Samsung is rumoured to launch a 960 Evo SSD next month

Samsung are rumoured to launch a 960 Evo SSD next month

| Source: Tomshardware Author: Mark Campbell

Samsung is rumoured to launch a 960 Evo SSD next month

Samsung is rumoured to be launching their new 960 Evo SSD next month, using 48-layer TLC V-NAND and their new Polaris NVMe memory controller.

This SSD will come in the M.2 form factor and is rumoured to come in capacities of 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB, making this drive very similar to their new PM961 series M.2 NVMe SSD. In the past, Samsung has already released consumer oriented of their enterprise/OEM SSDs with their 950 Pro, which was a consumer grade version of their highly successful SP951 SSD.

In the past, Samsung has already released consumer oriented of their enterprise/OEM SSDs with their 950 Pro, which was a consumer grade version of their highly successful SP951 SSD. As such this 960 Evo is expected to deliver performance that is similar to Samsung's existing PM961, which uses the same TLC V-NAND and Polaris memory controller.

Below are the specifications of Samsung's current lineup of M.2 SSDs, including the consumer-grade Samsung 950 Pro and the recently released SM961 and PM961 OEM drives.

With TLC NAND this new consumer drive is expected to come in at a lower price than Samsung's current 950 Pro and will likely ditch the ugly green PCBs of their OEM drives for a gamer friendly black PCB.

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 the Samsung 961 series of SSDs are intended for OEM system builders only, though they are on retail shelves on some online storefronts.

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