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Impressive performance for Film/Photo/Ad work
By Zissou on Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2017
WICKED fast. I have two 1TB units, as well as two 850 Evo 1TB SATA3 6Gbps drives. I do not play games, and use Windows 10 on both systems I have the 960 Evo NVMe and 850 Evo SATA3 drives installed in. I also purchase all my equipment outright; i build, tweak and own it. I also tried out a pair of OCZ RD400 units, and they underperformed for the money. I shoot/edit commercials in 1080P/2.5K RAW, with Adobe CC and Blackmagic Resolve, so speed matters, but moreso in media/cache/export/previews, so the 960 Evo is simply set up for that purpose, and the SATA3 850 Evo are OS/Program disks. 30 minutes of footage can exceed 120GB of storage at 1080p, and i typically shoot 45-70 minutes of RAW 1080p, plus multiple audio sources to other gear, so it adds up quickly. With my previous x58 desktop, SSD, and ARECA RAID6, my highest disk speeds were 240MB r/230MB wr sustained on OCZ Vertex3 120GB, and 520MB r/440MB wr on an eight by 1TB 7200RPM disk-based ARECA ARC-1222 RAID6 setup. The 960 Evo, in both Z270 desktop and Z270 laptop, are an order of magnitude better, averaging 2.9GB r/1.6GB wr sustained performance. That, coupled with Thunderbolt 3, has saved me easily 2-5 hours of media transfer time per project day between SSD/SD camera/audio box cards/disks. In other words, I got a large chunk of my life back. I have a desktop I just built in my giant HAF 932 case with an Asus Rog Strix Z270e mobo, GeForce GTX 1080, i7 7700K at 5Ghz, H110i V2, 32GB 3400Mhz DDR4, 4K 60hz 27" IPS display, Thunderbolt 3 PCIe card, 850w PSU, and a very nice 150 watt Klipsche 2.1 desktop audio setup on the HD audio side (broadcast is usually delivered in stereo), as well as a Sony receiver/JBL subwoofer totalling 1020 watts 7.1 setup on the optical side with a 50" 4k UHD HDR television for client review/secret movie night with the GF (it's my company and my office dammit) with Displayport and Optical cable passing through a wall to receiver/HDR UHD TV. The 850 is my OS/Programs disk, and 960 EVO is media/cache/export/previews disk. Also an ARECA ARC-1222 eight disk RAID6 for mass storage totalling 5.3TB. I have excellent cooling in the HAF 932 case with a side intake fan blowing on the motherboard and hence on the 960 Evo as well to keep it cool, and a front intake fan to help cool the 850 Evo as well; in 2 weeks I've seen no thermal throttling. This setup replaced an Asus Rampage III Gene x58, i7 980x 6-core at 4Ghz, 24GB 1600Mhz DDR3, GeForce GTX 660 2GB, OCZ Vertex3 120GB boot/OS with the same ARECA ARC-1222 eight disk RAID6 array which was also media/cache/export/previews. Laptop setup is approximately 268% faster than previous x58 desktop, new desktop is approximately 325% faster, due to faster processor/RAM. Data transfer speeds due to thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 3 is rediculous... Coming from average of 30Mbps to 1.5GBps is a world of difference. My x58 machine was not compatible with the NVMe 960 Evo, could not work with Thunderbolt 3, and even the SATA3 and USB3.0 it had were only marginally better than USB2.0 and SATAII speeds for data transfer, and sometimes worse. 24GB of RAM was adequate, and the i7 980x 6 core processor at 4Ghz was actually quite capable; I now use the i7 980x/Rampage III Gene and 24GB RAM, and Vertex 3 SSD as a home desktop/media center PC. I also have a brand new MSI GT73VR Titan Pro 4K 7RF i7 7820HK running at 4.3Ghz, GTX 1080, 4K G-Sync, 32GB 2400MHZ DDR4 RAM, Thunderbolt 3 laptop for mobile work, which replaced a very old Inspiron which was simply used to transfer media on site. I keep the laptop plugged in, and elevated about 2 inches from any table/surface with custom fan curves for clean, cool air intake, and added my own thermal pads to the 960 Evo and 850 Evo just in case, and I see no thermal throttling there as well. In the Titan Pro laptop, 850 Evo is OS/Programs, with 960 Evo set as media/cache/export/previews, same as the desktop, and now i can happily and easily edit on site/set, show clients raw footage vs quick edited preview, edit/batch RAW photos with presets from