Samsung SSD 960 Evo

These drives are absolutely amazing. They will run you around $50-$100 more than a SATA SSD of equivalent capacity, but will deliver a much great difference in transfer rate. The Evo Series seem to be our absolute favorite when it comes to...

Strikes a near-perfect balance of performance and price, while still maintaining decent capacity. The 960 Evo hits the current SSD sweet spot firmly on the...

For most people, the 960 Evo is all the SSD you need. Performance is only a half-step behind its premium rivals, and the price is much easier to...

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 Samsung 960 Evo M.2 provides ridiculously fast sequential read/write speeds, but is a little slower than the 960 Pro. However, it still offers extreme performance over a regular SATA III SSD and is more affordable than its Pro counterpart - making...

The Samsung 960 EVO is a stunning little drive. I'm still astounded by the fact Samsung can jam a whole terabyte of storage into just two chips on a single-sided PCB, but it's not just the scale of the drive which impresses me. The 960 EVO is two-thirds...

SSDs with TLC NAND have traditionally been significantly slower than SSDs with MLC NAND, and we were not expecting this to change with the SSD 960 Evo. And frankly, we were quite surprised by Samsung's claimed performance figures. Can a TLC NAND SSD be...

The Samsung 960 Evo is the more affordable of the two solid-state drives (SSDs) that the South Korean company launched recently.Unlike the 960 Pro ($459 for 512GB) that I tested last month, the 960 Evo is priced at $349 for the 500GB model.Samsung is...

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.