Samsung releases the world’s fastest gumstick SSD

From InfoWorld: Samsung on Wednesday released two of its highest-capacity SSDs for consumers. The drives are based on the M.2 "gumstick" form factor, which is quickly being adopted in the latest ultra-thin notebooks and PCs.

The new 960 Pro and 960 EVO SSDs are based on the ever-more popular non-volatile memory express (NVMe) specification and Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Gen.3 x4 lane motherboard interface.

The 960 Pro sports blazingly fast sequential read/write speeds of up to 3.5Gbps and 2.1Gbps, respectively. The 960 EVO has sequential read/write rates of 3.2Gbps and 1.9Gbps, respectively.

Samsung said the 960 series is ideal for intensive workloads such as computer-aided design, 4K rendering, data analysis, engineering simulations and gaming.

The 960 PRO will come in capacities of 512GB (MSRP - $329), 1TB ($629) and 2TB ($1,299). The 960 EVO comes in 250GB ($129), 500GB ($249) and 1TB ($479) versions.

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