A great price for a game changingly fast M.2 NVMe drive. Read speeds over 3,000MB/s and write speeds over 1,700MB/s. Yes, you pay a fair bit more for that speed than you would for a SATA drive, but then you're buying the supercar of SSD drives at a mere sportscar price. (Check that your motherboard or laptop supports the M.2 format.)
Avoid ebuyer like the plague. Nice price - zero customer service
treacle13 to kevin1961
1 Dec 163#51
Merry Christmas from ebuyer.
fishmaster
30 Nov 163#39
You are wrong to compare drives by sequential read/write and assume multiplication of performance. This is entirely wrong and didn't reflect on the real world performance. Firstly you need to compare conventional hard drives versus ssds and then compare the ssd technologies. Suffice to say sequential read/write performance is nowhere near as important as latency and 4K random read/write. So that's the conventional versus ssd. Then sata versus NVMe means you need to compare queue depth, NVMe annihilates SATA for queue depth. The next question is can a consumer user saturate the queue depth of NVMe the straight answer is generally they can't.
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robodan918
30 Nov 161#1
still waiting on the 960 pro
AKNews to robodan918
30 Nov 16#9
You can pre-order 960 Pro at Amazon now - £274.61 for 512GB - sounds like a great price to me.
Your mobo must support m.2 pcie 3.0x4 nvme to get these speeds
soulgod123 to taras
30 Nov 16#28
all you need is adapter pcie to m.2
secretspartan1
30 Nov 162#3
£196.85 through flubit elite if anyone interested.
treb
30 Nov 16#4
hot.
kevin1961
30 Nov 1611#5
Avoid ebuyer like the plague. Nice price - zero customer service
bigsofty to kevin1961
30 Nov 16#27
Totally agree, returns and general customers service are a mess. If you need something fixed, be prepared for a hell of slow reply support tickets, bad tempered communication and argumentative staff. I spent thousands with them a few years back, now I avoid there store like the plague.
I still voted hot though, I vote based on the deal value, unfortunately not on the customer support.
treacle13 to kevin1961
1 Dec 163#51
Merry Christmas from ebuyer.
sion22 to kevin1961
1 Dec 16#52
yeah they are bit of a **** sometime, when i bought my 970, a free game promotion came few day after(still well within the return period) but they refuse to give it to me, when i threaten to return it and they say i can return it but i have pay for the postage.in the end i cant be bother
johnthehuman
30 Nov 16#6
Quick question about these M.2's - WHY?
Can you really notice a difference between this and say an 850 SATA III drive?
pgilc1 to johnthehuman
30 Nov 16#7
a lot of laptops - mine included - use this half width drive size.
iLikeDiscount to johnthehuman
30 Nov 16#10
Also curious about this, would I notice any "real world" performance difference between this and my current Samsung 850 Evo sata 3 SSD... let me rephrase that, would I notice enough to justify the cost of this upgrade incl. buying a new board to support pcie 3.0x4 nvme. Now I heard there are boards with 2 or 3 slots to raid these drives.
Agharta to johnthehuman
30 Nov 16#22
Not with most consumer workloads except for copying/moving files.
They give very poor performance per £ unless you use some very demanding software.
So a waste of money for most people.
soulgod123 to johnthehuman
30 Nov 16#29
yes you are right you cant notice, i am running 850s raid 0 and sm961, cant feel the difference
johnthehuman
30 Nov 16#8
£200 for 500Gb though. Ouch.
Jim988
30 Nov 16#11
Was considering one of these but its a great deal of money extra only for a read speed improvement. Gonna wait
taras to Jim988
30 Nov 16#47
1.7GBytes/s write speed = 3x sata
The thing with this is that storage (well the amount on the sdd) no longer becomes a bottleneck. Upshot is also that larger page files start to become useful :smiley:
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Here's a review of the drive (headline: "PC Storage Just Got Sexy") that emphasizes just how ludicrously quick it is:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2016/11/15/samsung-960-evo-m-2-ssd-review-pc-storage-just-got-sexy/#3de2ce609661
And here's another recent review where the drive won an Editor's Choice award:
http://techreport.com/review/30993/samsung-960-evo-ssd-reviewed
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I still voted hot though, I vote based on the deal value, unfortunately not on the customer support.
Can you really notice a difference between this and say an 850 SATA III drive?
They give very poor performance per £ unless you use some very demanding software.
So a waste of money for most people.
The thing with this is that storage (well the amount on the sdd) no longer becomes a bottleneck. Upshot is also that larger page files start to become useful :smiley: