The Angelbird Wings PX1 M.2 Adapter Review: Do M.2 SSDs Need Heatsinks?
by Billy Tallis on December 21, 2015 8:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Light
Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in a day's usage, but with idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here.
The read-oriented nature of the Light test allows the 950 Pro to show off its throughput capabilities, with an average data rate more than three times what any SATA drive has achieved. But with frequent idle times and not many writes, this test does nothing to make the 950 Pro overheat and the heatsink makes no difference.
The latency charts show virtually identical performance except for the number of 10ms+ outliers experienced by the 256GB drive. But on a test this short, that amounts to only about 16 more outliers and only 30ms difference in the total run time of the test. I'm actually surprised we're not seeing bigger random variation between runs.
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Refuge - Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - link
It is supply and demand, not just charge 10% more than BoM on our entire product catalogue. Loljoex4444 - Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - link
You're also changing the interface from SATA-III to PCIe 3.0 x4. One of these things is mature and common as dirt, one of them is not.Ethos Evoss - Sunday, December 27, 2015 - link
I already have it on the laptop :)damianrobertjones - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link
It's the future... until they change it due to wanting people to spend more $$$$ to replace what they already have.TelstarTOS - Wednesday, December 23, 2015 - link
Not at all. U.2 is the future. M2 drives capacity is crippled.Teizo - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link
Having LED's on this product will only help sales if it is full RGB so people can adjust the lighting to match their system. Mix/Match lights is a major detraction/distraction for people who go to great lengths to color coordinate their systems.mooninite - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link
Meanwhile there are starving children in Africa. Geeze...tipoo - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link
You could say that about practically everything on sites like this, so kindly get off that high horse.Teizo - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link
Irregardless of your high minded comment, what I stated was in fact true. They decided, more than likely, that LED's would help with sales because gamers and enthusiast love LED's...but a little more thoughtful digging into things would reveal that the ability to color coordinate is pivotal when adding LEDs into system builds. Those kids in Africa are thrilled with your monthly monetary contribution, btw. There should be more people like you in the world.Demiurge - Monday, December 21, 2015 - link
You know, since the LED's are white... you could, y'know... buy a translucent material of the color of your choice and cover the card LED's with that and get the desired effect... without pestering the company to pander to waste money on that many RGB LED's at which you'd complain about the lack of a competitive price and not buy it anyway followed by you buying one without that is cheaper and buying a an LED strip yourself and attaching it...