6/29/2023 0 Comments 960 evo diskmark![]() You will be hovering at roughly 50 Cents per GB for the EVO series and 60 Cents per GB for the PRO models. Compared to the launch price of the 950 Pro the 960 EVO series is cheaper, but definitely not cheap. Making your own SSD with your own controller, own PCB, own cache chips and own NAND flash memory does have advantages as Samsung is able to keep the prices very competitive as this product is made 99% in-house. So that's over 50 years of lifespan, easily. ![]() if you write say 20 GB a day / 365 days a year that would be 7.3 TB per year. ![]() Much like we concluded in the 960 Pro review, for the Evo it's all the same there is more to it than just performance though, this EVO model is offered at proper endurance numbers, 400 TB written is guaranteed for the tested 1TB model and combined with a 3 year warranty that should bring a smile to your face. The difference over a SATA3 SSD however is certainly noticeable, but again something relative as experience as a regular SSD already does workloads in split second timings. So the question rises, would you ever notice any difference in-between a 950 series product or a 960 Pro or Evo? We doubt that very much. Things remain relative though, your PC is working at a certain speed due to your processor and memory. At close to 1 and in certain conditions even 2 GB/s writes per seconds it is still four times as fast as any SATA3, while topping 3 GB/s reads here and there and thus more than quadrupling that number compared to a SATA3 SSD. As you have been able to see, the Samsung 960 Pro is a product that offers insane performance in both reads and writes relative to what you pay for it. For motherboards the industry will need to move to SATA4 rapidly with a serious increase in broad specced bandwidth to be able to keep up with M.2 and NVMe. It is seriously staggering to see where we are headed in terms of performance for NAND based flash storage units. I do not think that any developer expected storage technology running over a simple PCI-Express interface would be this fast anno 2016. Slowly but steadily we are running into anomalies with test software as well as by design. The new 960 series (both Evo and Pro) show it all. It remains amazing to see how fast NVMe related technology is advancing. ![]() within these confined lines and wordloads the NVMe product will shine like the sun. But if you perform heaps of video transcoding and need fast writes, or just love to grab files over usenet parrung and unparring, heck yes. Your average PC afficonado or PC gamer hardly will notice any difference. And therein the answer is to be found, the guys who will benefit the most from products like the 960 series are the one with massive workloads. Objectively speaking even measuring inbetween a properly fast SATA3 and this 960 EVO things ould remain relative under normal workloads. Your new bottleneck is your OS and the way it manages file IO. This obviously is the big conundrum with the fastest NVMe based storage units anno 2016 as slowly but steadily, storage simply isn't the bottleneck anymore. That said, in relative performance numbers wether you choose a EVO or PRO honestly you'll not notice. I certainly am getting my NVMe freak'on every time a test a newer unit.
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