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
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759 Reviews
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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.
Crazy-fast, Reasonably affordable, Standard M.2 form factor
Capacity tops out at 512GB (for now), Intel SSD 750 Series still faster on some tests, Shorter warranty than on Samsung's SSD 850 Pro
With performance that blows away almost every other consumer SSD, a reasonable price, and a standard M.2 form factor, the SSD 950 Pro is easy to recommend for those who crave speed. But desktop users running very heavy workloads may still want to conside...
Silky smooth operation as system drives, Outstanding sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths, Outstanding 4K random writing performance, at low queue depths, Outstanding 4k random reading performance at very low and ve
Nothing worth mentioning.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as system drives.Outstanding sequential reading and writing performance, even at very low queue depths.Outstanding 4K random writing performance, at low q...
It is very hard not to be impressed by what Samsung offers with the 950 PRO. Aside from the OEM and enterprise solutions out there the 950 PRO is incredibly impressive for the money. You will quadruple your read performance over a regular SATA3 SSD. For...
Published: 2015-10-29, Author: Michael , review by: ubergizmo.com
Will it replace the Samsung SSD 850 series? I think not. The SATA 3, especially the 850 EVO version is still “the best bang for the buck”.Should you get it? It comes down to your computing usage and your workstation setup.For a basic home computing usage...
Without any doubt, the Samsung 950 Pro M.2 512GB NVME SSD is the fastest consumer SSD we have tested so far, delivering extremely high sequential transfer rates and IOPS. We measured sequential read results that were four times those of the 850 Pro, and r...
Impressive overall performance; much faster than SATA SSDs, Samsung reliability pedigree, Small form factor allows for numerous applications
No 1TB model as of yet
The Samsung 950 Pro SSD is a terrific drive and a worthy addition to the company's growing M.2 form factor portfolio. In addition, this SSD provides professionals and power users with a way to vastly improve their notebooks and workstations coupled with e...
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Published: 2015-10-22, Author: Tony , review by: Techreport.com
The Samsung 950 Pro, much like the Intel 750 Series drives before it, makes a splash with its combination of PCIe Gen3 x4 performance and the NVMe protocol. In our review of the Intel 750 Series earlier this year, we called it the future of solid-state s...
Abstract: This is it. This is the day we have been waiting for. Ever since we feasted our eyes on the NVMe version of the Samsung SM951, we've been begging Samsung to release this as a consumer product. Bonus points if it was powered by their 3D VNAND technology. I...
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Published: 2015-10-22, Author: Billy , review by: anandtech.com
Testing of Samsung's 950 Pro revealed some curiosities. Nevetheless, even when showing symptoms of possible thermal throttling, the 512GB sustained respectable performance and in tests that were representative of interactive use it performed extremely wel...
