Samsung 960 EVO M.2 SSDs Up for Pre-order

[Prima.Vera]

Does anyone here actually need this kind of speed?

Other than showing off on benchmarks?

You DO know that the storage is still THE SLOWEST component of any system? Those kind of questions are very immature.

 

[Loosenut]

You DO know that the storage is still THE SLOWEST component of any system? Those kind of questions are very immature.

He may have known but I didn't. Thank you for "maturing" me up

 

[Chaitanya]

Dont like that samsung has dropped warranty period down to 3 years on this drive while 850Pro at similar peice point is getting 10years support. even outgoing 950 pro has 5 year support.

 

[lorraine walsh]

Until this 1TB spec and size comes down to the price of a 256GB model I'll be sticking to what I have.

 

[Prima.Vera]

He may have known but I didn't. Thank you for "maturing" me up

You're welcome. Immature or innocent, meaning that in the PC world there is never such thing as a component too fast, by that including RAM, CPU, GPU, various ports, and especially storage.

 

[bug]

You're welcome. Immature or innocent, meaning that in the PC world there is never such thing as a component too fast, by that including RAM, CPU, GPU, various ports, and especially storage.

Technically, there is such a thing. If your storage is the limiting factor, at some point a better CPU or RAM or whatever will only bring miniscule performance increments.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Technically, there is such a thing. If your storage is the limiting factor, at some point a better CPU or RAM or whatever will only bring miniscule performance increments.

Exactly my point.

 

[BiggieShady]

Technically, there is such a thing. If your storage is the limiting factor, at some point a better CPU or RAM or whatever will only bring miniscule performance increments.

Just be careful not to generalize too much on that level since it's highly dependent on type of workload you do with your computer ... for a benchmark that fits in cpu cache better cpu always brings performance increments, for an application that heavily writes and reads from memory better ram with lower latency always brings performance increments, some apps use storage only to load their own executable, and the point is there are too many examples where any component can limit any other component depending on type of workload.

 

[Aquinus]

You DO know that the storage is still THE SLOWEST component of any system? Those kind of questions are very immature.

That doesn't mean it's the bottleneck. You can run system memory insanely fast with a ton of bandwidth but that almost never helps anyone because things like caching enable efficient usage of memory resources so the extra bandwidth actually gets you nothing. So yes, physical storage is slower but, that's only because of where you're at on the memory hierarchy. For external storage, it's actually very fast but, that doesn't do you any good if the data your accessing is already cached in memory.

Two words: Diminishing returns.

 

[bug]

Just be careful not to generalize too much on that level since it's highly dependent on type of workload you do with your computer ... for a benchmark that fits in cpu cache better cpu always brings performance increments, for an application that heavily writes and reads from memory better ram with lower latency always brings performance increments, some apps use storage only to load their own executable, and the point is there are too many examples where any component can limit any other component depending on type of workload.

Well yes. Since I was talking about storage+CPU+RAM I thought generic usage was implied. Your addition is welcome, though, what I meant is not necessarily what reader will understand.

 

[xvi]

I have two 950 pros @ 512GB that I'm very happy with. But I'm so curious about why you would consider swapping for 960 pros. Am I missing something?

I'm hoping they solved the issue with them throttling. I have two in my laptop where there's not much room for them to breathe.

I'm also hoping to see some increased speeds even though I think I'm oversaturating the busses feeding the M.2 slots. I'd really like to see how two of these do on a Z170 board compared to two 950 Pros.