Class-leading M.2 NVMe Functioning

For the bulk of existing 950 Pro owners, jumping to Samsung's new 960 Pro series probably isn't worth the investment. Unless you are interested in increasing the storage of your current bulldoze, in that location isn't a whole lot of incentive to upgrade. If anything, that's a testament to the speed and reliability of Samsung's 950 Pro, which was boggling enough to take received our Outstanding honor late final year.

Although information technology isn't quite equally groundbreaking, the 960 Pro 1TB notwithstanding delivered great results. Its 7-Zilch file extraction exam was particularly impressive, every bit were the bulldoze's file copy tests.

For those wondering, for the time being nosotros have shied abroad from including Windows boot fourth dimension and game level load time tests. Some time ago we discovered that high-speed SSDs were no longer a bottleneck here and earlier long every drive was performing well within a 2d of each other -- inappreciably conducive to demonstrating the performance difference betwixt products.

Without question, Samsung's latest 'prosumer' SSD delivers the best M.2 NVMe performance nosotros've seen to date. At $629, the 1TB model might seem expensive but in terms of performance nothing in the consumer space tin hold a candle to it.

Non only that, but this 1TB model comes in at the exact aforementioned cost per gigabyte as the 950 Pro 512GB, which should make it clear which generation to buy if you're due for an upgrade.

No operation inconsistencies were revealed past our bombardment of tests and therefore the 960 Pro series appears to accept no real weakness. Admittedly nosotros've merely had the drive on hand for a day or then, and then there is certainly much more testing to be done.

Based on initial impressions, the 960 Pro serial looks to exist a solid successor. Having boldly recommended Samsung's 960 Pro 2TB in our PC Buying Guide'due south "Farthermost Auto", it looks like we made the right option there. In fact, nosotros should go ahead and supercede the 950 Pro from the Luxury Organisation with the equivalent 960 Pro model besides.

Overall, great stuff over again from Samsung, and we'll be eagerly waiting to encounter what, if annihilation can degrade this new Thousand.2 king over the coming months.

Pros: Course-leading M.2 NVMe functioning. Overnice chapters range. Excellent endurance ratings. Only 80mm long (fifty-fifty the 2TB model). Five-yr warranty.

Cons: In our treasured 24 hours with the 960 Pro, nosotros are struggling to come with a con. While information technology is competitively priced, it can't hurt to enquire for a discount ;).