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Unboxing Samsung V-NAND SSD 950 Pro M.2 NVM Express

Unboxing the Samsung 950 Pro NVMe M.2 SSD for use with an FPGA via PCI Express.

February 13, 20161 minute

Unboxing Samsung V-NAND SSD 950 Pro M.2 NVM Express

Very excited to be showing off my new Samsung SSD 950 in the M.2 form factor. This tiny solid-state drive has a PCI Express Gen3 x 4-lane interface for a more direct connection to the CPU which enables a much higher throughput than a SATA interface. According to Samsung:

It outperforms SATA SSDs by over 4.5 times in sequential read and by over 2.5 times in sequential write, delivering the speeds of 2,500 MB/s and 1,500 MB/s respectively.

So what am I doing with this beast?

 

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I’m gonna hook it up to an FPGA of course!

 

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How???!!!

 

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That’s what my next product is about, and I can’t wait to tell you all about it!

I put that AAA battery in the photo just to show you how small this thing is! It’s insane!

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