Available now on Amazon in 256GB and 512GB sizes, 1TB not expected until early next year. Current the fastest consumer SSD in the world, and my initial tests sure seem to confirm this, partially because it's paired with a SuperServer that allows it to shine, with 4 lanes of PCIe 3.0 goodness. This 950 PRO is faster than both of those, much faster. This is not your slower Surface Book or Macbook air NVMe. It's everything to do with leaving legacy SATA/AHCI behind, which I've been wanting to do since well before my April post.
The issue is not so much about the tiny M.2 2280 form factor, or PCIe or U.2 connections. Why is that a thing to learn? Well, consider that it's an entirely new storage technology. How to boot from NVMe ( Non- Volatile Memory express). Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Jul 18 2017) in