Testseek.com have collected 142 expert reviews of the Samsung M.2 950 Pro NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 90%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung M.2 950 Pro NVMe PCIe.
October 2015
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Published: 2015-10-22, Author: Marco , review by: hothardware.com
Strong Performance, Competitive Pricing, M.2 Form Factor, NVMe / PCIe Gen 3
No Power Loss Protection, Wasn't Fastest Across The Board
Samsung SSD 950 PRO M.2 Series -- Find Them At AmazonSamsung has set the MSRPs for the 256GB and 512GB SSD 950 PRO M.2 drives at $199 and $349, respectively, which works out to $.77 and $.68 per gigabyte. Even at their full MSRPs, the Samsung SSD 950 PRO...
Silky smooth operation as system drives, Outstanding sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths, Outstanding 4K random writing performance, at low queue depths, Outstanding 4k random reading performance at very low and ve
Nothing worth mentioning.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as system drives.Outstanding sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths.Outstanding 4K random writing performance, at low q...
Unbelievable 2591 MB/s reads and 1595 MB/s writes!, Produced 258,752 IOPS random reads and 94,110 writes!, 32layer VNAND Flash delivers 400TB written endurance, Native write acceleration – no compression used, Samsung 3core UBX controller designed for NVM
NVMe is not widely available… yet.
Our first rating is performance, which compares how effective the Samsung SSD 950 PRO performs in benchmark operations against storage solutions. For reference, Samsung specifications suggest 2500 MB/s maximum reads and 1500 MB/s write speeds for this m...
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Published: 2015-10-22, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
It wasn't so long ago that Samsung introduced the XP941 to oem and enterprise needs and didn't feel it viable to market it as a retail item. From our perspective there was a definite calling for that SSD but it definitely remained within the ideal of bein...
Expensive; You need a pretty new computer or motherboard to install, and you'll probably want to know what you're doing;
With the release of the 950 Pro series of Samsung SSDs, it's pretty clear that Samsung is clinching a victory not just for its experience in crafting fast memory, but essentially making itself a benchmark.Simply put, this is the fastest and most impressiv...
Samsung is targeting heavy workload professionals with the 950 Pro. Samsung states that the 950 Pro is ideal for intensive workloads, such as CAD drafting, data analysis, and engineering simulations. We agree the 950 Pro is indeed ideal for those applic...
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Published: 2018-09-29, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
Now that the prices of SSDs are starting to fall again, the competition is starting to take off again. Especially the new models from Crucial and Samsung bring some life back to the business, which was badly needed in this market. Last year there were few...
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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...
According to our tests, the Samsung SM951 (NVMe) is the fastest SSD available. It is even faster than the 950 Pro, while it is a lot cheaper as well. Bear in mind that you miss out on official Samsung support in the form of warranty, Magician and firmware...
