Testseek.co.uk have collected 142 expert reviews of the Samsung M.2 950 Pro NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 90%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung M.2 950 Pro NVMe PCIe.
October 2015
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142 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
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759 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Outstanding performance
Stylish design
Compact form factor
Uses Samsung VNAND
TRIM Support
Dynamic Thermal Guard
5 Years Warranty
The 950 Pro delivers class leading performance at a good price point
Thermal envelope and low power consumption. Advanced software features seal the deal but we're still waiting to see Rapid Mode for this product
Doubling capacity and increasing data integrity are still good use cases for RAID in the home.
Incredibly fast read and write performance
Competitively priced
Tiny M.2 form factor
5yr warranty
The editors didn't like
Good chassis airflow highly recommended
The 950 Pro needs a 1TB model to satisfy power users and a 2TB model for gamers with large Steam / Origin libraries. Magician Software with Windows 10 support is lacking at this time but Samsung is working on it
Increasing performance through RAID 0 no longer has the same shine it once had. NVMe SSDs are fast enough to satisfy the most demanding user needs. We've hit a point where RAID 0 run off of a chipset gives diminishing returns.
Published: 2016-05-30, Author: Michael , review by: phoronix.com
Abstract: The latest piece of hardware I've been playing around with at Phoronix is Samsung's V-NAND SSD 950 PRO M.2 NVM Express SSD. Assuming you are running a modern Linux distribution, this M.2 PCI-E NVMe SSD can offer blazing fast performance.The Samsung 950 PR...
Published: 2016-03-22, Author: Chris , review by: tomshardware.com
Doubling capacity and increasing data integrity are still good use cases for RAID in the home.
Increasing performance through RAID 0 no longer has the same shine it once had. NVMe SSDs are fast enough to satisfy the most demanding user needs. We've hit a point where RAID 0 run off of a chipset gives diminishing returns.
The NVMe protocol certainly delivered all it promised. The technology has reduced flash latency to the host system, and that has freed up access times as well as throughput ceilings. The 950 Pro has leveraged the technology so well that running two driv...
Over the past few years, the pricing of solid-state drives has improved considerably, but real world performance seen some stagnation. The latest and greatest drives have often been only incremental improvements over their predecessors. It has been believ...
Amazing benchmark performance, More storage than a single SSD, Bragging rights
Performance not really noticeable in most enthusiast workloads; no IOPs improvement, Increased CPU utilization, Increased performance of drive failure
Remember that this is not a review of the Samsung 950 PRO NvME SSD drive; we've already done that, and you can read about it here . There's no doubt that this is one of, if not the, fastest consumer SSD in existence, and it's a no-brainer if your system s...
Excellent Build Quality, Top Of The Charts Read & Write Performance, 1.5 Million Hours MTBF, M.2 / PCIe Solution, 5 Years Warranty, Price (For Some), ,
Heat Buildup,
Noone here knows just how long NVMe will stay in the spotlight before it gets replaced by something even more durable and faster but until that happens this is as fast as SSDs can go. It goes without saying really that most consumers may nev...
so the takeaways from all of the testing we performed on the Gigabyte Z170X-SOC Force with triple M.2 Samsung 950 Pros was as follows:SSD latency favors reduced Queue Depths heavilyRAID splits the queue across multiple devicesSSD RAIDs operate at signi...
PCIe 3.0 x4 interface with NVMe protocol, Equipped with V-NAND technology, Available in 256GB and 512GB capacities, Excellent sequential and random read and write speeds, Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data, Small M.2 2280 form
Can run hot under heavy workloads, Pricey
If Samsung's 950 PRO SSD is an indication, the future of solid-state storage is PCIe and NVMe. Designed to meet the demands of high-performance consumer and business laptops and PCs, this pint-sized powerhouse combines Samsung's triple-core UBX controller...
PCI Express Expansion Card, M.2 NVMe SSD, 2.36GB/s Reads, Compact Form Factor, Enterprise Technology at an Enthusiast Price Level, Good Price per GB
256GB and 512GB offer different speeds, Slow Writes, Random write performance slower than expected
In this review I looked at the new Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVMe SSD drive. The drive is 256GB and is one of the first drives to combine M.2 and NVMe together on the same package. As you can imagine the drive comes bare and is designed to be used on compliant...
Extremely fast, By far the most affordable M.2 NVMe drive to date
Requires Samsung driver for full write performance
M.2/PCIe NVMe SSDs are now affordable thanks to Samsung's 950 Pro. Why is that important? Because 2GBps sustained sequential reading and 1.5GBps writing makes a SATA SSD seem like it's standing still. If your OS or app can take full advantage of NVMe, you...
