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[AnandTech] Samsung announces 960 Pro and 960 Evo M.2 PCIe SSDs (Updated)

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So none of these will be 2.5" Sata?

How about M2 sata?

Strictly PCIE?
 
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero View Post

So none of these will be 2.5" Sata?

How about M2 sata?

Strictly PCIE?
I'm sure there will be new SATA drives as well. These things are fairly niche (and mostly pointless) but it's good marketing to get the name out there, 960 Evo, with the fastest drives first. Now the 960 Evo name will be associated with blazing fast speeds that will help the sales of the not nearly as fast, but more than fast enough, SATA drives.
 
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Well from my understanding the 951 was faster then the 950. The problem was it was a lot hotter.



In that video it looks to me that the 950 starts off fast but throttles down to reduce heat. While the 951 does not. So the 951, although hotter, finished well over 1 minute faster then the 950.
The cool down of the 951 is relatively quick. So, with a 951 you don't want to do a lot of large batch files (something well below 205 GB). As long as it's used to install games, programs, gaming, you should be fine.
So I "assume" the same maybe true with the 961 vs 960. But I would have to wait and see once the comparison is done between the 2.
 
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After reading a few reviews on the SM961 most believe the 960 Pro will be faster, especially moderate loads where the SM961 suffers. The firmware will be tweaked for improved performance in both seq. and IOPS speed. Samsungs Magican software will also work with the 960 Pro.
 
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Well from my understanding the 951 was faster then the 950. The problem was it was a lot hotter.



In that video it looks to me that the 950 starts off fast but throttles down to reduce heat. While the 951 does not. So the 951, although hotter, finished well over 1 minute faster then the 950.
The cool down of the 951 is relatively quick. So, with a 951 you don't want to do a lot of large batch files (something well below 205 GB). As long as it's used to install games, programs, gaming, you should be fine.
So I "assume" the same maybe true with the 961 vs 960. But I would have to wait and see once the comparison is done between the 2.
yes but the whole point of the video was moving a huge amount of data. SM951 is not faster than 950 until the speed is measured in the one scenario in which you tell us not to use SM951.
 
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So none of these will be 2.5" Sata?

How about M2 sata?

Strictly PCIE?
all NVMe SSDs are PCIE based and does not support SATA, so no.

from what i understand, their line up consists of this:
900 series = NVMe (PCIE)
800 series = SATA performance
700 series = SATA budget

so they'd probably release an 860 PRO / EVO or 760 EVO later on.
 
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2 TB? My god
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I wonder how much that will be?
 
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all NVMe SSDs are PCIE based and does not support SATA, so no.

from what i understand, their line up consists of this:
900 series = NVMe (PCIE)
800 series = SATA performance
700 series = SATA budget

so they'd probably release an 860 PRO / EVO or 760 EVO later on.
hmm I just assume it was

700/800/900 series are generations

OEM/enterprise: PM = value, SM = high-end
consumer: Evo = value, Pro = enthusiast

I was just about to order 850Evo 1TB+ 2.5" SATA, when can we expect 2.5" SATA with Polaris controller? At least early 2017?

Should I just buy now? I don't care much about performance since SATA is saturated anyways? I just want the longest longevity.
 
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you won't be seeing much difference in performance on a SATA based SSD.
well aside from slightly improved IOPS, latency and 4K performance.

if you've got no problems with the current prices, then go ahead, its not like you couldn't just buy another SSD later right?
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This might be a dumb question but im not very knowledgeable on these things. We have a capped speed of around what 550mb/s with sata? So any thing faster and you need M2 or pci cards?

And these m2 drives being 200+F is safe?

And i know most m2's on motherboards is through pci 2.0 which would limit the speed of this card right? So you would need boards like x99 which give you 4 pci lanes on pci 3.0 for m2??
 
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As much as I would like to upgrade from the trusty 1TB 850 Evo that I dished out probably $600 for years and years ago... I think I still have to hold off 3D X Point. The future is bright and I wouldn't pay more than $300 for at least 500GB right now unless I didn't already have a large SSD.
 
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