All SSDs are relatively « fast » nowadays, but as time marches on, SATA variants are getting very long in the tooth. Don’t get me wrong, if you are still running a mechanical hard drive, moving to an SATA SSD should be a very rewarding upgrade. If your computer is capable of using a PCIe NVMe M.2 variant, however, that is what you should target — these newer drives are much faster than SATA.
Samsung makes wonderful solid state drives — some would argue the manufacturer’s offerings are best on the market. You know what? I wouldn’t disagree. Samsung SSDs are very fast, but more importantly, they are extremely reliable. I have been testing one of the company’s latest drives — the 960 Pro 1TB. This PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD is supposed to be insanely fast, but just how fast is it? I decided to do a quick benchmark review.
My intentions were to test the drive as both an OS drive and a storage drive, but I ran into some trouble.
