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

Posted by Soulskill on 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.

3 of 72 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Apple already done did it by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who do you think MAKES those M.2 SSDs in Apples? Hint: Samsung

  2. Re:Faster than DDR by gweihir · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, it is not in any sane measurement. This is linear-speed only. For random access, even the original DDR RAM will trash even these disks by a large margin.

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  3. Re:Can we get systems with M.2 ports on the front? by jittles · · 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!