Samsung 950 Pro M.2 release date

[yinan]

Does anyone know the release date on this drive? I just built a new Haswell-E box and can't wait to get this drive.

 

[larryccf]

the samsung official announcement said Oct 15th, but JohnnyLucky posted the other day a list of vendors (european vendors iirc) that were indicating they'd have product to ship Oct 12th

so it's not too far away, either date - see the last post in this thread http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2802406/samsung-950-pro-0x4-nvme-ssd.html

 

[yinan]

Thanks, preordered one. Hopefully it gets here next Tuesday. Thing looks freaking fast.

 

[larryccf]

btw, thumbs up on your signature

 

[Johnny Lucky]

HI!

This morning I ran across more European and Australian vendors taking pre-orders for the 950 Pro. Some of the sites indicated they anticipate shipping on the 12th of October. Other vendors anticipate shipping on the 15th.

There is very little information about availability in the USA. We already knew Europe and Australia would have the 950 Pro before it became available in the USA. We're going to have to wait a little bit longer.

 

[Deders]

Got my 512 pre ordered.... (UK)

 

[linster]

Where are people pre-ordering in the States? Only vendor google popped up is EXcaliberPC.com for me.

 

[Pwndenburg]

Question,

In what type of computing scenario would this help you speed along workloads? Is it for business servers, artists? I'm thinking for just a gaming box this would be over the top right?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm thinking for just a gaming box this would be over the top right?

Yeah, basically. Unless you just want bragging rights.

 

[Pwndenburg]

can't afford bragging rights at present

 

[larryccf]

i do a lot of video rendering - using the first gen samsung xp941, with a read rate of 1180 MB/s and write rate of 870 MB/s, i've seen my file rendering times drop 50-60%, which when you consider some files took as much as 75-85 minutes, is a considerable savings.

Given the 950 Pro 512 GB variant is 2500 MB/s read, and 1500 MB/s on write, i'm really looking forward to it

if you're doing anything with heavy crunching, it's a godsend - otherwise, if not, it might still be worth it as heavy programs like adobe photoshop, that took 30-35 seconds to load from a sata SSD, takes 5-7 seconds.

fwiw

 

[Coup27]

heavy programs like adobe photoshop, that took 30-35 seconds to load from a sata SSD, takes 5-7 seconds.

35 seconds to load Photoshop on a SATA SSD?

 

[larryccf]

yes - UPS Worldship and Quickbook Pro 2010 similiar times - felt like i'm was running an old hdd that's been dunked in molasses

 

[linster]

You sure the drive was working correctly? I agree with Coup27, sounds wrong.

 

[larryccf]

while it does sound slow, that's what it was and was the same on two computers, my desktop and then my laptop (samsung notebook, with a factory installed SSD)

have either of you guys run adobe photoshop? - it is a heavy program to load, as is UPS Worldship - Quickbooks isn't quite as bad but close

and if it helps, this is Adobe Photoshop CS3

 

[.vodka]

Photoshop CC 2014 loads in 3-4 seconds, first start, on an 850 evo 250GB + 2500k + P67 rig. Saw similar load times on an older C2D + P35 rig (this is limited to SATA 2) on a slower sandisk ssd plus 240GB.

There's definitely something wrong on your end if such programs take so long to load on an SSD, unless you have a ton of plugins, for example.

 

[larryccf]

sorry, but while i'm not the most literate in computerese, i don't think there's anything wrong with my system - i only say that as, again, similiar load times (maybe slightly quicker) on my sammy notebook, and i remember when our graphics guy would load it at his workstation, it was slow loading. Suspect you're just not familiar with photoshop cs3 - it was a 2003 release, iirc. And the 30-35 seconds was a guesstimate - never actually timed it, but i don't think i'm that far off on the load time.

i thought 2014 was when adobe went to cloud computing ? and all you got was a skeleton program for your workstation

 

[Johnny Lucky]

Update - Here's how distribution and availability is shaping up for the Samsung 950 Pro:

European vendors are listing availability sometime around the middle of this month.

Austrlian vendors are listing availability sometime around the end of this month.

ExcaliberPC which is a vendor located in Fremont, California did not have an availability date so I sent an inquiry. Sometime yesterday the company posted an estimated availability date of November 5th.

Considering we don't have any other vendors in the USA taking pre-orders it looks like consumers in the USA should plan on a Black Friday purchase.

 

[linster]

Thanks for the update. I'm ordering parts for a skylake build so the 950 pro is definitely in my sights.

 

[Redstorm]

ETA of 27/10/15 For the New Zealand Supplier.

Currently listed at 3 online stores.

 

[Coup27]

have either of you guys run adobe photoshop?

CS5 takes 3.3 seconds to load on the system in my signature. I have no plugins but I can't see that making up the difference. You must be doing something wrong. It never even took 35 seconds when I used to use HDD systems.

 

[larryccf]

for the sake of the argument, let's say i'm "doing something wrong" - even so, load times dropped considerably with the xp941, which is relevant to the OP's original question

in a similiar discussion in another thread on this forum re the benefits of running a PCIe SSD, a number of what i assume were reasonably knowledgeable posters kept posting that there were no benefits to real world performance and i posted my results, same as above. New posters kept jumping in re-iterating the "no real world performance benefits" to the point i had to wonder if i had been smoking some home rolled cigarettes when i made my observations - Thankfully 3 other posters chimed in with the same observations, regarding quicker video rendering times, with one poster posting the results of one video file he rendered with a intel 750 (iirc), a sata SSD and a HDD

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2441787&page=3

and yes, i'll agree that in everyday performance, ie emailing, web browsing, movie or video viewing etc there is no real or noticible performance benefit

 

[Ketchup]

I have to wonder if those saying "no real-world performance" do anything on their computer that is drive-intensive enough to notice the difference.

 

[tweakboy]

Next week...

 

[Shmee]

I am thinking of picking one up when I can. I currently run Windows 10 pro, but on an 850 Evo. Could I clone over to the NVMe drive and have it work, or would I need to do a clean install? Even if a clone was possible, would I want to if I wanted best performance on the new drive? Also, I did the free upgrade from Windows 7 Pro, would I have any issues from this?

Thanks.