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

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perhaps although we've been listening to that for many years now) with its maximum throughput reached long ago it no longer represents a valid choice for professionals and enthusiasts.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...

Warranty period is 3 years rated at 100 TBW for 250GB, 200 TBW for 500GB, and 400TB for the 1TB model. Samsung has finally brought their TurboWrite technology to an NVMe M.2 SSD, and it absolutely did not disappoint!

The excellent power efficiency of Samsung SSDs is now a well known fact, and the 960 EVO is no exception, with the Samsung 960 EVO proving to be very energy efficient across all types of workloads, and perhaps even more importantly for a consumer grade SSD, it is also very efficient when idle and...

We've only just looked at the flagship model in the new Samsung 960 range, the Pro, and found it to be gobsmackingly good.

The introduction of NVM Express has provided us with a worthy successor to the now aging SATA standard which traps users in a 550MB/s bottleneck. To some users SATA-based SSDs are still a valuable asset, but times are swiftly moving on.

+ Impressive performance; + Clean aesthetics; + Compact form factor; + Uses 3rd Gen V-NAND; + TRIM Support; + Dynamic Thermal Guard; + 3 Years Warranty