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The front of the box has a part image of the drive with a sticker displaying the capacity. The back of the box has the length of warranty displayed along with multilingual notes informing that more detailed warranty and product information is available on Samsung's website.
The only thing bundled with the drive is an installation and warranty guide.
With the 4-Landing design, the drive's components are all built onto one side of the PCB and all are in-house Samsung designs. The four 512GB NAND packages sit alongside the Polaris controller which has the 2GB LP-DDR3 cache IC built on top of it.
The launch of the 960 PRO sees a new updated version of Samsung's Magician SSD management software. The new version (which currently only supports the SSD960) has been graphically enhanced with a better interface to make it easier to use. It includes two new features – Secure File Erase and Magic Vault.
Secure File Erase does exactly what it says on the tin; individual files can be selection for deletion, and once deleted cannot be restored. With Magic Vault, an area of the drive can be set aside and password-protected to store sensitive information. Once set up, the Magic Vault area of the drive becomes invisible to the OS.
This new version of the software will not be available until November but we saw screen shots of it at the 2016 Samsung SSD Summit and its new interface does look much easier to use.
You have some kind of bottleneck since you don’t achieve maximum specification speeds.
This will set you back at least 3 grand.
its est at $1299 USD lol.
The IOMeter IOPS results aren’t near the specification performance because a different test procedure is used to the one that gives Samsung its specified figures. IOPS numbers can change quite significantly based on the tested QD and number of Threads.
that is truly impressive, I would like to see some reviews for the lower capacity models
Should be released on 10/30 (or 30/10 for you euro’s) here in the states, and I cannot wait to get my 2tb 960 pro! I’ve literally been postponing a whole new build just to wait for this drive, but it’s going to be well worth the wait!
“…that’s a bit of an understatement to say the least as Samsung quote Sequential read/write figures for the 2TB drive as 3,500MB/s and 2,100MB/s respectively. Incidentally, they are the same figures as for both the 512GB and 1TB drive..”
This text is directly from the first page of the review….did you even read the article?
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7909/samsung-960-pro-2tb-2-nvme-pcie-ssd-review/index.html
Tweaktown’s review…only they test drives by making them the OS drive, then filling it to 75% capacity to more accurately mimic the conditions a real user will be using the drive under…
just because it is rated for the same speed, doesn’t mean that it will perform exactly the same, the random read/write performance isn’t as fantastic as the ratings are showing