pad for it, I don't really have any knowledge about cooling a SSD though but I assume it's similar to RAM cooling in principle?
(IE heat sink or fan to get the heat / hot air off the memory chips and in this case also the controller chip.)
~70 degrees seems pretty hot to me after all so there's probably some room for improvement though how that's best done I wouldn't know.
(SSD water cooling? Overkill??)
(Five core controller chip though so that probably explains some of the heat, five cores seem a bit odd but I assume there's a reason for that too.)
DrunkenDonkey
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Posted on: 10/19/2016 11:41 AM
Thing is, for us, casual users, all these make no sense. Yeah I do have nvme drive with 2.5g/s speed, I do have another with 500, and they are all the same in real world usage. Unless you are doing some big data crunching (sequential, mind you) like movie processing, all you care is 4k random read performance. Which in this drive is 38mb/s, pretty much the same on all current ssds on the market, give or take few mbs. Yeah, massive amount of parallel flash drives, fast controller, huge cache, predictions, etc, all great in benchmarks indeed, but when you load the game/program it tries to randomly read small bits of data here and there and the greatest, expensive ssd comes down to the cheapest one out there. Unless we get a completely different technology - non-volatile ram, the ssds won't benefit us more even if they can read/write terabytes per second.
Thing is, for us, casual users, all these make no sense. Yeah I do have nvme drive with 2.5g/s speed, I do have another with 500, and they are all the same in real world usage. Unless you are doing some big data crunching (sequential, mind you) like movie processing, all you care is 4k random read performance. Which in this drive is 38mb/s, pretty much the same on all current ssds on the market, give or take few mbs. Yeah, massive amount of parallel flash drives, fast controller, huge cache, predictions, etc, all great in benchmarks indeed, but when you load the game/program it tries to randomly read small bits of data here and there and the greatest, expensive ssd comes down to the cheapest one out there. Unless we get a completely different technology - non-volatile ram, the ssds won't benefit us more even if they can read/write terabytes per second.
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Samsung SSD 960 PRO 2TB - MZ-V6P2T0BW costs 329 USD (63 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 1TB - MZ-V6P1T0BW costs 629 USD (61 cents per GB)
Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB - MZ-V6P512BW costs 1299 USD (64 cents per GB)
I think you've got the sizes/models mismatched with the prices there, chief! 8D