The SSD 960 Evo 500GB showed no faults throughout our testing, its price vs. performance ratio is seemingly unparalleled, and Samsung's new NVMe 2.0 driver/upcoming Magician software update should ensure a smooth user experience. Overall, there's no better storage option for enthusiasts on a budget, and I might even upgrade my 512GB 950 Pro to a 1TB 960 Evo.
The SSD 960 Evo 500GB showed no faults throughout our testing, its price vs. performance ratio is seemingly unparalleled, and Samsung's new NVMe 2.0 driver/upcoming Magician software update should ensure a smooth user experience. Overall, there's no better storage option for enthusiasts on a budget, and I might even upgrade my 512GB 950 Pro to a 1TB 960 Evo.
We liked what we saw when we tested Samsung's SSD 960 Pro nearly a month ago, however availability for the company's new flagship M.2 NVMe SSD has been spotty at best. It's been a rather long wait for enthusiasts and while it should be possible to order...
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky smooth operation as a system drive.Excellent sequential reading and writing performance.Excellent 4K random writing performance.Excellent 4k random reading...
The SSD 960 EVO is a wildly fast M.2 drive that's actually semi-affordable. It's an excellent option for almost any user with a PC that supports PCI Express drives, the M.2 form factor, and the NVMe protocol. Read...
The Samsung 960 EVO 1TB NVMe SSD is an attractive alternative in a category dominated by expensive products that often have more bark than bite. Don't expect any more high-capacity value-focused NVMe products anytime soon. The 960 EVO is the best you will get in 2016 and early 2017.
The 512GB 960 Evo would make for great primary drive alongside a hard disk. My advice? Save up for a 1TB Samsung 960 Evo, which will set you back around $470/£412, and chuck your existing SSD and hard disk out the window – after transferring your data of course. The new PC storage standard is here, and it doesn’t need cables either.
Whatever you are planning with this storage unit, you are good to go from gaming, overall net PC usage (albeit total overkill) to video transcoding and editing and content creation. The new 960 EVO and PRO series are one of the fastest SSD series available for hugely I/O intensive workloads, consumer grade that is. Please do check and verify if your motherboard supports it if you are in the market for something this fast. The 960 EVO series come highly recommended, again a top pick.
The Samsung SSD 960 EVO 1TB and 250GB drives are wicked fast, affordable and show that traditional hard drives and SATA III based SSDs are no longer viable options for high-end computing.
Samsung has finally brought their TurboWrite technology to an NVMe M.2 SSD, and it absolutely did not disappoint! Performance of the tested 250GB and 1TB samples came close to the 960 PRO and frequently outpaced even the 950 PRO. The new TurboWrite caches are even larger on these new models, ranging from 13GB to 42GB (!) for the 1TB model, keeping write speeds high and giving the 960 EVOs an edge in our simultaneous mixed workload testing - even beating the 960 PRO in that particular metric! Coupling outstanding performance with competitive pricing makes the 960 EVO a tough act to follow!
Sure, the 960 Pro offers you a few more MB/s bandwidth and higher IOPS and more consistent write performance over the 960 EVO, but with the extremely competitive pricing, we would recommend the EVO over the Pro more often than not. Unless higher...
Find The Samsung SSD 960 EVO @ Amazon.comAlthough the drives share many similarities, the Samsung SSD 960 EVO isn't quite the same beast as its big-brother, the 960 PRO. With that said, the 960 EVO is still an exceptionally fast family of Solid State...
As of this week the Samsung 960 EVO NVMe M.2 SSDs have begun shipping for those interested in high-performance solid-state storage. For our benchmarking fun today I am looking at the Samsung 960 EVO 250GB NVM Express M.2 SSD (MZ-V6E25) with tests under...
Given the fact that the Samsung 960 PRO destroyed every other consumer SSD on the market in every single performance metric, we had very high expectations for the Samsung 960 EVO and with testing out of the way, I can safely say that it has met and...
The 960 EVOs put up great numbers across most of our test suite, so we have high expectations for their final standings. The 1TB drive especially threatens to shake up the top end of the overall performance chart. To compare each drive, we take the...
The Plextor M8Pe is currently in the SSD testbed where we don't expect it to surpass the OCZ RD400 or Samsung 960 EVO, but matching their performance would likely make the M8Pe the clear favorite over the 960 EVO. The one thing holding back the 960 EVO from becoming the default product recommendation among PCIe SSDs is the fact that some MLC-based drives will be competing with the 960 EVO on price and may also come close in performance.
Samsung’s 960 Pro is the fastest consumer drive on the market, but the company’s 960 Evo is only about three to four percent slower in some instances and costs about a third less. If you’re looking for a drive that's a cut above the rest, and won’t cost you an arm and a leg, you should get the 960 Evo. While it costs about twice as much as an equally-sized SATA drive, it’s up to five times as fast. If you constantly transfer a lot of files or edit videos, the 960 Evo is a great purchase and largely lives up to Samsung’s performance claims.
The Samsung 960 EVO is the best performing value-oriented M.2 NVMe drive on the market, that is offered in capacities up to 1TB and starts at an affordable price.
The Samsung SSD 960 EVO M.2 NVMe 250GB and 1TB PCIe SSDs both have exceptional performance and show that you can get amazing performance without having to break the bank. The performance of the 960 EVO was greater than last years 950 PRO flagship SSD in...
The SSD 960 Evo 500GB showed no faults throughout our testing, its price vs. performance ratio is seemingly unparalleled, and Samsung's new NVMe 2.0 driver/upcoming Magician software update should ensure a smooth user experience. Overall, there's no better storage option for enthusiasts on a budget, and I might even upgrade my 512GB 950 Pro to a 1TB 960 Evo.
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