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alaTest has collected and analyzed 373 reviews of Samsung SSD 950 Pro. The average rating for this product is 4.6/5, compared to an average rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category for all reviews. People are impressed by the design and reliability. The size and usability are also mentioned favorably. There are some less positive opinions about the price.
usability, size, reliability, design
price
We analyzed user and expert ratings, product age and more factors. Compared to other products in the same category the Samsung SSD 950 Pro is awarded an overall alaScore™ of 95/100 = Excellent quality.
Consumer review (amazon.co.uk)
alaTest has collected and analyzed 1 user review of Samsung SSD 950 Pro from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 5.0/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.co.uk. Reviewers are impressed by the usability.
usability
100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.
Consumer review (amazon.com)
alaTest has collected and analyzed 111 user reviews of Samsung SSD 950 Pro from Amazon.com. The average user rating for this product is 4.6/5, compared to an average user rating of 4.5/5 for other products in the same category on Amazon.com. People are impressed by the size and design. The price and reliability are also mentioned favorably.
usability, reliability, price, design, size
93% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.
Expert review by : Edward Chester (trustedreviews.com)
Samsung's latest SSDs combine the company's high-speed V-NAND memory, the new NVMe standard, an ultra-small M.2 form factor and a PCI Express interface to provide a fast and capacious storage upgrade.
Incredibly fast read and write performance ; Competitively priced ; Tiny M.2 form factor ; 5yr warranty
Limited motherboard/laptop compatibility ; Overkill for many users ; May not be bootable on some systems
Expert review by : EZ Bardeguez (techradar.com)
Speed in a new dimension
Decent price ; Excellent performance ; Low power usage
Software/hardware incompatibility issues ; Max 512GB
The Samsung Pro 950 M.2 SSD is an amazing SSD. It's speedy, affordable and incredibly energy efficient. However, if your motherboard doesn't support connectivity you will have to get an adapter, which can be a headache, especially in the case of a...
Expert review by : Kenny Yeo (hardwarezone.com.sg)
You asked for it, and we are giving it to you. We unleash the full fury of Samsung's new SSD 950 Pro SSD by testing it over PCIe 3.0 x4 and contrasted that with PCIe 2.0 x4. How fast can it go with the right hardware? Find out right here.
Blazing performance; Incredibly small M.2 form factor; High endurance rating; Supports latest interface and NVMe protocol; Easy-to-use Samsung Magician utility
Requires a motherboard with PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 slots or appropriate PCIe 3.0 adapter; NVMe drivers still need work; Shorter warranty compared to predecessor; Pricey compared to SATA-based drives
Expert review by : Billy Tallis (anandtech.com)
After shipping two generations of M.2 drives with PCIe interfaces for OEM customers, Samsung is releasing a PCIe drive to the retail market which has the added benefit of including the latest features Samsung offers. The Samsung 950 Pro is the new...
So far, Intel is the only manufacturer that has produced an enthusiast drive using the U.2 connector to provide PCIe x4 to a 2.5" drives. U.2 support is far less common than M.2, but the next time Samsung wants to introduce a major performance boost,...
Expert review by (ubergizmo.com)
Every year Samsung releases a brand new SSD product and this year is no exception. For 2015, Samsung introduces the world’s first (another...
THE MOST COMPETITIVE NVME PCIE SSD
Expert review by : Jarred Walton (maximumpc.com)
When we first looked at Samsung's 950 Pro, we only had the 256GB model for testing; it's time to rectify that omission and see what the additional capacity brings to the party
Expert review by : Jarred Walton (maximumpc.com)
The 950 Pro is Samsung's first retail NVMe drive, delivering gobs of performance in a chewy gum stick form factor
Expert review by : Chris Ramseyer (tomshardware.com)
When it comes to flash capacity, more is better. The question is whether two are better than one. Today, we look at the Samsung 950 Pro 256GB SSD again, but with a focus on pairing two drives in a RAID 0 array. This option costs a little more than a...
Doubling capacity and increasing data integrity are still good use cases for RAID in the home
Increasing performance through RAID 0 no longer has the same shine it once had. NVMe SSDs are fast enough to satisfy the most demanding user needs. We've hit a point where RAID 0 run off of a chipset gives diminishing returns
The NVMe protocol certainly delivered all it promised. The technology has reduced flash latency to the host system, and that has freed up access times as well as throughput ceilings. The 950 Pro has leveraged the technology so well that running two...
Expert review by : Stuart Davidson (hardwareheaven.com)
During the second half of 2015 Samsung released their latest SSD, the 950 Pro. For a number of generations their drives were SATA based, by the time we hit the 850 Series mSATA and M.2 had started to appear in their product catalog but the 950 was the...
Starting with the build quality of the 950 Pro we have no issues. In fact we’ve every confidence that the 950 Pro will be a very durable drive. Our experience with Samsung drives of previous generations is that they are rock solid, in fact we have only...
Expert review by : Ben Mansill (pcauthority.com.au)
The fastest consumer M.2 SSD, and the dawn of a new generation.
If your system is M.2-compatible, then this is the storage solution to have for maximum performance.
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