Samsung Announces 960 PRO And 960 EVO M.2 PCIe SSDs

[BoraMurdar]

Here at Samsung's SSD Global Summit in South Korea, the company has just officially unveiled their next generation of M.2 PCIe SSDs. The new 960 PRO SSD is the successor to the 950 PRO, launched at last year's Summit as Samsung's first M.2 PCIe SSD for the retail market. The new 960 EVO introduces a more affordable option based on TLC NAND flash.

Samsung's early M.2 PCIe SSDs were officially OEM-only products. The XP941 was one of the first PCIe SSDs designed for client computing use and used the AHCI protocol that is standard for SATA controllers rather than the newer NVMe protocol. The next generation consisted of the SM951 and PM951 SSDs, which adopted a new controller that supports PCIe 3.0 x4 operation and provides NVMe support as an option. The 950 PRO uses the same controller as the SM951 but introduced Samsung's 3D V-NAND to the product family for the first time.

Earlier this year, Samsung released a new generation of OEM M.2 PCIe SSDs: the SM961 and PM961. These brought V-NAND to the OEM side of the family and introduced a new Samsung "Polaris" SSD controller that allowed for substantial performance improvements. Availability of the SM961 and PM961 through unofficial retail distributors has been extremely limited, but given their performance, demand has been high. The 960 PRO and 960 EVO are Samsung's answer.

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[_CyberGhosT_]

Not bad, pretty good price too.
Will be keeping an eye on these.
Thanks Bora

 

[BoraMurdar]

Not bad, pretty good price too.
Will be keeping an eye on these.
Thanks Bora

Just to have a mobo with M.2 NVMe

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

Just to have a mobo with M.2 NVMe

I have a spare system lying around, I bet I could get the MoBo from Newegg or Ebay pretty cheap
I'm not afraid to spend some money for top of the line tec, but I know how to shop smart too

 

[SHvFl]

Not worth it if you already have an ssd. The price to extra performance you will get is huge and should be avoided. Now if you don't have an ssd and your system can benefit from this go for it.

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

Not worth it if you already have an ssd. The price to extra performance you will get is huge and should be avoided. Now if you don't have an ssd and your system can benefit from this go for it.

I am running 1.5TB Seagate Barracudas
That wont change on this system, but I am going to do this to the spare system.
My main reason for doing it is that it will go to my oldest daughter soon, her 13th birthday
is coming up in November, I think it would be fitting for her first PC.