Samsung 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD: SM961 Ships Next week

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/20/2016 05:02 PM | source: | 17 comment(s)

And they are fast! according to Rod Bland, CEO of RamCity Samsung SM961 1TB SSDs are en route to his company. The new SM961 is certainly a notch faster than the previous generation SM951 and retail 950 Pro, 3200 MB/s anyone ?

Oh and it still writes at 1800 MB/sec apparently. The OEM NVMe SSD uses a new controller that should produce less heat, a move aimed at reducing thermal throttle conditions, and it is called, you'll laugh when I say it .. The Polaris controller.

The AND used obviously is V-NAND and performs up to 3,200 MB/s (sequential read) and up to 450,000 random read IOPS at queue depth 32 says Toms Hardware. The SM961 will ship in four volumes, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB drives. The SM961 release obviously will also be indicative for the successor to the 950 pro, we take it it'll be 960 PRO NVMEs SSDs.

Product	SM961 128GB	SM961 256GB	SM961 512GB	SM961 1TB
Pricing	NA	$159	$280	$512
Controller	Samsung Polaris	Samsung Polaris	Samsung Polaris	Samsung Polaris
DRAM	Samsung LPDDR3	Samsung LPDDR3	Samsung LPDDR3	Samsung LPDDR3
Flash	Samsung MLC V-NAND	Samsung MLC V-NAND	Samsung MLC V-NAND	Samsung MLC V-NAND
Sequential Read	3100 MB/s	3100 MB/s	3200 MB/s	3200 MB/s
Sequential Write	700 MB/s	1400 MB/s	1700 MB/s	1800 MB/s
Random Read	330,000 IOPS	330,000 IOPS	330,000 IOPS	450,000 IOPS
Random Write	170,000 IOPS	280,000 IOPS	300,000 IOPS	320,000 IOPS
Warranty	Varies By Reseller	Varies By Reseller 3-Years From RamCity	Varies By Reseller 3-Years From RamCity	Varies By Reseller 3-Years From RamCity

Now the really good news, apparently the 1TB SM961 will costs 512 USD. That's cheaper opposed to the SM951 series, that goes for all volume sizes.

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EdInk
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#5292721 Posted on: 06/20/2016 05:24 PM

The green PCB though!!

Koniakki
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#5292738 Posted on: 06/20/2016 06:04 PM

Those are some serious speeds!

I barely can tell(if at all) the difference with my 950 Pro over an SSD.

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#5292743 Posted on: 06/20/2016 06:20 PM

Now the really good news, apparently the 1TB SM961 will costs less than a Samsung 950 Pro 512GB .. 512 USD. But that last one remains a bit speculative.

The Samsung 950 Pro 512GB is $320 on NewEgg.

Don't you mean the SM961 512GB version will cost less than the Samsung 950 Pro 512GB, not the 1 TB version?

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#5292754 Posted on: 06/20/2016 06:35 PM

Seems like a really good price for the performance. Will be buying something like this next year when I upgrade my system

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#5292799 Posted on: 06/20/2016 08:48 PM

I preordered 2x 1TB from http://www.flexxmemory.co.uk

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#5292808 Posted on: 06/20/2016 09:04 PM

I preordered 2x 1TB from http://www.flexxmemory.co.uk

Post AS-SSD bench. See if 4k read/write are improved

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#5292809 Posted on: 06/20/2016 09:06 PM

Post AS-SSD bench. See if 4k read/write are improved

I will compare with my sm951 nve 512 and intel p3700 nvme

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#5292986 Posted on: 06/21/2016 06:16 AM

Warranty is 3 years instead of 5? That doesn't look good.

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#5293044 Posted on: 06/21/2016 11:20 AM

I've been waiting for the M.2 950 pro 1TB for a long time...I had hoped it would be out by now. I have the 512gb one but I keep having to uninstall game for new ones.

Even sata 3 ssds aren't fast enough for modern games imo and I don't want to go backwards in load times.

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#5293082 Posted on: 06/21/2016 01:39 PM

The green PCB though!!

Warranty is 3 years instead of 5? That doesn't look good.

It's an oem product what did you expect?

Samsung doesn't provide warranty directly to you. Ramcity decides the years of warranty.

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#5293088 Posted on: 06/21/2016 02:00 PM

Not badly priced imo, 1tb on a m.2 drive is pretty awesome and the speeds are crazy! gotta preorder one!

Shame it's green, but a black heatsink can cover that up nicely.

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#5293185 Posted on: 06/21/2016 06:27 PM

It's an oem product what did you expect?

Samsung doesn't provide warranty directly to you. Ramcity decides the years of warranty.

Right. I stand enlightened.

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#5294769 Posted on: 06/25/2016 01:04 AM

Here is my SM 961 nvme 1TB benchmarks

http://www.overclock.net/t/1603995/samsung-sm961-nvme-thread

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#5294816 Posted on: 06/25/2016 03:41 AM

just got mine, completely crazy fast the 1tb version

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#5295573 Posted on: 06/27/2016 08:11 AM

wonder how bad thermal throttling will be on this one..

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