Samsung 960 EVO Series - 250GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V6E250BW)

Updated my laptops boot drive. Windows 10 boots in 10 sec.

This is fast!!! Dont buy a disk drive made out of a can of spinning rust for your new computer! I have this on my new Asus ROG motherboard, and everything is just plain FAST.

This review is for the Samsung 960 Evo 1TB model Works great! I used the free version of Macromedia Reflect to clone my boot drive - you can create a live USB which allows you to copy your entire boot drive over. Speeds seem to be as advertised. About 4-6x faster than my 840 Evo it replaced. These tests were run while the drive was being used as the main OS drive - so windows may have been using a few %. Keep in mind that the X99 chipset with 6800K CPU has 28 lanes PCIe avaiable. So the SSD has a full 4 lanes all to itself.. Many other popular CPUs like the intel 6700k only have 16 lanes PCIe lanes total. So if youre running at 16x graphics card which most gaming cards are you are then sharing PCIe lanes with the graphics card. Without any direct airflow the temps were up to 60C while running a benchmark. From other reviews online this seems like the expected temp. I prefer things to run as cool as possible so have setup a low speed fan to give it a little extra airflow. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 5.2.0 x64 (C) 2007-2016 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s] * KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3284.482 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1872.129 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 565.858 MB/s [138148.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 460.015 MB/s [112308.3 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 2037.224 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 1782.619 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 45.915 MB/s [ 11209.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 220.752 MB/s [ 53894.5 IOPS] Test : 1024 MiB [C: 22.6% (208.0/920.0 GiB)] (x1) [Interval=5 sec] Date : 2016/12/20 2:12:55 OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 14393] (x64)

Best m.2 on the market me thinks.

Very simple to install, doesn’t come with screw for mounting to MB. Able to install, copy old drive and run windows off the drive in about 30 minutes. After upgrading MB bios (Asus Strix F) was able to get substantial throughput. Oddly enough after optimizing games that used to chew 40pct CPU stopped down to 12-15pct. Very nice drive.

This drive is crazy fast. In practice its almost 4 times faster than my 850 evo ssd. I used the Samsung migration tool (Magician, I think) and it booted up with no issues.

Fast as hell. Faster than my 850 Evo

The speed on this thing is awesome! But I should have purchased the 500GB version, this thing fills up fast!

Im not sure what to do anymore. My usual gaming ritual of booting up Doom or The Witcher 3 and going to get something to drink while the level loads seems so unnecessary now. It just loads almost instantly so I never have to leave my chair. My pee is dark brown now. Thanks, Samsung.

wanted Windows 10 for a new build, so I went got this NVMe for storage, should be enough