{"id":82766,"date":"2015-10-23T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=82766"},"modified":"2015-10-23T16:09:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:09:30","slug":"samsungs-latest-v-nand-ssd-950-pro-has-read-speeds-of-2-5gbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/82766-samsungs-latest-v-nand-ssd-950-pro-has-read-speeds-of-2-5gbps","title":{"rendered":"Samsung&#8217;s latest V-NAND SSD 950 Pro has read speeds of 2.5GBps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has unveiled its\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsung.com\/global\/business\/semiconductor\/minisite\/SSD\/global\/html\/ssd950pro\/overview.html\" target=\"_blank\">SSD 950 Pro<\/a><\/strong>, its first V-NAND NVMe-based solid state drive with storage space of up to 512GB.<\/p>\n<p>Doh Young Jeong, Manager of Brand Product Sales Group, revealed the\u00a0950 Pro at the 4th annual SSD Global Summit in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The SSD 950 Pro will ship in an M.2 form, making it suitable for\u00a0laptops and small PCs.<\/p>\n<p>The 950 Pro is suitable for intensive workloads, said Samsung, and outperforms SATA SSDs by over 4.5 times in sequential read and by over 2.5 times in sequential write.<\/p>\n<p>The new drives deliver sequential read speeds of up to 2,500MBps, and sequential write speeds of up to 1,500MBps.<\/p>\n<p>While it currently only offers storage of up to 512GB, Samsung promised a 1TB version using 48-layer VNAND in 2016.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>This article originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/143430-samsung-ssd-950-pro-with-2-5gbps-read-speed.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More hardware stories worth checking out<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/82416-nvidia-testing-gddr5x-for-next-gen-gp104-powered-pascal-graphics-cards.html\">NVIDIA testing GDDR5X for next-gen GP104-powered Pascal graphics cards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81792-stop-using-ddr3-memory-with-your-skylake-cpu-youre-damaging-it.html\">Stop using DDR3 memory with your Skylake CPU, you\u2019re damaging it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81305-absurdly-powerful-gaming-laptops-we-desperately-want.html\">Absurdly powerful gaming laptops we desperately want<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s also Samsung&#8217;s first V-NAND NVMe-based solid state drive with storage space of up to 512GB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":82768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2589,1085,1969,16188,16186,2101,15227],"class_list":["post-82766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-hard-drive","tag-hardware-2","tag-news-2","tag-nvme","tag-samsung-ssd-950-pro","tag-ssd","tag-v-nand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82770,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82766\/revisions\/82770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}