Samsung 950 PRO 256GB RAID Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅06-11-15
Packaging, Bundle & Closer Look


The 950 PRO arrives in a nicely designed packet which showcases the drive on the front and highlights the capacity. On the reverse, the features are listed and there are details on the technical specifications.


Inside the box there is very little regarding any accessories bundle. All we get is the drive and an instructions manual/guide.

950 PRO is well-protected within triple plastic shroud. This casing helps to protect the product while it’s in transit. M.2 drives are a lot more fragile and exposed compared to their SATA-based 2.5” counterparts.



Samsung’s 950 PRO conforms to 2280 and opts for a stealthy black PCB. Although this probably wouldn’t influence a purchasing decision, it’s nice to see that M.2 drives are moving in the same direction that DRAM has also gone in terms of aesthetics.

The front of 950 PRO features a sticker containing the model name, capacity and other information such as the serial number. While the reverse lists the standards which are involved – notably NVM Express since this is the interface which 950 PRO takes advantage of.

While 950 PRO arrives in the M.2 form factor this SSD utilises PCI Express Gen 3 x4, which in turn gives us access to greater bandwidth. 950 PRO uses Samsung’s own V-NAND and the UBX Controller. TRIM, Garbage collection and AES-256-bit encryption are all supported.

On paper the 256GB edition boasts 2200MB/s sequential read and 900MB/s sequential write transfer rates. In the next section of this review we’ll be observing how a single drive performs and what kind of performance we can expect when two 256GB 950 PROs are paired up in RAID0.

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