Samsung SM951 512GB M.2 Storage Review

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Unfortunately our sample seemed to be contaminated with finger oils on the paper stickers, so we could not easily see the chips used, but we have included them anyway for reference.

The M.2 connector; make sure you have this on your motherboard before purchase, it doesn’t fit anywhere else.

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The M.2 connector is just like installing memory, only weirder.

Testing Set Up

All synthetic tests are carried out three times with the best result taken.

Synthetic Tests

First up, CrystalMarkx64. We set the bench to run three times with nine passes each, we then took the highest result.

Samsung SM951 512GB Crystal Mark x64 | amCharts


Stunningly impressive results, but no where near the 2,150MB/s Seq Read specification. The Seq Write is on the money, still a stunning performer.

Samsung SM951 512GB M.2 Storage Review

Package - 7
Performance - 9
Price - 7.5
Consumer Experience - 7.5

7.8

The Samsung SM951 512GB M.2 has a lot going for it; speed, small physical size and a good storage size. It has one thing that is not going for it, relative speed and perception. We really didn't notice that we had this in the build until we benchmarked it.