Samsung 950 PRO Solid drive storage peaks up to 2500MB/sec for $200

Storage revolution is directly related to the heavy-loaded data consumption being undertaken by millions of users across the globe. The constant evolution from bytes to petabytes and further has surely catapulted the way storage devices are expected to deliver on day-to-day basis.

Samsung is a large part of how the industry functions and yet again the Korean conglomerate major is at the forefront of ensuring the technology keeps evolving at a rapid pace. The brand has announced its 950 PRO series of solid state drives (SSD) which as per Samsung will deliver read speeds up to 2500MB/sec.

SSDs are highly expected to become the mainstream future of storage and with the 950 PRO series, Samsung eyes the enterprise space with durable and endurance-capable SSDs which promise improved security dimension to your data on these devices and four times faster speed than SSDs that are based on traditional SATA interface.

The 950 PRO range is Samsung's first Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) based SSD which supports PCIe 3.0 interface, in addition to the V-NAND technology that has been part of the previous EVO SSD devices from Samsung.

NVMe is primarily a host controller interface which offers optimized, high performance suited to data consumption needs of enterprise consumers. So what kind of data-transfer speeds (read and write) are we talking about with the 950 EVO? Samsung will sell the 950 PRO SSD in 256GB and 512GB variants, where the latter is said to offer read and write speeds up to 2500MB/sec and 1500MB/sec respectively which is 4.5x times faster than current availability.

Samsung has priced the 950 PRO SSD at $199.9 for 256GB and $349.9 will fetch you the 512GB model, available from October this year in India, where the drive is expected to be priced starting from Rs 14,000 (approx). Also, Samsung has announced that the 950 PRO 1TB variant starts shipping in 2016. 

Source : in.techradar.com