Samsung PM953 960GB M.2 NVME SSD - $280

Never heard of the place but if they have a partnership with Amazon, I don't see them as being too risky. Bought two for my Threadripper rig to try out NVMe RAID. 2TB of NVMe storage for 550 bucks ain't bad, especially when I already have a offer for 150 bucks to sell my lightly used 512GB NVMe SSD :woot:
 
FrozenSteel said:
Never heard of the place but if they have a partnership with Amazon, I don't see them as being too risky. Bought two for my Threadripper rig to try out NVMe RAID. 2TB of NVMe storage for 550 bucks ain't bad, especially when I already have a offer for 150 bucks to sell my lightly used 512GB NVMe SSD :woot:
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They've popped up on Slick Deals a few times, they're legit.
 
custom90gt said:
Probably not going to work in your laptop. This is a 110mm SSD. I'd pick up a PM961 1tb on ebay for about the same price if I were you.
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Yea, be careful. Most laptops use M.2 22x80 (Some even only support M.2 22x42.) I got lucky when I bought my Asus Zenith Extreme which has two M.2 22x110 slots.
 
FrozenSteel said:
Never heard of the place but if they have a partnership with Amazon, I don't see them as being too risky. Bought two for my Threadripper rig to try out NVMe RAID. 2TB of NVMe storage for 550 bucks ain't bad, especially when I already have a offer for 150 bucks to sell my lightly used 512GB NVMe SSD :woot:
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Look at the specs - these aren't NVME, they're M.2 PCIE and probably why the price is lower than they otherwise would be.
 
Whether they are or aren't those are slow if they are NVME. Just sayin'
 
dvsman said:
Whether they are or aren't those are slow if they are NVME. Just sayin'
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So while these may be slow when compared to consumer standards, these are enterprise grade drives and are not designed to compete with consumer specifications as their a whole different beast firmware-wise. Their firmware is designed for consistent performance over burst performance (The Samsung 960 Evo/Pro throughput/IOPS numbers are based on its maximum burst vs the PM953's throughput/IOPS are based on being slammed for 24 hours straight in a datacenter.) Also, while not relevant to some, these drives have hardware P-Fail protection. Expensive for an SSD manufacturer to integrate because of the cost, these drives won't become corrupt when the machine is unexpectedly shut down as the capacitors on the drive power it long enough to backup DRAM information to flash. And finally, when in RAID 0, it will have similar burst performance to a 960 Pro with approx. 1.92TB of capacity. So IMHO, this deal is worth it for an enterprise grade hardened drive.
 
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For those who are curious about the performance of AMD Threadripper NVMe RAID with two of these drives in RAID 0.
 
down to the age old argument of fast vs. a little faster and the perceivable differences :S
 
Sadly the two in raid are still not near the speed of a single PM961 which is slower than the 960 Pro.
 
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