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The 2TB version is rated to endure 1.2 petabytes written, so longevity should be no concern unless you’re some kind of SSD sadist. For the price of admission, you get TCG Opal-compliant 256-bit AES hardware encryption and a 5-year warranty. As NVMe storage goes, that price isn’t really so bad. Samsung is asking a whopping $1300, or about 65 cents per gig, for the 2TB drive we’ve tested.
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Well actually, four cores for shuttling data, since one of the cores is dedicated to “optimizing the communication between the host and controller.” Samsung credits a large part of the 960 Pro’s performance gain over the 950 Pro to Polaris, so we’re looking forward to seeing what effect the chip will have on speeds as it proliferates throughout the manufacturer’s SSD lineup.Īll these improvements come at a cost. It’s what’s on the inside that counts, though, and Polaris packs five cores to shuttle data around. Samsung’s brand-spanking-new “Polaris” controller is making its debut underneath the drive’s DRAM in a space-saving package-on-package design. Our 2TB sample uses what Samsung calls Hexadecimal Die Packages, meaning that the packages each have 16 chips stacked inside.Īnd speaking of packaging, even the controller isn’t immune to the stacking trend. All three versions of the 960 Pro bundle their V-NAND into four packages on one side of the PCB, but they vary the number of dies stuffed into each package.
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We were recently impressed by IMFT’s 384Gb 3D TLC chips, but Samsung’s 256Gb MLC chips prove that the density wars are still in full swing. Gone are the 32-layer, 128Gb V-NAND chips we saw in the 950 Pro, and in their place are the latest and greatest: Samsung’s third-generation, 48-layer 256Gb V-NAND. Despite the 960 Pro’s outward similarities to the 950 Pro, the guts of the drive have actually changed quite a bit (joking about the label aside). Yes, two freakin’ terabytes on a drive barely larger than a stick of gum. A lot of hopes are riding on that fancy stick-on heatspreader. In the real world, the 950 Pro 512GB is one of the fastest drives we’ve ever tested, too. The company claims sequential speeds roughly 50% higher than the 950 Pro’s already-blistering figure. Comparing the 512GB drives from each series, it’s clear that Samsung expects a whole lot more performance out of the new one. The 950 Pro and 960 Pro lineups only share a 512GB version between them.
Anyway, the 960 Pro comes in three bestickered capacities. Despite looking and feeling like an ordinary (if somewhat thick) label, the new sticker supposedly dissipates heat much better than the 950 Pro used to. The sticker is completely different! Samsung has integrated a “thin copper film” into the label on the underside of the drive. Much like its predecessor, the 960 Pro is powered by Samsung’s V-NAND in MLC configuration, gobbles up four lanes of PCIe bandwidth, slots into an M.2 2280 port, and uses the NVMe protocol instead of AHCI. To entice such holdouts, Samsung took the wraps off the 950 Pro’s successor at its SSD Global Summit last month.
One year later, it’s clearer than ever that M.2 and NVMe are here to stay, so perhaps the time is right for cautious late adopters to join in on the fun.
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NVMe had just gotten native Windows support, and Skylake motherboards were armed with M.2 slots and PCIe lanes aplenty to let those drives run. While others had gotten lightning-fast NVMe drives to market first, Samsung’s effort was notable for combining a cohesive set of cutting-edge features at just the right time.
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Windows 10 is ready in few seconds and now there is a lot of space to install all the programs I need.Last fall, Samsung took the high-end storage market by storm with the release of its 950 Pro drives. Wow! Awesome! More than 6 times faster in reading and more than 10 times faster in writing!!! These values Let’s look at the CrystalDiskMark results of the 960 PRO:ģ136MB/s in reading and 2056MB/s in writing. The 960 PRO plugged into ASUS GL553VD gaming notebook:ĭo you remember the CrystalDiskMark results of the Sandisk Z400s 128GB? read speed: 538MB/s and write speed: 182MB/s. More information about NVMe interface can be found HERE. The NVMe interface is designed to fully exploit the capabilities of high-speed SSDs devices to perform many I/O operations in parallel. The Samsung 960 PRO is a NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) storage unit. Let’s replace this 128GB drive by a faster and larger one: a Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB M.2. This 128GB storage unit is the boot / system disk. The gaming notebook GL553VD comes with a slow Sandisk Z400s 128GB SSD M.2.
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