Samsung prepares its ssd 960 evo with the polaris controller

Samsung is putting the finishing touches on its new Samsung SSD 960 EVO solid state storage unit (SSD), characterized by being the first unit to be based on the new and advanced Polaris controller from the prestigious South Korean firm.

Samsung SSD 960 EVO: features and expected performance

The new Samsung SSD 960 EVO is manufactured with advanced 48-layer 3D-VNAND memory technology and the new high-end Polaris controller that has been thought to offer the best performance on the market, with which this new SSD will be able to match the benefits of the spectacular 950 Pro. Samsung has managed to manufacture a very high-performance SSD device while maintaining very reasonable manufacturing costs for the mainstream range.

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Samsung PM961 units are based on the same components as the 960 EVO, including the Polaris controller and the same 48-layer 3D-VNAND memory technology. With this, it is capable of reaching data transfer rates in sequential read and write of 3000 MB / s and 1150 MB / s respectively, for its part, the 4K random performance amounts to 360, 000 IOPS. The Samsung SSD 960 EVO will arrive in M.2 NGFF-2280 and PCIe formats, in both cases with a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 bus and with the NVMe protocol.

Source: techpowerup