Any hands on reviews of the Samsung 950 Pro NVMe m.2?

ChevyCam94

Has any one installed, used, and preferably benched the 950 Pro?  Id like to do the upgrade, mostly for the read spead, but Im not sure how it will actually perform in my Pred17.  Im looking at the 256GB model.  2200r/900w (r=read, w=write) 

beststevie

http://community.acer.com/t5/Acer-Ideas/Suggestions-for-Future-Predator-Gaming-Notebooks/m-p/415401#M285

ChevyCam94

Hmmmm. So the read speed only reaches about 1.5 GB/s out of the rated 2.2GB/s. For some reason, those numbers look REALLY slow.

My LiteOn, for example, benches at 529MB/s read and 185MB/s write. That's higher than any number in those charts for the LiteOn.

My 850 EVO SATA SSD benches at 397 MB/s read, 209MB/s write.

Something seems off

Of course, Samsung magician says my 850 EVO reads at 6,065 MB/s and writes at 5,021 MB/s, which is horse poo.

beststevie

I just saw the last post and I want to explain something here.

 

Benchmark values are only good to have an overview to be able to compare products.

 

You can optimize your values by adjusting the values in the Bemchnmark program.

 

If you take a simple software which is only trying to get the max bandwith  wiht your SSD it has nothing to do technically with my IO meter benches. The values are choosen for professiohal storage systems with interfaces like Fibre Channel, SAS, dealing with 24 up to unlimitted hdds, ssds, ...

 

So the values you're talking about, are not compareable to theese IOmeter values.

 

The softwae writes the parition full with

 

a test file for e. g. . So if I bench my 950 whch contains also the OS it's really not optimized for good values.

 

If you are interested in, I can send you the IOmeter script.