The Samsung 960 EVO (1TB) Review
by Billy Tallis on November 15, 2016 10:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - The Destroyer
The Destroyer is an extremely long test replicating the access patterns of very IO-intensive desktop usage. A detailed breakdown can be found in this article. Like real-world usage and unlike our Iometer tests, the drives do get the occasional break that allows for some background garbage collection and flushing caches, but those idle times are limited to 25ms so that it doesn't take all week to run the test.
We quantify performance on this test by reporting the drive's average data throughput, a few data points about its latency, and the total energy used by the drive over the course of the test.
The 960 EVO is substantially slower than both the 950 Pro and 960 Pro, but the 960 EVO is faster than the flagship SSDs from Toshiba and Intel.
The 960 EVO delivers average service times on par with other high-end PCIe SSDs, and is still slightly faster than any non-Samsung drive.
In the frequency of high-latency outliers, the 960 EVO is surpassed only by Samsung's 950 Pro and 960 Pro.
Despite using TLC NAND, the 960 EVO manages comparable power efficiency to the 960 Pro, putting it ahead of the fastest SATA drives but still drawing substantially more power than the most efficient SATA SSDs.
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SaolDan - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
Neat!jwhannell - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
Do wantnathanddrews - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
can hazedward1987 - Friday, December 2, 2016 - link
I've never seen such a demand for nvme ssd like samsung 960 evo. They are sold only on preorders basis. Looks like the only available capacity is 250GB https://www.span.com/search/960_space_evo/-SamsungEKFxWtB - Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - link
Yea!yankeeDDL - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
The 960 EVO is today, what the 850 EVO was a couple of years ago. Buying anything else makes little sense.The 850 EVO is still today an excellent SSD with a fantastic price/performance ratio.
I am happy to see such impressive improvements: I only hope we don't need to wait 2 years to see some worthy competitor ...
Ninhalem - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
Only if you have 480 USD to spend on a 1 TB SSD. If you don't (and many people don't need those read/write speeds), then something like the Mushkin Reactor 1 TB can be had for half the cost.TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
While I agree, it's a bit of apples to oranges. The reactor is a sata III SSD, not a NVMe class SSD. Compared to other NVMe drives, the 960 evo is a great performance per dollar value.ImSpartacus - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
I think the confusion arises from the op not specifying that he was only talking about nvme m.2 drives.ddriver - Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - link
It doesn't really matter when the speed doesn't result in any tangible practical improvements.