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

Under .50 per gigabyte?

[Tet]

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

Re:Under .50 per gigabyte?

[OzPeter]

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

Oh come on. This is the US, so obviously it means .50 caliber. The flash is now so small and robust that you can put more than a gigabyte in a .50 caliber bullet.

Putting memory in bullets is a new, secret local mesh network design being put forward by the New World Order as a protection against society falling apart when it is revealed in January that Trump is actually a Lizard man.. So that when the US civil war starts next year (and the Internet is cutoff by the UN) neighbors will be able to surreptitiously keep in contact by spraying each other's houses with bullets containing enough flash to hold endless hours of cat videos. This will become an important staple of modern living as people will no longer have access to TV shows like The Real Housewives of [city de jour] to keep themselves entertained. And if you have military grade network equipment (EG M2 Browning machine gun) you can achieve some very high bandwidth numbers.

This new mesh network has been designed this way so that the proletariat won't realize that they can point they network devices at the "government" instead of at each other.

Re:Goodbye HD

[Anonymous Coward]

Must be pretty small Servers then. Multiple terabytes in SSD are still way too expensive for something that is essentially a datadump. Meaning media library and the like.