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Published: 2019-06-06, Author: Michael , review by: phoronix.com
Abstract: With falling memory prices, there's multiple solid-state drives available for around the $30 USD price point that offer 240~256GB capacities. Here are benchmarks of five such drives, four of which are SATA 3.0 SSDs and even one NVMe SSD. There are also co...
Published: 2017-02-05, Author: Jon , review by: fudzilla.com
– Great price to performance valueSamsung is now in its third generation of M.2 NVMe SSDs for OEMs and consumers, having first introduced its XP941 in May 2014, followed by the SM951 series in April 2015. On its 256GB drives, data throughput over the pas...
Published: 2016-07-08, Author: Chris , review by: tomshardware.com
Lowest Cost NVMe Solutions, High Throughput Performance, M.2 Form Factor
Could Use A Firmware Tune, Availability
The Samsung SM961 series as a whole breaks new ground in both performance and pricing. We really like the 256GB and 512GB drives for the great value but would like to see some performance optimizations in the future, including support for the Magician...
Published: 2016-06-27, Author: Chris , review by: tomshardware.com
Highest NVMe performance for a consumer SSD in FourCorner Tests Excellent price per gigabyte Good notebook battery life with excellent performance Only a slight thermal throttle dropoff under heavy load
Availability Additional optimizations needed to increase light workload performance No support for Samsung's Magician Intel RST issues in RAID 0 on Z170 (Intel's Fault)
If I were to buy a new SSD for my notebook or desktop, it would be the SM961. I can't give any greater praise than that. The drive leads the high-performance NVMe race in the price to capacity ratio and delivers the performance goods, too. The only re...
Published: 2017-09-09, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
PCI-Express SSDs are still quite expensive, but they also perform significantly better than SATA600 SSDs. A few years ago the additional price you paid for a high-end SSD barely gave you better performance due to the SATA600-bottleneck, but now the differ...
Lowest Cost NVMe Solutions, High Throughput Performance, M.2 Form Factor
Could Use A Firmware Tune, Availability
The Samsung SM961 series as a whole breaks new ground in both performance and pricing. We really like the 256GB and 512GB drives for the great value but would like to see some performance optimizations in the future, including support for the Magician...
Highest NVMe performance for a consumer SSD in FourCorner Tests Excellent price per gigabyte Good notebook battery life with excellent performance Only a slight thermal throttle dropoff under heavy load
Availability Additional optimizations needed to increase light workload performance No support for Samsung's Magician Intel RST issues in RAID 0 on Z170 (Intel's Fault)
If I were to buy a new SSD for my notebook or desktop, it would be the SM961. I can't give any greater praise than that. The drive leads the high-performance NVMe race in the price to capacity ratio and delivers the performance goods, too. The only re...
