The 950 Pro is basically the same SSD just with stylish PCB coloring and “3D V-NAND” technology (Samsungs lingo for TLC) rather than MLC like the SM951 uses. Today i noticed that Samsung has released a proprietary driver along with the SSD 950 Pro product launch. As a temporary workaround, NVMe drivers for Intel datacenter SSDs could be used to replace Windows’ default driver. Guess thats what you call a early-adopters tradeoff. Typically this is not an issue for a SSD but in this particular case some M.2 PCIe tweaking via EFI settings was required and the default Windows 10 NVMe driver provided dismal sequential throughput of 80 MB/s while the drive can do about 2400 MB/s, depending on block size and queue depth. ![]() Since it’s a OEM product the vendor does not sell it to consumers nor offers any drivers or product support. As soon as Samsung finally made the SM951-NVMe SSD publicly available (they paper launched it 6 months before), i got the 512GB model (MZVPV512HDGL) via some “back channel” sale to build my new photography and gaming rig.
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