Samsung has announced their 960 Pro and 960 Evo NVMe M.2 SSDs
Up to 2TB of storage on an M.2 SSD
Published: 20th September 2016 | Source: PCPER |
Samsung has announced their 960 Pro and 960 Evo NVMe M.2 SSDs
Samsung has announced their 960 Pro and 960 Evo NVMe M.2 SSDs at the global SSD summit, with the 960 Pro containing up to 2TB of storage and the 960 Evo containing up to 1TB of storage.
While Samsung's official announcement will be tomorrow, the company has already shown off the below image, which confirms the existence of these SSDs and their storage capacities.
In the past, Samsung has already released consumer oriented of their enterprise/OEM SSDs with their 950 Pro, which was a consumer grade version of their highly successful SP951 SSD. As such this 960 Evo is expected to deliver performance that is similar to Samsung's existing PM961, which uses the same TLC V-NAND and Polaris memory controller.
The 960 Pro will be a consumer version of their SM961, and the 960 Evo will be a consumer version of their PM961, the specifications for these SSDs are in the table below.
With TLC NAND this new consumer drive is expected to come in at a lower price than Samsung's current 950 Pro and will ditch the ugly green PCBs of their OEM drives for a gamer friendly black PCB.
| SM961 | PM961 | 950 Pro | SM951 | PM951 | |
| Controller | Samsung Polaris | Samsung Polaris | Samsung UBX | Samsung UBX | Samsung UBX |
| NAND | MLC V-NAND | TLC V-NAND | MLC V-NAND | MLC V-NAND | TLC V-NAND |
| Sequential Read | 3200 MB/s | 3000MB/s | 2500MB/s | 2150MB/s | 1050MB/s |
| Sequential Write | 1800MB/s | 1150MB/s | 1500MB/s | 1550MB/s | 560MB/s |
| 4K Random Read | 450K IOPS | 360K IOPS | 300K IOPS | 300K IOPS | 250K IOPS |
| 4K Random Write | 400K IOPS | 280K IOPS | 110K IOPS | 100K IOPS | 144K IOPS |
| Release | Mid 2016 | Mid 2016 | October-2015 | June-2015 | 2015 |
The official announcements of these SSDs will come tomorrow alongside their full specifications.
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That was until I read there was no real-world benefit if your already using say an 850 evo SSD.
It's rather annoying there simply has to be some kind of performance increase to justify these products, else what is the point?
Anyone care to comment?
Please please I need any excuse so I can snap up even a humble 128 Gb pro 960 LoL.
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In the image charts, it doesn't say which is which capacity though... Or maybe it's just me that is dumb?