Testseek.com 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
(90%)
142 Reviews
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759 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
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
Impressive overall performance
Much faster than SATA SSDs
Samsung reliability pedigree
Small form factor allows for numerous applications
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
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)
Amazing benchmark performance
More storage than a single SSD
Bragging rights
Highest capacity M.2 on the market
Record setting sequential performance
The best Gaming Disk Capture so far
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.
Crazy-fast
Reasonably affordable
Standard M.2 form factor
Extremely fast
By far the most affordable M.2 NVMe drive to date
Strong Performance
Competitive Pricing
M.2 Form Factor
NVMe / PCIe Gen 3
Incredible sequential speed that provides mind-blowing real-world file transfer performance
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
Unbelievable 2591 MB/s reads and 1595 MB/s writes!
Produced 258
752 IOPS random reads and 94
110 writes!
32layer VNAND Flash delivers 400TB written endurance
Native write acceleration – no compression used
Samsung 3core UBX controller designed for NVM
Great performance
Good warranty
Retail availability.
Wrigley's Extra
Retail availability
Uber fast
NVMe support
Excellent Samsung warranty
Reliability is expected to be great given Samsung's history
Suppository size.
Flamethrower
Compact form factor
Power efficient
Lowest price per GB for NVMe
The editors didn't like
256GB and 512GB offer different speeds
Slow Writes
Random write performance slower than expected
No 1TB model as of yet
Can run hot under heavy workloads
Pricey
Heat Buildup
Performance not really noticeable in most enthusiast workloads
No IOPs improvement
Increased CPU utilization
Increased performance of drive failure
Fell behind its predecessor and the SM951 in a few benchmarks
Price premium for early adopters
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.
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
Requires Samsung driver for full write performance
No Power Loss Protection
Wasn't Fastest Across The Board
Mediocre performance in standard desktop activities
Double the cost per GB of fast SATA drives
Nothing worth mentioning.
NVMe is not widely available… yet.
Still very expensive
Requires M.2 slot (and NVMe BIOS for booting)
Needs Z170 to shine
Dubble Bubble
Requires M.2 slot (and NVMe BIOS for booting
Expect to pay a premium for the extreme performance. Compatibility could be an issue as it requires an M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 interface.
Incredible sequential speed that provides mind-blowing real-world file transfer performance,
Mediocre performance in standard desktop activities, double the cost per GB of fast SATA drives
In order to fairly evaluate the 950 Pro, we have to consider its cost in comparison to more run-of-the-mill drives. Below you'll find the price of each of the drives we tested as of our publication date, along with a $/GB figure:Samsung 850 Evo 500GB M.2 ...
For years, I've been itching to see Samsung start offering their NVMe PCIe SSDs in the consumer market, and thanks to more recent widespread adoption of platforms supporting M.2 and NVMe, I'm glad to see that Samsung finally saw a market for what would ul...
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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...
