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    Samsung 960 Pro NVMe SSD: Ludicrously fast PC storage

    by JON L. JACOBI Feb 08, 2017 4 minutes

    Samsung 960 Pro M.2/NVMe SSD

    PROS

    • Insanely fast with large files

    • Up to 2TB capacity

    CONS

    • Just average with small files

    • Pricey

    $630

    WHEN I WAS testing Samsung’s new 960 Pro M.2/NVMe SSD (), a coworker looking over my shoulder at the results declared, “That’s sick!” High praise in today’s parlance, and a direct response to this drive’s incredible speed. It’s a phrase I continued to voice silently as I saw read and write numbers of 2.7GBps and 1.7GBps, respectively, pop up. And that was from the super-conservative AS SSD benchmark with non-compressible data; CrystalDiskMark 5 boasted reads and writes

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