A pricey unit, but still the cheapest for this SSD at the moment. Deal only applies to 20 units in stock (-1 that I've just purchased :))
Note that this does require a MB that supports the M.2 interface, and to get optimal speeds, a MB that is x99 and above I think?
5 year warranty, read speeds ~2,500MB/s, write ~ 1,500MB/s
More if you include shipping :)
2.7 store rating tho.
Says who?
Purchased 2 of these on release for my Monster PC Build. RAID 0 is ridiculous and is only really beneficial to those working with 4k video IMO. I'm a graphic designer by day and YouTuber by night so I use the full Adobe CC Suite. Transfer rates are incredible between the two. To the point that I barely see the windows COPY dialogue box pop up. I'm using an ASROCK Z170 Extreme7+ board to get the full bandwidth possible (you have to sacrifce some PCIe slots and SATA ports though which doesn't bother me). Happy to answer any questions based on my experiences with the 950 M.2's.
What's your R0 R/W Speeds compared to single drive?
Would be interested to see if there's a R0 advantage that's notable. SSD/HDD used to be near 90% in most situations via a good Raid Card.
Setup without RAID at the moment (1 as system and 1 as TEMP drive for Adobe), but was getting close to the full WRITE (3000MBp/s) speed with READ speed hitting the ceiling at 3000MBp/s if I remember correctly. So for WRITE speeds, double the performance of a single drive :)
From a gaming perspective, assuming you've installed some games onto your RAID 0 boot partition, are level load times any better than what pedestrian SATA SSDs (e.g. Samsung Evo 850, Crucial BX100, SanDisk Extreme) get in benchmark tests you've seen?
I'd assume the difference would negligible compared to SATA SSDs for most games given most benchmarks I've seen for PCIe SSDs like the OCZ RevoDrive series, show that when the storage medium gets to a certain threshold in MB/s and IOPS, the bottleneck becomes the PCIe lane bandwidth itself and I'd expect that to be the same for M.2 form factor SSDs given M.2 uses either PCIe (most commonly), SATA or USB buses and hence offloads the queuing and storage threading onto the storage controller.
Though the Z170 chipset and NVMe could have increased that performance threshold ceiling…
Didn't get a chance to try gaming on RAID0 but will be doing a comparison video based on External USB 3.0 HDD, Internal SSD and M.2 for gaming speeds to see if there is much of an increase or difference. Have a few A++ games I want to try like Tomb Raider, RAGE and a few others. My primary steam library is on a 5TB Seagate USB 3.0 External HDD. Inside the PC I have 2x Samsung 950 Pro 512MB M.2 and a Kingston HYPERX Savage 240GB. So that will give a good indication based on the speed of the different technologies.
ill be doing a comparison video based on External USB 3.0 HDD, Internal SSD and M.2 for gaming speeds to see if there is much of an increase or difference. Have a few A++ games I want to try like Tomb Raider, RAGE and a few others.
That'll be handy. Will be paying your channel a visit. Kudos on the effort by the way.
Glad to hear it performs as good as the specs say it does!
It also uses the NVMe spec (an alternative to AHCI) and the only way to take advantage of it would be to grab one of the new Z150/Z170 mobos with an M.2 connector running off the PCIe 3.0 x4 bus.
The ASROCK Z170 Extreme7+ has 3x M.2 slots and performs beautifully. I have 2 slots occupied by the 950 PRO M.2's at the moment, but the rumour mill has that 1TB versions of this will be available 2016.
wow nice $35 cheaper than pccg.