Thursday, October 22, 2015

Samsung 950 Pro Brings NVMe To M.2, Over 2.5GB/s

Vigile writes: #Samsung just released its first non-OEM, consumer level #NVMe enabled SSD, the 950 Pro series. This drive will ship in an M.2 form factor rather than a 2.5-in drive size that is the standard for users today, allowing installation into notebooks, small form factor PCs and desktop PCs that have at least one M.2 slot on-board. It peaks at 512GB capacity today but Samsung promises a 1TB version using 48-layer #VNAND in 2016. The NVMe protocol allows much better performance directly over the PCIe bus without the overhead of the AHCI protocol used in hard drives and previous SSDs. PC Perspective's review has performance breaking the 2.5GB/s read speed level while also introducing an entirely new type of performance evaluation for SSDs centered around latency distribution of IOs.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/10/22/2113223/samsung-950-pro-brings-nvme-to-m2-over-25gbs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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