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

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.

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.

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.

I've installed Windows 10 Professional on this 960 Pro NVMe drive as a boot drive, and it is blazing fast. I have not encountered reports of throttling due to heat, in part because I am using this 1 TB drive as a boot drive and have offloaded the majority of file operations to secondary and tertiary...

price per gb

I`d say most of people dont really need it, its only for the insane people ,lol . had two 950 Pro in the past, but had heat issue with em, the 960 Pro seems fixed it, if you are looking for the fastest M.2 , this is it.

top of the line; only for insane people

expensive ; and have to wait ; grabbed mine after 2 weeks waiting

Excellent, nice and fast. Been running a few months now and not any issues. In a Media Center PC where several TV programmes can be recorded at once and playback of others. Need to use Samsung's drivers to get the best and there may be a firmware update (which didn't trash content already on it for...

Without question one of the fastest if not THE fastest drive on the planet currently. I do a lot of photo and video editing, and this drive combined with a powerful processor (like the i7-7700K) is a killer combination. At times I think the drive is faster than the processor.

Fast. After installing it with 1 small screw, all other mass storage devices look BIG and CLUNKY. Fat means that the OS (Windows 10) loads in second(s) and that all the applications using disk are better than ever before. I can see this form factor becoming the mainstream soon.

If only the OS worked as well as the SSD.

- Excellent system responsiveness: quick start ups; quick program and large file loads - Lot of space to spare and use - Samsung Magician is an easy enough program to use for general drive info / data

- RAPID mode is not enabled under the NVMe SSDs; only works for SATA SSDs