The new Samsung 960 EVO series is one of the Samsung’s best performance and budget consumer SSD in the market next from its predecessor 850 EVO which is SATA drive, this is also the first time Samsung release an EVO series for M.2 drives which holds the latest technology of Samsung the 3D V-NAND and Polaris Controller, it takes advantage of the PCI-e lane interface or M.2 port that give huge jump in speed and surpasses the speed of traditional SATA port as medium of storage. The advertise speed of this SSD are 1.8GB/s of write speed and 3.2GB/s of write this is times 4 compare to the speed of 850 EVO which only reach 550MB/s of read and write speed.
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A new M.2 NVMe SSD from Corsair and the fastest SSD they ever had, the Corsair Force MP500 Series M.2 SSD NVMe a definitely rival with Samsung 960 Pro in terms of speed and value.
Corsair Force Series MP500 M.2 is powered with Phison PS5007-E7 NVMe controller and has a PCIe Gen.3 x4 M.2 2280 interface, the speed for these SSD is up to 3GB/s sequential read and up to 2.4GB/s sequential write 4x faster than SATA 3.0 SSD. The endurance test for these SSD is up to 349 (TBW) Terabytes Write and backed with 3-year warranty. Also based from Corsair Website the minimum requirement is Windows 10 and Mac OS X.
You can buy these new SSD from Corsair website or on ebay. The [...]
Storage is not the most beautiful parts of your PC, but having a good storage especially the SSD will make your PC load faster in terms of booting and loading games. And If you’re still using hard drive for your OS, just stop right now and go for an SSD. Even if you still using hard drive for your games, it still far better experience if you put your Windows OS on an SSD.
Well, prices for these SSD are now drop for the upcoming Cyber Monday and the recent Black Friday, You can find 500GB SSD for almost $100 USD and an 1TB SSD storage for $200 USD. You can also choose a high performance SSD like the NVMe M.2 or PCI-e based SSD that is 6x better than SATA SSD and [...]
Wanna know how much the difference of having SSD on your PS4 Pro? Well, DigitalFoundry just do a comparison benchmark on both PS4 and PS4 Pro running on HDD and SSD. If you’re planning to upgrade your PS4 Pro with SSD, you should watch first the video of DigitalFoundry below.
Does PS4 Pro's use of SATA 3 result in faster SSD loading times? We put this to the test, installing the same OCZ Trion 100 SSD to both the original PS4, and the PS4 Pro - where results aren't quite as successful as we'd hoped.And here are the result of comparison benchmark:
Fallout 4 Benchmark Base PS4 + 500GB HGST 5400rpm HDD: 55.30 seconds Base PS4 + 480GB OCZ Trion 100 [...]
