Samsung has announced their newest generation of PCI Express-based solid state storage technology today, dubbed the SSD 950 Pro. As a follow-up to the company’s very successful SSD 850 Pro series of drives, the new SSD 950 Pro also features Samsung’s 3D V-NAND (Vertical NAND) stacked Flash memory but now employs the latest NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) and PCIe (PCI Express Gen 3) interface technology to allow bandwidth to scale much higher. The drives are specified for an absolutely blistering top end speed of 2,500MB/sec for sequential reads and up to 1,500MB/sec for sequential writes. To put this into perspective, the average standard SATA SSD clocks in at about 500MB/sec for both read and write throughput, as result of the SATA interface bottleneck. NVMe over a PCI Express Gen 3 interface blows that bottleneck wide open.

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