Been looking at these for a little while and this is the cheapest I have seen it.
"The SM951 boasts outstanding performance, supporting both PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 2.0 interfaces. For use in the latest ultra-slim notebooks, it can read and write sequentially at 1,600MB/s (megabytes per second) and 1,350MB/s respectively based on PCIe 2.0. This performance level is approximately three times faster than that of the latest SSD with a SATA interface and about 30 percent faster than that of the Samsung XP941, its predecessor. In addition, the new SSD’s random read and write speeds reach up to 130,000 and 85,000 IOPS (inputs/outputs per second) respectively."
All comments (19)
tempt
28 May 16#1
Is this AHCI or NVME?
powerbrick
28 May 161#2
it does say nvme in the title ?
chriskrt
28 May 16#3
AHCI iam affraid.
robcal
28 May 161#4
Sorry guys, just checked the model number and it isn't the NVMe one after all :disappointed: this is the MZHPV512HDGL. The NVMe drive has model number MZVPV512HDGL. Have edited the title.
protegeone
28 May 161#5
I have one in my pc and even on an old motherboard surpasses my SSD in both read/write. Can't wait to see its performance once I change motherboard which properly supports it.
nublets2k
28 May 16#6
Fail.
Gort1951
29 May 16#7
He has updated the title.
Resa6969
29 May 162#8
fail
quadpatch
29 May 16#9
I just bought the NVMe version and that was £190 from Ebuyer, so not too bad. It benchmarks at 1500MB/s read and write (the read was 1800 before it became the boot drive), which is still really impressive but I notice zero difference in program load times or operation compared to a 1Tb Samsung 850 Evo drive and windows boot time actually increased (but not much), so I would recommend splashing out a little extra on the latter for double the storage.
nublets2k
29 May 16#10
Fail.
Nate1492
29 May 16#11
As this isn't the NVMe drive, I have to say it's cold. If you are going expensive M.2, you should really get NVM. It's 10 quid more.
fishmaster
29 May 161#12
What chipset do you have? I've seen the NVMe SM951 running on an X99 chipset and it was mightily impressive.
quadpatch
29 May 16#13
I have a Z170. I am wondering if there is an option for in the bios that will improve boot times, but so far a cursory glance hasn't turned up anything. It is a bit weird that even though I get triple the benchmark scores of a decent SATA SSD that it doesn't show up in real use cases. I will keep looking for solutions to this, but since I've read a few reviews of the drive that suggest the same outcome there may not be much of a fix.
quadpatch
29 May 161#14
Here are the Benchmarks I get on my Z170 board, btw this is using a PCI-e adapter. My board doesn't have an M.2 slot, despite supporting NVMe
And here is what I get on my 850 Evo (also as a boot drive).
You'd expect to notice something from this right? :/
seanmorris100
29 May 16#15
I moved TW Warhammer from my HDD to SSD and the time difference is black and white, I think with this you may not see the benefits as it can only take so much time to load something, if its basically instant on SSD how more instant can it get?
£180 to not notice anything bar benchmark stats doesnt really seem worth it... get a bigger SSD imo.
fishmaster
29 May 16#16
Your 4K performance is the problem and therefore a problem with how you're interfacing your card with your system.
quadpatch
29 May 16#17
any idea what the 4k performance should be?
kt6345
29 May 16#18
can I use this in a macbook pro retina 2014?
biuro74
30 May 16#19
I've put link to Aria where NVMe counterpart is few pennies cheaper, but Admin didn't approve my post. Probably because it's last one item being sold :smiley:
Quadpatch: "it would be" ? It depends. Look at your scores: 4K is the weakest. Wouldn't you like it higher ? The issue is all those SSDs have such poor 4K performance (however some models are better for 4K, some are worse). But hey, look at XP951 NVMe - and newest CrystalDiskMark which supports NVMe - hey presto ;-) But then.. ZONK.. there's another issue: poor performance in ALL write cycles :smiley: This will prove all SSD technology is still underdeveloped.
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"The SM951 boasts outstanding performance, supporting both PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 2.0 interfaces. For use in the latest ultra-slim notebooks, it can read and write sequentially at 1,600MB/s (megabytes per second) and 1,350MB/s respectively based on PCIe 2.0. This performance level is approximately three times faster than that of the latest SSD with a SATA interface and about 30 percent faster than that of the Samsung XP941, its predecessor. In addition, the new SSD’s random read and write speeds reach up to 130,000 and 85,000 IOPS (inputs/outputs per second) respectively."
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And here is what I get on my 850 Evo (also as a boot drive).
You'd expect to notice something from this right? :/
£180 to not notice anything bar benchmark stats doesnt really seem worth it... get a bigger SSD imo.
Quadpatch: "it would be" ? It depends. Look at your scores: 4K is the weakest. Wouldn't you like it higher ? The issue is all those SSDs have such poor 4K performance (however some models are better for 4K, some are worse). But hey, look at XP951 NVMe - and newest CrystalDiskMark which supports NVMe - hey presto ;-) But then.. ZONK.. there's another issue: poor performance in ALL write cycles :smiley: This will prove all SSD technology is still underdeveloped.