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.
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.
- Operating System – Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
- Processor: Intel i7-5820K
- Motherboard: Asus Rampage V Extreme
- Graphics: MSI GTX 970 GAMING Twin Frozr V
- Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666Mhz
- Cooler: Scythe Mugen MAX CPU Cooler
- PSU: Corsair HX1000i
Synthetic Tests
- IOMeter
- PCMark08 Professional
- CrystalMarkx64
First up, CrystalMarkx64. We set the bench to run three times with nine passes each, we then took the highest result.
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.
