Samsung announces new 950 Pro SSD, with blazing read/write speeds on tap

[froggyboy604]

Samsung announced a new family of ultra-high end SSDs today, dubbed the 950 Pro. This new drive family will debut by the end of October at $199 for 256GB drives and $349 for the 512GB flavor. That’s a fair increase over current 2.5-inch SSD models — the Samsung 850 Pro currently sells for $139 at NewEgg, while the 512GB flavor is $237. The 950 Pro’s argument for its higher cost lies in stratospheric performance — up to 2500MB/s read and 1500MB/s write.

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This SSD has some pretty fast read and write speeds. But, the priceas are expensive.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

does it beat HDD?

 

[froggyboy604]

does it beat HDD?

Yes, Desktop hard drives have speeds of about 80 MB per second as its maximum speed according to http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/understanding-hard-drive-performance,1557-10.html

But, this SSD has less storage than most similarly price hard drive.