Monday, October 17th 2016
Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSDs Up for Pre-order
Cashing in on the popularity of its "EVO" brand extension in the client SSD space, Samsung this September announced the 960 EVO family of PCI-Express SSDs in the M.2 form-factor, supporting the NVMe protocol. The drives are up for pre-order on the company's US online store. The series is topped with the 1 TB variant, priced at USD $479.99, followed by the 500 GB variant priced at $249.99, and the 250 GB variant priced at $129.99.
All three variants target a price-per-GB value around the $0.50/GB mark, however, one has to note that these are PCI-Express drives. The cheapest 250 GB variant serves up sequential transfer speeds of up to 3200 MB/s reads, with up to 1500 MB/s writes; the 500 GB variant up to 1800 MB/s writes; and the 1 TB variant up to 1900 MB/s writes. All three drives feature 3D V-NAND flash memory by Samsung, while the controller takes advantage of PCI-Express gen 3.0 x4 interface over the M.2-2280 form-factor, taking advantage of the NVMe protocol.
All three variants target a price-per-GB value around the $0.50/GB mark, however, one has to note that these are PCI-Express drives. The cheapest 250 GB variant serves up sequential transfer speeds of up to 3200 MB/s reads, with up to 1500 MB/s writes; the 500 GB variant up to 1800 MB/s writes; and the 1 TB variant up to 1900 MB/s writes. All three drives feature 3D V-NAND flash memory by Samsung, while the controller takes advantage of PCI-Express gen 3.0 x4 interface over the M.2-2280 form-factor, taking advantage of the NVMe protocol.
35 Comments on Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSDs Up for Pre-order
In Europe even more expensive, have to wait for availability and price drops..:ohwell:
Hopefully these won't need additional cooling to maintain peak performance. But I don't plan on upgrading my storage anytime soon, so I don't care even if these suck (which they probably don't) :D
waiting for amazon.com then I might decided from amazon or samsung as I can't buy from newegg :(
This is going to take some time to reach the point of affordability. Waiting to see a fast 3GB\1$ NVMe drive.
So far the 512GB intel 600P is the only one on my radar.
If space is not your concern and you're not in need for crazy sequential speeds, 850 Pro drives are still an option. Proven durability and speeds.
If xyou want good NVMe drive, there is not much choice.
Other than showing off on benchmarks?
As for the 600p, it is fast, but not significantly more so then SATA drives. It's IOPS rating is only about ~10k higher then high end sata models.
Compare this to the 960 evo, which has 3x the IOPS rating and double the read speed, and 3x the write speed of the intel drive. that is where the price comes from.
I really need to replace the 840pro from my current system.