High on the Christmas list this year has to be one of the latest Samsung PCIe SSD M.2 Drives!
The SM951 PCIe NVMe is undoubtedly one serious speed demon! Just look any any test or review to see the bench marks!
This was my system UserBenchmark before and after the installation of the drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Before:
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/402482
After!!!!!!!!!!!!:
http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/468341
BUT in real terms what does that mean for your actual user experience.
Here i give me honest opinions of the 256GB (MZVPV256) version installed in my i7 5820K @4.5GHz GA-X99-SLI system running Windows 10 for content creation.
Allot of reviews have said it's a product the manufacturers are drip feeding into the market and mostly in OEM builds so they don't want the mass market to get hold of them just yet... nothing like a bit of stealth marketing to build the hype!
I've used this drive as a boot drive in both Windows 7 and Windows 10, a dedicated scratch disk for Adobe CC Aftereffects, Premiere caching, project disk for Devinci Resolve 12 all coming to the same conclusion.
As a side note.
Windows 7 does not support NVMe without a hotfix applied which on the surface isn't a problem just install it! however... if you want to create a bootable NVMe drive using Windows 7 fresh install this is where the problems arise!, there are ways to do it but its far easier to fresh install on anther AHCI drive, apply the hotfix then clone onto the SM951 NVMe drive.
(Window 7 Hotfix for NVMe support):
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/2990941
Free drive clone tool:
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
I've made a little video to explain my findings. Hope you find this review useful.
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