Samsung SSD 960 Evo 500GB Review: The king of the TLC hill

The new default choice for high-performance SSD storage has arrived

[daz]

@8:30 me too! :D thanks for the review!

[RyanCGames]

Wait a minute, isn't Steve the same guy who does Hardware Unboxed? o_O

[mintsleaf]

Thanks for the video! I ordered this one a couple of weeks ago and I hope that it arrives next week for me. Um one question.. this drive is able to boot my os, right? :D

[axeversion]

When can we expect a written review of the 960 Evo 250GB version? I would really like to find out if those conflicting stories on the internet are actually true or not.

[Daeys]

Hello, I have the 960 evo 250 installed in a asus z170 pro gaming . I use the m.2 in my board . Why don't I get the speed it's advertised at ? Do I have the change the bios settings? I tried it and my opinions are sata express and M.2 when on manual but it's set on auto . But when I set it on manual and use the M.2 setting the system shut down and reboot ? Than I have to reset it to sata express? Please help....

[Bley_]

will the 960 evo support Rapid Mode eventually? I downloaded the Magician Software and it says Rapid Mode not supported. thank you.

[simboodamn]

9 grams for the 1TB?!? Wow. That piece of information is so pertinent I might actually look into something lighter for my desktop PC! I'm glad I stumbled upon this eye opening detail before!

[peter]

So the 960 evo is about twice as fast than 850 evo?

[refusoagaino]

I installed a PNY PCe M.2x4 in my "VR ready" Asus ROG with the Nvidia GTX700 card. It was slow, now it's fast. Especially surfing the web, those cluttered news sites load faster so you can shut off the noise faster too. Sketchup is more precise. It boots 4 times faster, I turn it on and off just to watch how fast it is.

[seanwezzy]

Why doesnt this come with mounting hardware? I just needed a screw and I couldn't find one anywhere

[gholamrezamehrdad]

Is this compatible with the mother board  MSI Z97 xpower ac ?

[darkultra]

Does this drive has capacitors to help write out anything in the buffer if the power goes out:

23 power-loss capacitors used to keep the SSD's controller running just long enough, in the event of an outage, to flush all pending writes:

Will the 960 Evo have that? Would this prevent something like this:

[GregoryCunningham]

From all the benchmarks I've seen, NVMe SSD's actually load games slightly slower than Sata SSD's.

[mikem]

Which is the better buy...
512GB 950 Pro or the 500GB 960 EVO?

Both around the same price.

[loneeagle]

ok i got i question i was thinking about just getting the 1tb 960 evo over having a 250gb evo 960 and 850 pro 1tb ssd sata
i only play games o rarly ever stream, never video edit or photo storage

[haybat]

so... 960 evo is using MLC or TLC nand? because according to samsung datasheet it deploy MLC V-NAND flash.

[AquaStevae]

Here's the question that I'd like answered. Which is faster, a 1TB 960 Pro, or two 500GB 960 EVO's in Raid0???? Please get me an answer to this.

[tonicipriani]

Why WD Red though, WD's performance desktop drive is the Black, Red Pro is an NAS drive.

[rxl-soul]

why put TLC while Samsung at their keynote classed it as 3rd gen 3bit MLC?

[Dan.Burcea]

is this compatible with the Asus Z97-A