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Just does what I need it to do. A lot of older motherboards don't have a newer UEFI Bios which is needed to boot off of a typical M.2 NVMe drive naitively without using a workaround like loading a bootloader off of a second drive, but the 950 Pro is able to show up as an IDE drive in the older legacy Bios, then does a hand-off to enter NVMe mode when you start loading your OS if the OS your using has NVMe support. If you have M.2 NVMe support on your motherboard with M.2 Slots/PCIe 3.0, go with the 960 Evo since it's cheaper and faster. But for older motherboards with no naitive NVMe boot support and PCIe 2.0 slots that will limit the max speed to ~2Gb/s anyway, these are the way to go.
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I replaced my 850 with this guy as my boot drive. Using the samsung migration tool it was a painfree experience. I am using this in my gigabyte ga-z170x gaming 7 and it booted right up with no issues. As the other reviews state I am getting better than states throughput but my iops are lower than the max they stated. I am nit sure what blocksize they used for their marketing material but regardless it's stupid fast!
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Ive been using a vertex 3 120gb ssd as a boot drive for a few years now wanted to replace it with something higher capacity and faster. got this little thing in and installed a fresh version of windows 10 hit the power button and was very disappointed with performance at first. read and write speeds were very low I verified in device manager and bios nvme was selected for the drive. Having samsung phones in the past i know how important it is to use samsung specific drivers. updated to the latest nvme driver for the 960 evo and problem solved. This thing is amazingly fast especially if its your first pcie storage experience. here are the performance numbers coming from a z170 gigabyte gaming board and i5 - 6600k overclocked to 4.6ghz. Sequential Read 1367mb/s Write 591.38 4k Read 47.35mb/s Write 212.3mb/s Sequential 32q 1 thread Read 1640mb/s Write 585.4 Before the samsung driver was installed all read speeds were about half this and write speeds were about 25% of current numbers. Installing the driver i was able to actually see and feel the difference in system response. I highly recommend the drive if you can get if for a good price just remember to update that driver.Read full review
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so it's a great item, takes some fiddling around and internet searching to get it to work since it is a new technology, great item but i can't get it to work up to the speed i am expecting in a benchmark but overall I can feel that it is definately a lot faster than ssd in general. great speed just plenty of hick ups that is not for your average user but the speed of this ssd is faster than a normal ssd in raid 0.
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I really think this is a great component - is it worth double the going rate for your average SSD for the same capacity? I'm not so sure about that. But the numbers advertised are the numbers obtained so it depends on your budget and use case.
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