Samsung has spent the past few years at the peak of the consumer SSD market, with every new drive pushing performance forwards and attracting plenty of attention.
Samsung has spent the past few years at the peak of the consumer SSD market, with every new drive pushing performance forwards and attracting plenty of attention.
If you plan on going to the M.2 configuration. Just make sure your board does support that particular drive. I wish I waited. I think they have some time to perfect the M.2 technology. Heck, who knows if it will even stay around.
Easy to install; takes seconds; looks awesome embeded in my board...
....But configuring it, is another story; I have an EVGA X99 Classified Motherboard; M.2 slot provided; Now I'm still not sure if it's the drive or my mobo; But I could not get my motherboard to recognize this SSD; I've been on tech sites for help; Nobody as of yet can help me.
The typical SSD often comes in a 2.5in form factor, while being connected to a SATA III bus. However, the old technology is slowly losing favour with consumers, as its interface provides a bottleneck in performance.
How fast do you need your storage to be, and how big is your budget? These are the two questions you need to ask yourself when shopping for cutting-edge storage here at the end of 2016. Unless you're truly cash-strapped and don't do much more than basic tasks, we'd strongly suggest stepping up to some sort of solid-state drive at this point on your desktop or laptop PC. With very good budget Serial ATA-based drives such as Crucial's MX300 delivering roughly five times the sequential speed of a spinning-platter hard drive and lightning-quick access times, there's little reason these days to hang around with the poor plebeians still spinning their slow, platter-based boot drives. If you want even more speed than a SATA drive can deliver (SATA tops out around 550MB per second, due to the limitations of the aging SATA interface), and you have a desktop or laptop that supports it, you can drop in a drive that supports NVMe. NVMe is a new-ish drive protocol that replaces AHCI, a softwa...
Samsung's new NVMe SSD outruns the pack, with sequential speeds up to 3,500MB per second and capacities to 2TB. But a lack of optimized drivers at launch made measuring its true potential difficult, and with similar-spec, lower-cost drives promised soon, waiting before buying makes sense.
Fastest consumer SSD available; Significantly speedier than previous-generation SSD 950 Pro; Available in capacities up to 2TB
Expensive; Shorter warranty than Samsung's premium SATA drives
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