Samsung's SM961 Polaris SSD becomes available for Pre-order

Samsung's SM961 Polaris SSD becomes available for Pre-order

| Source: Overclockers UK Author: Mark Campbell

Samsung's SM961 Polaris SSD becomes available for Pre-order

Samsung's new ultra fast SM961 SSD is now available for Pre-order, with read and write speeds of 3200MB/s and 1800MB/s and Samsung's new Polaris NVMe controller.

The Samsung 961 series of SSDs will come in two flavours, only one of which is currently available for Pre-order right now. The SM961 that will be using 2-Bit MLC VNAND and the more cost effective PM961, which will make use of 3-Bit TLC VNAND. Both of these SSDs will be available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB variants.

When compared to their older counterparts, the SM961 and PM951, the SX961 series offer large increases in both read/write speeds and IOP performance, making this new SSD a very attractive unit for OEM system builders.

Retail availability of these SSDs will be limited as these SSDs are designed to be used by OEMs only, though a consumer release is expected later this year.

SM961 PM961 950 Pro SM951 PM951 Controller Samsung Polaris Samsung Polaris Samsung UBX Samsung UBX Samsung UBX NAND MLC V-NAND TLC V-NAND MLC V-NAND MLC V-NAND TLC V-NAND Sequential Read 3200 MB/s 3000MB/s 2500MB/s 2150MB/s 1050MB/s Sequential Write 1800MB/s 1150MB/s 1500MB/s 1550MB/s 560MB/s 4K Random Read 450K IOPS 360K IOPS 300K IOPS 300K IOPS 250K IOPS 4K Random Write 400K IOPS 280K IOPS 110K IOPS 100K IOPS 144K IOPS Release Mid 2016 Mid 2016 October-2015 June-2015 2015

Right now it looks like the Samsung SM961 is set to the new performance and capacity champion for the M.2 SSD form factor, though we expect that Samsung will release a consumer focused 960 Pro SSD later this year.

You can Pre-order Samsung's SM961 Polaris SSD here.

You can join the Samsung's SM961 SSD on the OC3D Forums.

Samsung's new SM961 SSD is now available for Pre-order. Read/write speeds of 3200/1800MB/shttps://t.co/IR0k9HL7zw pic.twitter.com/r41QcnBETE — OC3D (@OC3D) June 16, 2016

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