Samsung SSD On a Tiny M.2 Stick Is Capable of Read Speeds Over 2GB/sec

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @03:23AM from the unless-it's-got-the-evo840-problem dept.

MojoKid writes: Samsung has just announced its new SM951-NVMe SSD, the industry's first NVMe SSD to employ an M.2 form-factor. Samsung says the new gumstick style drive is capable of sequential read and write speeds of 2,260 MB/sec and 1,600 MB/sec respectively. Comparable SATA-based M.2 SSDs typically can only push read/write speeds of 540 MB/sec and 500 MB/sec, while most standard PCIe versions muster just north of 1GB/sec. The Samsung SM951-NVMe's performance is actually very comparable to the Intel SSD 750 Series PCIe x4 card but should help kick notebook performance up a notch in this common platform configuration.

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Re:Can we get systems with M.2 ports on the front? by jittles · 2015-04-15 05:50 · Score: 4, Funny

You could, but the connector is only rated for 60 matings.
60 matings is much better than most of the readers on slashdot will ever hope to achieve!