wraggster
September 22nd, 2015, 21:55
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/91e3646afffbd6fd314eb1ba48d4c9f3/202680501/samsung-ssd-950-pro-m2-x4-2015-09-22-01.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/22/samsung-950-pro-m4-ssd/)Samsung has just launched the 950 Pro (http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150921006436/en/Samsung-Launches-950-PRO-SSD-Leading-Mass#.VgEnz_mqpBd), its first consumer SSD that puts vertical NAND (V-NAND) tech into a gumstick-sized M.2 PCI Express device. The result, as you might guess, is speed. The 512GB model, which costs a reasonable $350, can read at 2.5GB/s and write at 1.5GB/s, easily beating the company's last speed champ, the SM951 SSD (http://www.engadget.com/2015/01/08/samsung-sm941-pcie-ssd/). It's also Samsung's first mainstream drive to use NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express), an interface designed specifically for SSDs to help them sip less power and last longer. As a result, the 512GB model is warrantied to write up to 400TB of data. The drives use Samsung's 2nd-generation 32-layer V-NAND, not the 48-layer chips itrecently announced (http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/10/samsung-256-gigabit-flash-chip/).
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/22/samsung-950-pro-m4-ssd/
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/22/samsung-950-pro-m4-ssd/