Bright blind! Samsung 2GB / s speed M.2 SSDs production

2.5 inches of SSD forget it, even the 1.8-inch solid state drive types can be forgotten, because the new SSDs M.2 interface has come, and there is no doubt that the next few years will be the most compact solid-state hard disk One. 


　　January 9, during the CES 2015 CES show, Samsung announced the Samsung SM951 PCIe SSD products in line with a new interface standard M.2. Meanwhile, Samsung said it has the world's leading storage technology PCIe SSDs have begun to efficient production. 

　　It should be noted, SATA interface birth years, and is still the most mainstream, the most important hard disk storage interface, so the development of the law as previously IDE interfaces are not going away for a long time in the future. But with the development of more and more mini-PC products, such as laptops, Ultrabooks and NUC product, SATA interface is not the ideal solution, better M.2 interface will thus born. 

　　Crazy SSD

　　Samsung SM951 SSDs will provide a variety of capacities, respectively, 128 GB, 256  GB  and 512 GB, in fact, the capacity is not important, the greatest concern is that it crazy speeds. M.2 interface supports NVMe specification, thanks to higher-speed, higher-bandwidth PCI-E 3.0 x4 bus system, SM951 SSDs were sustained read and write speeds of up to up to 2150MB / s and 1550MB / s, the speed equivalent to the traditional 4x SATA interface SSD. 

　　Samsung also mentioned that the Samsung SM951 speed is obtained under the PCI Express 3.0 mode, but even adjusted to the PCI-E 2.0 mode, the read and write speeds were also able to achieve 1600MB / s and 1350MB / s, more than SATA interface speed is about three times faster.

  　　At the same time, Samsung SM951 random read and write speeds of up to 130000 IOPS and 85000 IOPS, idle standby power consumption is lower than 2mW (mW), in the case of PC into sleep or hibernation, basically not power. 

　　From the parameter point of view, the use of M.2 interface PCIe SSDs SM951 on every full specifications are superior to SATA SSDs, as the volume is very obvious advantages of unification. SM951 the size of 80mm × 22mm, only one seventh the size of conventional SSD 2.5 inches, smaller than a memory, but weighs only about 6g. 

　　Launch date and price

　　Unfortunately, Samsung has not announced the new SSD SM951 retail prices, because there is only for the OEM shipments, mainly used to build compact laptops (such as 2-in-1 device, Ultrabooks ), workstations and NUC type mini PC. But taking into account the popularity of the next generation motherboard will M.2 interface, even now in the consumer market, it is difficult to have the user needs, and the price is certainly impressive.