I just received and installed yesterday on my 2016 ThinkPad X1 carbon, I also have installed the Samsung SSD driver. I felt it being very fast and I ran CrystalDiskMark, here is the result. It will take a long time to tell how reliable this drive is, but for now it is fast as advertised.

Sound piece of kit Things to know - The advertised transfer rate is not constant for all storage sizes. eg smaller storage lower transfer rate, big storage high transfer rate. The cost of installing a pcie card and this device was the same as a ssd but honestly i don't really see the difference...

Extreamly pleased with the drives performance. Fast boots and fast transfers. Nothing slows it down. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT HARDWARE FOR THIS DRIVE. NOT ALL COMPUTERS CAN USE THIS. DO YOUR RESEARCH.

Samsung's EVO series has dominated the consumer SSD market for the past several years. The series has balanced performance and price, but NVMe is an industry-wide reset. Today we see if Samsung will dominate for another product generation. The Samsung 960 EVO is the mantle in the NVMe room.

Upper mainstream NVMe performance; Lower price than MLC NVMe SSDs; An eventual software package with new features; Future software package with new features; Better performance than the 250GB Model; An eventual software package with new features

Pricey; Low endurance; When will this ship; Power sucking driver; Limited initial release availability; Poor pricing against some MLC competitors; Low endurance and warranty; More expensive than MLC NVMe competitor; Low performance; Availability issues; Power sucking driver; Low endurance

I recently embarked on building my first PC from the ground up, having previous been using hand me down laptops from yesteryear. I decided to go with an ITX Liquid Cooled Build with a Ryzen 1600. Upon completing the build, I was shocked to find the thermal output from the Ryzen CPU was quite high.

First and foremost, this drive is fast with near-advertised speeds (see story below for more details). The response time and consistency has been exceptional, and my cold boot time on Windows 10 after enabling several MSI boot optimizations is now 2 seconds flat. Still amazes me several weeks later.

Lightweight; fast; portable

gets hot quickly

Although the SATA III (6Gb/s) interface is not going away anytime soon (replaced perhaps although we've been listening to that for many years now) with its maximum throughput reached long ago it no longer represents a valid choice for professionals and enthusiasts.

- Excellent Build Quality; - Top Of The Charts Read & Write Performance; - 1.5 Million Hours MTBF / 400TBW; - Intelligent TurboWrite Technology; - M.2 / PCIe Solution; - 3 Years Warranty; - Up To 1TB Capacity

- Heat Buildup; - Price (For Some

Back in September, Samsung announced two new NVMe drives. The 960 PRO is targeted to pro users and enthusiasts, and the 960 EVO aims to take the advantages of NVMe and bring it to the everyday consumer.

Fastest performing value-oriented consumer M.2; Up to 1TB of capacity; Outperformed the Pro version in a handful of tests

Samsung 960 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD; Samsung SM951-NVMe M.2 SSD; Samsung SM951 PCIe M.2 SSD; Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD; Samsung 950 Pro M.2 SSD; OCZ RD400 m.2 NVMe 512GB; Fastest performing value-oriented consumer M.2; Up to 1TB of capacity; Outperformed the Pro version in a handful of tests; Loses some of...

I certainly am getting my NVMe freak'on every time a test a newer unit. That said, in relative performance numbers wether you choose a EVO or PRO honestly you'll not notice. This obviously is the big conundrum with the fastest NVMe based storage units anno 2016 as slowly but steadily, storage simply...

When initially announced the NVMe drives a few months back, we were eager to get our hands on them for some in-house testing. Their specifications, which included transfer speeds in excess of 3.2GB/s, were among the fastest we'd seen to date for consumer-class M.2-based Solid State Drive.