Report: 1TB Samsung SM961 NVMe SSD ships next week
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Tom's Hardware is reporting that Samsung's follow-up to the SM951 first-generation NVMe SSD will be shipping to OEMs next week. This is the SM961 that we first heard about back in March, so the timing is right. The new drive features Samsung's new Polaris controller (no relation to a certain GPU), and it comes in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB NVMe models. The 1TB tier is a first for Samsung's NVMe drives.
This information comes from a listing on Australian site RamCity , although the page has since been removed. To be clear, the pricing listed above is in US dollars. As we reported before, the new controller is a five-core, 8-channel design. Tom's ...