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The editors liked
Samsung's SM951 is a better value than performance SATA SSDs when you
NVMe interface allows for incredible performance
Small form factor
Low power consumption
Much faster than most SATA based drives
Tiny form factor
Multiple interfaces to support different platforms (NVMe and AHCI)
Superior m.2 performance
Excellent power management and higher compatibility than current NVMe products
Fast
Compact
Great for laptops.
The Samsung SM951NVMe should sell for less than the 950 Pro as resellers try to reduce inventory
Speed Freaks
Great for laptops
The editors didn't like
Availability is limited
But if you want one you can buy it. Drive ships with a threeyear warranty vs. Intel's fiveyear coverage. Lack of NVMe might be a bummer but a new model is coming soon.
Top capacity is only 512GB
No 1TB model yet
Costs a little more than 2.5" SATA drives
Pricing and new to market availability (getting better)
Verdict
High price per GB
Limited capacities
BIOS support for booting
OEMonly
The SM951NVMe has a shorter warranty period and a lower TBW rating than the 950 Pro
Published: 2015-04-22, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
There is an expression that's common in England from the carnivals and fairs; "Scream if you want to go faster". The Samsung SM951 is so fast that you can be sure we wont make a sound.The incredible increase in our desire for information and the need for...
Had the Samsung SM951 arrived on my door step before we reviewed the SSD 750 Series 1.2TB a few weeks ago I think our conclusion might have been a little less favourable for Intel. The SSD 750 Series might have the advantage of NVMe support, but there is ...
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Published: 2015-04-20, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
Samsung's SM951 is a better value than performance SATA SSDs when you
Availability is limited, but if you want one you can buy it. Drive ships with a threeyear warranty vs. Intel's fiveyear coverage. Lack of NVMe might be a bummer but a new model is coming soon.
Had Samsung's SM951 arrived before we reviewed the Intel SSD 750 Series 1.2TB I think our conclusion might have been a little less favorable for the Intel drive. The SSD 750 may tout NVMe support, but Samsung's SM951 is generally faster while being more a...
CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark sc...
The Samsung SM951 is the mythical unicorn of SSDs right now, but if you really want one you can find one to purchase as they are starting to trickle out through various retailers. The performance of the Samsung SM951 is impressive on paper and it destroye...
Abstract: There's been a lot of recent talk about the Samsung SM951 M.2 PCIe SSD. It was supposed to launch as an NVMe product, but ended up coming out in AHCI form . We can only assume that Samsung chose to hold back on their NVMe-capable iteration because many de...
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Polaris is a hot topic these days, and it doesn't just refer to GPUs. Samsung's Polaris SSD controller is a marvelous piece of engineering. Polaris takes sequential and random performance to a whole new level. Samsung's 48 layer VNAND is just as excitin...
Published: 2015-06-11, Author: Jon , review by: tweaktown.com
Samsung continues to impress us. In our opinion, they currently have the fastest consumer SSD's on the market. The main drawback of the SM951 series is availability. Where can you buy one? In addition, will it run as expected on your machine? Remember, t...
Published: 2017-09-09, Author: Tomas , review by: uk.hardware.info
PCI-Express SSDs are still quite expensive, but they also perform significantly better than SATA600 SSDs. A few years ago the additional price you paid for a high-end SSD barely gave you better performance due to the SATA600-bottleneck, but now the differ...
