Samsung 960 PRO RAID Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅19-10-16
Packaging, Bundle & Closer Look


As we’ve seen previously, the 960 PRO arrives in a professionally designed packet which features an arty shot of the SSD and lists the capacity. On the reverse, the features are listed and there are details on the technical specifications.


Inside this packet, there is very little by way of a bundle. There is just an instructions manual and the drive in a plastic tray.


In similar fashion to the 950 PRO, the 960 PRO conforms to 2280 and arrives with a stealthily black PCB. Although the physical design of an SSD may not be overriding factor in a purchase, the decision to dress 960 PRO in black certainly helps from an aesthetics point of view. Had Samsung decided to opt for green for example, this would probably ruin the theme of quite a few carefully designed computer systems.

The 960 PRO utilises PCI Express Gen 3 x4 with NVMe 1.2, not only this but our drive also arrives with Samsung’s 3rd generation V-NAND with the new Polaris Controller which pushes the sequential read and write performance to new levels. Samsung state that we should expect 3500MB/s for read and 2100MB/s for write performance, with IOPS hitting 330K on this 512GB model and 440K in the 2TB model.

Other features also worth a mention are AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption and an impressive MTBF of 1.5 million hours!

Today we’ll be testing out the 512GB version of 960 PRO but there are also 1TB and 2TB options available too – possibly making it a great choice for those with a demand for bigger data storage.

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