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The SSD 960 Evo

clem57

     Samsung is the leader in SSD technology offering two brands at the moment. The "PRO" brand is geared toward the power hunger users where performance requires the extra umph in their work and the "EVO" brand for the mainstream value oriented folks like me. A close second is Intel which are always in the hunt in this category. Today I would like to look at Samsung who introduces the 960 series of NVMe SSD. They are only available in M.2 2280 form factor and not as PCIe card. The PRO uses the older UBX controller with 3 ARM processors whereas the EVO has the Polaris controller with 5 ARM processors. Not bad for a mainstream side. Very little is known of this controller, but the specs at http://www.hardwarezone.com.sg/review-samsung-ssd-960-evo-pcie-ssd-mainstream-champion?utm_source=hardwarezone_sg&utm_me… are very close to the PRO. The only thing is the PRO offers a full 512 MB storage compared to only 500 MB storage on the EVO. Tel me what you think. Are any one here using these or other M.2 cards?

 

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  • I am running one of the XP941 Enterprise units (Not normally available to the average consumer (Ebay is a wonderful thing image )

     

    Samsung XP941 Series Technical Specifications

    Form Factor M.2 2280

    Capacity (GB) 128, 256, 512

    Host Interface PCI-Express 2.0 x4

    MTBF 1.5 Million Hours

    Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER) < 1 sector per 1015 bits read

    Power Consumption (Active/Idle) 5.8W / 80mW Peak

    Read Sequential Performance Up to 1170 MB/s Peak

    Write Sequential Performance Up to 930 MB/s Peak

    Random Performance Reads: Up to 122K IOPS Writes: Up to 72K IOPS

    Physical Dimensions 22 x 80 x 4 mm Weight 8.5g

     

    It is very fast as you can see.

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  • I am running one of the XP941 Enterprise units (Not normally available to the average consumer (Ebay is a wonderful thing image )

     

    Samsung XP941 Series Technical Specifications

    Form Factor M.2 2280

    Capacity (GB) 128, 256, 512

    Host Interface PCI-Express 2.0 x4

    MTBF 1.5 Million Hours

    Uncorrectable Bit Error Rate (UBER) < 1 sector per 1015 bits read

    Power Consumption (Active/Idle) 5.8W / 80mW Peak

    Read Sequential Performance Up to 1170 MB/s Peak

    Write Sequential Performance Up to 930 MB/s Peak

    Random Performance Reads: Up to 122K IOPS Writes: Up to 72K IOPS

    Physical Dimensions 22 x 80 x 4 mm Weight 8.5g

     

    It is very fast as you can see.

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