
This benchmark tool measures the performance of a storage device by testing its sequential read and write speeds as well as its random read and write speeds using blocks 512K and 4K in size.
SAMSUNG 960 PRO 512GB CRYSTAL DISK MARK PRO
Looking at the screenshot above, you can see that it performs equally well with both incompressible (0%) and compressible (100%) data.įirst, I ran a few quick tests using CrystalDiskMark. 512GB INNOVATIVE V-NAND TECHNOLOGY: Powered by Samsung V-NAND Technology, the 970 PRO SSDs NVMe interface (PCIe Gen 3.0 x4 NVMe 1. For comparison, I've also included test results from Toshiba's OCZ RD400, Samsung 950 PRO, Toshiba OCZ VX500, ADATA Ultimate SU800, Plextor S2C, Crucial M300, Plextor M7V, PNY CS1311, OCZ Trion 150, PNY CS2211, Plextor M6V, Crucial BX200, OCZ Trion 100, Kingston HyperX Savage, Crucial MX200, OCZ Vector 180, Samsung SSD 850 EVO and Samsung SSD 850 PRO.Īs I mentioned earlier, the 960 PRO uses Samsung's new Polaris controller chip. Benchmarks: CrystalDiskMark 3.0 The 960 Pro was 8 faster than the 950 Pro for the CrystalDiskMark sequential read test with a throughput of 2522MB/s.

To test the performance of Samsung's 960 PRO SSD, I ran a series of benchmarks using CrystalDiskMark, HD Tach RW, ATTO Disk Benchmark, AS SSD, HD Tune Pro, Anvil's Storage Utilities, Iometer and PCMark 8. I this video I run some read/write benchmarks on my first NVMe M.3 SSD. Samsung rates the 512GB model we tested at 400TBW (terabytes written), the 1TB drive doubles that to 800TBW, and the 2TB version is rated to 1,200TBW, or 1.2 petabytes.

SAMSUNG 960 PRO 512GB CRYSTAL DISK MARK WINDOWS 10
For the operating system, I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 Enterprise. Samsung NVMe 960 pro 512GB M.2 SSD Review - Benchmark - Amazing. For the review, we lined up the best the market has to offer. The test system used in this review is equipped with an Intel Core i7-6700K CPU, GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-UD3 motherboard, 32GB (16GB x 2) of Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 memory, ADATA SU800 512GB SSD and a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1060 WINDFORCE OC 6G graphics card. When more 960 Pro products become available, we will be able to compare them to 512GB and 1TB competitors.
