Quote Originally Posted by Fuzzyboy View Post
I'm building a new system and I'm torn between the 500/512 GB versions of the Samsung 950 Pro and 850 EVO.

Do any of you have experiences with the two that you'd care to share? Will the 950 Pro significantly improve load times? (in relation to 5-boxing WoW from 1 PC)
My work computer has a raid 0 950 pro m.2 ssd and it caps out at about 3.3 GB/s. I also have an 850 pro raid 0 ssd raid 0 for comparison in the same computer. I can definately feel the speed of these two 950s in raid 0 vs my SSD raid 0 as its about 3x faster and can handle more IOPS at once.

Samsung says the 950 m2 ssd can do about 2.5 GB/S read speed and 1.5 GB/s write speed with just one 950 pro. You can also do much more IOPS than a regular SSD. I believe the majority of the bottleneck lies in how my Asus z170 deluxe handles/shares nvme bandwidth not allowing it to get the expected 4-5 GB/s from the 950 pro m2 ssd raid 0.

My SSD raid 0 peaks at about 1.1 GB/s or around 500-550 MB/s read speed with just one drive.

I would imagine it would cut down your load times. One 950 pro is theoretically about 4-5x faster read speed than one 850 pro Sata SSD. I believe the evos are slightly slower and have a slighty smaller capacity at ~ 500 gb vs ~512 vs the pros.

My home computer uses 2x 512 gb 850 pros in raid 0 and they are pretty snappy at load screens with my 5 clients. I also run my OS from this 850 SSD array so that may slow it down its performance slightly

When I get around to upgrading my computer in the next year or so I'll upgrade to m2 and NvME drives