Photoshop I built on desktop/laptop after having calibrated the screens, work on it at home, and transfer the entire project via Thunderbolt 3 astoundingly fast when i get back to the office, and back to the laptop before i leave. Overall, the 960 Evo easily embarasses anything out there, including VERY pricey PCIe RAID setups with high end ARECA RAID controllers (borrowed an ARECA ARC-1880xi (?) With multidisk HDDs, then SSDs... disappointed.) If you have the capital and you use it for work or gaming, it's a no-brainer. These NVMe drives put SATA SSDs and HDDs firmly in the grave, and I won't bother buying anything else SATA related at this point; SATA is dead. Latency, spin up time, 3.5"/2.5"/1.8" size disks, and slow sustained performance are a thing of the past. Sadly, for you gamers, per MSI Afterburner, these systems only produce 59.9FPS in solitaire at 4k resolution on 60hz G-Sync 4k displays and a Samsung 4k 60Hz gaming-capable low latency 8000 series tv, which I attribute to the weak GTX 1080 graphics cards in them. You may have better luck with less demanding games like Far Cry Primal, GTAV, or Hitman, which my interns tell me stay locked at 60FPS on the same machines I just bought/built when they so generously stay after hours to 'quality test' the equipment for me, but it's certainly not the 960 Evo's bogging them down ;)
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2x960 Evo 250GB: Beware! Both failed within 3 months - Replacement was refurbished. Second one NOT replaced.
By Rohan F on Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2017
Samsung 960 EVO Series - 250GB PCIe NVMe - M.2 In theory these PCIe NVMe SSDs rock. And initially the performance was great. However, the experience I had was that both drives ran for only around 8 weeks before failing. The support is a nightmare with a requirement to fill out multiple "War and Peace" documents, and multiple hurdles to finally get a replacement. When the first unit failed, I received a crappy refurbished unit. This is seriously UNACCEPTABLE. I barely got 3 months out of the SSD and it was dead causing all sorts of problems. THEN, to rub salt into the wound, when the SSD again FAILED within 3 months, I called their support and talked to "Gil" (Gill??) who said they would this time replace the unit with a new SSD. I'm STILL waiting for the email with the approved return information weeks later with NO response to my follow up attempts. When the second SSD failed (which I used as the main boot drive), my backups unfortunately were corrupt, so lost a months worth of work - major disaster. If you value your data, and up-time is important to you as well as hassle free operation, this is NOT the SSD for you. I'm extremely disappointed with Samsung's abysmal product quality and 5th rate support. While I loved the (brief) performance boost, the unreliability outweighs the benefits by a significant margin. It's just not worth it to have your primary system down and to lose key data. AVOID. UPDATE: Samsung finally responded, with the Support Manager no less. However the opening response (which happened ONLY AFTER I'd posted this negative review) was to say Samsung routinely replaces failed SSDs with refurbished units after the first 90 days, and sent terms and conditions statements saying essentially too bad for all the data and time lost. Later, that failure rates for Samsung SSDs were around 1%. If this is so, then If the chance of failure is 1 in 100, then the probability is 1/100 X 1/100 = 1:10,000 probability that anyone would have two drives fail in short order like this. You'd think that if what they say is true, that they'd go out of their way to look after you if you are what they claim is a 1:10,000. But no, I'm given the run around. There is no recognition of either the loss of data and time, or apology for TWO of these SSDs failing with around only 2 months lifespan for each (way less than the reasonably expected 3 years each). And cruel to initially give the impression you'd receive a new SSD to replace the second failure, only to have this reversed. I hope others do not go through the incredibly disruptive and time consuming BS I've had to with Samsung.
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