Samsung's SSD

[dancingshoes]

Samsung's latest hard drive — the 950 Pro SSD — is the fastest consumer SSD its ever made.

By incorporating V-NAND and NVMe technology (that's Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface for the non-acronym crowd), the 950 Pro can offer sequential read speeds of up to 2,500 MB/s and sequential write speeds as fast as 1,500 MB/s.

That's hellishly good, more than four times the read speed of its predecessor, the 850 Pro, and three times the write speed. It even beats Samsung's previous top performer, the OEM-only SM951, in terms of read speed.

The 950 Pro will be available in retailers this October, with prices for the 256GB version starting at $199.99, and $349.99 for the 512GB model.

http://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/techa...ick-speed-standard/ar-AAeFAsN?ocid=spartandhp

 

[war is best form of peace]

I already have 5~6 SSDs including Samsung 850s.

What I would expect is higher capacity lower price, instead of speed.

They are already sufficiently faster than HDDs, I use them in RAID0 so I am already happy with speed, but I am still unable to get rid of HDD due to capacity limits, and prices.

If I rid HDD by using all SSD, it costing me $2000 extra, and 8 more SSD and SATA ports, i also need to add SATA cards.

It will be fast I know but too luxury speed and I fear un reliable, when my RAID, lost my data. I will be pissed then.

If they would make higher capacities, 2T
B each, S$500~600. Slower than current speed, I will buy more, becos still faster than HDD.

I will then use HDD only as high capacity backups.

 

[war is best form of peace]

On the other hand, if one looks for speed without worries on cost and capacities issues, RAM DISKs instead of SSD should be used.

It will be FASTEST, you periodically backup to NV storages.

 

[johnny333]

The problem with the newer SSDs like the 950 Pro is that you need a newer motherboard that can support the newer PCIe SSDs.


I don't think it is worth while for me to throwaway my older i7 system just for an improvement on improved specs alone. Older SSD drives like the 850 Pro, Intel 730, San Disk Extreme are still available for a cheaper prices. They are also more compatible.

 

[Cerebral]

The problem with the newer SSDs like the 950 Pro is that you need a newer motherboard that can support the newer PCIe SSDs.

I don't think it is worth while for me to throwaway my older i7 system just for an improvement on improved specs alone. Older SSD drives like the 850 Pro, Intel 730, San Disk Extreme are still available for a cheaper prices. They are also more compatible.

The 950 is a m.2 form factor, gen 4 boards should be ok liao right?

 

[johnny333]

The 950 is a m.2 form factor, gen 4 boards should be ok liao right?

Read of compatibility problems that newer SSDs have with some motherboards. With a new product cannot assume that it will run properly.

So if you wan to get one of these new PCIe SSDs, better check with the SSD maker regarding compatibility.