The advertised speeds for this drive are pretty damn quick so can't wait to get it installed and tested.
I plan to install it into my Gigabyte GA-X99-SLI board which has an integrated M.2 x2 slot, unfortunately this only uses PCIe 2.0 x2 lanes and thus 'restricts' the bandwidth to get this a whopping 10Gbs! SATA 3.0 is only 6Gbs so still quite a bit faster than a standard SSD using a SATA connection.
This little drive will easily saturate this 10Gbs connection so i've had to add a PCIe 3.0 x4 adapter to my motherboard, this adapter will open up the bandwidth to a theoretical 32Gbs and give the SM951 all the bandwidth it wants!!!!
My current system is no slouch!
Window 7 based, Water Cooled, X99, i7 5820K overclocked to 4.4Ghz, 16GB of DDR4 Ram. The existing drives are;
Samsumg 840EVO 120GB as OS drive
Samsumg 840EVO 120GB as a Scratch drive (Caching drive)
3 x 1TB mechanical drives for working projects and video files
1 x 2 TB mechanical drive for final projects.
Currently i primarily use;
Adobe creative cloud - After effects, Premiere, Photshop and a bit of LightRoom.
Devinci Resolve 12
The goals of the upgrade are to further enhance it's responsiveness performance and also enable me to RAID 0 the SSD's and use them as project drives. Additional performance will hopefully aid 4K video editing and rendering.
