Samsung Launches SSD 960 EVO NVMe Drive At 3GB/Sec and Under .50 Per Gigabyte (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: When Samsung announced the SSD 960 PRO and SSD 960 EVO NVMe drives a few months back, their specifications, which included transfer speeds in excess of 3.2GB/s, were among the fastest for consumer-class M.2-based Solid State Drives currently. Testing proved the SSD 960 Pro to be one of the fastest NVMe drives on the market, and like that drive, Samsung's just-launched SSD 960 EVO is packing the company's latest 5-core Polaris controller -- but it features lower cost 3rd-generation 3-bit MLC V-NAND flash memory and a newly revamped version of Samsung TurboWrite technology. Though the SSD 960 EVO family's pricing places it firmly in the mainstream segment for NVMe-based solid state drives, its performance still targets enthusiasts but with lower endurance ranging from 100-400 TBW (Terabytes Written), depending on capacity. The new Samsung SSD 960 EVO comes in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities and is still able to hit 3GB/sec in testing. Though it does trail the SSD 960 Pro in spots, it also drops in at a 15-20 percent lower price point.

Comments

Re:Who gives a shit?

[Anonymous Coward]

NLE and database use, to name two off the top of my head.

Re:Under .50 per gigabyte?

[PolygamousRanchKid]

.50 what? Dollars? If so, why not say so?

Just ".50" without any unit designation means that it is the Metric System. There are no units in the Metric System, just numbers. This is just one of the many advantages of the Metric System. It means that you don't have to worry about converting Hogs' Heads to the Queen's Empire Imperial Gallons. Things are just ".50".

. . . or maybe ".60", if you are landing a probe on Mars.