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

Posted by BeauHD on from the bang-for-your-buck dept.

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.

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  1. Goodbye HD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I'm a bit surprised how fast SSD's replaced spinning hard drives. In my house hold, we have six computers, two servers and a bunch of appliances with storage.

    Not a single spinning hard drive in sight.

    Good riddance.

  2. Re: Who gives a shit? by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This.

    Your PCs nonvolatile storage is one of the last things you can upgrade these days and notice a big difference in performance (the other being the GPU.)

    I personally am still running an old sandy bridge i7 2600k CPU, and just hacked my UEFI to support booting to NVMe in order to use this ssd because it makes no sense to replace the motherboard/CPU/ram when they work perfectly fine.

    Another fun thing about these is that there's no further use for drive bays, so you can totally gut them out and install two slow turning 240mm fans in the front of your case to make your PC silent.